‘Game Of Thrones’ Viewers Aren’t Pleased With The Lack Of Respect For This Long-Missing Character’s Return

Arya and Gendry had sex! Daenerys learned she’s related to Jon Snow! Bran revealed what the Night King wants. Brienne became a knight! Tormund told everyone why he has a thing for tall women! What an episode of Game of Thrones, but the most exciting thing to happen in “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” involved the silent return of a fan-favorite character. Look at the Good Boy who joined Jon, Samwell, and Dolorous Edd on the walls of Winterfell as they reminisced about their fallen brothers (but not that rat Olly) in the Night’s Watch.

It’s Ghost! Jon’s direwolf, who hasn’t been seen since season six, was supposed to show up last season, but the scene was cut for being too “expensive.” Ghost was in fine form in last night’s episode, though, looking regal as hell. This won’t be his last appearance, either. “He has a fair amount of screen time in season eight,” Thrones visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer said during the offseason. “He’s very present and does some pretty cool things in season eight.” He added that the direwolves are “tough because you don’t want to get them wrong, so we end up always shooting real wolves and doing a scaling trick with them, but the real wolves only behave in certain ways.”

Bauer and the rest of his team might be the only ones who are happy that of the six original direwolf pups, only two are still alive. It saves them a lot of time. Everyone else was thrilled to see Ghost, but also confused why he didn’t get more screentime. Or why he was never acknowledged. #JusticeForGhost.

— GOT SPOILERS (@emiliacIarked) April 22, 2019

this is the first time we’ve seen ghost in years and there’s no cute reunion im livid

— osha (@oshawildling) April 22, 2019

#GameOfThrones after all the anticipation we get this…….. Ghost deserves better man.. he's not just a prop in the background pic.twitter.com/AhezqXUrIq

— BMudduluru (@bunny_mudduluru) April 22, 2019

tbh they probably just cgi’d ghost in there last minute so we would stop bitching #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/KdiBnJhXqb

— harman. (@woIgang) April 22, 2019

We FINALLY see Ghost after 2 seasons and he's just standing in the background like a statue THE DISRESPECT #GameOfThrones #GameofThronesSeason8 pic.twitter.com/ZH49wI91hl

— ℝίτα❄||GoT Spoilers (@JonxDanyy) April 22, 2019

Seeing Ghost in episode 2 like #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/IfuuccCMDP

— alex ⛓ (@ghostlikecrime) April 22, 2019

So ya’ll just gonna slip Ghost in there & not give us a proper Jon & Ghost reunion mmkkkkay #GOT pic.twitter.com/pQLwwfPr7n

— naushaba (@naushaba__) April 22, 2019

how you gonna just casually insert ghost into the corner of a scene like that #GameofThrones

— Stefanie (@stefanie1027) April 22, 2019

“Hey, guys. It’s me Ghost. Don’t forget about Ghost. I was there at the beginning too. We are the watchers are the wall and all that. Good times. Anyway, I might take a shit back here. Don’t mind ol’ Ghost.” pic.twitter.com/g1IWdd1cf8

— House Fowler of Skyreach (@TheMattFowler) April 22, 2019

Nobody :

Ghost : #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/MKAQgCzcrf

— G Cleve (@ianthonyjr) April 22, 2019

they did ghost so dirty#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/IEI96guwpv

— •GoT s8 spoilers• (@dragonsbeauty) April 22, 2019

#GameOfThornes

Everyone: “Where’s Ghost”

HBO: pic.twitter.com/ahHv9H7CKG

— Majid Alammari #TESVI #GoT (@Majid_alammari) April 22, 2019

We need more Ghost (before everyone on the show becomes a ghost).