Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-25756348-20160510003306

Something has bothered me about the scene from TOJ. While the word of the actors stated that it was Hightower and Dayne that died in the last episode, something tells me that this is not true.

The actor that supposedly portrays Hightower does not look like him at all and is never named on any official channels except his own Twitter feed, and he does all the lines that Whent do in the books. Why is he then saying that he is Hightower?

I wonder it might be a lie. The actor Eddie Eyre has already said that there is more young Eddard Stark scenes waiting, and Hightower is mentioned in "Oathbreaker", the same episode as the TOJ fighting scene. It would be strange if they miscast him so off. Hightower is and relative old, tall man with authority. He does not look like that in this scene. Could it be because Hightower is really this man?

Now think about it, it might be that the creators felt that the scene needed more tension than just Eddard meeting Lyanna and divided it in such a way that Hightower will be in the TOJ, explaining som plotholes and fighting.

Or of course it can just be stuntman, but i have asked the question :) 