This Is Why Lady Stoneheart Was Cut From Game of Thrones!!!

Welcome back for another Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire videos. In this video, I explain why Lady Stoneheart was cut from Game of Thrones. This is a question fans have had for many seasons, and now, we finally have the answer. Dan and Dave told James Hibberd, from Entertainment Weekly, three reasons why they left this mysterious character out of their series. In my opinion, this was a big mistake. Not only did millions of fans want to see Lady Stoneheart in Game of Thrones, but so did the author of the story, George R.R. Martin. Let me know what you think about these new developments. Thanks for watching the video!

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[BlazingOwnager]

The sweetest justice ever was D&D rushing GoT's final season and refusing to hand it off to anyone, only to get dumped by Star Wars.

[OsoBlanco]

The illustration of Lady Stoneheart alone is 100x better than the final season.

[PeasantReaper]

"Lets just keep Beric Dondarrion so he can throw a flaming sword in season 8 instead" - D&D

[Maerahn]

They thought 'bringing Catelyn Stark back as a zombie would lessen the impact of her death?' So, in other words "Jeez, George, that piece of character development was a real rookie mistake on your part, wasn't it?" The ARROGANCE!

[BelgianBisous]

Having beric dondarrion return a million times without it costing him anything cheapens death. Having jon return as fully human with his entire personality, speech, body and bodily functions back cheapens death. Cat was, besides drogo, the most haunting example of the cost of resurrection. And her resurrection came at the cost of beric's life force. That's some pretty uncheap bargain there.

[janwel]

They didn’t want to spoil the resurrection trick and thus Jon’s comeback? I call BS! Beric Dondarrion’s whole purpose is foreshadowing it!

[koripeterson]

I don’t think the resurrections in the books cheapen death, because like how George states, death changes people. It shows how even if they come back they aren't the same, this isn't shown in the show but I think its an important lesson in the books.

[MalinIscathan]

I think seeing Lady Stoneheart woudl have added to Lady Catlyns death.
Just to see how different and cruel she is.
And the pain to know that she still can´t rest even after loosing everything.
That would have been heartbreaking

[tweetert.]

I'd have loved to have Lady Cat come back as a badass murdering zombie. Her love for her family was absolute, and vengeance is a dish best served cold.

[shindari]

After watching the way they destroyed the entire show, I'm not sorry at all they didn't bring Stoneheart back.

Because those two idiots would have just ruined her too...

[tasneemedwards]

I remember at the end of watching the revelation of Jon actually being a Targaryen, , the first thing I thought was, " I can't believe Catlyn died without knowing the truth about Jon " 🥺

[MrZml]

I've been living under a rock since season 8 aired.

[jewsco]

I also saw another interview with GRRM and he talked about how leaving out characters had butterfly effect on the ending of the show . I agree 100% with him on this and why the show ended the way it did. It all had to deal with them cutting to many characters and storylines so at the end it didn’t come together

[Flange]

I'm still more disappointed in their treatment of the Direwolves.

[Nogarda_]

Lady Stoneheart is really a different character. And she cant talk. But could you imagine if they filmed it(her resurrection) but in the next season just had this grey cloaked female in the back of some shots in the woods or just disappearing out of frame for 8 episodes. Then in episode 9 you get the storm of swords epilogue in full with a reveal of fairley with dead eyes, bloody robes, rotten blackened witch like fingers, and a grudge like gurgle on occasion. But she is just remorseless and oozing vengence. But because its the tv show she doesn’t hang just one frey but four, but does it one by one, so the others can watch them die. Then she just guts them with a dagger to make sure. Whispers in the next ones ear. Hangs them guts them, until the final one who has soiled himself, is absolutely petrified, screaming for help that will never come. Then we hear her choppy whisper before she hangs him. The episode then ends on a wide shot of the four hanged as the last one is gutted and lady stoneheart does a michael myers style head tilt. Cut to black.

[ramoncarter]

i dont think michelle fairley would have minded not speaking if it meant she got to stay on the show and i dont think bringing her back would have cheapened jons resurection either

[strikeone]

*Well let me tell you something David and Dan . . . How about bringing both you back to write the final season felt like diminishing returns . . . .how about that ?*
This roast alone had better writing and meaning than seasons 7/8 combined

[gottfriedosterbach]

I would have preferred that to Assassins Creed Arya.

[cauguto]

Because they kind of forgot about her...

[fluidarana]

One thing that stuck to me about resurrection in GRRM's world (though I vaguely remember it) is that the degree of change a person manifests when resurrected depends on how long they stayed dead. Lady Catelyn was dead for 3 days hence the drastic change in character, plus also retaining some memory being the hatred towards the Lannisters and everyone involved in the red wedding.

That would have given us some tension in the show about how Jon would change. I mean, we all knew he wouldn't stay dead anyway. The question should've been how much Jon would be left since he was dead for a whole day, I think. Beric Dondarrion didn't change since he was always revived the same moment he dies. 🤣

Or may be a huge portion of Jon did die. Because by the end he look liked he only retained 1/3 of his IQ and just kept saying "Ur MaH KwEen" and "I dUn WaNt Et" 🤣