Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-198.242.211.102-20161130162448/@comment-25936766-20161205044250

Arkantos95 wrote: Man, GoT's killing spree is overhyped as hell. Sure "anyone can die at any time", unless they're a main character. Sure, they get "as much plot armor as they could possibly want".

....And yet Ned Stark proves you wrong at the very first season, and there are more examples as the seasons go, at least 2 of which are also Starks.

The only reason more people don't die in GoT is because it's not practical to be constantly paying more and more expensive actors to play characters that barely last a season before dying, then having to look for even more actors to play more and more characters that take their place in the spotlight.

Besides annoying, it alienates potential actors, since actors want to work for as long as possible. If they're going to last like 4 episodes, why bother?

SoIaF doesn't have the same problem however, so it doesn't keep characters for long.