GAME OF THRONES Star Discusses Their Final Scene From Sunday's Emotional Episode - Spoilers

GAME OF THRONES Star Discusses Their Final Scene From Sunday's Emotional Episode - Spoilers

If you missed last night's massive ninety minute episode of Game of Thrones, then you're definitely going to want to grab a box of tissues and watch before reading any further! Otherwise, read on...

By LiteraryJoe - Apr 29, 2019 09:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Game of Thrones
Source: Variety
Fans were sad to see the end of several fan-favorite characters in last night's chilling episode of Game of Thrones, "The Long Night", but one was a bit more brutal than the others.

While it was rough to say goodbye to the likes of Jorah Mormant and Edd, there was one character in particular that was hard for fans to see go: the young Lyanna Mormont, played by Bella Ramsey. 

The tough and courageous young girl was a favorite to many for her stiff personality, and she was often required to speak up and call out foolish men thrice her age. Sadly, she went out being crushed by a giant, while also bringing down the beast herself. This is after many grown men fled in terror from the undead creature, so it goes to show one last time just how stong her character was.

Ramsey was happy that Lyanna went out the way she did, or at least that's what she tells Variety. Here is what she had to say about how the scene went down.

“I was in a big claw machine, it was like a robot, it was programmed to do certain moves, to shake me about and simulate being lifted up by a giant, so that was intense. I was very high, maybe 20 foot up in the air, and I had the dragon glass in my hand and the eye of the giant was actually a green polystyrene ball.”

Miguel Sapochnik, the director of the episode, gave Bella the following advice to assist her in shooting the scene.

“He said someone removed Lyanna’s fear gene, so fear isn’t part of her vocabulary, isn’t one of the emotions that she feels. We really talked about that and how she would react to the giant and what’s going on in her face and in her mind. It was sheer determination and courage that she wasn’t intimidated by this giant, this was just another object to face in the battle."

They also made sure that Ramsey was surrounded by stunt men so she wouldn't accidentally be paraded over in the exhausting mess of a battle, which the actor seems to have appreciated.

“Lyanna’s there to kill a giant, not to get stamped on by extras, so the we took extra precautions. I’m glad they did because it was very intense."

While this episode was tough to watch, there will be plenty more where this came from, so be sure to check out the trailer for the next episode below!



In Season 7, Daenerys Targaryen has finally set sail for Westeros with her armies, dragons and new Hand of the Queen, Tyrion Lannister. Jon Snow has been named King in the North after defeating Ramsay Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards and returning Winterfell to House Stark. In King's Landing, Cersei Lannister has seized the Iron Throne by incinerating the High Sparrow, his followers and her rivals in the Sept of Baelor. But as old alliances fracture and new ones emerge, an army of dead men marches on the Wall, threatening to end the game of thrones forever.

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L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 4/29/2019, 9:23 PM
Her stabbing that giant with the Dragonglass was dope and will definitely be remembered as one of the more badass moments from the series.

RIP

LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 4/29/2019, 9:31 PM
@L0RDbuckethead - Dude I was on the edge of my seat literally. I was sad to see her go but glad to see her take that man down.
MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 4/29/2019, 9:56 PM
RIP to the MVP of last nights episode.
Vandalore
Vandalore - 4/30/2019, 1:05 AM
This and Arya taking out the Night King were the best moments even though both moments were extremely stupid if you spend even a second thinking about the logistics.

Why would a undead giant killing machine decide to pick someone up and sloooooowly hold it up to it's own face close enough and slow enough to give them an opportunity to stab you in the eye? Absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical. Little girl would have gotten stomped and clubbed and ripped apart like everyone else if this was George RR Martin writing. Even the shows writers admitted they had to manufacture something special for her death just because she was a fan favorite.

And while Arya's moment taking out the Night King was amazing in the moment, almost immediately afterwards I was like... wait a second... so many forced plot conveniences to force that moment. The Night King was surrounded by generals 5 to 10 feet away in all directions... so you are telling me regular white walkers have so acute hearing that they can hear droplets of blood hit the floor and follow that back to its source, but a circle of generals cant hear Arya sprinting full speed, not to mention how the [frick] can Arya Olympic status leap over a circle of generals and clear the 5 to 10 feet to reach the Knight King... like what? Way too convenient she just flys out of the shadows behind him in a shot designed specifically to hide the context of how utterly preposterous that whole moment was. Have her steal a generals face and sneak into position behind the Knight King, have her stealthfully climb up the Heart Tree while everyone is distracted with Theon's sacrifice... just about anything else would have been better than her [frick]ing materializing behind him with a conveniently obscure camera angle hiding the fact that moment was literally impossible.

