George R.R. Martin says he has more flexibilty in killing off main characters
Game of Thrones has taught us throughout the course of its run — especially last season — that we aren’t allowed to have happy things. That everything we try to love will get its eyes gouged out or something of the sort.
It makes the show more interesting than other shows; shows where you know for a fact which characters are safe and which are expendable. To an extent, Game of Thrones has used this formula up to this point. But now that stories and subplots are starting to intersect and match up with others, it seems the number of ‘safe’ characters is dropping dramatically.
George R.R. Martin hinted at this while speaking at an event in London this week.
“I have a large number of important characters who I switch between to tell the entirety of the story, and that limits who I can kill … The viewpoint characters are meeting up with each other and being in the same point at the same time,” said Martin, “which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.”
It’s not clear who is going to be the next major character to go. As the show starts to move away from the books in certain aspects of the story — an unfinished story, mind you — it’s an even bigger mystery as to who is safe and who isn’t.
The fact of the matter is no one is safe and that’s what Game of Thrones is doing better than any other show on television.
[BuzzFeed]
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