A racy conversation between Tormund and Brienne, Cersei in a blood-soaked bed, and Jon's farewell
to Ghost were all chopped from season seven of Game of Thrones.
Yippee-ki-yay movie lovers, it's Jan here and today I'm looking at some of the best
scenes that ended up cut from the seventh season of HBO's mega-popular fantasy series.
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The fearsome wildling leader Tormund Giantsbane is one of my favourite characters on the show
and he's had some fantastic moments that bring a lot of humour to the series.
And ever since season six, when he first laid eyes on the mighty warrior Brienne of Tarth,
the formidable Tormund has been struck down with puppy love.
There have been some hilarious scenes of Tormund eyeing up Brienne and so far she's ignored
his advances, but fans of the pair may be sad to know that some lines of rather racy
dialogue between the two were cut from this season's very first episode.
The lost moment took place after Tormund approached Brienne in Winterfell as she was sparring
with Podrick.
The red-haired wildling was going to try flirting with Brienne by telling her about his experience
with Sheila the Bear.
You can see a little clip still in the episode where Brienne walks off in disgust while Sansa
and Littlefinger are talking overhead.
Sadly, though, Tormund and Brienne's actual conversation was cut.
This would have been a funny call-back to season four when Tormund tried to impress
his fellow wildlings with his story claiming he'd had carnal relations with a bear.
"Oh that was a night to remember."
"Her fangs were sharp, but she knew how to use them."
"And she was nice and soft down beIow."
"No, she was no ordinary beast."
Ygritte was having none of Tormund's tall tale back then and, clearly, Brienne wasn't
impressed by it either, or as the actor who plays Tormund says, "she didn't like [his]
pick-up line" – which is hardly surprising for all sorts of reasons including her own
experience having to fight a bear when she was captured by Bolton men back in season
3.
In fact, Brienne's pretty uncomfortable with the whole Tormund situation, which was made
clear in a deleted scene from season 6 that showed Sansa teasing her about Tormund's interest
which sent the great warrior into a fluster of embarrassment.
Still, I do hope Tormund and Brienne survive at least a good few episodes next season so
we can see their paths cross again.
By the way, Tormund's attempted flirtation with Brienne at Winterfell wasn't the only
moment featuring the wildling talking about bears that ended up cut this season.
In episode 6, when a giant undead polar bear appeared out of nowhere to attack Jon Snow's
ranging party, the first words out of Tormund's mouth were, 'I've danced with plenty of bears',
though that line sadly hit the editing room floor.
And the premiere episode also cut down another scene, this time with Sam and Gilly.
It's during the scene where Sam is studying books from the Citadel's restricted library
and remembers about the mountain of dragonglass sitting beneath Dragonstone.
In that scene, Gilly picked up a book called "Legends of the Long Night" and started to
read.
Unfortunately, the part where Gilly reads aloud from the book was reportedly cut out,
so we missed out on hearing some very interesting lines, including the following: "The white
cold rose up, and the Walkers rose with it.
And the sun hid its face for a lifetime, ashamed at something none could discover".
In the cut scene, Gilly claims she knows what made the sun do that and tells Sam that Craster
was drunk once when the time came to give one of his baby boys away and he told the
child, "Come on, time to meet your brothers".
Gilly also reveals that some of Craster's older wives referred to the White Walkers
as "Craster's Sons".
Gilly then thinks back to the time when a White Walker attacked her, Sam and her baby
and questions whether he was one of her brothers.
Now, I wonder whether this scene was cut because the audience already knows about Craster's
sons being turned into White Walkers, which we saw in season four.
However, it's not clear whether any living character on the show really knows this, though
Jon Snow did catch a glimpse of one of Craster's sons being taken in season 2.
Maybe Gilly's reveal will be included next season instead, especially if it makes a difference
to how the living can defeat the army of the dead.
But it's a shame that Gilly's lines were cut this season as they would have made her role
a bit more meaningful and they would also have highlighted her part in uncovering important
information, even if by chance, like she did in episode 5 with Rhaegar's annulment of his
marriage to Elia Martell.
And while we're on the subject of scenes with Sam, the first episode showed a humorous montage
of what life was like for the budding maester after he arrived at the Citadel.
And although it felt plenty long enough as it was, there's actually an edit of the scene
which is seven to eight minutes long which the episode director has described as "hilarious".
So, perhaps we'll see that as a Blu-ray extra?
We finally got to see Arya briefly reunite with her long-lost direwolf Nymeria this season,
but our other favourite direwolf Ghost was sadly chopped from his only scene which was
planned for episode two.
According to the season 7 outline, there was a short scene where Ghost saw Jon off from
Winterfell as he left for Dragonstone.
