1. The Vast "Red Waste"
Episode Ten: "Fire and Blood" Commentators: Co-executive producers/co-creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss, director Alan Taylor This one is for the techies. Remember when I said that the majority of "Game of Thrones" was shot in either Belfast, Northern Ireland or the island of Malta? Well, if you know even the slightest bit about either of those locales, then you probably know that geography like the Red Waste in which Daenerys and her khalasar are wandering exists nowhere in either location. The only reason Daenerys can look off into the never ending wasteland below the cliff where she finds her comatose husband is because it was entirely digitally created. The "desert" off in the distance was actually a beautiful blue Maltan sea that Alan Taylor and his editors had to completely eliminate in post-production and replace with the vast expanse of lifeless brown. Taylor comments that he had to be extremely careful when shooting Emilia Clarke because if her hair crossed the visual plain of the ocean then it would've been difficult to fix in post.
Anything you found fascinating listening to the commentary tracks that I didn't mention?