I don;t know about all of you, but when it comes to fight scenes, the Tower of Joy this past week was one of the best done sword fights I have seen on Game of Thrones ever. Partly, this is because the show hasn’t always been willing to commit the time and money needed to do major fight scenes, or when they do, they’re usually large scale battles. There have been good moments–think the one on one between Jon Snow and White Walker X in the middle of the Hardhome Massacre.
But when it comes to a beginning-to-end sword fight on a smaller scale, like the Tower of Joy fight, the show has never delivered quite so spectacularly. (In fact, the last time they did a fight of that nature, last season in Dorne, it was derided as the worst fight scene in the show’s history.)
So why was this fight so good? The good folks over at Schola Gladiatoria, a historical European martial arts group specializing in medieval swordplay, have done a thorough (and I mean thorough–the video is thirty minutes) breakdown for us.
As you can see, this guy really knows his historical details, working through not only the why duel wielding swords isn’t that commonly seen of a trope (because shields are a good idea and humans don’t have three arms), but all of the armor details, including what parts of the armor the production chose to cut for choreography purposes, and then of course, the moves. He even goes through how the characters are killed and if these choices are historically accurate or not. (Spoiler alert, some or more accurate than you might think.)
And now that you have the thorough breakdown, click here to watch the scene again, just to watch, now that we’ve had all this historical knowledge added to it.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/05/15/schola-gladiatoria-breaks-down-the-tower-of-joy-fight/
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