My biggest gripe of the episode was how literally every main character was protected by plot armor. Ludicrous, beyond ridiculous plot armor saving them at every turn. THIS IS GAME OF [frick]ING THRONES!!! THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE WITH THE NIGHT KING AND WHITE WALKERS WEVE BEEN BUILDING TOWARDS FOR 7 GOD DAMN SEASONS AND 8 [frick]ING YEARS! All the main characters died like 3 different times each, but the next time you see them they are just fine. And out of the thousands of warriors in that battle, literally the last 15 people left alive are all main characters..... WHAT? AM I WATCHING ARROW? DID HBO SWITH OUT THEIR WRITERS WITH THE CW CREATIVE STAFF? Absolutely bullshit. Nobody actually important died in what has been built up as the most important climax of the entire series. That's how you know RR Martin had absolutely nothing to do with this trash. The Red Wedding killed more main characters than the Night King and his massive army.

I honestly thought most everyone would die aside from maybe 4 or 5 main characters. I thought that they were going to lose this battle, Jon would die forcing Terian and Dany to retreat and escape the last surviving dragon, Arya would get saved by hound and he would knock her out and run with her body away from the battle, but everyone else would die. Jamie, Brena, all the side characters fighting up top would die. Every last one. And the battle would end with the Night King killing Theon then Bran, and once Bran is dead the Night King moved on to the next territory for conquest leaving a few survivors in the Crypt including Sansa who stepped up and killed the few reanimated white walkers in the Crypt.

That's something worthy of the balls Game of Thrones HAD. This super ridiculous episode, while beautifully filmed, was written absolutely atrociously. The battle plans were laughably idiotic and lacked anything resembling intelligent strategy, every main character was immortal and nobody important died. Nobody.

There may have been side characters you liked that died, but none of the big names died which is laughable for Game of Thrones. And we will never get the White Walker threat back to do it better, it's just one and done.

This was by far the most thrilling yet MASSIVELY underwhelming and disappointing episode of GOT in the entire series. I almost dont even give a [frick] about the final 3 episodes when they treated this episode like an episode of The Flash. Garbage. Absolutely garbage writing. An hour and a half of plot conveniences and plot armor. Poop.
Vandalore
Vandalore - 4/30/2019, 1:12 AM
My phone autocorrected Night King the first few times I wrote it apparently, but I know its Night King. The second half of what I wrote it stopped autocorrecting it.
Vandalore
Vandalore - 4/30/2019, 1:30 AM
Other completely garbage moments, Dany and the dragon not taking off immediately but instead for absolutely no reason except plot convenience letting like 50+ white walkers attack and climb all over the dragon so Dany can fall off and be in danger then finally the dragon takes off (I guess the writers really wanted dany off the dragon for the end of the episode, logic be damned).

John Snow being completely surrounded by reanimated White Walkers in an impossible to survive situation, then gets saved cuz plot armor. Literally every main character gets last second saved by cringy sloppy writing and plot armor.

I literally saw Brena be taken over by white walkers, her screaming, cut to her on the ground with undead going absolutely bonkers on her as she screams the most blood curtailing I'm being eaten alive screams, cut to Jamie looking over at her in terror then BOOM THE DRAGONS ARE HERE so forget what you just saw, Brena will be fine a few scenes later.... what? How? Huh?

Jon Snow going 1v1 with the undead dragon just standing there and screaming at him.... then luckily Arya kills the Night King just in time and the lazy writing plot device of "kill the main bad guy and all his minions die" trope weve seen a bajillion times used over and over happens to save Jon. Wtf was he gonna do if Arya hadn't killed the Night King at that exact moment? Was he giving up and committing suicide? Huh? What?

Such terrible cliche writing. RR Martin has said many times he wrote Game of Thrones literally to shatter the tired and over used tropes found in modern fantasy writing. His work would always clash against what you've seen before and obliterate the tropes of old. This episode absolutely spit in the face of that fundamental characteristic of this series.

Such disgraceful mishandling of this property.
Vandalore
Vandalore - 4/30/2019, 1:38 AM
Wouldn't be surprised if Kathleen Kennedy produced this episode. Not since the new Star Wars movies have I seen the SPIRIT and FUNDAMENTALS of a franchise betrayed so blatantly.
Tufasrox
Tufasrox - 4/30/2019, 7:39 AM
I haven't read the article OR the comments, I just clicked it because of the picture and the headline...I hope to god this wasn't a spoiler. CBM is notorious for sending out spoilers. I haven't seen the episode yet...but if Arya does die and after seeing JUST the picture and headline...I swear to Gawd....
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/2/2019, 2:14 PM
Her death is the only one I really dislike. Just like with Theon, her arc really wraps up with her death. And to be honest, GoT is not the place for that. Characters with full arcs? Pff, just suddenly slice their throats like they did with Robb
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