![]() ![]() But it also has just as many surprises, and that just continues to happen. TAYLOR: What I enjoyed when I read all the scripts for this season and when I started to see what my fellow directors were doing, was that there was a thrill in realizing that this ball, this machine, is revving up bigger and rolling faster and with more inevitability. Now everything’s converging, and that’s going to get only more so in Season 8 when really, all the storylines come together.ĭEADLINE: With that tease in play, what would you say about what is to come in next week’s Season 7 finale and its lurch, to use that term again, into next year? TAYLOR: Part of my episode was doing the job of braiding stories together that’ve been separate for a long time, braiding characters that’ve been separate for a long time, and that will only continue into Season 8. In the process, there is an inevitable rising storm of consequence, it seems… I think that’s also the major story point in terms of the developing power struggle, the fact that now the Night King has nuclear capability, as well as we do.ĭEADLINE: Along with the growing professional and personal relationship Emilia Clarke’s Dany character has with Kit Harington’s Jon Snow - literally coming to his rescue and losing one of her children, as you say. So, I think the major emotional moment is probably the loss of one of Dany’s children, as she thinks of him. So it wasn’t quite sort of the apex of the arc that some penultimate episodes are, but I was grateful that there was a sort of turning point or two that happened in the episode. Every episode is big, and there’s major things happening in every episode. TAYLOR: Well, when I came into this season after being away for a while, what I realized was that this a season of seven episodes. There was a tendency for the second-to-last episode to deliver a pretty major turn, and for the final episode to be more of a denouement. It’s partly a Game Of Thrones thing, but it’s very much an HBO thing that I started to get used to working on Sopranos and things like that. TAYLOR: First of all, I think there’s always been sort of a weight to the penultimate episode. But, with this penultimate episode of the penultimate season, what do you think is the significance of the episode, and where is it giving us perspective in the overall Game of Thrones game plan? The viewership is hitting new highs week after week, so I think the surprise still has impact lurching forward to this season’s finale and the final season next year. And then, you know, the episode was recently leaked, and I’m hoping at least some people are still surprised by those plot points because the secret of the episode was that that happened.ĭEADLINE: I think the leaks and hacks attract very few eyeballs in the end. ![]() Then I was really, you know, excited when I got to the end and realized how it was turning, because it’s obviously sort of a big lurch forward in terms of the oncoming battle. When I read the script the first time, I was really grateful to see that I got to kill one of the dragons, because I knew that was a major emotional point. TAYLOR: I think some people sort of thought that kind of thing was coming. That’s a total game changer - he’s got the atomic bomb so to speak? Taylor additionally revealed the biggest challenge of tonight’s episode for him and why he thinks, no matter how big Game Of Thrones gets in the era of Peak TV, the show will always have an indie film ethos.ĭEADLINE: So, as that last scene reveals, the Night King now has his own dragon. As yet more leaks hit the show this past week, the Emmy winner himself also unveiled a narrative nugget from Martin on the Kit Harington-portrayed Snow and Emilia Clarke’s Dany. He focused on how things have changed since the two-time Emmy winning Best Drama became one of the biggest shows in the world and what the consequences of “Beyond The Wall” are for the rest of Season 7 and Season 8, which starts filming its six-episode run in October. Weiss could have been a finale unto itself for many other series.Ī GoT veteran from Seasons 1 and 2, Thor: The Dark World helmer Taylor talked to me about his return to the Benioff and Weiss EP’d series. With the Night King and his now winged army on the move, burning swords, a fragile ice lake, a horde of White Walkers attacking Snow and his small crew, a last-ditch message to Dany, a vulnerability in the Wight forces, another Snow resurrection, various sibling rivalries and an alliance long in the making, the intricate in narrative and epic in scale episode penned by David Benioff and D.B. ![]()
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