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that much of a surprise to some). Other interchanges, as in the "reunion" between Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Bran Stark bits along the way, including what is obviously meant to be a mind blowing reveal about Jon in the first episode (but which may not come as
But let’s talk about that improved picture first. Game of Throneswas the first hour-long HBO drama to be shot entirely in digital (minus a few scenes from the unaired pilot that made their way into the very first episode). The show always looked tremendous, from the sweeping photography to the detailed costumed. Now, you can see every stitch in Cersei’s gowns, or every scale on Daenerys’ dragons, and the show actually paid enough attention to detail for that to matter. Image: Game of Thrones/HBO English SDH, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish( less) the series may understand, there are so many strands of subplots woven into these two "basic" plotlines that it may have been a fool's errand toincluding Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). By the end of the first episode of the season, a number of other
textures on fabrics is fantastically precise looking. Practical props and some of the location footage outside can also look impeccable, with virtually
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That said, although everything looks improved, the later seasons look better than the early ones, since they were finished with 4K to begin while the earlier ones have been retrofitted. The higher dynamic range means the colors look richer, the highlights look luminous, and the shadows look deeper. Dragonfire burns more brightly than ever before, and because of the increased detail, fans can finally watch “The Long Night”— an epic battle episode dinged for looking too dark— the way it was meant to be seen. There are any number of standout elements in the 4K UHD presentations in terms of detail levels and especially fine detail levels. The often almost Season One (for complete details, please consult our Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 4K Blu-ray review)
