20 takeaways from Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon, behind the scenes of Game of Thrones

15. Davos was supposed to have a “crush” on Missandei

The seventh season of Game of Thrones was polarizing, but it still had some great moments. For example, the first meeting between Jon Snow and Danaerys stands out. It was a scene the show had been working toward for years — the meeting of Ice and Fire.

But there was another element that was supposed to be at play during Jon’s time on Dragonstone: Davos Seaworth, Jon’s advisor and mentor figure for the latter half of the series was…supposed to have the hots for Missandei? If that sounds like a weird, bad idea to you, know that Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos, felt pretty much the same way.

“There’s a streak in Benioff that’s willful,” Cunningham said. “He likes to stir the shit. When we first meet Daenerys, Benioff and [director Mark Mylod] wanted Davos to have a crush on Missandei. And I fought them. ‘I’m not f***ing doing it.’ It’s the only thing I ever stood up to them on. The woman is a goddess, but with Davos’s history with Lyanna Mormont and Shireen, you can’t have him getting the hots for a young woman. I’m not 100 percent sure David wasn’t just doing it to annoy me.”

“You’re not undoing my hard work engendering the sympathy of the audience to have him be a perv,” Cunningham proclaimed.

I think I can speak for everyone when I say that I’m sure glad we dodged that bullet. It’s hard to imagine season 7 being more controversial, what with Gendry’s amazing sprinting ability and the airspeed velocity of ravens…but if anything might have done it, it would have been Davos getting a creepy crush on Missandei.

Although, Cunningham did make a good point about being unsure if David Benioff wasn’t just trying to annoy him. Given the showrunner’s habit for pranking people, it’s far from impossible.