In the cut scene, Jon told his direwolf, "Look after anyone named Stark, boy!", which feels
like a touch of irony from the writers given the full reveal of Jon's true heritage later
in the season.
It's a shame Ghost was, erm, ghosted this season, but the reason was probably financial.
Game of Thrones' budget for special effects will have already been stretched with the
need for a lot more dragon and White Walker action, and, apparently, direwolves are more
expensive to animate than CGI dragons.
I suspect also a decision was made that we should see Nymeria instead as she hasn't been
seen since Arya had to leave her in the woods in season one, and their reunion underlined
just how much has changed for each of them since then.
In fact, this is not the first time that Ghost has had his screentime cut down as a scene
was deleted from season six where Ghost menaced Alliser Thorne and other Night's Watchmen.
And according to the director of Battle of the Bastards, Ghost was going to have a big
part in that episode, but it was just too expensive, and when they had to choose between
Wun-Wun and the direwolf, they picked the mighty giant instead.
One character who brings some humour to most scenes he's in is Bronn, so it was a shame
that the scene of him and Tyrion having a little reunion that was originally intended
to be in the fifth episode was dropped from filming.
It looks like it would have occurred just before Jamie arrives at the secret meeting
with Tyrion that Bronn helped set up in King's Landing.
Of course, we did finally see the two men back together on screen in the season finale,
though given how much fun the scenes they share together often are, it would have been
great to see more of them.
Littlefinger's death was a long time coming in Game of Thrones and it took seven seasons
of his scheming to finally come crashing down on him before the Starks realised that he
was the one who'd set everything in motion.
Sansa even admitted she was a slow learner in the final episode after still getting played
by Littlefinger throughout much of season 7.
In fact, there's a deleted scene where Sansa goes to Bran to ask him for his help before
she executes her own sister Arya.
Actor Isaac Hempstead Wright, who plays Bran, revealed in an interview with Variety that,
"it suddenly occurred to Sansa that she had a huge CCTV department at her discretion and
it might be a good idea to check with him first before she guts her own sister.
So, she goes to Bran, and Bran tells her everything she needs to know."
According to Hempstead Wright, they did actually film this scene, but I can see a couple of
possibilities for why it got the chop.
On the one hand, if it had been included, it would have taken away from the drama of
the scene where Sansa calls Arya in and it looks like she's about to sentence Arya to
death, but then she turns the tables on Littlefinger.
Also, the deleted scene further highlights Sansa's ongoing naivety given the fact she
was still getting manipulated by Littlefinger and ultimately needed Bran's help to figure
out what was really going on.
The season finale set up numerous storylines to propel us into Season 8, but there is one
crucial scene detailed in the episode outline which didn't make it into the final episode.
The cut scene would have occurred just after Jaime stormed off from King's Landing in disgust
following Cersei's refusal to honour her agreement to send the Lannister army north against the
Night King.
The scene is set at the Red Keep in King's Landing and has Cersei waking up suddenly
in the middle of the night to discover her bedclothes covered in blood.
This scene, which implies Cersei has just miscarried, would have made a big difference
to how season 7 ended, and it feels like it would also have had strong parallels with
the scene we saw in the finale of Lyanna Stark lying in a bloody bed having just given birth.
As season 7 left Cersei still apparently pregnant though, her future baby has already given
rise to a number of fan theories.
One such theory is that Tyrion has made a deal with Cersei behind Dany's back to arrange
for Cersei's new child to inherit the Iron Throne after Daenerys.
We know that Tyrion was concerned about the succession and Dany's apparent inability to
have children, but what we don't know is if he had to agree to something in order to change
Cersei's mind and make her publically support Dany and Jon.
And Tyrion didn't look very happy when Dany and Jon were hooking up at the end of the
episode, likely because of the political problems their romantic relationship could cause; but,
if that Cersei fan theory is correct, Tyrion could also be worried that if Dany does conceive
her own child it would scupper his deal with his sister.
In any case, I do wonder whether this cut scene has been moved to season 8, meaning
that we might still see Cersei miscarry.
Indeed, her miscarriage may be foreshadowed in Jamie's words that, "Our child will never
be born if the dead come south".
Of course, Jaime was thinking of the Night King's undead army, but technically the undead
have already come south in the form of the wight that Jon and Dany brought to the Dragonpit.
I think the way the wight clawed at Cersei after it came dangerously close to her could
also be some ominous foreshadowing for Cersei and her baby.
For example, Cersei could die either through miscarriage or in childbirth, which could
fulfil the valonqar prophecy that I talked about in detail in my video predicting who
will die in Season 8.
Alternately, it's possible that the showrunners have decided to go the route of Cersei lying
about being pregnant, so the scene could have been cut for that reason.
So, what do you think about the season 7 deleted scenes and do you think any of them should
have been included?
Also what were you best and worst moments of this season?
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