Screen Rant

Game of Thrones made a number of changes to the books, but its biggest failure was the direwolves. 1 / 8

Game of Thrones didn't use the direwolves much because of how expensive and difficult they were to render. 2 / 8

But that meant losing a lot of the essence of House Stark. 3 / 8

The direwolves are intrinsically linked to each of their respective Starks... 4 / 8

...And it's through these bonds key character and plot developments happen. 5 / 8

It's important to Bran becoming the Three-Eyed Crow, or Arya reclaiming her identity. 6 / 8

And it's likely Jon will have warged into Ghost, and that's how he'll return from the dead. 7 / 8

Jon's reunion with Ghost was great, but it was also too little, too late. 8 / 8