Doreah kills Irri: New S2 production stills

Crazy! I’m glad they kept it a mystery who killed her.

Why the hell was this scene deleted!? They better have a deleted scenes/ gag reel on the next set. Making us wait a year is torture enough.

I would have loved to see that scene onscreen. I understand they might have chosen to keep undisclosed who was behind the dragon’s theft, but imho as long as Dany didn’t know, we would still be looking forward to see when she’d find out, it’d still have remained a mystery for her… And we would have been routing for Doreah to get her comeuppance, instead of feeling sorry for her when Dany locks her up in such a seemingly cold hearted way.

In any case, please HBO, we beg you… put the deleted scenes on the DVDs! We’ll flock to buy them!

BTW, Kudos to kissed by fire for finding this gems!

My heart can’t deal with it

Edit: maybe spoilers if people don’t want to know the changes for if they read the books?

I know she was ultimately a small character, but I feel a bit peeved at how they changed Doreah from the sweet ex-prostitute who died with Daenerys nursing her to a psychotic murdering bitch.

Awesome! I admit I wanted to see those two go at it, but not in that fashion.

Color me disappointed. :(

LOL

Ha Conleth looks like he just saw the paparazzi and is ready to tear their balls off!

Finally I understand Dany’s storyline!!!!

Hope they include deleted scenes in the dvd

Wonderful photos!! Oh what a treat it would be if they put the deleted scenes in the DVD, along with the one with sansa and the hound at the serpentine steps

I just don’t understand where they’re going w this made up plot. Doreah was supposed to die in the Red Waste and The whole plot w Xaro killing the 13 and proclaiming himself king just seems like a lot of trouble for a made up storyline. The 6th book is not written true but I don’t think Dany will remain in Slavers Bay long enough for Xaro to be a huge factor in her plot line. Unless he becomes her ally again at some point before she goes West and maybe goes West w her w and helps strengthen her Army in so doing. I don’t see why all these plot changes are necessary. If its not broken don’t fix it

Thesandsnake:
I just don’t understand where they’re going w this made up plot. Doreah was supposed to die in the Red Waste and The whole plot w Xaro killing the 13 and proclaiming himself king just seems like a lot of trouble for a made up storyline.The 6th book is not written true but I don’t think Dany will remain in Slavers Bay long enough for Xaro to be a huge factor in her plot line.Unless he becomes her ally again at some point before she goes West and maybe goes West w her w and helps strengthen her Army in so doing.I don’t see why all these plot changes are necessary. If its not broken don’t fix it

it was broken, it was too sparse
it was just her in the garden of bones and being given gifts in qarth, and H of Undying
speaking of that i really want to see her with her three dragons crown i wonder if she will get one by the time she sits on her ebony throne

Wow. A woman is thrilled to see these beautiful behind-the-scenes photos. Thanks for posting! Doreah…who knew she would turn out to be such a biatch!

Once I read ASOS, and found out Irri’s role, I was so pissed they killed her off in the show.

D & D completely messed up Doreah and Irri in s2, I hope they don’t screw up Missandei.

Rygar:
To me, it actually looks like Doreth is giving a really sensual massage and Irri is gasping out in pleasure.

Wow.That stand alone shot of Doreth is stunning.Put a white wig on her and THATS Dany!

It looks more like Irri is choking and Doreah is attempting to give her a Heimlich maneuver. Unsuccessfully, since Heimlich never existed in this world. I imagine Doreah ran because she couldn’t revive her beloved “sister” and sought Xaro for help.

That only makes sense.

i’m still confused why they made daeny look like an idiot by saying Qarth as ‘Qwarth’ and then getting corrected, when she had never seen it written, only heard it said correctly. i mean i get that she turns out to be pretty dumb and annoying, but why ruin it for the people who haven’t read the books and still like her?

