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Usually, when a hit show goes to the dogs, it’s a bad thing.
But in a recent interview, Game of Thrones visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer says that Jon Snow’s direwolf, Ghost, “has a fair amount of screen time” in the series’ upcoming final season.
Bauer told Huffington Post that the massive white dog, who hasn’t been seen since Season 6 of the HBO drama, will certainly show up before the end of Season 8. And that seems like a very good thing, considering that Ghost’s master likely will need all the help he can get to defeat the horde of white walkers descending upon Westeros.
Fans of the show will remember that Nymeria, the direwolf Arya set free in Season 1 to save her from Cersei’s wrath after Joffrey provoked the animal into biting him, did show up in Season 7. Arya ran into her furry friend, now the apparent leader of a wolf pack, in the woods while on her way to Winterfell to reunite with siblings Jon and Sansa. Arya tried to coax the beast into accompanying her on her northern journey but got the sense that Nymeria had been wild for too long to go back to a life of domestication.
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Bauer added that the technology involved in making ordinary wolves into on-screen direwolves is time-intensive and costly, two reasons the surviving Stark pets might not have shown their snouts in Season 7. However, Ghost is “very present and does some pretty cool things in Season 8,” Bauer said.
creating the direwolves through CGI is expensive, yet we see dany’s dragons pratically every episode. i hate how fast the show killed off all the stark direwolves, and i won’t be the least bit surprised if both nymeria and ghost die before the series finale.
the show always seemed more invested in the dragons than the direwolves.
a shame, since i always felt the bond between the direwolves and their owners felt much more personal, and therefore stronger.
Nymeria probably won’t show up again. I don’t think there’s time for any minor stuff like that with 6 episodes and much more important plot points to take care of.
As for Ghost, killing him won’t have much effect on the budget at this point, considering it’s the final season. He’ll die if Jon dies.
Sansa and Robb’s both died at the same time as in the books. Rickon’s, much like his master was never meant to be a major plot point. I think Bran’s wolf’s death was way too big of an event for it to deviate from the eventual book counterpart too, so I wouldn’t fault the showrunners for any of that either.
they killed off two wolves they didn’t have to, so yeah i do fault the showrunners for not hiding how biased they are.
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i do think we’ll see nymeria again, perhaps she and her pack will come to arya’s aid when it’s time for the battle with the white walkers and the wights. and that’s exactly why i fear she will die, too.
I saw this yesterday. YAY Ghost is finally coming back and the article says that he’s going to be doing some ”cool stuff”’ by means kicking some ass! But as for Nymeria she IS coming back as well but it didn’t say much what she will do tho.
They actually shoot real wolves against green screens / blue screens and incorporate them. Wolves are incredibly hard to train and work with.
Because it’s easier to vector, render and export dragons using a bunch of ball with sticks poking out.
Hoping against hope this isn’t about some heavy-handed metaphor about Jon’s identity. Like, Ghost must die before Jon claims Rhaegal mirroring him abandoning his Stark identity and embracing his Targaryen side to win against the White Walkers.
But do Ghost and Drogon get along?
Yay!!! Best news ever. Please also on’t bring him back just to kill him off though. I need Ghost and Jon to both make it through the end.
Awe I loved the direwolves. They were my favorite. I wish they were in it more.
I hope he shows up to lift his leg on the iron throne! :p
I hope they haven’t brought Ghost back just to kill him off, but I’m starting to think they had . It seem like once they direwolves dies, the characters die as well, or change.
Hurrah. I’ve been wondering where he had gone off too.
Yay! I was so sad we didn’t see him at all last season, though considering the big battles we had, I figured budgets were the reason.