5 Game of Thrones characters who should never have died

For a television program with high issues and high issues like “Game of Thrones”, it is generally a good thing when fans wish to be able to cancel some of the characters’ dead. It is a sign that the public cared and that the casting and the team made such a good job that he really feels like having lost a friend. There is a small part inside each fan of “Game of Thrones” who wants them to cancel Ned’s death, for example, even if we know that without his death, all the rest of the show could never happen.

But like any “GOT” fan that has succeeded in the last seasons could attest to it, all the “obtained” deaths are not at the same level. Some of them are good in theory but poorly executed, while some are bad in theory and executed even worse. Here is our list of five characters who should not have died in the way they did it. And although there are certainly a lot of deaths of season 8 on this list, but there is a earlier death that could surprise you.

Throughout the first seasons, when the showrunners still had a lot of book equipment to work with, the cunning Eunuch Lord Varys was one of the most convincing characters in the series. He seemed so intelligent, so ruthless, but he had a mysterious code of honor which distinguished him from other shady intrigues like Littlefinger.

But in the last season, Varys’ IQ had fallen from at least a few dozen points, to the frustration of the actor himself. Varys was quick to excite Daenerys in “The Last of the Starks” despite doing nothing so bad until “The Bells”, and he was immediately executed to betray her. The execution by Daenerys of Varys was intended to show his shift in the obscure side still, but it was a just answer: she had said directly in season 7 that if he betrayed her, she would kill him and she honored her word.

The problem of Varys’ death is that I don’t think he turns Daenerys so quickly, and I don’t think he would be so clumsy with his betrayal methods. Varys is famous for its strong self-preservation instincts; The Varys of the first seasons would have at least escaped the island from which Dany remained before sending all these crows. There is also the problem that varies whole of Varys behind the change of allegiance to Jon Snow – the idea that the person who does not want to be king would be the best king – is a rather boring and simplistic vision of power. Do you know who else was also reluctant to be king? Robert “Bobby B” Baratheon, and this guy was terrible at work.

Ah, Daenerys’ second Rhaegal dragon, my favorite character. Rhaegal may not have amazed us with a full-minded dialogue, and he may have always been in the shadow of his big brother Drogon (who was clearly their mother’s favorite child), but it was always a shame to watch him out as he did.

Rhaegal dies in “The Last of the Starks” when he pulled in the neck by a ballistic arrow from a surprise float from Grayjoy. It is an idiotic death because of the way he is absurdly improbable for a fleet to sneak on Daenerys while she flies in the air with a view of the literal bird. It is also stupid if you consider how difficult a shot was for the Grayjoy army to withdraw. You can’t just draw a dragon to hundreds of feet in the air of a medieval era arc attached to a ship that swung – not on the first try, at least.

The death of Rhaegal was a clear case that the writers pull the strings to rush along the descent of Daenerys in madness, rather than to provide a realistic death which came more naturally. We are not opposed to dying him at some point in the season, but the plot point could surely have been better managed than This.

What a disappointment Jaime turned out to be. After crossing an exciting redemption arc throughout most of the show and finally connect with Brienne in season 8, he abandoned his happy end won to return to his sister, to die with his moments later. It stings because Jaime could easily have remained redeemed, but exploded it because of a real organic change in his character, but because the writers seemed to think that he would be poetic for the twins of incest to die together.

To be fair, he is not intrinsically bad for a character to retreat from their redemption arc. A character almost reached redemption, then blowing him up at the last moment can make an exciting and tragic story. The problem is that nothing of it feels won. It looks like a conspiracy point whose showrunners were informed of the author George RR Martin from the start; This is a point in the plot which can work very well in the books, but the showrunners stuck it without providing enough context which could have made sense for viewers.

Jaime may receive the same tragic end in books (assuming that they are never published, of course). If so, I hope this end will have time and the depth it needs to work.

The best part of the dog scenario is that we can watch this angry man abandon his need for revenge. When he and Arya meet for the first time, they are both consumed by hatred towards the people who hurt them. At the end of season 7, they both learned to put this aside, choosing to act more on the desire to help the people around them.

It would have been a pleasant and hopeful place to leave the dog’s bow, but the showrunners have apparently not able to resist giving memes of fan of “Cleganebowl”. In “The Bells”, the dog confronts his bad brother Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, as fans had long predicted it. The two fought a little before the dog attacks the mountain at the top of a castle and that they fall together in a flame pit.

Everything is silly because, well, the mountain is already dead at this stage. He was an almost endless zombie for several seasons and he would have died during the battle of King’s Landing, if the dog fought it or not. The dying dog in his fight against his already defeated brother resembles an empty reversal on his long -term bow. Their battle does not seem like so useless and sad. It seems that the dog of the last seasons would have progressed beyond his need to do so.

As a life defender of George Rr Martin, I have often bristled the complaint that he is a nihilist writer. I believe he is an optimist in the soul, even despite all the horrible things that can happen throughout this series. But the only moment that really broke my ability to make this argument is with poor Prince Oberyn, who tears off the defeat of the jaws of victory in his battle with the mountain. Forget the red marriage – it is easily the most depressing thing that has ever taken place in the series, not to mention the bloodiest. It was also depressing in books, but at least there, I did not have to hear the sound of Oberyn’s head.

Many fans defend this death on the grounds that it was vital for the plot. Without the death of Oberyn, they support, Tyrion would never have been forced to leave King’s Landing and would never have associated themselves with Daenerys. But it is easy to imagine a version of the events where Oberyn wins and Tyrion is forced to leave the city anyway. Whatever the result of the trial itself, Tyrion at the end of season 4 (or the end of “A Storm of Swords”) is always a total pariah in the city, someone that Cersei will try several times to poison as long as he is in his eyes. Combine this with Shae’s betrayal and Tyrion’s fury in his own family, and it is logical that Tyrion puts the sails in Essos even if he did not face the gallows.

This is probably the most controversial choice on the list, because fans generally consider Oberyn’s death as one of the most emblematic moments in the series. But I find the moment too dark to really appreciate, and I have the impression that keeping Oberyn could have helped the Tyrion and Dorne scenarios of the next two pounds / seasons much more fluid. But all of this pale in comparison with the real reason why I want Oberyn to have not died in season 4: I just like the guy. When such a cool character arrives, it looks like a shame to let him go so early.