Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers: A better look at a big moment
Production of Game of Thrones season 8 hasn’t stopped, and some new images seem to suggest that a particularly big moment might be closer to filming.
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How much time does the production of Game of Thrones season 8 spend building massive things that are probably going to be destroyed? Apparently, the answer is quite a bit — because a user on the r/freefolk subreddit known as EroticPotato69 has some recent photos of what the subreddit believes to be the King’s Landing set.
While the photos themselves aren’t super exciting in what they show — it’s the same walls we’ve seen before in various stages of development — the big point here is that the walls appear to be mostly painted, with brick effects done on various parts of the walls.
Previously, we thought that this could be an entrance into King’s Landing. However, the brick effects have us moderately suspicious that this could actually be the Red Keep. Check out the photos that the Game of Thrones fan wiki has for the Keep. A few of them show that there are multiple brick types close together, as the painted walls have in our set photos.
Right now, it doesn’t appear as though we have anything other than “King’s Landing” as to where these walls are meant to represent. In short, we can’t discount the gate theory we proposed earlier, but now, it’s impossible to discount the Red Keep as a possibility here.
Either way, since things appear to be progressing, we’d expect to hear more about where this is — and maybe see what actually happens to these walls — sooner rather than later. After all, Peter Dinklage has recently said that filming is around “halfway done” for season 8 … which suggests it’s about time to get things rolling on these big setpieces.
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What do you think? Are we seeing the Red Keep, or just part of King’s Landing with these walls? Would you be happy with either?