--- title: Game of Thrones' Owen Teale Talks Ser Alliser Thorne Death description: Owen Teale gave a revealing exit interview after his character, Alliser Thorne, was executed in 'Game of Thrones.' canonical: https://time.com/4322555/game-of-thrones-owen-teale-death/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-09T11:47:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:55:39.141Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Game of Thrones' Owen Teale Talks Ser Alliser Thorne Death og:description: Owen Teale gave a revealing exit interview after his character, Alliser Thorne, was executed in 'Game of Thrones.' og:url: https://time.com/4322555/game-of-thrones-owen-teale-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa3637b14885baa7/698892630a4a226ffc9c994d/hbo-game-of-thrones.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3606 og:image:height: 2028 og:image:alt: hbo-game-of-thrones og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones' Owen Teale Talks Ser Alliser Thorne Death twitter:description: Owen Teale gave a revealing exit interview after his character, Alliser Thorne, was executed in 'Game of Thrones.' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa3637b14885baa7/698892630a4a226ffc9c994d/hbo-game-of-thrones.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Actor Talks Being Killed Off in Oathbreaker Scene > Sponsored content. 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Professor Christopher Fee discusses the history of dragons in our culture and their relevance today._  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 9, 2016 11:47 AM UTC  Helen Sloan/Courtesy of HBO  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 9, 2016 11:47 AM UTC Ser Alliser Thorne [met his end](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/08/game-thrones-oathbreaker-death-execution) in this week’s episode of _Game of Thrones_, executed by resurrected Jon Snow alongside the other Night’s Watch traitors. Although many fans were likely happy to see Thorne go, what they may not realize is he was one of a dwindling number of characters who have been on the show from the first episode. “I thought they’re either going to really invest in Thorne and he’s going to take over Castle Black, or it will mean his end — and I liked either of those options,” actor Owen Teale [told _Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/08/game-thrones-oathbreaker-death-execution) when he found out he would kill Snow. “I guess I would prefer they explore his character with Jon Snow gone, but it’s not as interesting as what they’ve chosen. They give him a death and a speech.” He also talked about what it was like to play the dour character: “In Thorne’s boots is not a nice place to be,” he said. “I found the most important thing when playing the character was to just get rid of a whole section of feelings that I have as a human being — like joy, for instance, that’s just gone.” [Read more at _Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/08/game-thrones-oathbreaker-death-execution) to learn more about Teale’s final day on set, and the crazy thing fans always ask him to do in selfies. ## Transcript Well, dragons never seem to go away do they? They occur in culture after culture. They occur in story after story. The idea of. Of being able to live in world full of magical creatures well that offers a certain excitement and joy and curiosity. Dragons are like a canvas upon which we paint our fears and desires as a culture and I think they remain relevant because they change with us. [ MUSIC ] Well in today's world we often define a dragon as a giant, scaly, winged reptilian beast, often can breathe fire. In the ancient world this wasn't always the case. They were very often giant serpents of various kinds. And they could be also multivalent. In the Asian world for example, dragons are often Symbols of good luck, good fortune. While in the biblical tradition, on the other hand, dragons are clearly evil. In the middle ages, dragons were indeed emblems of greed, avarice. Most people in America today would know that through the Hobbit and Smaug the dragon who was clearly developed on that exact theme and that In the Arthurian tradition, dragons are associated with the rise of a mighty, powerful, royal house, as well with omens and portents having to do with their demise. It seems to me that in Game of Thrones, this association with royalty and portents comes most clearly from the Arthurian tradition which Dragons might represents [ UNKNOWN ] [ MUSIC ] One of the ways that dragons myth spread was through travellers coming back with stories of dragons. So imagine if you will that, you travelled to North Africa from England When the 12th to 13th century and you saw a crocodile wouldn't that appear to you to be a monstrous, demonic beast? In our culture, dragons tell us about that which we fear not just out on the world like a crocodile but within ourselves like greed. Game of Thrones Plays with our sense of light and darkness, the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. And this tension is developed fully in the symbol of the dragon. Because the dragon, Dragon represents great power, but it also represents greed and destruction. And this bring together of these ideas tell us something about ourselves. Both what we fear, what we want, and what we would like to be. 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