Disclaimer: While I'm aware that the books are still ahead, I'm pretending for the purpose of this blog that only the television series has happened.
As much as people make a big deal about people dying left, right and centre, with four seasons down it's not stretching out ahead of other well-esteemed HBO dramas (I'm looking at you Boardwalk Empire, Oz and The Wire), nonetheless, for entertainment's sake these are the characters I'm hoping to see concluded in this upcoming series.
Arya
Irritatingly has no awareness of her surroundings throughout the first series so seeing her on the road separated from her family serves this brat right in my book.
More broadly I see no reason to be interested in her. Apart from her time with the Hound which is now over, she's never near any other compelling or consequential characters. She comes across as a one-dimensional character that is completely bereft of any profundity. Who does she think she is with an enemies list, Richard Nixon?
Even putting her characteristics to one side, her end goal amounts to nothing much apart from her own revenge. I know I come across all Count of Monte Cristo saying this but just suppose by the end of the series she murders everyone on her kill list, which looks seemingly unlikely now that she's in Braavos. Then what?
Robin Arryn
In all honesty, it's probably the fault of his psychotic mother that Robin behaves like such a muppet; in fact it was almost like watching that David Walliams character in Little Britain:
Still, only seems to exist in the plot as an obstacle, rather than someone who is a genuine antagonist. Does anyone really think he has the wherewithal to survive and flourish? Can he make any contribution that isn't impetuously churlish?
Pycelle
You could probably say it of any Maester, but he is a complete and total toady. If he's not spending his time bumbling on about how noble Aerys was, or later how noble Joffrey was, he's providing the sycophantic laughter and support for Tywin, Joffrey or Cersei, characters with far too much dignity to require such malarkey. Why does he choose to walk with a hunch slowly, what advantage does it give him to appear as a bumbling fool?
Meryn Trant
Similar to Pycelle, he's a jobsworth of the highest order with no character of his own and according to both Barristan and the Hound, is not even a respectable swordsman. He especially made me cross when he beat up Sansa in front of Joffrey, what kind of oik do you have to be to wail on a teenage girl?
Gregor Clegane
It might be a little early for Season 5, but I want to see him lose to the Hound in the highly-anticipated CleganeBowl. #GETHYPE
Daenerys
It's safe to say that Daenerys is insufferable to watch. Reading her chapters in the books is annoying enough with most Essosi characters being one-dimensional and having ludicrous names. She wasn't too interesting to begin with, and then watches as her brother is gruesomely murdered by her oafish husband; then at the end of the second series she locks a man and her former in a vault to die; then she's careless enough to let her dragons fly around causing havoc.
To be honest I'm fine with her making mistakes and even acting completely heartlessly, the problem is at the same time she is at the centre of some preposterous Mary-Sue morality play against slavery, maintaining an inane winsome smirk all the while. Somehow she is rewarded by jammily escaping any attempt on her life; unfortunately Barristan Selmy drops out of the sky to save her from a manticore.
To be honest, I don't care if you're going to show O Shizzl Ghizzngar no mercy because he oughtn't keep slaves anymore, it'd be nice to see an attempt to get to Westeros instead of dilly-dallying in the hope that some character development will take place before that happens, if at all.
What makes it worse is just how badly Emilia Clarke delivers some of the horrid lines she's given, it makes for a storm of cringeworthiness at once; the whole 'Break the wheel' monologue that she gives on this series' trailer perfectly exemplifies it.
Pity she wasn't killed early on like her brother.
Hodor
He adds absolutely nothing to the story and is now the cause of what must now be millions of irritating comments of 'Hodor' on anything to do with GoT. Thankfully Kristian Nairn confirmed he won't be in the show this time around, so at least we don't have to see him, but neither do we get to see him suffer for the time he has cost us all.
Theon
I liked Theon up until his capture by Ramsay and conversion into the pusillanimous Reek. He's been SOLJWF for far too long now, and needs to be put out of his misery, it's fairly unforeseeable that he will return to his former likeable self. He won't even be able to return to his bedroom and smoke weed all day.
