The CBC Volunteers Canada As Tribute to Shoot Game of Thrones Season 7 

Somewhere around the lead up to Season 5, television critics began to jump on the fact that Winter was late.

has been ominously intoning the Stark words “Winter Is Coming” for years, and yet the sun still beat down on King’s Landing. ‘Where was winter already?’ they demanded to know. (Then the Army of the Dead showed up at Hardhome, and all of them got real quiet. But that’s another article.)

At the end of Season 6, the white ravens were released from the Citadel, and as Sansa and Jon noted, Ned’s promise had come true—winter was finally here. What fans didn’t realize is that with winter would come

a change in filming schedules, as the production is planning to push the entire filming process back in order to film in Spain and Ireland during the latter half of the fall and the beginning of winter, since many of their outdoor locations don’t really start to see the effects of cold weather until the latter half of October or later.

But! There is apparently an alternative to waiting. The Canadian Broadcast Company (the CBC) posted today that, if it would not be too forward of them, they might like to perhaps politely suggest that the production doesn’t have to wait to begin the filming process for

Season 7. “After all, to quote the Canadian Winter Olympics team, #WeAreWinter.”

Because apparently not enough of our TV shows set in large urban cities look like Toronto, the Hollywood North is tying to pitch that perhaps, since

has to come to Canada anyway to film Ghost’s scenes (it’s apparently easier than shipping the trained wolf to Northern Ireland in some instances), they should just come and film all of it on a different continent now.

We’d like to welcome our new Westerosi overlords, and ask them to teach us to shake hands…

From Quebec City to Lake Louise, Marble Mountain to Ivvavik National Park, Canada has a plethora of spectacular sites that could easily stand in for Westeros.

Now that the show has likely bid adieu to some of the sunnier spots for good — Goodbye Meereen! Farewell Braavos! See ya Vaes Dothrak! — what if Canadian locales stand in for the North, the Vale, the Reach or perhaps even King’s Landing itself?

Somehow I just don’t see the production going for it, but we’ll see.

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Geographically speaking Ani, there are plenty of northern Canadian areas that could be substituted for the northern landscapes, and possibly a few others. The fact that you’d close the article off with such a crude statement is, well, for a Canadian such as myself, rather uneducated and insulting. I understand Spain being needed for King’s Landing, given the already established look it and Croatia have given throughout the series. But believe me when I say, if you want the next season faster than say, June, along with less production costs in the way of location, it’s not the worst idea. You may be cool, but despite your usual lack of proof-reading and fact checking, not that sort of cool.

Yup. A lot have been made into tourist spots, also. For the record, I’m not confirming or denying any plausibility here. I’m simply saying landscape-wise, if they want winter, we’ve got literal territories of it nearly 365. We do in fact, have castles. 90% of the castle inspired imagery on the show is CGI. Again, not saying filming SHOULD happen here. Just that to count it out so shrewdly as in the article, whether given credence or not, is demeaning.

But what kind of castles – the Medieval-Era castles that they have in N. Ireland, Spain and Croatia – or neo-classical castles?

As a New Yorker I vacation in Canada frequently, and all I can say is that people who claim it isn’t cool must never have been there. It has gorgeous and varied landscapes and seascapes, not to mention neighborhoods in Old Quebec that look like medieval European towns. Nova Scotia could easily stand in for the Iron Islands.

One of the biggest visual disappointments of the show, for me as someone who knows what slogging through deep snow looks and feels like (you can’t run in it!), has been its paltry attempts at depicting winter. Only the scenes shot in Iceland come close. Spraying a dusting of fake snow around some woods and then having people and horses move through it as normal, without even having to raise their knees with each step, just looks phony and makes the endless references to winter coming seem silly. There has been nothing in the show that even remotely suggests the hardships faced by Stannis’ army struggling a mile a day, if they’re lucky, through snow that’s many feet deep in unrelenting blizzard conditions. If you want us to believe, D & D, show us some true North – not Southern California’s fantasy of snowfall as a bit of festive decoration!

Umm dear, its because the snow is phony and dont nobody wanna shoot day and night in the snow, would you?

Everyone loves to talk about what the don’t like in regards to show or what its creators are doing, like we haven’t been hearing the whole time anyhow lol!

Maybe not so much to stand in for castles, but Canada has plenty of landscapes that are beautiful and would depict winter better than most places.

i think Canda would be a great location to film north scenes. It is prob to late for this season but maybe for its last or another series set in the world of ASOIAF

Why is this humour? Canada would be a great place to film many of the outdoor scenes. And with the dollar relatively low 76-78 cents-ish to the US greenback, and I understand that the Canadian gov’t provides generous tax breaks, it would make economic sense. The only draw back I can see versus filming over here is the transportation cost from Europe.

What about New Zealand? – although we haven’t got many castles here it IS actually winter until October

Well, of course there are neither medieval castles nor old cities in Canada, so everything besides the – absolutely stunning – Canadian landscapes would still have to be shot in Europe…

I fear it would just be way too much hassle to permanently travel between two continents, just to be able to start outdoor shooting a few months earlier…

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