Olly, the lone survivor of a Wildling raid, provided justification for anti-Wildling sentiment. Russell called it an “odd feeling” to read about his death, “as if I’d just read about my own ghastly and unavoidable demise,” which, he joked, was connected to his grief regarding “possible future employment.” But those hopes were short-lived when the Lannisters laid siege to Riverrun, he refused to surrender, and then was killed offscreen. He returned to retake Riverrun from the Freys, which gave Sansa Stark and Brienne of Tarth a glimmer of hope that he could be a useful ally. “Bad for the soul,” he said.Ĭatelyn Stark’s uncle, nicknamed the Blackfish, escaped the Red Wedding massacre by ducking out for a well-timed bathroom break. What do you say? Awkward.” He opted not to read fan reaction. “No one really wants to chat with a condemned guy. “People weren’t rude or anything, but no one was as nice as they were before,” Mr. On execution day, his last day on set, Mr. They let him know their decision by assassinating him. At least her death was relatively quick - stabbed, not flayed.ĭoran Martell, the ruling prince of Dorne, wanted to keep his country from going to war but was overruled by the warrior women in his family. The Wildling woman who once threatened Bran Stark’s life became one of the fiercest protectors of the little lords, but she was no match for Ramsay Bolton. They’re drinking beer out of your skull.’” You’re still the Lord Commander.’ And then the third time we met, he said: ‘I’ve finished book three, James. The old bear is still there.’ The next season, he said: ‘I’ve just finished Book 2. “My fishing buddy was reading the books,” Mr. All it took was a cold night without enough food and an inhospitable host for his men to turn on him and stab him to death. The lord commander of the Night’s Watch was an honorable man who had the misfortune to lead some of the most dishonorable men in Westeros - convicted criminals looking for an easier way to serve their sentences. “I begged them, ‘Can’t I have a final cough and sputter?’ And they were like, ‘Nope, you’re dead.’ ‘Please?’ ‘Nope, you’re dead.’” “I was really infuriated that I didn’t get to die onscreen,” Ms. ![]() Instead of showing Joffrey making his first kill, the camera panned to her trussed-up body during Littlefinger’s now-famous “chaos is a ladder” speech. ![]() Ros, a prostitute-turned-madam-turned-spy, learned this the hard way when Littlefinger gave her to Joffrey to use as target practice for his new crossbow. Her devotion to Bran ever since has been in Jojen’s honor, so he did not die in vain. Jojen’s anguished sister, Meera, slit her brother’s throat as an act of mercy. A gentle spirit, Jojen never carried weapons, which put him at a disadvantage when a skeleton wight grabbed his ankles and pulled him down into the snow and another one started stabbing him. He knew what his fate would be, if not the specifics, and he proceeded anyway, turning his tutelage of Bran into a huge sacrifice. Like his traveling companion Bran Stark, Jojen Reed had psychic abilities known as the Sight. This was the death of a character that I had done my best to build up and intensify over the years, however small that character was.” “And as I lay there, I realized that this wasn’t just another death scene. “My last shot on the show was me on the floor of the battlefield, dying,” Mr. Ramsay Bolton wanted to lure Jon Snow out into the battlefield, so he played a sadistic game - setting Rickon free, telling him to run and shooting arrows at him as the boy raced toward his brother. The death of the youngest Stark child was designed for impact. Leslie had read the books in advance knew she was doomed from the start, but she still got emotional when she was given Ygritte’s bow “as something I could remember my experience by.” She credits the show with getting her in the door with casting directors “who would never had given me the time of day” otherwise. She died in Jon Snow’s arms as the battle raged on around them, a poignant moment that seemed to stop time. ![]() And then the young fighter Olly ruined the moment by shooting Ygritte instead. The Wildling warrior Ygritte saw Jon Snow, her former lover, across a crowded battlefield and paused, unable to shoot her arrow at him. By the time her throat was slit, she had already given up - not knowing, as we did, that her other children were still alive. One by one, the Starks fell - a pregnant Talisa was stabbed in the belly a stunned Robb shot by crossbows, then stabbed in the heart and an anguished Catelyn robbed of her eldest son. The celebration was actually a trap meant to lure the Starks and their bannermen into an enclosed space without their weapons, where they would be caught off guard. ![]() The Red Wedding - a betrayal where you would least expect one - was painful to watch. Catelyn and Robb Stark (Michelle Fairley and Richard Madden)
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