>Speaking to Vulture, Graves said that he first asked aloud
>about Lady Stoneheart during his third-season episode
>featuring Beric Dondarrion—the Brotherhood Without Banners
>leader who is Lady Stoneheart’s creator—only to have
>showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss say, “Oh, yeah, you
>know, that’s a whole thing that we’re just not sure what we’re
>going to do about.” As Graves tells both Vulture and
>Entertainment Weekly, they’re still unsure. “It was never
>going to be in the season,” he says, “yet it took off on the
>Internet like it was going to happen.”
>
>Besides wanting, as always, to upset the Internet, the Game Of
>Thrones team had other reasons for keeping the character out
>of play. They already had a whole mess of concurrent
>storylines to keep track of, for one thing, but also: “To
>bring back Michelle Fairley, one of the greatest actresses
>around, to be a zombie for a little while—and just kill
>people?” Graves says to EW. “It is really sort of, what are we
>doing with that? How does it play into the whole story in a
>way that we’re really going to like?”
>
>As to whether they’ll figure out a satisfactory way to
>incorporate Lady Stoneheart by next season, Graves doesn’t
>know—or, at least, he’s very good at insisting that he’s been
>kept in the dark. In the meantime, he also offers his thoughts
>on The Hound’s fate (“as I told the story … he’s gone. How is
>he going to survive that?”), those five expensive days it took
>to shoot that skeleton battle sequence, and some other things
>that won’t give away any major events for non-readers, like a
>character coming back as a zombie.

but it made the fantasy aspect less shocking
also for some reason was my key to understanding melisandre
and her not looking like a complete loon
and her work "accidents" or "coincidences"
also that shit is starting to pop off below the wall

it is a bit of a side storyline
but it does help
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