There are plenty of reasons for anyone, spoiled or no, to be eagerly anticipating this Sunday’s Game of Thrones finale entitled “The Children.” You don’t just have to take the word of the series creators, Dan Weiss and David Benioff. Though they did say,

It’s the best finale we’ve ever done, bar none. The performances from our cast, the direction from Alex Graves, the VFX work, the new [music] cues from Ramin Djawadi—all of it came together in perhaps the finest hour we’ve produced.

That’s high self-praise coming from the people who brought us “The Rains of Castamere,” “Blackwater,” and “Baelor.” Weiss and Benioff are so confident in this episode, in fact, that it’s the only one they’ve submitted for Best Writing for this year’s Emmy Awards . But that’s not the only Emmy submission of note. The other one that caught our eye was a technical award, [Outstanding Prosthetic Make-up] (http://winteriscoming.net/2014/06/09/game-thrones-emmy-submissions-season-4/) , for, you guessed it, “The Children.” That means that there is some manner of prosthetic effect in the season finale that the Game of Thrones powers that be think top all the work that went into this:

And yes, in case you’re wondering, that scene above does involve prosthetic makeup. So what can we expect to see on Sunday? Well not the usual quiet wrap-up episode that we’ve become accustomed to, that’s for certain. But it wouldn’t be fun to ruin the surprise, so we’ll discuss the specifics after the customary spoiler break.