Game Of Thrones: How The Battle Of Winterfell Should Have Gone

Ok so here’s what I’m pitching. Not a major change, you camp everyone out in front of Winterfell but you illuminate the battlefield ahead of you with a series of big burning torches. Your opening scene is actually Pod or Jorah or whoever galloping back from the fringes lighting them as they go.

Get back and then slowly one by one, they twinkle in the blackness and extinguish. Just like the show you get that eerie quiet and then the horde crashing headfirst into the Unsullied, Northmen, Freefolk and Nights of the Vale.

Then, and only then, you have the Dothraki flanking from the sides. They’re carving straight into their lines killing hundreds upon hundreds of dead and yet, they keep coming. Slowly but surely, those war cries start to fade under the sheer weight of numbers.

Boom, you got your strategy right and it still wasn’t enough. That is 10x more worrying for our heroes because it means that no matter what they do, this might just be unwinnable. You also get to chuck a brief bit of hope in there before snatching it away again.

From there we cut up to Dany and Jon who, seeing the way the tide is turning lose their nerve and swoop in to try and even the odds. I’d keep this is the same but I’d only have Dany actually do it. Jon knows he has to wait for the Night King.

So Dany’s swooping around setting things on fire and we get into the nitty gritty of that fight outside Winterfell and things going progressively worse for the heroes. I’d really focus on this for a long time actually get that claustrophobia from the battle of the bastards back, lots of those one shot takes of people being mullered and, to cap it all off, that moment where Edd dies saving Sam who then promptly flees the battle.