Game of Thrones Showrunners David Benioff, Dan Weiss Talk Season 4 Finale Twists

The Season 4 finale of HBO's Game of Thrones featured numerous twists and several deaths and positioned several of the major players in Westeros for Season 5. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss broke down the numerous major moments in a recent interview.

[WARNING: GAME OF THRONES SEASON 4 FINALE SPOILERS BELOW]

The two spoke to EW.com firstly about the fight between Brienne and The Hound when the two characters met up near the Eyrie and clashed over Arya Stark. Benioff said it "felt right" to have the two fighters collide because the Hound and Arya and Brienne and Pod are on separate but related quests. Weiss expanded with the following:

"The Hound and Brienne are two people who, by the time we get them together, you're sort of rooting for both of them, in a way. Brienne is obviously a more moral character than The Hound. But I would hope you can't help but love The Hound in spite of yourself, a little bit. The idea they're both going to try tooth and nail and sword to kill each other, there's something classically epic about it. You got Achilles fighting Hector - there isn't a good guy and a bad guy, it's two people you're both extremely invested in and there's a fascination and horror of knowing that one of them is inevitably going to get the worst of this situation."

Tyrion also killed his father, Tywin, while the latter was on the toilet. On that subject, Benioff and Weiss noted that it was difficult to lose Charles Dance as an actor, and Benioff called it a "privilege to write for an actor of that caliber."

Many characters underwent significant transformations this season, which was a point of emphasis for the show in Season 4:

"[A] lot of this story - this season especially - is about people learning to face hard truths about the world they live in, and adapt themselves to those truths. The struggle many of them face is how to do that without losing their grip on who they are. Whether or not they succeed... well, people will have to decide for themselves. This season many characters undergo drastic changes in their own identities, and are forced to reevaluate how they see themselves and their places in the world."

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