![]() ![]() Sandor Clegane also doesn’t die in the books, but don’t all these resurrections make death feel cheap in Westeros when once it was the show’s most famous calling card? The show seems to be coasting on the audience’s expectation that anyone could die to try to make us swallow unbelievable cliffhanger after unbelievable cliffhanger. Ditto the (admittedly welcome) return of the Hound. Truly, how can anything surprise at this point?īut still, I’d trace all this hollow-feeling carnage back to the resurrection of Jon Snow-which still feels like it has no enduring consequences in the world of Game of Thrones. ![]() How do you deliver poignant and unexpected deaths on a show where a) you’re out of source material to work with and b) your show has become famous for its fatal surprises. Game of Thrones fast-paced Season 7 caught up to it with 'Beyond the Wall,' which hurdled through a number of significant, game-changing events, deaths and revelations without giving. Separate from the battle up north, we get a much warmer-looking image of Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys sitting by the fire, most likely still at Dragonstone. And we can have some sympathy for Weiss, Benioff, and the rest of the Game of Thrones writing staff here. One complaint about this season of Game of Thrones has been how quickly the characters have moved around the map, and how the show hasn’t given them enough time to develop as people as a. HBO’s press photos from Beyond the Wall, next Sunday’s sixth and penultimate episode of Game of Thrones season 7, give us a look at what we’ll be seeing in the battle to come. I’d say the only deaths in the past three seasons that have truly felt like a tragic, Martin-esque twist of the knife have been Oberyn Martell in Season 4 and Hodor (a Martin-planned fatality) in Season 6.
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