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Many of the exterior shots in the first season were filmed in Ontario the rest of the series was filmed in Burbank.
Luke's Diner is in a completely different location in Stars Hollow and looks mostly different inside, as well.In the pilot Sookie is a walking disaster area, knocking down pans and starting fires with almost every move.The DVD even has a special where the actors comment on how the speed of dialog delivery, which is a famous aspect of Gilmore Girls, has evolved to the point where it's faster than the actors themselves can think. It's particularly jarring re-watching the first season after finishing the final season: the dialog in the beginning was a lot slower paced than in later seasons.Talisa also pronounces her name 'ta-liss-ah' when she is introduced, but everyone else later says 'ta-lee-sah'. For example in "Winter Is Coming", Illyrio pronounces Daenerys as 'den-eer-iss' when 'den-air-iss' became the accepted pronunciation. Certain characters have their names pronounced differently in their debut episodes.scenes in the North have a strong blue filter. By the second season the shots became more cinematic, the cinematography moved to more natural Rembrandt lighting, and different locations had dramatically different color palettes, e.g. Alan Taylor, an accomplished film director who helmed the last two episodes of the season, is generally credited with refining the show's visual style. The first few episodes have a much different visual look than the rest of the series, the compositions looked staged for multiple cameras, the lighting looked like characters were followed around by spotlights, and the various locations generally had the same look.Also, the writers have taken a hint from some fans complaining that you can't follow the details of the plot with all the Fanservice. This has two reasons: first, characters seem to have less time to go to brothels (what with many of them being too down on their luck to do so) and second, much of the backstory is already covered and many motivations are either clear or more interesting if left unclear. The "sexposition", a character rambling about backstory or motivation while a scantily or nude clad female (or occasionally male) is seen, usually in a brothel, were much more common in season one than the later seasons.Nowadays, with the series having become a cultural touchstone, it's barely remembered that Sean Bean was ever part of it. This was a deliberate attempt to shock complacent viewers who assumed he was the story's central protagonist and therefore safe for the series's duration, only for him to die at the end of the first season. All the advertising and promotion focused on Ned Stark, and he was billed first in the credits. This one was done on purpose, but the first season deliberately made itself feel like Sean Bean's show.Several minor characters from the books, such as Jeyne Poole, were given minor cameo parts, many of whom the show subsequently dropped, giving their plotlines to other characters.Given no such move takes place in the books, this appears to be merely the show's justification of a set change. This is acknowledged in-show the first time it happens, and is implied to be Hand of the King Tywin Lannister's personal preference - nevertheless, it remains there after Tywin's death. From season three onwards, it shifts to the Tower of the Hand. In the first two seasons, the Small Council meets in a large, spacious hall known as the Small Council Chambers.Hodor also has a beard which was dropped in later episodes because it made him look like a "Classics professor." Several scenes are rather unnaturally cut together to disguise actor changes, and seemingly pointless scenes, such as Robb, Jon and Theon being shaved, were added to explain continuity problems. Tyrion's hair is much lighter and straighter, in later episodes his hair is darker and more tousled. Several of the younger actors, most notably Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), aged noticeably during that time. The first episode includes scenes from the unbroadcast pilot shot over a year before the main season one production.Various King's Landing locations, such as the city gate, the Hand's quarters, and Littlefinger's brothel, look very different in season one compared to later seasons, due to set changes, the most prominent being that King's Landing scenes were shot in Malta in the first season, but from season two onwards they were shot in Dubrovnik.This was dropped for the rest of the series. The pilot includes location captions the first time a new location appears.