Game of Thrones Spoilers: Season 7 Will Not Be Normal

The cast of Game of Thrones are all starting to sound like they’ve finished for the year, and they promise the coming season “does not feel normal.”

The lack of Game of Thrones new in mid February is a strange sensation indeed. After six years of a fairly predictable time table (April-June: show airs, July: casting, August-December: filming, January-March: hype), the pushing of everything down the calendar, and the lack of hype right now, is deafening.

The Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience is obviously supposed to be filling the void, but with tickets in the $$$ range and Ramin Djawadi now the most in your face hype man, it’s been hard for it to get traction. (The video of the rehearsal was pretty cool though.)

No, instead we’re still wondering if the show is even filming. There was not major “It’s a wrap” moment this year. We’ve heard from some that the show will be working through the end of the month, or maybe even into March. But several of the secondary character, including Liam Cunningham, Jacob Anderson and Alfie Allen are done. And in an new interview with Mashable, supposedly hyping the Concert Tour, they’re promising that next season does not feel like your usual installment of Game of Thrones…or at least it didn’t while they were filming. According to Anderson:

"“It doesn’t feel like a panic, but I’m panicked for people, I think. I think, and this is true of Season 6, you can feel that things are coming to a close. It’s all getting a bit much. The show’s kind of like a pressure cooker … It’s just absolute chaos.”“I’m just in awe of how everybody’s managing to fit as much as there is into seven episodes, because it doesn’t necessarily feel like a normal season, it feels bigger.”"

Allen, who could never keep his mouth shut properly, adds the biggest clue:

"“It’s gonna be a crazy season. It’s definitely going to blow a lot of people’s minds. It’s still the same running theme; characters that haven’t crossed each other’s paths before will do, and they’re gonna take it even further this time. People have loyalties that they have to examine.”"

As for Cunningham, who has a few more years on Allen and Anderson, he sees the show coming to an end as a bittersweet experience.

"“Because we know we’re coming to an end, and [because of] what we’ve been filming in Season 7 — without giving anything away, things are coming to a head, so not only do we feel the passage of time … that’s also been reflected in what we’re shooting,” he teased. “So it can be occasionally a little odd on set; it adds to the work and adds to the tension and we can use it, but I’ve never committed to a job like this before, this length of time. I’ve got a family on this that I’m gonna miss hugely.”"

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The Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience opens this weekend. As for the show, we’ll have to keep waiting.