The director of photography of Game of Thrones defends the episode "Too Dark"

The night is dark and full of terror … they are really hard to see.

This is one of the takeaways of the last episode of Game of Thrones, The Long Night, aired on HBO on Sunday. It was a battle that was the culmination of seven seasons of reconstruction in the war between men and the living dead.

It's just that a lot of viewers could not see what was going on in Winterfell. The battle itself took 55 nights to film. Here's how Twitter reacted and Here are some tips for tuning your TV in case you have the same problem.

In response to this angry horde, the director of the episode photo, Fabien Wagner, who also shot the acclaimed episode of Battle of the Bastards, spoke of the episode to Wired. He discussed the non-ideal methods that people used to look at it.

"A big part of the problem is that a lot of people do not know how to tune their TV properly," said Wagner. "Unfortunately, many people also look at it on small iPads, which can in no way do justice to a show like this.

"Game of Thrones is a movie show, so you have to watch it as if you were in a movie theater – in a dark room – if you watch a night scene in a bright room, it will not help you to see the movie. picture correctly. "

Wagner explained that darkness was a creative choice. "The organizers decided that it was due to a dark episode," Wagner said. "We've seen so many battle scenes over the years, so for the film to really make an impact and take care of the characters, you have to find a unique way to portray the story.

"Another look would have been wrong, all we wanted people to see is there."

With the many dead and bows of finally paying characters in this episode, Wagner emphasized the importance of the non-visual.

"Personally, I do not always have to see what happens because it's more of an emotional impact."