Not all of our favourite characters made it out of the final season of Game Of Thrones alive – not that we are surprised as show bosses loved to kill everyone we love off.
But it turns out Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) and her twin brother and lover Ser Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) were in some ways spared, as they could have suffered a more gruesome death.
In The Bells, Jaime fought his way through the chaos in and around King’s Landing to be reunited with his love as the Red Keep collapsed around them due to the onslaught brought on by Queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).
Eventually finding themselves in the caverns beneath the Red Keep, Jaime was unable to find a way for them to escape with their unborn child, and instead, he held the crying Cersei as the ceiling caved in on them.
The finale then saw younger brother Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) explore the wreckage before finding their bodies and breaking down.
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However, recently uncovered original scripts for the The Bells and The Iron Throne have revealed that their end was meant to be more gruesome on the page than what fans saw.
According to Insider, the scrips revealed that Tyrion wouldn’t have found their more-or-less perfectly preserved bodies in the last episode and instead ‘all of the skulls have been blackened and scorched by the extreme heat of the fires that raged for hours.’
Some fans had questioned from the finale that all the twins would have needed to do to survive would have been to side-step some collapsing rubble, which the more fiery demise would have removed the possibility of.
Earlier this year, Lena, who played Queen Cersei Lannister, revealed what happened to the supposed baby her character was carrying when she met her maker.
Speaking at German ComicCon in Munich, Lena finally put an end to the speculation and revealed what had made the cutting room floor – and it would’ve been heartbreaking.
‘We shot a scene that never made it into season seven, which was where I lose the baby,’ she explained.
‘It was a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei, and it never made it in, and I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would have served her differently.’
Fans had speculated for a while that Cersei was faking her pregnancy in order to secure protection from her brothers Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Tyrion (Peter Dinklage).
She was even seen pulling the same stunt and claiming to her most loyal soldier/bed buddy Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Aesbaek) that he was also the father of the unborn offspring.
But seeing as she was at least pregnant, it makes her final death scene all that more heartbreaking after realising that she had lost everything apart from Jaime when her world literally came crumbling down around her.
Lena had also previously admitted that she was hoping for a better death for her character, who in the lead up to the eighth and final season, had fought her way to the Iron Throne.
Game Of Thrones is available to catch-up on NOW TV.
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