June 17, 201412 yr This is an interview with the director from last nights episode.... SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!!! BY MATT FOWLERWarning: This news story contains big SPOILERS(!!!) for the George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones books and quite possibly a future episode of the HBO series. Those of who you who haven't read the Game of Thrones books most likely aren't familiar with the name "Lady Stoneheart." Still, there's a chance you may have seen it in some of the more spoiler-y comments floating around given that many book fans were expecting to see her last night on Game of Thrones' Season 4 finale. Why? Well, because she appears for the first time at the very end of the third book, A Storm of Swords. Which is the book that finally closed out, after two seasons, with last night's episode. Could she appear later on in the series? Certainly. But many readers were probably looking for that extra "gotcha" ending last night. Perhaps even so they could film their friends' expressions and post them on YouTube. Bottom line, Lady Stoneheart is... (last spoiler warning before we fully discuss it below!) Season 4 Finale Review 11:58 ...Catelyn Stark brought back to life by Thoros' "Lord of Light" R'hllor resurrection power. She's pretty much an avenging zombie. The director of last night's Game of Thrones Season 4 finale, Alex Graves, has been doing a lot of episodic follow-up interviews this year. And in a recent chat about "The Children," he spoke about the omission of Lady Stoneheart. Graves stated that EP/creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, who wrote the episode, never intended for her to be a part of the season at all. "She was never going to be a part of it," Graves told Vulture. "I know it caught on on the internet, and people really started to believe it. I think the bottom line is that there was so much going on, at least from where I stood, that it wasn’t something to get into because, you know, when you get into taking Michelle Fairley, one of the greatest actresses around, and making her a zombie who doesn’t speak and goes around killing people, what’s the best way to integrate that into the show?" "I don’t think there was room for it this season," Graves continued. "I don’t know what they’re going to do about it, because it is certainly something people attached to. I was attached to it because I established Thoros of Myr and Beric Dondarrion last year in the story to rejuvenate her. I have no idea what they plan to do about that because honestly, it just wasn’t talked about. It wasn’t on the radar. It didn’t come up in season four. I asked it last year in season three, when I was doing the Beric scenes. They said, 'Oh, yeah, you know, that’s a whole thing that we’re just not sure what we’re going to do about.' That was the conversation."
June 17, 201412 yr Great episode TV-wise. Terrible episode book-wise. Ruined a lot of stuff, particularly Jaime and Tyrion's conversation. That was BUTCHERED. Eh, again something I don't agree with the complaints about the episode. Spoilers below: The Kettleblacks or Moon Boy haven't been a part of the show so far, so Tyrion making that point about Cersei wouldn't have mattered to show watchers. The show has portrayed Shae much differently, so that was obviously not going to be much of a reveal beyond Tyrion finding her in Twyin's bed. The only thing missing was Tyrion "confessing" to killing Joffrey, which, frankly, didn't make much sense in the books. That was a fine divergence by Benioff and Weiss. It will all work out the same in the show. Jaime and Cersei will have their disagreement and that will go on as normal.
June 17, 201412 yr Great episode TV-wise. Terrible episode book-wise. Ruined a lot of stuff, particularly Jaime and Tyrion's conversation. That was BUTCHERED. Yep, they pretty much cut it out all together. And I guess we're not going to get to see Cold Hands.
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