Game Of Thrones Season 6 Won't Be As Dark As Last Year
The night will still be full of terrors.
We're now just days away from Game of Thrones Season 6, in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest and best years for the series to date.
As we near the premiere date, excitement couldn't really be any higher, coming off the back of a season 5 that, while not its strongest, left things in some very interesting places.
Now producer Bryan Cogman has been speaking to EW, and he's had a lot to say about the upcoming season, and just what we can expect from it. He pointed out it won't be as dark as Season 5 was, what with the rape and the infanticide and all of the death, saying:
"Season 5 was in many ways our darkest. This season is still very dark, very intense, but its very much a next act."
Cogman also spoke at length about how this year will callback to the past more than previous ones. That's looked evident from the trailers, with a renewed focus on the North for instance, something we sadly haven't had too much of since Robb Stark's death, while some characters seem to be going back to the beginning, such as Daenerys
"There are 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. Theres also a trend that began in season 5 and continues even more so in this season of worlds colliding, with characters meeting in hopefully very unexpected ways."
That all sounds great, and certainly the mention of the events that happened before the series started to would appear to be an allusion to the Tower of Joy flashbacks we'll be seeing this year, which we've already had a glimpse of in the trailers. Cogman goes on to add that this is "the biggest season yet," and while that's often said, it really does look like being the case this year.
3 days feels like such a long time.
Game of Thrones Season 6 stars April 24 in the US, and the next day in the UK.