Game Of Thrones Television series *may contain spoilers*

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Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Along with Alec Trevelyan and Boramir
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And Cleric Errol Partridge

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Prevenger17 said:
And Cleric Errol Partridge

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You can just picture it now. Beans agent calls him

"Sean! Got a great new movie role for you"

Sean takes a drag from his cigarette

"Alright, what's the death scene like?"

"Errr, there isn't one actually. You survive in this one"

"Listen here, you know how it works. No death scene, no Bean! Now call them back and say I want to die in the second act by getting hit with an axe or they can stick their movie up their bleedin' jaffers!!!"
 
toffeejack said:
i was wondering if it was re-cast or that it was part of the storyline that she'd grown so much in age
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I'd imagine it's a creative decision. In the books characters like Robb, Jon, Sansa etc are much younger than the actors portraying them so I'd imagine they're making the actors look older and not focusing on their age to avoid it being creepy or sinister when a 14 year old is being married off to a grown adult.
 
“It proves you should probably not read the books. I’ve read the books. So I thought this season I was going to have more to do, and I was really looking forward to that. And then I got my dates from my agent and I thought, ‘That doesn’t tally.’ Because there was no way if they were sticking to the books that I should be in for that number of weeks. It seemed to me they must be writing me out. So I had a word with the line producer and said, “Can you corroborate that they’re writing me out?” Then the showrunners rang me and told me, ‘Your time is up in this series.’”
— Ian McElhinney, on the show death of Ser Barristan Selmy
 
USABlue said:
“It proves you should probably not read the books. I’ve read the books. So I thought this season I was going to have more to do, and I was really looking forward to that. And then I got my dates from my agent and I thought, ‘That doesn’t tally.’ Because there was no way if they were sticking to the books that I should be in for that number of weeks. It seemed to me they must be writing me out. So I had a word with the line producer and said, “Can you corroborate that they’re writing me out?” Then the showrunners rang me and told me, ‘Your time is up in this series.’”
— Ian McElhinney, on the show death of Ser Barristan Selmy
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He was steaming on Thronecast! (the uk aftershow)
 
Tree13 said:
This whole season has been a bit of a let-down, mainly because they have deliberately chosen to dispense with the source material and heavily re-write major plot lines - in doing so, they have discovered that they can't write plot lines anywhere near as well as GRRM can.

The bit that baffles me is the reasoning behind this approach. The show producers are worried about the snail's pace at which GRRM is writing the next book, there being a real risk that the show might overtake the books.... but they have gone and cut out five, possibly six major story lines (Kingsmoot; Jamie in the Riverlands; Gendry, Stoneheart and the Brotherhood; old Griff and young Griff; the Martells in Mereen; Sam's journey away from the Wall) and severely truncated several more (Jon taking command of the Night's Watch; Sansa in the Vale; Tyrion's journey to Daenerys; Brienne searching for Starks; The Boltons ruling the north; The Sand Snakes; power struggles in Kings Landing; the rebellion in Mereen and Yunkai).

By cutting and truncating as they have done, they have basically removed two thirds of the content of AFFC and ADWD. This leave them with a bunch of problems relating to how to develop characters and story arcs, so they've made up a series of set-piece fight scenes and are just lurching from one to the next. This has destroyed the pace of the story and the end result is going to be: catching up with the books by the end of this season. IMHO this is a mistake, and they should have spread all the plotlines from AFFC and ADWD over two, possibly even three seasons. This would give us a better show to watch and buy GRRM more time to write the remaining books.

Don't get me wrong, the show is enjoyable in its own right; some of the casting has been superb, and for every awful chunk of dialogue there has also been some excellent stuff - mainly Bronn, Stannis, Arya and the Boltons. But it is not even close to as good as the books. Killing off Barristan Selmy was the low point for me.
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Was devastated about Barry The Bold to be honest - Hand of the Queen, squaring against Drogon etc. They even gave him a snidey peasant death in favour of Grey Worm surviving to have it off with Nathalie Emmanuel for no apparent reason

The sand snakes in a recent episode was probably the gashest scene Ive seen so far in 5 seasons and made no sense

Jamie is now a goodie instead of a complex character without the Rivverrun scene

Nobody even knows that Tyrion is really up on history and dragons etc., with his whole story arc being truncated seemingly so much into a single season

Overtly relaying the R+L=J annoyed me a lot too, far more nuanced in the books

Can't talk enough really about how disappointed I am with the transition from 4 through 5 here
 
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Walken said:
He's a fine actor but I felt he was a bit miscast to be honest, he just looks too old and frail, his back has slumped, and he didn't look capable of carving men like a cake
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think he was supposed to be a bit frail looking when he was traveling to daneyrs but yeah I see your point. pretty decent actor, was more bothered they killed off the character.
 
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