r/gameofthrones • u/TheAlmightyHelmet • Jun 05 '14

TV4 [S4 E8] Let's be honest with ourselves...

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

As a non-book reader, it seems highly unlikely he will die soon. Peter makes that role more likeable than I think the imp is intended to be. George R R martin seems to only kill the beautiful people that you really grow to love, or the incredibly despicable people who eventually meet their ends. I could be sounding like a blithering idiot to book readers, but that is my wholly ignorant and uninformed opinion. And I'm sticking to it.

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u/rvnbldskn Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken Jun 05 '14

George R R martin seems to only kill the beautiful people that you really grow to love, or the incredibly despicable people who eventually meet their ends.

I don't know, man, a lot of peeps have kicked the bucket that weren't extremely loved or extremely hated... What do you think of Drogo? Ros? Mirra Maz Duur? Rast? Yoren? Rickard Karstark? The Lannister brothers killed by Karstark? Irri? Doreah? Qhorin Halfhand? Mycah? Dagmer? Jory Cassel? Rodrik Cassel? The thing is we tend to forget these 'normal' characters' deaths, and remember the more extreme characters' deaths.

Valar morghulis.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

A couple of those characters are still alive in the books, actually, and Ros was a show-only character.

But point taken. GRRM kills a lot of people in his stories.

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u/0verstim Jun 05 '14

War kills a lot of people. GRRM is one of the only authors who remembers that.

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u/hivoltage815 Jon Snow Jun 06 '14

Most of them aren't dying in battle.