urbaNRoots wrote:Another new location confirmed,
Mesa Roldán, Spain.

http://images.placesonline.com/photos/25527_wachturm_bei_mesa_roldan_almeria.jpg

urbaNRoots wrote:

urbaNRoots wrote:Another new location confirmed,
Mesa Roldán, Spain.

http://images.placesonline.com/photos/25527_wachturm_bei_mesa_roldan_almeria.jpg

IMO this is the Tower of Joy.

That one looks like Casterly Rock, literally a castle in a rock. Of course it'll look grander after some CGI.

My major issue with Season 5 has nothing to do with how true it stayed to the books. I happen to think some of the show's best work has come from confidently straying from Martin's original text. My concern was with the overall balance and pacing. Which, yes, was also my main concern, when you cut right down to it, with Sansa's brutal arc. It didn't object to her rape happening per se, but I do hold many concerns about the aftermath. There were several stories that dominated the first half of the season and Littlefinger emboldening Sansa was one of them. Convincing her to enter into a dangerous situation so that she might take control of her own destiny. So we were led to believe that we'd be getting a stronger, more cunning Sansa.

That never happened. As soon as Littlefinger left, Sansa once again found herself back within the confines of an extremely abusive situation. I didn't have a problem with "terrible things happening to good people" because, well, that's the show. I objected because the show was repeating itself and it's better than that. Back in my review for "High Sparrow," I was pretty sure the show wouldn't decide to trap and brutalize Sansa again. Not after she'd been rescued by both Tyrion (who allowed her to keep her virtue) and Littlefinger.

So the set up here was great. But then Sansa's storyline stopped and it became Theon's arc. Her pain fed into his redemption tale and all of a sudden the big choices were his to make, not hers. So how much of this was avoidable? Well, I'd say some, but not all. This "marriage to Ramsay" arc was not Sansa's journey in the books. So her marrying Ramsay while also not being able/allowed to kill Ramsay by the end of the season unfortunately placed her in a type of stasis. And she had to be in enough pain for Theon to break free from his "Reek" persona. I see how it all fits, but it was still a let down.

Bran is back! Isaac Hempstead Wright confirms return to Game of Thrones

The last time we saw our dear Bran, it was in the Game of Thrones Season 4 finale, when he asked the three-eyed-crow if he’d ever walk again. The answer? “You will never walk again, Bran, but you will fly.” And that was where we left him…on the floor of a cave, some old dude with weirwood branches growing in and out of his body telling him that his dream of one day being a knight was forever over.

Fast-forward to Season 5, and Bran is nowhere to be seen. His story had reached the same point it had in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, and the producers of the show decided to give him some time off so the rest of the stories could catch up. For the moment, they left Bran to ride the pine.

Well, now it’s time to film Season 6 and Bran is back! Talking to the Irish Examiner, Isaac Hempstead Wright confirmed that he will return to his role as Bran Stark.

I can’t say a lot but I am back this season, and it’s going to get particularly interesting with Bran. He has some interesting visions

RealGunner wrote:More of bloodraven please