On a recent podcast, Game of Thrones Director Miguel Sapochnik revealed that "The Long Night" had a fight scene involving the main antagonist, The Night King, which never made it till the actual episode.

"There was an extended battle sequence where you saw the Night King fight. Very long. There was a whole bunch of stuff that was going to happen. But when we got there, not to shooting but in the process of prep, you start to prioritize what's important, and this is a micro-version of what we're just talking about. At the end of an 80-minute battle, do I really care if the Night King's got some fancy moves with his spear? Do I really give a sh*t about that? What I care about is this moment which for me I really enjoyed doing and watching where Theon, Bran, and the Night King stand in this surreal, fairy tale-ish kind of landscape ... That's got more punch to me than now the Night King does some fancy staff moves."

additionally, Miguel Sapochnik revealed there were preliminary plans for an army of Direwolves to join the Battle of Winterfell and attack the undead dragon Viserion

"There were many things that happened, that people would have been so happy to have happen. Attack of Direwolves and crazy stuff. At some point you're like, '50 Direwolves attacking an undead dragon does not make a good movie.'"

Surely HBO have the budget to add that into the extended edition and while they are at they could light up the scenes so people without ultra HD televisions can see it



HBO could also add many other things that D&D decided to cut from the last season like Cersei's miscarriage among many other things. This won't fix the last season of Game of Thrones, but it would make it just that little bit better.