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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:30 AM Jun 2014

The Game of Thrones Graveyard

Leave a flower for a fallen character.

By Kate Blair and Chris Kirk

If you watch Game of Thrones, chances are you’ve watched the show kill off a character who mattered to you: a lord, a sellsword, a queen, a knight; someone you loved, or someone you loved to hate. It’s so hard to say goodbye, even when the deceased are fictional. That’s why we’re opening the Game of Thrones Graveyard, where the show’s most well-known characters rest for eternity. Buried in this sacred ground are brave souls who George R.R. Martin took from us too soon, likely by beheading them, filling them with crossbow bolts, slitting their throats, or all of the above. Others lasted far too long and died far too easily considering their depravity. But good or evil, they all touched our lives in some way.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2014/04/game_of_thrones_deaths_mourn_dead_characters_at_their_virtual_graveyard.html
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The Game of Thrones Graveyard (Original Post) MrScorpio Jun 2014 OP
It's always funny to me to see TV popularize authors. malthaussen Jun 2014 #1
and, not to mention NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #2

malthaussen

(17,175 posts)
1. It's always funny to me to see TV popularize authors.
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 10:21 AM
Jun 2014

And their little quirks. Now the average man in the street knows that G.R.R. Martin kills people for a living. Before the TV series, only fans of massive, never-ending fantasy series knew that.

Poor Glen Cook. He's been killing characters for decades, but never got a TV deal, so hardly anyone knows.

-- Mal

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