So, that happened. Obviously fans of George R.R. Martin's books will have known what was coming (though I did and I was still left a bit shell-shocked) but actually seeing it transpire was pretty damn heart breaking. Tonight Robb Stark, his mother Catlyn and his pregnant wife Talisa were all betrayed and brutally murdered by Lord Walder Frey. The scene played out pretty much exactly as it did din the book, but Talisa's literary counterpart (Jeyne Westerling) actually survives in A Storm Of Swords. EW interviewed Richard Madden (Robb) and got his thoughts on how The King In The North checked out, and why he felt it was necessary to see his wife join him in the grave.
"I think Robb Stark dying in that way is one of the best things that HBO and Game of Thrones does so beautiful and that’s just rip these characters hearts out in front of you. Maybe it would have been better for Robb to die gloriously on the battlefield, or something else. This is so sudden and violent and horrible. The way I and the writers have tried to build him up, there’s no other way we could have killed him. Because he is great on the battlefield and despite his poor choices he is a great leader … he’s been outsmarted and it comes from his good heart and his trust in other people."
And on Talisa's (Oona Chaplin) disturbing death.
"I think it’s a full stop to the story of [Robb's] army. I think it’s more tragic that there’s nothing left over from it. There’s no possibility that Talisa’s in hiding and having that baby and one day that baby will become the King in the North. There’s something more tragic about having it all be cut short … She’s a wonderful actress."
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