Game Of Thrones Season 4: 10 Book Deviations We'd Love To See

7. A New Death For Shae

Something needs to be made clear right off the bat. We are not George R.R. Martin. We have no delusions of being George R.R. Martin. There will never be a point in our lives that we will hold a candle to the awesomeness that is George R.R. Martin. However, since there's a pretty sizeable divide between Book Shae and Show Shae, granting them the same fate would seem a little out of whack, and it may require a pretty serious deviation from from the source material. Don't get us wrong here. For the sake of the story, Shae needs to take a one-way trip to the great big Wolfswood in the sky. In the book, Tyrion strangles her with the Hand's golden chain of office after she betrays him and beds Lord Tywin, who €“ as irony would have it €“ really did love dem hoes all along. Within the context of the novels, Tyrion's actions make sense €“ Book Shae is a childish gold-digger who's only out for herself. Show Shae, on the other hand, actually shows love and even devotion to Tyrion, so it's hard to imagine her meeting the same fate as her literary counterpart. In the context of the show and the way the characters have been constructed, Tyrion strangling Shae would come off as incredibly dark, even for "Game of Thrones." While we concede that, yes, Shae has to bite the dust before the curtains close on season four, maybe a crossbow bolt or a throat slit would be more merciful. And yes, we just referred to being murdered by a crossbow-toting dwarf as "merciful." Welcome to Westeros.