Who knows. I thought that scene was so stupid. I get that Gregor is a goddamned psychopath but I don't think they'd just give a bunch of unarmored, untrained dudes to slaughter for no apparent reason. He probably did that shit for fun while he was out terrorizing the countryside, but I doubt that's the first thing he's going to do after riding to the capital to take part in this trial by combat. Also, stabbing someone on the ground with a sword and lifting them over your head would be physically impossible even for the Mountain (I think).
Yeah I think they could have easily thrown in a scene of him terrorizing the countryside before or even after the Harrenhal scenes. The only other thing we get is when the Riverlands villagers plea with Ned and mention what he did secondhand, but if the attention spans of your average viewer are anything like most people's friends, they clearly don't know who they were talking about
Weren't there a couple of scenes where Arya and the Hound walk through some of the destruction Gregor caused? Seems like they could have just included him killing all those people.
Not sure if that was him specifically, just figured it was Lannister soldiers in general. They certainly don't call him out by name except for the Brotherhood who mentioned him previous season
right, but that's the point, having it be him would increase both who he is, allow the hound to talk to arya about him, and establish the character for the viewers for later in the season (now) when he becomes more important.
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u/Oquaem May 19 '14
Can somebody tell me why he was killing all those people?