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Originally Posted by Superturtle
Don't think that's the case anymore.
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I have a theory about the last season and a half or so where it does seem the death toll took a marked drop in terms of major character deaths. It is made up of two points. First, season 6 killed a shit ton of major people but they saved up a bit and did it all a really short time frame so it felt like less overall than other seasons. Second, season 7 really did kill far fewer major people. I think this is because the tv show removed a bunch of characters from the overall story who are pretty major in the books. All of those missing folks are on the verge of the biggest parts of their story lines where the fifth book left off. In the next books, many of them will die in surprising and big ways, but for the show, they culled people who don't make it to the very end and never even introduced them. Thus, the deaths we are missing in season 7 are of characters that never existed in the series, and in the books, probably a very similar set of people will be around for the climax. We are not missing deaths because the show is afraid to kill anymore.