(April 25, 2016 at 8:45 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(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".
That's got nothing to do with what we were discussing, which is that the audience supposedly doesn't wish to see good guys killing animals, which is what would've happened in both cases if that's what happened in this episode, and both times out of necessity because someone evil put those animals in those situations. So your argument fails on this point.
I seem to recall Daenerys's lover and champion in that instance killing a horse, and also Brienne just now, if I'm not mistaken. I believe also Bronn killed a horse defending Tyrion, but I'm not sure about that. Horses are animals, but not as loved by people as dogs are, obviously.
Grey Wind wasn't shown being killed(because only the cage was filmed, and we only got the audio) just as Nymeria wasn't, but you've got a point with the direwolf's head, but not as much as you might think, since it was already dead and an entirely different situation(you couldn't imagine a similar one with the Bolton's dogs). But I think you're just arguing for what you want to be true, not for what's actually there, so there's clearly no point in continuing this.
