Overuse of character deaths on TV?

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Originally Posted by theprestige85

What happened in Game Of Thrones after, say, The Viper bloke got killed? There wasn't even any mention of it! We never see the despair that his wife (the bird from Luther) and it turns out that it does nothing for the story anyway. That scene was for that episode and that episode only. Something to give the audience something to talk about so that they will tune into the next season. It's rubbish, mate.

Read the damn books before you complain about the payoff. They had 2 episodes after that, but trust me, it wasn't for nothing. I'm sorry that you can't follow more than 2 story arcs at once, but GoT has way too many to focus on

[Show spoiler]Oberyn's

death in the last 2 episodes.