Admittedly hard to tell from one still, but I wonder if the reason it wasn’t included is it looks a bit hammy…

Am I alone in finding Dany locking Doreah up in the vault in keeping with her character, even without the information that she killed Irri? Obviously Doreah’s, um, alliance(?) with Xaro led, in some fashion, to the slaughter of her already dwindling Dothraki horde, as well as the dragon-napping, her only assets at this point. From a more sentimental standpoint, Dany loved the Dothraki that stood by her after Drogo’s death and views the dragons as her children. In either case, we saw Dany watch her husband murder her brother, so I don’t think passively killing Doreah to stay on her path to the throne is that far fetched. It is quite different than the books, and while I don’t know/understand the reason for the change, it’s there and I don’t find it to be too out of place.

I really liked Roxanne McKee and Amrita Acharia in their roles and am sad their characters were seemingly needlessly killed off.

Cary Storm,

Dude like KG says, have you read these books??? In Qarth, the Heimlich IS practiced, as GRRM clearly states, and it is performed at the neck, instead of below the sternum and above the belly button. It’s obvious that since Doreth and Irri go out to eat together that they saw the signs posted at each restaurant and learned the manuver.

KG,

While I didn’t quite phrase it the same, I agree that it is within show and book Dnay’s character to have killed Doreah.

Perhaps the deleted scene required some dragon FX shots that were not completed?

I am hoping Amrita comes back as Arianne.

Let’s start a fan drive to have her cast as the Princess of Dorne.

Rygar,

I’ve now decided that this was an auto-erotic asphyxiation scene gone bad. We already know about Irri’s little kink side from what takes place in ASoS between her and Dany but won’t since Irri is dead in GoT so why am I using spoiler tags. Doreah just got a bit too exuberant.

However,

tysnow:
Also concerning Amrita, I believe her work visa was being cancelled, so HBO decided to off Irri rather than recast the character.

So the Dothraki are all dead because someone forgot to reapply for their work visas?

Ours is the Fury,

That pisses me off to no end now, Irri was such a fan favorite, why would D&D kill her off, it makes no sense.

D&D better make up for it, by casting Amrita as Arianne.

BTW, that rumor concerning her visa was posted on this site or Westeros, forgot which one.

Yeah well, Doreah got locked up in that vault with Xaro Xhoan Daxos. So at that point there are only a couple scenarios that can happen. Starvation and dehydration. Starvation and dehydration and then cannibalism. Even if cannibalism happens they will still eventually starve anyways. I would rather burn like the witch on the funeral pyre.

Well, Doreah has always seemed like a scheming, oportunistic little bitch to me (in the show), so no real surprises there. She does have the motivation, as several posters pointed out before me; as far as she’s concerned, the only way to stay alive is to team up with Xaro. As to why perform the murder herself … That seems a little out of character indeed. And added just for the dramatic value. In which case I’m glad it didn’t make the final cut.

But as much as I have disliked Doreah ever since the bathtub scene, I’d prefer to keep her in the series if I could only have Irri back. It’s SUCH a shame to have lost her so pointlessly … She wasn’t much fun this season, but I do regret the writers didn’t make her stand as an interesting character without constant bickering with Rahkaro. I’m sure the grown up Missandei will be fun to watch as well, but I’d much prefer her precocious kid version teamed up with Irri.

A woman can dream.

Eos: But as much as I have disliked Doreah ever since the bathtub scene

Haha, that was one of the best acted scenes in the entire series in my opinion, opinions obviously differ…

The reason why that scene was taken out of the episode was the fact that at one point they had to use a stunt double during the choking scene and in order to have the double look like her they had to use a George Bush mask and then paint it all up in accordance to her skin tones and facial expressions……….LOL

If they had to take the scene out to improve the story, whatever that’s fine. But at least they should include it as a deleted scene. It doesn’t have to be literally in the episode if they don’t want, but at least have it in the special features.

The most frustrating thing about this series is that we are never attuned to the differences in the story like the writers and producers. I am sure if D & D could defend each change the majority of them would make sense. But they don’t. Of course they don’t they have a show to run. That is the rub of it really. What makes perfect sense to the insiders is an enigma to us. Will we ever learn the true Irri story? Was it because with Rakkaro’s actor bowing out they saw nowhere to go with the character? Did they want to decongest the later years of Dany’s journey and simply do fan service by having the characters appear for a season or two?

