(April 25, 2016 at 8:00 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(April 25, 2016 at 7:48 am)pocaracas Wrote: I guess the scene got edited out due to being too gross for dog-lovers...
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That's what I'm thinking. They probably ran test screenings and the test audiences had a problem with "good guys" killing animals. Animals were killed on GOT before, but pretty much always by the "bad guys" - like Sansa's direwolf, killed because of Joffrey, or Rob's direwolf, killed by Frey's men during the Red Wedding. It was probably too late to re-shoot the scene, so they just cut it and hoped no one would care.
Sansa's direwolf was killed by Ned, not a bad guy. Also, they never specifically showed an animal getting killed or harmed, it was merely implied, except for horses, so there's no possible prior(too much?) there.
