Game of Thrones was famous for its death scenes. Whether it's Ned Stark getting his head chopped off, his wife and son getting betrayed at the Red Wedding, or Margaery and Loras Tyrell blown to bits at the Sept of Baelor, death was always just around the corner for these characters.
The Sept of Baelor explosion is probably my favorite scene from the show. Cersei Lannister didn't just off her rival Margaery and her tormenter the High Sparrow; she also killed her uncle Kevan Lannister and a ton of randos who hadn't hurt her in any way. I didn't like how she suffered basically no consequences for those collateral deaths, but the scene itself was tremendous:
Absolute insanity to this day. I love this scene, but star Natalie Dormer, who played poor doomed blown up Margaery, actually has some misgvings about it, or at least, about the way Margaery went out. "I was frustrated that she went that way, but then, she was frustrated in the scene," Dormer told Collider Ladies Night. "She's vindicated in the end, it's a couple sentences, but it's all that needs to be said. She was vindicated and I felt like I could let her go in that moment. Because she said it, man."
Margaery was playing the long game at this point. She had feigned devotion to the High Sparrow's religious cult and was probably trying to take over the operation, manipulating her husband King Tommen — who had honestly been converted — from the inside. But Cersei Lannister, never a fan of a long con, literally blew the problem up. I really enjoyed that Margaery figured out that something was wrong and tried to get everybody out of the Sept right before it went up, but she was too late. I wouldn't change a thing about her death!
Still, if Dormer had her way, how would Margaery have gone out? "If Margaery had to die, how would I want to her to die? Via dragon probably," she told GamesRadar+. "That would be the most apt wouldn’t it? But that would mean that Dany would have to get over so who knows?"
Dormer is still busy, appearing in TV shows like White Lies and Inside No. 9 this year, as well as movies like The Wasp. As for characters being killed by dragons, there's plenty of that happening on HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon.
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