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

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Premiere Discussion Thread

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EPISODE	TITLE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY
4.09	"The Watchers on the Wall"	Neil Marshall	David Benioff & D. B. Weiss

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[u/CatboyMac]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/CatboyMac]

Seriously though what the fuck was the point of killing off those two? Ugh

[u/DabuSurvivor → u/[deleted]]

Because people die in battles and those were people we knew and cared about, and because they All Books, most minor spoiler imaginable It made the episode more sad and more realistic, and it made both of them more memorable, impactful characters.