George R.R. Martin Talks Death In Ficition
Death is meant to be a powerful storytelling tool in fiction. As it can sometimes come out of nowhere, and rock people. Yet in some mediums, death doesn’t mean “gone forever”. In last nights Game of Thrones, a key character was resurrected. George R.R. Martin, the creator of Game of Thrones, is kind of infamous for the number of characters he kills, but he also has a solid notion about resurrection, as an old interview reveals: “I do think that if you’re bringing a character back, that a character has gone through death, that’s a transformative experience. Even back in those days of Wonder Man and all that, I loved the fact that he died, and although I liked the character in later years, I wasn’t so thrilled when he came back because that sort of undid the power of it,” Martin said, referring to a comic book story where Wonder Man nobly chose to die rather than betray the Avengers, only for him to be brought back to life
