Original plans for one of Game of Thrones’ key death scenes has showed that things were supposed to play out a little differently to what was eventually seen on-screen.
Watchers on the Wall pointed out a Reddit post which reveals Stannis’ cut lines of dialogue from the fifths season episode, ‘Mother’s Mercy.’
In the final episode of the HBO series’ fifth season, Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) was killed by Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) who was fulfilling her sworn oath of avenging the death of his brother, Renly.
Showrunnners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss attended SXSW earlier this month where they revealed which Thrones death has been the show’s most expensive.