edicivo t1_j9zdclm wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:06 PM

Reply to comment by Tarantio in Game of Thrones Season 4 has to be in the GOAT discussion. by Boss452

That doesn't negate what I said.

In the show, Dondarrion, after Arya left the gang, is mostly nothing more than an extra sword with maybe a line or two of dialogue per ep. Dondarrion ultimately dies in the final battle against zombies. He never had any of his own storylines, he was always a part of someone else's.

Replacing him with Stoneheart as in the books would have required whole new storylines. Stoneheart as a character would have required an end point and she would have needed a more significant ending than what Beric got since Cat was a majorly prominent character. So, like I said, it would have been another storyline/character to wrap up in a show where D&D were already very clearly struggling to juggle storylines and characters.

Tarantio t1_j9zmbpt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 7:05 PM

They would have struggled a lot less if they had thrown out less.

The writers took out a lot, but they seemed to disregard the difficulty of writing plot to replace what they cut.

Dondarrion being just an extra sword is a result of the writers cutting the end of his story and then having to come up with more for him to do.

Maybe if they had let him die bringing back Stoneheart, we wouldn't have had to suffer through the "seven dudes try to capture a zombie for some reason" plot line. Beric would be dead, Thoros and Gendry would be with the Brotherhood under Stoneheart.