Over the past few weeks, it would appear that all Game of Thrones interviews pointed to the show being as dark and intense as it's going to get in the hit HBO series. Apparently though, Thrones writer-producer Bryan Cogman doesn't think so.
In an interview with EW, Cogman revealed why the show may is "still very dark, very intense," but that in many ways, season 5 was still the show's "darkest." Right now, the characters in the series are all trying to rebuild their lives.
Asked what he could tease of the highly anticipated season, Cogman shared:
Season 5 was about taking characters to the brink – and for certain characters like Stannis and Jon, destroying them altogether. We left our central characters in huge moments of crisis and at their lowest points last year. All of them are now trying to rebuild their lives. Season 5 was in many ways our darkest. This season is still very dark, very intense, but it's very much a next act.
He added that what's unique about the upcoming season is that it has "a lot of thematic and explicit callbacks to season 1, and the seasons that preceded this one, and even to events that preceded them — in terms of the mythology."
Season 6, he said will be even more about "worlds colliding, with characters meeting in hopefully very unexpected ways."
He also said:
Characters who were rivals, and in some cases enemies, are being forced to work together, which makes for a lot of juicy dramatic tension. And then there's the obvious answer in terms of the size of the show. We say this every year, but it's true – this is the biggest season of Game of Thrones. It took me by surprise, just how big it is...
As for the unexpected things to come in the season, Cogman revealed that it's "scary, but exciting."
It was the hardest season to write for that very reason. While we're still drawing from a lot of situations and arcs in the books, it's obviously not a direct adaptation of any of the books this year. I will say you'll see character versions and interpretations that are in some of the previous books that we hadn't gotten to yet. I think of it as Westeros 2 – the alternate universe version of Westeros.
As for what proved most difficult encounter in creating season6, Cogman said it's:
Not letting everyone get overwhelmed by the size of it and keeping your eye on the prize – the clarity of the characters and their motivations. You can obsess about a sequence or a line of action, but if you lose sight of the story then none of it matters. So I think about keeping everything grounded and remembering what we want to achieve and to set up for the future.
There is no show like this on the planet.
And there really isn't one. Fans don't need to know that. All the hype for the show haven't been overwhelming, and it looks like there won't be a lack of exciting things to look forward to in the upcoming season.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO for its sixth season on Sunday, April 24.
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