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I find this color theory very interesting and awesome! I never even thought of it.
The color filtering in Game of Thrones was frequently commented on in the first season, though I haven't seen much about it lately. But it's used as a cue to let you know where things are happening without sticking a location caption on the scene -- the further north you are, the bluer it is, the further south the more orange. If they ever show Dorne, it'll probably be more orange than King's Landing, maybe more orange than the slave cities even.
You can see in this blog post someone complaining about how the filtering makes it very difficult to tell what's going on in some scenes and how it causes so many set details to be lost in the murk of shadow. And just ask any GoT graphic maker about the kinds of things they have to do to make their artwork look decent... if you ever see someone bitching about the lighting in a scene, it's not just because it's dark (though that's the usual problem), it's also because it's orangey-dark or bluey-dark.
And like, let's use Sansa as an example. Here she is with all the other Starks in Winterfell, and you can see how blue it is:
In King's Landing it's orange:
And in the Eyrie she's blue again:
which is bluer than previous scenes in the Eyrie, but they may be ramping up the blue filter here because of the first snow and that it's in a godswood, to increase the "Northern" feeling.