Most Game of Thrones fans are aware of the unaired pilot episode that exists, somewhere out there, never to be released no matter how curious we all are, but a recent interview with star Kit Harington may have revealed why we'll never set eyes on it: A whopping 90% of it had to be reshot in order to become the "Winter Is Coming" series premiere we all fell in love with.
"It didn’t look right, didn’t feel right, had nothing different about it," Harington said of the original episode, which apparently contained long, boring exposition scenes and unlikable takes on core characters. Some odd elements still made it onto the air, like Tyrion's super-blonde hair and The Hound's extra-burned face, but most things were tweaked and reworked so that some of the story came across clearer while other plot points were hidden and held back a bit more.
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"It didn’t look right, didn’t feel right, had nothing different about it," Harington said of the original episode, which apparently contained long, boring exposition scenes and unlikable takes on core characters. Some odd elements still made it onto the air, like Tyrion's super-blonde hair and The Hound's extra-burned face, but most things were tweaked and reworked so that some of the story came across clearer while other plot points were hidden and held back a bit more.
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