

Ser Waymar’s voice cracks like a boy’s: SER WAYMAR Stay where you are! The OTHER keeps coming.

Its sword is translucent, a shard of crystal so thin it almost seems to vanish when seen edge-on. It slides toward the rangers on silent feet. A figure steps into the moonlight, tall and gaunt, with flesh pale as milk. Ser Waymar turns to see what the young tracker sees: a shadow emerging from the forest. He’s staring into the darkness at the edge of the clearing. Maybe Benioff and Weiss didn’t feel that the audience was ready for ice zombies…just yet, so all we got in the finished product was a glimpse of something scary. The original pilot episode script hews much closer to the books, as opposed to made it to television. One thing that stands out is that in the original script, we get a much longer and up close look at the White Walkers/Others.
