Game Of Thrones: 8 Reasons 'Battle Of The Bastards' Is The Show's Most Overrated Episode
3. Rickon's Death Was Unemotional Because The Writers Never Bothered To Develop Him
A fully-fledged member of the Stark family died in 'Battle of the Bastards' - a character who has been around ever since the first episode of Game of Thrones was brutally murdered by Ramsay Bolton in a horribly sadistic fashion.
And yet it was genuinely difficult to conjure up much sympathy with regards to poor old Rickon and his untimely fate, because he was never developed as a character. He was just a name; a plot device; somebody who had been hanging around in the wings of the show for years and years without any real purpose.
But what if the writers had spent a little time with Rickon this season? Just a few scenes here and there, each one a few minutes long, designed to enable us to feel what Rickon was feeling during his time at Winterfell under the Bolton occupation. If they'd bothered to do that, his death would have been a lot more tragic and emotional to watch. As it happened, it lacked any real dramatic weight.