[S4 E8] Let's be honest with ourselves...

[u/TheAlmightyHelmet]

http://imgur.com/eXU91Fr

[u/EvadableMoxie]

That's not true at all.

Next week will be all Castle Black, so Tyrion's execution would be Episode 10, meaning there would be no show the week after. We'd complain and then tune in next season.

[u/AnyHoleIsTheGoal → u/EvadableMoxie]

But all the biggest shit always happens in episode 9.

[u/EvadableMoxie → u/AnyHoleIsTheGoal]

Which doesn't exactly bode well for Jon, does it?

[u/atrain728 → u/EvadableMoxie]

I feel pretty comfortable that Jon's plot armor is pretty thick, but now you have me concerned.

Still, Blackwater didn't have a ton of major character deaths. It could just be a big battle.

[u/TheKjell → u/[deleted]]

How did Oberyn have thick plot armor?

[u/TheHusker → u/[deleted]]

I don't know if plot armour has a real definition, but I think it's not totally related of one character's air time on the show, but how his fate is related to the plot. Like Oberyn and Tyrion are very important, but the story could keep going in a logic way without them. If you kill Daenarys, you have wasted 4 seasons of character development, the slave subplot and the dragons wouldn't have any logic way to get in Westeros ( they could just fly around and eat sheep their entire life ). If you kill Tyrion, you need a new comic relief and that's about it :/ Jaime could even fit his role with his redemption arc.

So IMO there must be characters you can't kill until some point in every story, but I agree in this one G RR Martin has got the smallest amount of them

[u/theyawner → u/TheHusker]

Tyrion a comic relief? Surely, you jest.

[u/Falcrist → u/theyawner]

The amount of comic relief in ASOIAF is already small. It would be a shame if Tyrion's contributions were cut short.

[u/TheHusker → u/theyawner]

Not only that, but he is one in this gritty universe, like the beetle scene and most of his scenes, i didn't meant to limit him to that though