NOTE: Spoilers for season 6, episode 9, The Battle of the Bastards
Game of Thrones delivered an epic episode last night (June 19) with the Battle of the Bastards proving to be one of the most exciting and well-executed battles in television history.
Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton / Credit: HBO
In it we saw Ramsay Bolton's huge army go up against Jon Snow's considerably smaller one, and it's a scene actor Iwan Rheon [who plays Ramsay] has been hoping to be a part of for some time.
Rheon explained to EW: "Anyone who has asked me, 'Who would you like Ramsay to meet?', my answer has always been 'Jon Snow.' He's the antithesis of Ramsay. They're almost a yin and a yang. They both come from such a similar place yet they're so different. And even though they're enemies, they've both risen so far as bastards, which is almost incomprehensible, and now they're both here facing each other. They couldn't be any more different, yet more similar."
Of course, with any battle comes a big price. That came in the form of deaths for both sides, with Rickon Stark being the first to fall, and Ramsay being the last, mauled to death and eaten by his own dogs.
Rheon continued: "Afterward, Ramsay still thinks he's won. He's so arrogant and self-assured he thinks he'll still be fine - until the last minute. He always thinks he's going to be okay... It's a gruesome death. It's so ironic. He's been banging on about those hounds all the time... I think it was great. It's a good scene.
"It leaves Sansa in an interesting place as a character, because he's saying, 'I'm inside you now.' It's horrible, and I think he probably has done some damage. He's gotten in her head."
Game of Thrones season 6 concludes next Sunday (June 26) with 'The Winds of Winter' at 9pm on HBO in the US and on Monday (June 27) at 2am and 9pm on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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