(April 25, 2016 at 8:26 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Sansa's direwolf was killed by Ned, not a bad guy.
Yes, but it was obviously at the wish of Joffrey, so it served to make his character more odious (and perhaps Robert Baratheon's), not Ned's.
(April 25, 2016 at 8:26 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Also, they never specifically showed an animal getting killed or harmed, it was merely implied, except for horses, so there's no possible prior(too much?) there.
Well - horses ARE animals and the ones I can think of, that were intentionally killed on the show were killed by "bad guys" - like the Mountain, in which case it was shown very graphically.
Also - Rob's wolf was shown being killed (even if covered by the cage) and then its cut-off head was on Rob's body. If that's "merely implied" - I'm not sure what you'd consider "specifically shown".
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