Benioff and Weiss reveal what they consider the key scene from “Battle of the Bastards”
By Ani Bundel
With the build up to the Emmys next month underway, entertainment columns are going through the mountains of categories step by step and interviewing the nominees to discuss the various and sundry nominations they’ve received this year. One such column is the The Los Angeles Times‘ The Envelope, dedicated to all of the different Hollywood industry awards. Yesterday, they focused on the writing nominations, both for scripts in the Comedy and the Drama categories, the latter of which is one of the many, many categories in which Game of Thrones is nominated for Season 6.
The Envelope asked each of the nominees to say what they considered to be the key scene of each of the episodes under consideration, and why. For Game of Thrones, that meant that writers David Benioff and Dan Weiss, who are nominated for writing “Battle of the Bastards” had to pull out one moment they considered to be the most important. Would it be the opening scene, where, after weeks of faking us out that the entire hour would be set around Witnerfell, the show opened in Meereen, where Dany defeated the Masters? Would it be the titular battle between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton? Certainly that action scene will go down as one of the most ambitious in TV history.
But no. Instead, they chose the very last scene of the episode, where Sansa gets her revenge on Ramsay for all that he put her through in Season 5. Here’s what Benioff and Weiss said about their pic:
"Sansa has suffered greatly at this man’s hands, and watched others lose their lives trying to protect her from him. She has spent a good deal of time plotting her revenge, and Ramsay inadvertently provides her with the perfect method for his own execution. … She watches as Ramsay becomes a victim of his own brutality, and his ravenous dogs satisfy their hunger — and Sansa’s."
Interesting. Sadly, the clip of that final scene isn’t embeddable, but here is what the writers had to say about it in the “Inside the Episode” segment.
As always, good luck to all the nominees.
