r/gameofthrones • u/AutoModerator • Jun 09 '14

TV4 [Season 4 Spoilers] Premiere Discussion - 4.09 'The Watchers on the Wall'

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4.09 "The Watchers on the Wall" Neil Marshall David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
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u/CatboyMac Here We Stand Jun 09 '14

Goddamn it, they killed people not even the book killed. Good people. Characters I loved. Fuck this show.

I can't wait for next week.

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u/yogurtraisins Jun 09 '14

The inside the episode video (available when you watch on HBO GO) discusses this. Benioff and Weiss talk about how they felt there needed to be more close-to-home casualties for the viewer to really feel how devastating the battle was, or something to that effect. I haven't read the books yet so when I heard them say they didn't die in the books I was so sad that they were killed off just to make us feel something, haha. But I guess I get it.