The production value on Game of Throne has taken a nose dive this season, probably because the actors salaries have soared and they have to dip into somebody’s coffers. The production design budget often gets the short end of the stick. My sister, a successful production designer, says that whenever she shoots a period piece she sees the same spray painted gold goblet with jewels stuck on and the same plastic crawling ivory in the prop box. From the glossy plastic vines to the Xenaesque Sand Snakes, let’s anticipate how the episodes might look to us in 20 – 30 years….
Ah, Dorne – the exotic peninsula of hot blooded, olive skinned inhabitants, and the aforementioned plastic crawling vines.
Blue and gold and cheap props.
Fake food.
Weird green contortionist.
Barbarians.
Pyatt Pree takes a cue from the padded purple grandma housecoat with the giant collar. Because nothing says unstoppable killer android like lavender.
Surly kings.
Manly men in blue and gold.
High swordplay.
Regal ladies in glitzy costume.
Fake snow. Remember thhe ice age of Sarpeidon, where Spock increasingly finds himself attracted to Zarabeth, an exile from another time, and disturbingly more…. “primitive”? Man, that was great.
Sexy barbarian ladies and gents.
Ridiculous dragons.
Comical bald men.
Comical royalty.
