GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

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I get the feeling that some of these actors are probably signing on for less than usual prices just to be a part of the phenomenon. If "in Game of Thrones(series)" is attached to a name, it might improve sales of/interest in the actor these days, such as interest in title backlog. I'm certain that Dinklage can command a bit larger compensation after his roles in the series. And his roles in previous works probably got a bit of a spike afterwards as well.

Even as much as I like seeing unknowns be awesome, having famous folks who do specific roles well do them in a modern series is kind of cool. Sydow as tree-guy fits his mentor role pretty much dead on. Especially with the ephemeral nature of the role.
 
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Twins are almost always used when shooting scenes with very young kids/babies. That way when one is being shitty, like babies and kids tend to be, you still have the other one. Shooting is usually on a tight schedule, so it's like...tantrum insurance.
 
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Ah, right. Well things are indeed pointing overwhelmingly to a Tower of Joy flashback. My prediction on another forum is the Ian McShane = Howland Reed theory and that Jon ends up at Greywater Watch on his way south from the wall and thats where Howland tells him what happened at the Tower. I mean it could be a vision, but otherwise the flashback has to come from someone and Howland Reed is the only one who was there and is still alive.
 
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The flashback could be the intro of the season, much like the Maggy the Frog flashback was.
 
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Soygen_sl said:
The flashback could be the intro of the season, much like the Maggy the Frog flashback was.
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That is very true, except didn't it immediately cut to Cersei after the flashback ended, implying that it was her memory?

They could do a partial reveal of the flashback, then have Howland explain the whole thing. He does look like he could be Jojen and Meera's father.
 
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Gavinmad_sl said:
That is very true, except didn't it immediately cut to Cersei after the flashback ended, implying that it was her memory?

They could do a partial reveal of the flashback, then have Howland explain the whole thing. He does look like he could be Jojen and Meera's father.
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Why couldn't it immediately cut to Jon, since he's on-set and all. :p
 
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It could if it was a vision instead of memories. I already said it could be a vision. Would just seem kind of weird, would be much better for such a major revelation to be introduced by a high-born eye witness rather than just some arbitrary vision.
 
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I think it more likely they use a Tower of Joy vision to reintroduce Bran and his tree-training.
 
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Soygen_sl said:
Twins are almost always used when shooting scenes with very young kids/babies. That way when one is being shitty, like babies and kids tend to be, you still have the other one. Shooting is usually on a tight schedule, so it's like...tantrum insurance.
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Additionally, there are very tight controls regarding how long children can be on set at a time. With twins you can shoot twice as long before you have to stop.
 
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They should film in India. You probably only need one kid, can film 36 hours straight and can't beat the shit out of them if they don't get the scene within 3 takes.
 
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khorum_sl said:
There's apparently a bit of lore why the Lannisters don't have a valyrian sword while shitty broke-ass northern houses have them all in those supplementary books GRRM co-wrote with other people. Like the atlases and the world-of-ice-and-fire etc. It's inconsistent if you're stepping into the show and you ask why a broke-ass house from Bear Island has a sword that their lord takes into the Night's Watch with him while the richest man on the continent doesn't have one etc. The Lannisters are a relatively young house and their last few lords, including Tywin's father, were drunken spendthrifts while a lot of the northern houses are ancient.
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It's explained in the actual Game of Thrones books, not in extra material. They did have one called Brightroar but Gerion Lannister took it on an expedition to Valyria and never came back, this is why they are so interested in melting down the Stark sword because as you say, quite a few shitty broke-ass houses have them and it's the one thing they won't sell.
 
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Gerion (Tywin's youngest brother) never came back from an expedition to recover it. The sword was lost by Tommen II some time who knows the hell how long ago.
 
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