Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-27613193-20160215162032/@comment-410526-20160215193014

GRRM would agree that dead people should stay dead, depending on the circumstances. He's said repeatedly in interviews that one of the things he disagreed with in Tolkien's writing was the resurrection of Gandalf. He felt it de-valued his awesome death scene in the first book and also stunted the character development of the other characters.

Lady Stone Heart is different, because her return was done in a way that didn't de-value her original death scene or the character development that stemmed from it. She doesn't simply pick up where she left off. Her death still has a ton of impact, if not more, due to her resurrection. Beric Dondarrion wasn't a major character and his off-screen death wasn't a pivotal event, so he gets a pass.

So I think the take-away is that character resurrection can be done well, but in Pyrrha's case I don't see that ever happening. She can't come back without retroactively making her death valueless.