The clock is ticking on Game of Thrones season 7 as well as the inescapable endgame that follows. Happily, HBO have seen appropriate to cram onto our TV screens as much Thrones as humanly possible, beginning with a fender-sized premier that will make it the 2nd longest opening episode in Thrones history.

The Telegraph are reporting that HBO listings for the July 17 premier possess the season 7 opener totalling in at a substantial 59 minutes, just a couple of minutes short of the 62-minute pilot. I’m assured they’ll have the ability to fill it with something intriguing, although that’s a great deal of time to kill. That marks the longest season premier since the first one, which clocked in at 62 minutes. Well, it did have lots of things to fit in, including attempted infanticide.

The period of the season seven premier cause conjecture that we’ll be receiving drawn-out episodes through the shortened seven-episode run, though EW says this is not the situation.

The extra-long episode comes off the rear of proof of a shorter season – 7 episodes to be precise – with the closing season clocking in at a meagre 6 episodes. Season premier will run to nearly an hour (59 minutes to be precise), as opposed to the normal 45ish minutes. Subsequently, the season premier will feel considerably longer than an average episode, after you add in a few adverts.

There is going to be another treat in the end of the season. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Game Of Thrones online season 7 finale will likely be even more, running to “well over an hour” before the advertisements are added. This news goes some way to quelling the worry that Game Of Thrones season 7 might wind up feeling overly short. We are still getting seven episodes rather than the normal ten, but the bookend episodes at the ending as well as the beginning will be bumper-sized.

Much has been made of Game of Thrones’ fall from 10 to seven episodes whether it means there could be more cash to spend on conflict sequences, and with season 7. Peter Dinklage also found the bump in days that were shooting, including: I’ve worked this season than I have in quite some time.

Why are they essential cast members when there are fewer episodes filming more than?

It is actually rather easy, as co-showrunner D.B. Weiss described: You kill a couple dozen characters, the folks who are made by default need to take more remarkable weight. The long awaited first preview for Game of Thrones Season 7 eventually arrived, blowing up the web like wildifre underneath the Sept of Baelor last week.

There was a lot to merely sit and marvel at, including the legendary ending-shot of Drogon flying into conflict, and lots to ponder around as well – only what was Arya looking for below the bed? It left us with more questions than answers were given by it, and suggested at scheme details without spoiling things.

As with absolutely any year of Thrones, however, a lot of rumours have been swirling about seeing the scheme: to Cersei from Jim Broadbent’s Archmaester making some unholy alliances. The preview does not address these, but there are a lot it does apparently support. Among the exciting rumours that began last year, being mentioned was that we were eventually going to see Casterly Rock.

The seat of House Lannister, it is long been becoming mentioned on the show, but never really seemed. That is all about to change though, together with the fortress making it into Season 7.

That definitely indicated the Unsullied taking place there and also a conflict between the Lannisters, and lo and behold, that is just that which we get in the trailer. And it does not seem too great for the Lannisters.