They steady their sword hands and mutter quick prayers as the Others descend upon them. Waymar and Will stand together, class distinctions forgotten, two boys about to die. As the circle closes, the Others speak to each other in a language we’ve never heard, with voices like cracking ice. They turn back to Ser Waymar and Will and begin to advance on the young men. Gared can no longer control his panicked horse it bolts from the clearing, ignoring its rider’s commands. Five of them… six… seven… their strange swords shimmering in the moonlight. They emerge silently from the shadows, on all sides of the clearing. For the first time we see its eyes, bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burns like ice. Will, standing near the fire pit, and Gared, still on horseback, draw their own swords. Ser Waymar draws his sword with trembling hands. Ser Waymar’s voice cracks like a boy’s: SER WAYMAR Stay where you are! The OTHER keeps coming. Its sword is translucent, a shard of crystal so thin it almost seems to vanish when seen edge-on. It slides toward the rangers on silent feet. A figure steps into the moonlight, tall and gaunt, with flesh pale as milk. Ser Waymar turns to see what the young tracker sees: a shadow emerging from the forest. He’s staring into the darkness at the edge of the clearing. Maybe Benioff and Weiss didn’t feel that the audience was ready for ice zombies…just yet, so all we got in the finished product was a glimpse of something scary. The original pilot episode script hews much closer to the books, as opposed to made it to television. One thing that stands out is that in the original script, we get a much longer and up close look at the White Walkers/Others. That original pilot, together with its script, is likely lost to time (although a few photos remain), but a script for something much closer to what ended up on TV survives, and there still some intriguing differences between in and “Winter is Coming.” Let’s look at some. That pilot was heavily rewritten and reshot before the actual pilot episode, “Winter is Coming,” kicked the series off in 2011. It’s hard to believe that the original pilot for Game of Thrones was filmed way back in 2009. By David Harris (Razor) 7 years ago Follow Tweet
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