Fans of Game of Thrones bemused by the show’s recent slow-ish nature (interspersed, of course, by moments of pure WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL JUST HAPPENED?) can breathe a collective sigh of relief. The episode airing today (our time) has got all the hallmarks of an epic, enormous, totally nutso hellstorm the likes of which you’ve not yet seen on the much beloved HBO series.
The episode about to air – and about to find its way to your computer screens via various methods – entitled “The Watchers on the Wall” brings the show finally back to Jon Snow and the Night’s Watch, with the long awaited Battle of Castle Black finally making it to screens. The battle, one of the biggest in the A Song of Fire and Ice book series’, will easily comprise the largest war scenes ever seen in the Game of Thrones series to date. So big is the battle, that it will be the focus of the entire episode.
Said showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss of the sets constructed in order to shoot the battle, “In terms of the sets, our new production designer Deborah Riley did this magnificent top-of-The Wall set, far bigger than what we had before, so you can do walk-and-talks, you can have massive action sequences. It’s completely surrounded by green screen, which is apparently the biggest green screen in Europe.”
“She did a really fantastic job. It has to be the biggest Styrofoam piece in existence.“
SO. FUCKING. AMPED.
Game of Thrones airs on Showtime on Foxtel locally. Far be it for me to tell you your business, but I’m sure there’s other means you can utilise to see it if you’re truly desperate.
