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UltimaterializerX posted...

Rickon had a purpose. Ramsey was trying to bait Jon Snow into making a mistake. It worked, and Ramsey would have won the battle had Deus Ex Sansa not happened.

That entire episode didn't have plot purpose, but no, it was killing character porn and they were using a bit character because as the showrunners clearly showed, they didn't know how to kill off characters.

Characters also don't need to be killed off. Just because GoT did it doesn't mean that other shows need to echo it. Stranger Things has a bloated cast. Hopper being in Russia is convenient, but if he was just dead you'd have had Joyce and Murray trying to find a place in a plot where they already weren't sure what to do with Jonathan/Will/Mike. The show is better because Hopper lived through the end of s3.