Season 5 is “definitely bigger” says Kit Harington 

 in the UK’s Telegraph, while promoting his new film

Harington asserts that he does think the show can top its huge fourth season and admits he’d been worried about that. He says of the fifth season, “The thing I noticed this year is that they threw so much money at it.”

The actor adds, “There’s one scene for me which took a month to film. And it wasn’t even the whole thing, it was one section.” He elaborates, “So on scale it’s definitely bigger. I don’t think we can get more gruesome or more naked, but on scale it’s definitely got bigger.”

As for the long-term finish of the epic story, Harington claims that there are still only three people who know the ending of

- executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss, and the author himself, George R.R. Martin.

What sequence do you think took a month for Kit to film? Some fans had speculated we might see some of the Hardhome action this year, moved onscreen. Or another battle?

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I think it’s definitely Hardhome. Nothing else comes to mind. Plus, it’s made for television.

Wildlings driven to cannabalism, Bravoosi only taking the women and children (could we get a Salladhor appearance?), wights in the woods, dead things in the water!

I said a few months ago I thought it would make a great action scene, but I didn’t know if they would have time for it. Since it looks like they do, (or some other action scene) to me this means ‘for the watch’ will be pushed back to season 6.

I think it’s good though. With the wildlings, Thormund, Jon being elected LC, Stannis and Melisandre, etc. and now possibly Hardhome, I think we have plenty if material for a strong season at the Wall. With or without ‘for the watch.’

But Jon wasn’t at Hardhome unless they changed it . Kit says the scene refers to him not something else .

I hate to say this, but his new movie looks pretty ghey.

“I don’t think we can get more gruesome or more naked,” is the comment I’m wondering about. Does he literally mean naked, or is that a substitute for “honest”, “raw”, etc?

I’m sure it’s just a joke, referring to some people who claim GoT is nothing more than violence and sex.

where the white walkers are so hardhome seems like a necessary sequence and jon needs some time as lc

Ah. I see. Perhaps watching the video would have allowed me to catch that, but I’m not in a video watching mood. :p Went by written text. Thanks for the reply.

I’m thinking we will see 2 battles this year. Possibly Hardhome and mayhaps the battle of Ice or DEEPWOOD MOTTE!

Has Rory McCan got any new gigs he’s working on? You’d think after his GOT work he’d be a hot commodity. Unless

Well he’s not gonna say “it’s definitely smaller” ..

Jon intended to lead the raid on Hardhome himself until the Ramsay/Stannis situation got in the way. If they’re reordering things a bit so Hardhome happens a bit earlier, I could see him leading the attack like he always planned to, failing, and then being back at the Wall by season’s end. There’s really no other possible scene that would take that long to film and would plausibly involve Jon, unless they’re getting really deep into Winds territory.

Bryan Cogman must know the ending as well.

There is nothing in Jon’s ADWD story that would take a month to film so it has to be something that is either invented totally (not very likely) or moved up from TWOW, or shifted a bit to include Jon more-

like Hardhome. They need something for Jon to do this year, and it doesn’t seem like we’re getting to the For the Watch

Melisandre as a child slave (her name was Melony). Being sold from Lot 7 to the red temple. If I recall that painful memory caused her to bleed spontaneously. Would go along way towards humanizing her character and fits with the slavery arc the show will delve deeper into.

I don’t think we’re ever getting “For the Watch”.

Let me rephrase that: we’ll get some version of it in early season 6, but it won’t be the big deal it is in the books and

Jon won’t die. If he dies, it can only be in the season 5 finale, where that will have the necessary weight, and it doesn’t look like that’s happening.

the Wildings, giants, mammoths etc. coming over from Beyond the Wall into Castle Black etc.

Although would that kind of mass exodus really take a month to film?

Apparently there will be a new Game of Thrones special airing on February 8, 7:30 pm ET that will likely have behind the scenes and new footage from S5. This likely isn’t the original source, but check into it.

It’s not gonna be Deepwood Motte, there’s nobody of even low importance there in the show.

Unlikely. They’ve removed the humanising elements of her character in the past quite deliberately (the “spill the cup” line that makes it clear she doesn’t want to kill Cressen , and writing out Seaworth’s other son) in my opinion. They’ve made her a bit more a sultry femme fatale for the series.

I have chuckled a bit at the reactions to him saying things like “It’s the best season yet!”. He’s hardly going to say “Well, in my opinion it’s not as good as the last season.”, is he?

Yeah, but him saying he thought the show might lose its focus a bit, and discovering he was wrong does kinda say something. It means D&D have successfully taken two books worth of dense material and managed to fit it into one very full season that, at least in Kit’s opinion, is pretty damn good.

What does that even mean? Testament of Youth is a literary classic and one of the most celebrated works related to the first World War.

Fall_Of_Byzantium: ons to him saying things like “It’s the best season yet!”. He’s hardly going

I don’t think he did say that though does he? (I can’t watch the vid at the moment). He said it was the biggest. And that they’ve thrown a lot of money at it. That sounds to me like he’s damning it with faint praise somewhat…

I’m not usually so cynical, and I WANT to get excited, but… The actors are clearly briefed every year to say something hyperbolic yet utterly vague about the upcoming season. There isn’t much to read from these comments, I don’t think.

I’m not complaining – I wouldn’t expect them to reveal anything too detailed, and it is tough in interview situations when someone asks open questions about something and there’s all these details you know you CAN’T say.

Even though this season is “biggest yet”, after previous seasons have been billed as “most exciting yet”, “darkest yet”, and “nudest yet” (probably), there is still a part of me that wants to batter the cynic within and start expecting some of those massive battles to start kicking off.

Wasn’t there a Reddit report of a while back, suggesting that there was a scene with the Night’s King flinging wildlings off a cliff? If so, that would definitely be Hardhomeish.

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