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Game of Thrones put a lot of pressure on the six episodes that rounded off the final season. Season eight of the HBO show contained two of the largest battles ever seen in the show so far, one in King’s Landing, and one in Winterfell. The battle for Winterfell saw all of the main cast members take on the Night King (played by Vladimir Furdik) and his seemingly endless forces of undead. However some viewers were a little disappointed by the Night King’s inclusion in the episode, as he didn’t really have an epic one-on-one fight.

At one point in the episode Jon Snow (Kit Harington) touched down off his dragon to face the necromancer in combat - however the warlock simply raised some more undead and walked away. Miguel Sapochnik, director of the episode, recently appeared on the Indiewire Toolkit podcast, where he spoke about the last few episodes at length. On top of revealing some dark secrets about the final season, he also spoke about the battle for Winterfell, and what was left out of it. Speaking to the host, Miguel explained the 90-minute episode originally had a “very long” fight sequence which involved the Night King. However, this was obviously cut, and the Night King was left just to confront Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in the Weirwood. Miguel went on to discuss why this scene was cut, in which case he queried whether people would care whether the Night King had “fancy staff moves” - or whether they would rather he engage directly with Bran. READ MORE: Game of Thrones: Daenerys Targaryen’s death revealed in season 2 Khal Drogo clue?

Game of Thrones: The Night King was supposed to have a huge battle in the episode

Unfortunately, if anyone was interested in seeing the Night King use some fancy staff moves, they are out of luck. Later in the podcast Miguel spoke about the beginning of the battle for Winterfell, in which he said a huge part was taken out. He explained originally 50 direwolves were included in the battle. This would have most likely been included in the first charge against the undead, alongside the Dothraki. Although he didn’t mention where the direwolves would have supposedly come from, it seems likely they would have stemmed from the Nymeria’s pack.

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