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What planet does Game of Thrones happen on?
What planet does Game of Thrones happen on?
There are three problems with the setting of Game of Thrones:
- Because if the continent of Westeros in the show (and books) are probably set on either a parallel Earth or a very Earth-like alien world.
- But the problem is that we find out that there are roughly forty years of winter for every ten years of summer (it could be more or less) so this planet is obviously not Earth because it must have a very different orbit to our world. It obviously takes fifty Earth years to orbit their sun and the planet is only positioned for summer for a short period of that time.
- But we see in the opening credits that Westeros is inside the shell of a planet and at the centre is their large mechanical artificial sun, I don't think the opening credits of the show show us what is literally happening, I think it's an artists representation, so it's good to bear this point in mind but safe to ignore it.
So any ideas?
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StaffPermalink Reply by Fungusmonkey on -
It is it's own mystical fantasy world. Even the seasons are magical in nature (it's not about an orbit or whatever). The opening credits are also an artistic representation of the world (like a globe or atlas), so it doesn't have a mechanical sun. It's a regular spherical world. The guys who made the opening credits said that they just made it that way so they could do that cool pan-around thing that shows all the different cities. At first they thought of making it a flat map, but they kept coming back to "what's at the end of the map?" or having to show whether it was on a table, or what. So they came up with the idea for a super detailed mechanical globe kind of thing with everything mapped on it spherically to make camera movements easier.
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Permalink Reply by Happy Birthday Roboto on -
OK, thanks for explaining that but is it a magical alternate reality Earth or is it like a Star Trek planet whose humanoid civilization is at the medieval stage of development?
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I've looked everywhere I can think, I don't think it has a name!
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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on -
Fyi, the books also hint that there may be an ice age approaching...
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Permalink Reply by Happy Birthday Roboto on
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For a long while I was under the impression that it was set in medieval Europe or something so the location has always confused me!
Apparently the writer has promised an explanation in the final story.
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:)
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:)
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Permalink Reply by PanchoCheeseCake on -
Krypton.
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If only!
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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on
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Galifrey. After the series, Tyrion dies and regenerates into a wizened old man with a granddaughter...
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Apparently every American I know likes Doctor Who and I've never watched it... and I'm British!
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