In the wake of Sunday’s game-changing episode, director Alan Taylor has teased the eighth and final season of Game Of Thrones in an interview with Deadline:
Along with the growing professional and personal relationship that 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, in process, there is an inevitable rising storm of consequence, it seems…
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. Now everything’s converging, and that’s going to get only more so in Season 8 when really, all the storylines come together.
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: 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. But it also has just as many surprises, and that just continues to happen. So, from my episode to the finale next week, the plot points of my episode are topped by the plot points in the episode coming, and Season 8 progresses in the same way.
Stay tuned as we continue to observe Game Of Thrones‘ passing into the TV afterlife and the progress of the planned spinoff series…
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