The final season of Game of Thrones proved to be extremely polarising among fans, many of whom were unhappy with the narrative that played out.
The HBO series is one of the biggest and most celebrated television shows of all time. Over the course of its run, it won 59 Primetime Emmy Awards which is more than any other drama in the history of the ceremony.
The pressure was high for showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff heading into the final episodes and their creative decisions certainly received both praise and criticism.
Should Daenerys Targaryen have turned heel and destroyed King's Landing? Should Daenerys and Jon Snow have gotten together? Should Bran really have been made the King of the Six Kingdoms?
It seems such questions don't trouble Weiss and Benioff, though, as when asked by The Hollywood Reporter the one change they would make to Game of Thrones, they said they would have brought back Mord the Jailer, a secondary character from season one.
“One thing I know I wish we could have done is there’s the character Mord the Jailer,” Benioff says.
“It was a mistake not bringing Mord the Jailer back into it,” Weiss says. “We always talked about doing it.”
“And we had the scene for it,” Benioff adds. “There’s a scene set in a tavern …”
“Was it Brienne or The Hound?” Weiss recalls. “But we realized too late that Mord could have owned the tavern. We could have had that actor in the background acting exactly the way he did as a jailer, except now as a small-business owner. It was just such an obvious, no-brainer, day-after idea.”
Everything else was completely perfect, then...
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