Warning: There are spoilers for "Game of Thrones" season seven, episode four ahead.
Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones,""The Spoils of War," finally gave many fans what they've been waiting a long time to see when Daenerys Targaryen came in raging against the Lannister army on the back of her dragon, Drogon.
While Drogon easily annihilated the Lannister fleet and their loot carts, the real life stand-in for the dragon was far less menacing on set.
In a behind-the-scenes featurette released by HBO, Emilia Clarke is shown riding on a motion-simulated base which helped inform her scenes with Drogon.
Here's how the device looks:
Without much of a body, Drogon's not frightening.
There are distinct areas for Drogon's head and wings.
While stuntmen were getting set on fire while filming, Clarke was settled down in a green screen room in Belfast.
To give you an idea of the amount of work that went into the scene, according to the HBO feature, there were 11 shots that featured Clarke on Drogon in season six. In season seven, episode four's Loot Train Attack, there are 80 scenes of the actress on the dragon. The actress said she had to get creative to make her experience look like she was really riding on a massive dragon 100 feet in the sky.
"So being on this theme park ride is kind of what it is, and you're strapped in. Then looking like you are controlling it when there's so much going on,"Clarke said in the featurette. "You just got to harness every single bit of imagination you have and just use it."
In the past, Clarke has interacted with tennis balls on a stick to stand in for her dragon children, but now that they're the size of 747 planes, the production crew had to get a bit more creative.
With four more episodes left, we hope to see more of the Dragon Queen on the back of Drogon.
You can check out more of how Sunday's big battle came together here.
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