' has always been very dark and a very cinematic show. Wagner had this to say in response to that particular criticism: That's great visual storytelling.Д«ut a lot of people literally couldn't see it. And as each of our heroes battled back against the oppressive tide of darkness that crashed down upon them, each of their little lights went out, making proceedings all the darker. Undead wights and giants lumbered out of the swirling mists, even before the Night King called down a blizzard that reduced visibility to near zero. Sometimes the Lord of Light deigned to brighten up the proceedings through the Red Priestess Melisandre, who channeled godly power to set Dothraki Arakhs aflame before they were unceremoniously snuffed out by the approaching dark. Well, for starters, 'The Long Night' was, as its title suggests, a very lengthy nighttime battle, occasionally lit by flaming trenches filled with pitch and sharpened logs, or by dragon fire from not one but three battling dragons. It was always intended to be dark, visually, but not so dark as to render people's viewing experience null and void.

'The Long Night', which took 11 weeks and 55 night shoots to complete, pushed even veteran cast and crew to their limits. Wagner, the cinematographer for the series' longest episode ever along with fan-favorite installments like 'Hardhome' and 'Battle of the Bastards', has been with the show since Season 4, and in the industry overall for the last 15 years. But that latter criticism is exactly what happened with the series' record-breaking episode, 'The Long Night', and cinematographer Fabian Wagner is here to respond. Rarely does the term 'dark' apply to the series' visual palette in casual conversation, and rarer still does anyone comment that an episode was actually too dark to see anything. But normally when fans of the HBO hit are commenting on how dark it is, the conversation is about tone, or storytelling twists, or gut-wrenching, unfair character deaths.

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