“You’re not getting this overarching view anymore. You’re getting this down low, really specific micro view of what’s going on.” Warning: This story contains SPOILERS.
Mining Shintani for info about the season is fruitless anyway, since he and the rest of the Elastic team know very little in advance about what is in each episode proper. Every season, theproduction team has sent Elastic sketches and concept art for the new locations for that run of episodes, which the team then synthesized into the specific look of the credits. But Elastic never learned the context behind those locations.
“Quite honestly, I don’t want that information ahead of time,” Wall said. “I’d rather just know the bullet points of what we need to do in order to make an appropriate title sequence. I love watching the show, and honestly look forward to watching every story beat unfold.”The old credits always ended at a location far from the central action in Westeros, either tracking Dany’s journey through Essos, or sweeping over to the remote locales of Dorne or Oldtown.
Shintani said that the producers asked for the Season 8 credits to highlight the Red Keep’s map room and serpentine steps. The team additionally got to update some changes that the capital of Westeros has experienced during the show. The old credits have signified changes at Winterfell — it was covered in smoke for two seasons after the Boltons burned it at the end of Season 2, and while the Bolton family held the castle, the Stark direwolf sigil was replaced by the Boltons’ flayed man sigil.
Budget and time constraints led to many of these decisions, as well as the creative determination to focus on architecturally driven seats of power that appear in more than a single episode. Still, after getting the opportunity to revisit the credits for the final season, it’s been easy to just keep thinking,“The places that I would have loved to put in [the credits] over the years are the places that have the most emotional resonance.
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