More likely the blundered by not having her return this season. Michelle Fairley is an in demand actress now and I doubt she will have the schedule…
Like the show has any qualms about replacing actors. And replacing her would be much more feasible as she’s now a fucked up zombie.
Note that Michelle Fairley just said “she’s dead”… and LS is dead (or undead).
Maybe she’ll be back, and maybe she won’t, but I wouldn’t base my opinion on anything the actors or even producers of the show (short of something with no ambiguity like “Michelle Fairley will never be seen on any GoT future episode, and Catelyn Tully/Lady Stoneheart will never be seen again”).
There are also tinfoil theories that a resurrected Talisa could serve the same purpose as Lady Stoneheart for the show (as an “agent of Stark vengeance”).
But we’ll see. I think the producers have done a great job so far, so I trust that they’ll continue to do well.
I don’t think that’d work. The entire “holy shit!” moment would be recognizing her. If it’s just some random woman, the impact is totally lost, particularly if the audience is asking “Wait, that’s supposed to be Cat?”
That would be an extremely disappointing change if it is true.
Whether or not I care depends on where that story line goes.
Yeah, my only concern about it possibly being cut from the show is that I was kind of excited to see if LSH manages to do something big in future books and cutting it implies that her plot may not really go anywhere. I suppose things could be done differently in the show (as they have many times before) so it’s not necessarily true that the books will go in that direction, but the prospect of LSH actually impacting the plot in some meaningful way is exciting for me and not having her in the show would lessen that excitement a little.
Time to go back to the Valar Hiatus thread, for stuff not tied to the season finale…?: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654239&highlight=valar+hiatus
I just realized what really pisses me off about the exclusion of the big Tyrion revelation and Lady Stoneheart, and particularly the possibility that neither one wille ever be revealed…
My wife is a show watcher but non-book-reader. And now I can NEVER tell her about those things. Well, maybe when the TV series is fully and completely over. But those two revelations were key to the series, and two of my favorite moments of fiction of all time. I’ve enjoyed seeing her surprise at many of the big moments over the course of the series, and now… I’m just stuck in limbo. Very very frustrating.
I think you could tell her about the Tyrion revelation (I assume you mean the Jaime conversation about Tysha when he gets out). Tysha was mentioned in an earlier season, Tywin’s dead. The only thing that might be different is the relationship between Tyrion and Jaime, but Jaime’s still doing the redemption thing in the books and I’d bet they make up. Or one will die horribly first. Either way…
I notice that people seems to think that Gregor Clegane as Robert Strong would be headless. This seems bizzare to me, because the only way I’d say that someone is actually dead in the books is if the heads off, or they are burned.
The head sent to Dorne was boiled, so had no identifying features. It struck me at the time as being a ruse, and could have been anyone. So isn’t Gregor’s head. And sewing someone else’s head in its place, well, that’s just crazy shit.
Glad someone re-opened this thread, because I just had a thought about season 4:
So, the three-eyed raven tells Bran he will never walk again, but he will fly some day.
Most people have interpreted that as meaning he will ultimately worg into some cool flying creature e.g. a dragon.
But if worging into a dragon counts as flying, then surely worging into Hodor counts as walking?
So what’s his meaning? And did I just out-riddle a magic sage?
One of the visions involved a giant knight, and when his helm was opened, it was empty inside. Strong doesn’t speak or eat. Cleganes skull was massive and surely unique. Qyburn studied necromancy, so maybe he has a way around the head problem.
Nitpick: it’s “warg.”
What makes you think Robert Strong is not headless? He keeps his helm on at all times and never eats. The skull sent to Dorne was uncommonly large, so it was most likely Gregor’s.
Doran Martell seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time staring at the skull. I had the sense that he was deciding the best course of action, and concluded that allowing the sand-snakes to be placated was his wisest move. I don’t think he was convinced at all. I look forward to seeing this in the show.
My bet is that Blood-raven wants to move into Bran’s body, and fully intends to take it from him*, kicking Bran into a bird for safekeeping. I think that’s what he meant by “You will fly.” I don’t think it will work, but I expect a major battle between the two, and Bran to win it in the end.
*Else what was the point of the Sixskins prologue? I suppose it could also be applied to Jon, but he’s unlikely to force his way into another person’s body, he’ll just join Ghost for as long as is necessary.
Bran seems an odd choice. If Bloodraven wants to be freed from his tree-prison, choosing a crippled boy is counterproductive. Why not take Hodor?
There was no point where it was described his head being removed. The head sent to Dorne was boiled which seemed a bit unnecessary, especially when giving proof. And having a large head is far more usual than being 8 feet tall… And not hard a characteristic to spot in a crowd…
The one rule of the undead in fiction which holds true is that heads off = dead (got no decision making functionality), burned might be true too (though Mance and Rattleshirt switcheroo makes this not completely true in the books).
Without a semblance of decision making, he’s not so much reanimated, but more remote controlled, are they going to train up a seasoned fighter to control his body?
That and for gods sake, the helmet would keep falling off.
“Hey Ser Robert Strong dropped his sword, oh he’s got a chance to pick it up… Aeeeiiiiiii.”
I think there’s almost certainly a head under Robert Strong’s helmet… but who the hell knows whose head.
I thought Bran would actually ride a dragon - like with the saddle contraption that was made for him.