WiC Weekly: November 6-12

We, the desk-jockeying nerds at Winter is Coming, welcome you, the wonderful fans, to review the previous week in Game of Thrones news. Here’s the biggest stories, front to back.

Let’s begin, as per usual, with SPOILERS. Filming on Game of Thrones Season 7 continues, and the reports are very interesting. Here’s a juicy one out of Seville.

The SPOILERS continues with news about some of the important places we’ll see in Season 7. Fans have wanted to see these two particular places for a long while.

The Game of Thrones production won’t be filming in Iceland for a few months, but fans are already sniffing out activity in the area.

Finally, the Game of Thrones production is preparing to shoot a major battle sequence near the town of Malpartida. Check out who’s already in attendance.

Shifting away from spoilers, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin shared his thoughts on the recent US presidential election on his blog.

Sticking with the election theme, A Song of Ice and Fire luminary BryndenBFish collected information on how fans felt about all kinds of details related to the novels. See his findings.

On the lighter side of things, a Game of Thrones casting director describes some of the odd gifts she’s gotten from celebrities hoping to score a role on the show.

The Hero’s Journey is an ancient narrative archetype to which many fictional characters throughout history conform, in one way or another. We see where our main players are on their Hero’s Journeys as of the end of Season 6.

The Game of Thrones cast members, ever the close-knit group, participated in Europe’s pastime while gathered en masse in Seville.

Finally, HBO released a deleted scene from the Game of Thrones Season 6 home box set, out on November 15.