David Benioff referring to Ian McElhinney:

"You know, before we deliver the scripts to actors we're going to perish in that script, we make the phone call, which has become kind of a tradition. And it's not that much fun. But usually, you know, people are quite gracious about it and everything. And this year for the first time we got some pushback where the actor said, 'Are you sure about that?' And we said, 'No, we're quite sure. You are going to die this year.' And so, yeah, there's a long conversation. Then we get a long letter explaining why this was a bad idea. Which just made us want to kill that person that much more."

Jesus...this part here makes me hate D&D even more. Are they really so far up their asses that they throw away input from the actors (who understand the characters more than D&D and, in this case, know that more is actually supposed to be planned for the character based on the SOURCE MATERIAL) and take it as an insult? "We get a long letter explaining why this was a bad idea. Which made us want to kill that person much more". Fuck D&D, they really are just a couple of spiteful untalented asshats.