Here's why Jon Snow has not caressed Ghost in the latest episode of Game of Thrones

The last episode of Game of Thrones, Season 8 was the fall we needed after this battle (and the dark) Battle of Winterfell, but there was one screaming ]. problem : Jon Snow cracks for his trusty wolf Ghost before leaving him with Tormund and pissing south. Does Ghost have a bad smell after running with all these dead legions? Jon does not have a heart? The director of the episode, David Nutter, gave a practical explanation to the appearance of a fool in an interview with Huffington Post .

"Since werewolves are a kind of CGI creation, we thought it best to keep them as simple as possible," said Nutter. "And I think it played a lot harder that way."

You probably have already understood, but the terrible adult wolves of Game of Thrones are not that big. Puppies from real life actors are filmed and then enlarged with digital effects to give them their impressive size. Performing all the work required for a brief physical interaction between Jon and Ghost would have been a risky gamble in terms of production and emotional spinoffs. stroking something tall and hairy that was largely masked by his cloak, but maybe it would have seemed cheaper than the moment of calm that they shared. "Keeping Ghost on the side, I think it has gone better," Nutter said.

As to why he even needed to part with his trusty mega-dog, actor Kristofer Hivju from Tormund explained it very well.

"I think Jon is right that the south is not the place for a giant wolf," Hivju said. "In episode 2 or 3, they killed one of them [Lady, Sansa’s direwolf] – it's a wild animal, it's like a wolf plus two! I think that's better than Ghost goes north. " There is a metaphor somewhere about the danger and nobility of the northern lands and their peoples who are destroyed by intrigue and betrayal from the south.

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