The scene opened not on Kingās Landing or Winterfell, but on a hillside he didnāt recognize. Grey sky. A single weirwood tree with a face carved so deep it seemed to weep. Tyrion stood beneath it, but not the Tyrion he knew. This one was gaunter, his scar more livid, and he spoke to a woman in grey robes. She had no faceājust a hood. Her voice was layered, like two people speaking at once.
Leo actually stood up from his couch. āThatās the best ten minutes of television ever made,ā he whispered to his empty apartment. game of thrones season 5 dvd set
The night was cold, but not as cold as the long wait had been. For six months, Leo had dodged spoilers like a Faceless Man dodges a name. Heād unsubscribed from subreddits, muted Twitter words like āShireenā and āHardhome,ā and physically left the room whenever coworkers so much as mentioned Meereen. All for this: the Game of Thrones Season 5 DVD set, finally in his trembling hands. The scene opened not on Kingās Landing or
Leoās skin went cold. That wasnāt a deleted scene. That was something else. Something from a script heād never read, a plotline that never aired. He ejected the disc and checked the fine print on the box. Tyrion stood beneath it, but not the Tyrion he knew
Leo paused it the moment the Night King raised his arms. He rewound. Watched the wight walkers tumble off the cliff. Rewound again. The silent scream of the Thenn as he was pulled under the frozen water. The claustrophobic chaos on the pier. Jon Snow slicing a White Walker into shards of crystal. The thrum of the Night Kingās gaze as he lifted the dead into new, terrible life.
Then he flipped the box over. The special features.
Tyrion laughedāa hollow, broken sound. āAfter what? After the dwarf loses his nose? After the lion loses his tail?ā