06-24-2013, 10:44 AM
Don't read if you haven't read past where we are in the show.
[spoiler]But the complaint doesn't really hold water - he has killed, to date, exactly one main character - Ned. It's all side characters that have died since then. What other big POV characters died? Catelyn is back as Zombiecatelyn, and Jon will almost certainly not die or be brought back by Mellisandre as he is pretty clearly the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryan and the third head of the dragon (unless he is just a giant red herring).
If anything, the show is the one to blame if people get pissed off about character deaths. They built up Robb as a main character before he was died, they invented his wife as a completely different character, made her more central, put her at the wedding and killed her. They introduced some random whore into the storyline which really advanced the plot in no way just so we could be shocked when Joffrey killed her. They have made Tywin a bigger character than he was in the book so it will be a bigger deal when he dies next season, etc.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]But the complaint doesn't really hold water - he has killed, to date, exactly one main character - Ned. It's all side characters that have died since then. What other big POV characters died? Catelyn is back as Zombiecatelyn, and Jon will almost certainly not die or be brought back by Mellisandre as he is pretty clearly the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryan and the third head of the dragon (unless he is just a giant red herring).
If anything, the show is the one to blame if people get pissed off about character deaths. They built up Robb as a main character before he was died, they invented his wife as a completely different character, made her more central, put her at the wedding and killed her. They introduced some random whore into the storyline which really advanced the plot in no way just so we could be shocked when Joffrey killed her. They have made Tywin a bigger character than he was in the book so it will be a bigger deal when he dies next season, etc.[/spoiler]