Game of Thrones 4.7 "Mockingbird" (spoiler alert)

[TorchTheWitch]

69. sorry to say he dies

I had expected him to go out this season right in the beginning. With the last episode it's pretty clear that he's not going to make it and he knows it all because of his acute fear of fire.

In the book he gets stabbed in the leg during the tavern fight, it festers and he dies. Arya just leaves him to die slowly and painfully deciding not to give him the gift of mercy (that's what it was called in the books when someone quickly kills a person that is slowly dying painfully usually because of a ghastly wound that is beyond help either because of the nature of the wound or there being no hope of getting medical help like how Maester Lewin has Osha do for him). It bugged me in the book that Arya doesn't give the Hound the gift of mercy and just leaves him alone in the forest to die slowly and painfully. Arya in the books isn't nearly as likeable as she is in the show. I hope they don't do that in the show.

According to the writers a ton of people die this season... many many more than last season which is true to the books. I expect that everyone that died in the books will die in the show though possibly in a different way and later or earlier than in the books. So far though every death in the books has happened pretty much the way it did in the books and by the same people. The only difference I see with the Hound's death is that rather than getting his death wound the same time and place as in the books they had him stick around more with Arya getting his fatal wound later and not in his leg probably to make his death more dramatic with them getting along and almost becoming friendly with each other. Actually, in the book he also got a wound to his neck but it wasn't that wound that was the one that killed him. With what happened in the last episode he'll be dying in the show because of his neck wound that festers.

The Hound is going to have to die since it's the reason that Arya's storyline goes the way it does. And besides, it's already assured how and when with the foreshadowing in the last episode.

I'm still uncertain about how one particular character is going to die though since even in the book it was rather disturbing mostly because of who does it and why. I still expect that character to die but possibly by someone else or in a different way. It would be really disturbing in the show since in the book the two characters weren't as close as how they were portrayed in the show.

The Hound is going to have to die since it's the reason that Arya's storyline goes the way it does.