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Game of Thrones Creators Reveal One Surprising GOT Series Regret

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss reveal their surprise regret about the HBO series -and it involves a Season 1 character.

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  • Game of Thrones creators share their unexpected Season 1 regret.
  • Benioff & Weiss lament not bringing back this character.
  • The missed opportunity would've seen the character return.
  • Insight into Tyrion’s storyline and characters' potential growth.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been high fantasy royalty since pulling the once-thought unfilmable Game of Thrones to life on HBO. The series, based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, lasted from 2011 to 2019 on the premium cable network with a controversial eighth and final season, much of the community accused of being rushed and being a bit anticlimactic as one of the major series' leads in Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen completed her fall from grace becoming the very tyrant she wished to avoid laying waste to Kings Landing and its citizens. While both are happy to move on from the franchise despite the promise of lifelong producing credit to any future spinoffs like House of the Dragon, the two have moved on to their own projects, including Netflix's 3 Body Problem. Benioff and Weiss shared their regret and it's not something most fans would probably expect.

Game of Thrones Creators Benioff & Weiss' Unexpected Early Regret
Ciaran Bermingham in "Game of Thrones". Image courtesy of HBO

Game of Thrones: David Benioff and Dan Weiss Season One Regret

"One thing I know I wish we could have done is there's the character Mord the Jailer," Benioff told The Hollywood Reporter. Mord was played by Ciaran Bermingham in the first season's fifth and sixth episodes "The Wolf and the Lion" and "A Golden Crown," tasked to look over and bully Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) at the Sky Cells at the Eyrie when he was accused by Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) of crippling her son Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) and trying to murder him. "It was a mistake not bringing Mord the Jailer back into it," Weiss said. "We always talked about doing it."

Both expanded on the idea of where Mord could have ended up. "And we had the scene for it," Benioff said. "There's a scene set in a tavern …" "Was it Brienne or The Hound?" Weiss added. "But we realized too late that Mord could have owned the tavern. We could have had that actor in the background acting exactly the way he did as a jailer, except now as a small business owner. It was just such an obvious, no-brainer, day-after idea." Tyrion ends up free after Bronn (Jerome Flynn) acts as his champion in a trial by combat and wins, and both are allowed to go free from the Eyrie.

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Tom ChangAbout Tom Chang

I'm a follower of pop culture from gaming, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, film, and TV for over 30 years. I grew up reading magazines like Starlog, Mad, and Fangoria. As a writer for over 10 years, Star Wars was the first sci-fi franchise I fell in love with. I'm a nerd-of-all-trades.
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