The current issue of Time Magazine has a cover story on Game of Thrones. Now that we are about to get the first half of the final season, it’s like we finally hit peak saturation, I guess. To be fair, I sat here and read the first half of the article with interest, but so far, the piece doesn’t really capture the crazy ride that it has been so far, to be a fan of this show and these characters. You can see Time Magazine’s cover package here, and it includes an exclusive photoshoot with the primary actors. You know who I think is going to die sooner rather than later? Jamie Lannister. It’s just a weird feeling I’m getting, maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, Kit Harington did an individual interview with Time and he ended up talking about global warming and how the show can be a nice distraction from the international sh-tshow that is Donald Trump, basically.
Filming in Iceland: “The one irony I found this year, it was a very sad irony: We went to Iceland to find snow, because winter is [there]. We got there and we were lucky to get the snow we did because, in our world, winter is definitely not here. It’s this weird parallel, the opposite parallel. We go out there this year, and the glacier that me and [former co-star Rose Leslie] filmed on four years ago, I saw it and it has shrunk. I saw climate change and global warming with my own eyes, and it is terrifying.”
Game of Thrones as escapism: “Westeros maybe feels like a nice escapism compared to what you’re seeing on the news because the world’s politics has gotten very, very dark in recent weeks and months.”
Discomfort with the Jon Snow character: “There were times early on where I felt what I was doing with the character was wrong. I made mistakes and felt that he wasn’t interesting enough. That sounds weird, but I’ve never been quite content with him. Maybe that’s what makes him him. That angst. He could be a bit too morose, he didn’t quite go there emotionally … This year there is this huge seismic shift where all of what he’s learned over the years, suddenly… He’s still the same Jon, but he grows up.”
Sad irony: when winter is supposed to be coming and global warming is melting all the glaciers. But it’s all a hoax cooked up by JYNA. Yes, we really do need the escapism of Game of Thrones and I’m not even sorry about that. The rest of the summer is going to be full of good escapism for me: Wimbledon starting on Monday, then on the same day of the Wimbldeon Men’s Final, Game of Thrones premieres. That Sunday, July 16th, is going to be a good day, I can just feel it.
Tell me Kit Harington does not look like he’s doing a promotional shot for The Bastard Bachelor of Winterfell: The Final Winter Rose Ceremony right here.
Photos courtesy of Time Magazine.
Hahahaha the pic with the rose. Whyyyyyyy?? Hahahaha but thank you. Oh, and hahahahahaha
Blasphemy!
😂, this rose should be blue….
The real mystery is if G. R. R. Martin will be able to launch his 6th book before the last season next year…
I believe the tv series is the only end we ‘ll have, and i m fuming as i want to read the next dunk and egg novels and the second world book which can’ t be released before because spoilers
Kaiser’s last sentence is a gem! Have to love it when young Kit gets serious!
In the Time article it said Emilia Clarke had to spend 8 hours a day on a mechanical dragon apparatus for two weeks, just to get a few seconds of film. I had no idea of the complexity of making the show!!
For those who don’t believe climate change is real, then please explain to me why Chicago (known for its harsh godawful winters) did not have any snow this past January and February. People were grilling outside in the middle of winter!?!
I live in Brazil and winter has become few days of intense cold and weeks of almost summer weather for the past years. And summer turned into hell, basically.
Global warming doesn’t mean we get less snow or that one day snow will be obsolete. It means that the length of time in which snowfall is commonly expected will shorten. The lack of snow in Chicago is most likely due to natural weather patterns as some winters are worse than others… and global warming probably helped to shave off a few days in which snow would potentially fall.
But up here in Canada? There was still tons of snow. I shoveled that driveway more times than I care to remember. lol
We had zero snow in my region of Minnesota for most of the winter. Most depressing winter ever.
While I do have to admit that Jon Snow does indeed know some things, I don’t like that it has to be, well, that, out of all things. On another note, I sort of love this photoshoot, unironically so.
Cannot wait for July 16th!!! I’ve been watching old episodes to tide my over and make sure I’m up to speed. I love Kit and he makes excellent points. And of course climate change is real and only Donald Trump and his minions think it’s not. The move by Scott Pruitt to poison the drinking water for 113 million Americans is particularly infuriating. Thank you for speaking out Kit!!! Yes it looks like a shot from the Bachelor😄
They did Lena real dirty with that cover. Her hair looks horrible.
D&D look skeevy in the one photo that they took-especially the tall insecure one with the moustache.
The dog is the best looking one out of all of them.
I don’t think anyone on the main cast (Dany, The Starks, The three Lanisters, Theon) will die this season. I think they may just leave all of the big deaths until next season. They still have a lot of secondary characters to get rid of before the big finale.
What crazy person would rather live in Westeros than this world? Maybe he’d be fine as a guy, but for women at least that world would be hell.