10 REASONS GAME OF THRONES IS EPIC

10 REASONS GAME OF THRONES IS EPIC

1. A pilot was never aired

The pathetic side of the story has shown us a relationship of love between a brother and a sister and the love is not the normal sibling love by the way. It is quite sick even to imagine but the director and writer probably came up with something like this to make us dislike Jaime and Cersei right from the beginning. However, the first pilot that was written and directed by Tom McCarthy failed to establish this as whoever was invited to watch the pilot failed to realize the relationship. It was therefore shelved and then reshot.

2. There were many casting close calls

There were also other close calls that include our reasons Game of Thrones is epic. Ehle and Merchant were not the only could-have-beens in the show. Dominic West from The Wire and Gillian Anderson turned down unspecified roles in the drama series. We have a hunch however that for West, the role was of mance Rayder because it involved something like shooting “in Reykjavik for six months”.

3. Sansa Stark adopted Lady for real

Sansa Stark’s direwolf died quite early on in the show. It was the Northern Inuit dog that played her pet direwolf in the first season. Sophie Turner played Sansa Stark and then adopted Zunni, the dog that played her direwolf. In her interview to The Telegraph she confessed that she always wanted a dog but her parents never wanted one. However, after Lady’s part in the series was over, her mother convinced them to let the family adopt her. Initially the Starks, father and sons, find five direwolf cubs whose mother was dead.

4. Targaryen eyes and Dothraki

Daenerys Targaryen had purple eyes originally as in the book. The whole Targaryen family is notable for their silver blonde hair and violet eyes. On set and while shooting, both Emilia Clarke and Harry Lloyd wore violet coloured lenses to match the description in the book but Benioff and Weiss concluded that violet eyes did not let the actors portray their emotions fully and hence the colour was changed. What looked good on paper thus turned out just the opposite. 

5. The scene where they shoot the horse was epic

During season one, Daenerys has to eat a horse’s heart to satiate the hunger one, and second because she was officially a savage and a wife of a savage and about to give birth to another savage. So all the savageness demanded thus. The horse’s heart behind the scene however was a gummy candy which according to Emilia Clarke, tasted like bleach (Did anyone ask her where she had been tasting bleach before?) and was very sticky. 

6. Real people are naming their babies after the show characters

In the year 2014, it was reported by the Social Security Administration that Khaleesi was the 755th most popular name for girls in the United States. It had come up from the 1021th place in just one year before. Other names like Tyrion. Arya, Brienne, Sansa, Bran, Sandor and Theon increased in popularity after the show began to air. Celebrities and characters do affect the lives of real people. 

7. The Stark kids ages are stark different from the books

In the book Game of Thrones, the Stark kids are much younger than their onscreen counterparts. Bran is 7 in the book but played by 12 year old Isaac Hampstead. Arya 9 was depicted by Maisie Williams who was 13 then. Sophie Turner 15 was supposed to be 13 for Sansa while Rickon was shown to be 6 in the series while he was 3 in the book.

8. The most illegally downloaded show

People on Facebook actually unfriend or block their friends temporarily when a Game of Thrones episode is coming. They do not want spoilers! This shows how everyone is obsessed with the show. It was the most pirated show for four consecutive years ad according to TorrentFreak it had twice the number of illegal downloads as The Walking Dead. 

9. Weiss and Benioff know everything

In case anyone is looking for information on how the series would end, they could just torture it out of these showrunners because they know broadly how every character would end. They sat down with Martin in Santa Fe particularly to learn what happens with each character. The reason they gave to “Vanity Fair” for this was that if they know what is going to happen, they can lay the groundwork for it and give us more reasons Game of Thrones is epic for.

10. It inspired the sale of thrones worth 20000 GBP

In 2013, HBO and Firebox collaborated to created fibreglass and resin replicas of the Iron Throne that weighed 159 kg and weighed 20000 GBP on the pocket of the buyer. Because it inspires creation of such artefacts. It is one of the reasons Game of Thrones is epic. Unfortunately for many though, the replicas are no longer available. 

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