When aknockoff brunch menuis doing a secure job of encapsulating A Dining Experience of Ice and Fire than an officially licensedGame of Thronesexperience , you know something is up .
Although we ’ve known for a while that HBO would be turning some of its Ireland - basedGame of Thronessets at Linen Mill Studios intoa vast exhibitionnow that the show has occur to an end , new details for the Game of Thrones Studio Tour have emerged . accord toWatchers on the Wall , the 110,000 - satisfying - foot “ interactive experience , ” fix to open up to the public later this year , will invite fans to immerse themselves into actual sets from the show ’s yield , as well as props and costume , reliving the most momentous portion of the Game of Thrones saga .
That ’s all well and good , but we have some concerns .
A wholly accurate depiction of dining at the Game of Thrones Studio Tour.Image: HBO
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Not about the props , or the sets , those are likely going to be highly nerveless . What sounds less cool is that the Thrones Studio Tour culminates with a dining experience that , well , sounds really dull . According to Watchers , fans should n’t carry to stray into a great hall done up like Winterfell or the Red Keep ’s finest feasting locales , or even a humble tavern for an ale and a bread bowl of sister ’s stew . Instead , there ’ll be “ a restaurant and a ‘ back - lot ’ café , designed to replicate the studio catering experience that the form and work party of the show enjoyed . ”
Huh . For those of you who ’ve never had a “ studio catering experience ” before , think of a schoolhouse luncheon but a bit fancier . Less slabs of white potato tots and cartons of juice , more , well , actual food for thought , but still serve in hot trays and scooped out onto your own little serve plate , and eaten side by side with folk on fold - out bench . It is not the fanciest thing in the world . But given the theming is justly there , it seems outre that the advance for this studio tour was n’t to duplicate food or eating establishments from the show , but to alternatively … let hoi polloi pretend they ’re working on a studio apartment muckle and just sat down from a severance between shoot ? Please , for the love of god , assure me at the very least they ’ll have lemoncakes . Or direwolf bread . Hell , getactual direwolf breadfrom literal Hot Pie catered in !
But beyond asking unconstipated masses to give for a catering experience that is … well , food serve out of live tray and sit on bench , and provided on a studio apartment curing , the eldritch thing about this is that food should be like , one of the thing you nail at a Game of Thrones experience . George R.R. Martin ’s books are laden with lavishdescriptions of food , from the grandest feast to the modest pungency of maintenance . Food is life-sustaining to the series , not just by what it tells us about characters that consume it , but the very act of the way intellectual nourishment is serve and presented in Westeros ride the political backstabbing and cultures we see on display . call back , part of what made the Red Wedding so shocking was not just the bloodbath , but that the Freys broke the fabled guest - right — the tradition of apportion staff of life and salt with a guest that invokes a rule that no hurt shall arrive to either party — in the process . And the vengeance for that ancient custom being taint ? Arya bakes apie of Freysand serve it to Walder before assassinate him .
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The culture of food , how it is share and how it is eaten , is one of the most central aspects of our insight into the seven kingdoms . In a world where Harry Potter fan canventure to Hogsmeadefor chocolate frogs and a butterbeer or six , or Star Wars fans can sup onmilks puritanic and greenwhile they contemplatea Ronto Wrap , HBO should be able-bodied to pop the question a Game of Thrones experience that ’s so much more than studio apartment backlot catering .
The show deserve better . Well , approximately seven seasonsof it do , at least .
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