"[18], According to the director, the scene was filmed on privately owned land in Saintfield, Northern Ireland, and they had only 12 days to shoot. Benioff called Sapochnik's work on the episode some of the best in the series' history. By the time the Volantene fleet arrives, the battle may be decided in favor of Daenerys's forces - in which case Daenerys may return with her dragon to save both the Unsullied. I also did a bunch of research into Alexander the Great who was legendary in his strategic battle prowess. [11] Ian Whyte also made his last appearance in "Battle of the Bastards" as the giant, Wun Wun;[12] he had played Gregor Clegane during the show's second season. In the novels, it is hinted numerous times that most of Ramsay's actions and ambitions revolve around his intense jealousy of Jon. Those words included 'surrender or die' and 'thanks for the ships', as we saw another thrilling action sequence that I believe reunited the dragon triplets for the first time since they were quite young. Jon first smacks the bow and arrow out of Ramsay's hands and strikes him in the chest with his shield with enough force to knock him to the ground. After reading the script Sapochnik came up with a 48-day shooting schedule, which was whittled down to 25 days. "Battle of the Bastards" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones and its 59th episode overall. It was a life-changing moment. The ironborn attack the slavers. At night, Sansa visits Ramsay, who has been imprisoned in the kennels with his hounds. [5] Episode director Miguel Sapochnik said in an interview that the Battle of Agincourt was the original inspiration but the concept was adapted to fit budgetary constraints. A major visual trick he pushed for was also to keep the dragons slightly "off frame" in most shots: it makes them look more real, as if a nature photographer took quick footage of a fast-moving tiger in the jungle before it disappeared again, and didn't have time to frame the shot utterly perfectly. The women of Westeros are on the warpath."[37]. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik. [30] It had a 3.9 rating in the 18–49 demographic, the highest-rated show on cable television that night. I've had four lovely seasons here. Club wrote in his review, "This battle works as a climactic moment for Game of Thrones as a cultural event, selling us on the scale and ambition of the producers and their production teams, all who should be commended for the accomplishments from a technical perspective. Davos discovers the pyre where Shireen was burned and finds the wooden stag he carved for her. Sapochnik also won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for the episode. In the previous episode, Jaime remarked that Cersei would burn a city to ashes for her children, while in that same episode Qyburn told Cersei that his spies confirmed an old rumor she inquired about. [9] In an interview, he described learning about his character's fate: "I had received half the scripts, five episodes, then I got the call. This episode includes one of the very few times slow-motion has been used in. In an interview, Kit Harington mentioned that he accidentally punched Iwan Rheon twice by accident, first by hitting him in the chin with the shield and then punching him across the face. Game of Thrones recap: Battle of the Bastards. Before he was cast as Ramsay, Rheon auditioned for the role of Jon Snow. how the camera is just over Jon's shoulder level with him as the cavalry approach. [6], "Battle of the Bastards" featured the first meeting of Daenerys Targaryen and Yara and Theon Greyjoy, and Yara's first meeting with Tyrion Lannister. When Stannis orders Davos to return to the Wall to barter with Jon (in truth an excuse to get rid of Davos so he didn't interfere with Shireen's sacrifice), he tells Davos to take several knights with him as an escort. As all the off-page filming occurred between the event of Smalljon Umber's confrontating with Jon Snow to the arrival of the Vale army (save for one pick-up shot earlier in the battle), it is possible Jon Snow originally killed him. In the season finale, Sansa apologizes to Jon for not telling him about the Knights of the Vale. Sapochnik noted that there's a moment when Rheon doesn't even brace for the punches anymore but just relaxes into them, disturbingly - this wasn't done with CGI, but was purely Rheon's acting. You've got a woman who has somehow formed an alliance where she has a Dothraki horde, a legion of Unsullied, she's got the mercenary army of the Second Sons, and she has three dragons who are now pretty close to full grown. Sapochnik explained that basically the arc they envisioned for Jon across Season 6 was that he had his faith in humanity shattered by the mutiny and for the Battle of the Bastards to be a climactic rebirth when he rediscovers his desire to live - the literal "rebirth" shot when he crawls out of the pile of dying men. Theon and Yara arrive in Meereen. Though Jon and Ramsay have not yet met in the novels, Jon knows of Ramsay's actions and despises him. The schedule got so rushed by the end that for the last three days Sapochnik's crew simply filmed without a script (not using the script Benioff and Weiss wrote), after getting their permission via e-mail (they were in Los Angeles at the time). However, the reason why Sansa did not tell him about the Vale army remains unclear as the show does not provide an in-universe explanation. [13] In an Entertainment Weekly interview before the episode aired, Sapochnik said he was brought on board by Benioff and Weiss after his previous-season success; "Hardhome" won several awards, including Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Interestingly, both battles ended with the complete annihilation of the enemy army, and the extinction of a Great House (House Baratheon, House Bolton), An issue brought up by fans is that Wun Wun fights in the battle essentially, Jon says they will bury Rickon in the crypts beneath Winterfell, next to their father, This episode confirms that the letter Sansa was writing two episodes ago in ", There are other contradictions in Sansa's story arc across Season 6: after receiving the, 1 - Sansa had no idea if Littlefinger would be able to bring the Vale army to Winterfell in time, and never heard back from him, in which case she didn't tell Jon to wait before charging into the battle while badly outnumbered simply because she had no active control over the arrival of the Vale's army. Ramsay offers to pardon Jon if he hands Sansa over. As stated above, it is speculated that Sansa did not tell Jon about the Knights of the Vale because she was unsure whether or not they'd come to their aid and she did not want to falsely raise Jon's hopes. Some reviewers believed this implied that Sansa was pregnant with his child though subsequently, production sources categorically denied this. https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bastards_(episode) Ramsay continues to grin as Jon beats him to a pulp - apparently because he thinks Jon is venting his anger but won't actually kill him. After several hours and guesswork, Sapochnik estimated around 28 days. For the first time on the show, two major battle sequences take place and come to a conclusion in the same episode. It’s illegal — it’s a very valid rule about protecting the horses. Each army was trained separately to create off-screen rivalry between the two groups, and visual effects were used to expand the army to thousands. 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