We may never know. To put a fine point on it I don’t envy anyone working on this show at all. Your damned if you do and your damned if you don’t.

Tar Kidho:
Regardless of the reasons for killing them off, the loss of both handmaidens makes Dany’s storyline less ‘human’ and less entertaining to watch in my opinion. Since Emilia Clarke already was NOT my favourite actress to begin with, this doesn’t at all make me look forward to the Essos story arc in S03. Luckily there’s still the dragons…

I sort of get what you’re saying, if only because I moderately liked the characters as they were in the books, but let’s think of this from the perspective of D&D having to make a television show that works for a non-reading audience…

First, you’ve got the issue of the actors. The longer an actor sticks around, the more money they’re warranted contractually. Now I’m not saying I disliked either actress, or consider them greedy, or anything like that – I’m just saying that that’s how it goes. D&D obviously have a budget to work within.

So let’s look at the amount of named characters that would be traveling with Dany if a good portion of her supporting cast hadn’t been killed or written out of the show prior to (and including) season three (as per the books): Jorah, Doreah, Jhiqui, Rakharo/Kovarro, that one older Dothraki whose name I can’t recall (from the show), Missandei, Daario, and Selmy (seems Strong Belwas won’t be appearing in season three). That’s eight characters traveling with Dany, and that doesn’t include the characters specific to the location she’s in or the extras who make up the rest of her group.

And ultimately, D&D have to work within a budget, which casting is a significant part of. So the choice their faced with is to keep certain characters around, past the point of their relevance (Doreah, for example), or write them out after a period of time in order to introduce new characters more relevant to Dany’s immediate story line. This does more than save D&D a few bucks, though. What it really saves them is time. Scheduling for a small group of actors can be difficult enough to work out, and the more people you add into the mix, the more difficult it becomes.

The real time issue, though, is screen time. Each episode can only be so long, and that only gives them so much time to develop the plot and the characters. So do they keep some characters around who don’t particularly add anything to the two aforementioned elements, or do they make room for characters who can do both of those things and keep a television audience interested in the show? For example, Missandei will be an obvious replacement for Irri & Doreah, but she’ll also be used to develop whatever Free City they decide to introduce her in. Not only that, but she’ll also be able to help Dany develop as a character in ways that Irri & Doreah were never established to do.

And all that’s considering the actor you decide to keep around is able or wants to do so (Clive Mantle had scheduling issues and couldn’t appear in season two and now three, as a result; the actor who plays Rakharo decided to take a part in World War Z, and had to be written out).

So yeah, it sucks that the characters won’t be around, but I understand why the decision was made and agree with. Obviously television and novels are two different mediums, but what doesn’t seem so obvious to some (not saying it’s you, just speaking generally) is that they’re consumed in a much different way, with incredibly different sets of rules. Personally, I’d rather lose some minor characters than have them transposed into the place of a character introduced later down the line.

And I guess all of this is to say that D&D’s job is an aw(some)ful pain in the ass, and also that I’m just glad to be getting such a fantastic adaptation of one of my favorite book series, which may be why I tend to not be so much on the nit-picky side.

Wait, so betraying Dany by running off with Xaro wasn’t reason enough to have her locked in the vault?! Doreah deserved it regardless if she killed Irri or not. Glad this scene was removed to save the suspense.

The Red Viper,

Dany told her to bed people in Qarth to gain knowledge, it’s no wonder Doreah was lured by Xaro.

Brilliant Stills.
Love the shots of Khaleesi holding the imaginary dragons.

I’m grateful for GoT not revealing Irri’s killer as Doreah. She got her reward in the end
with she and Xaro being locked away, we know she was his accomplice. But to
murder Irri was better left to the Qarth goons.

Kissed By Fire has some great stuff, her site is interesting too.

Rygar,

Too many characters, mate

The Young Wolf: Treme

You mean the lesbo scene?

Ours is the Fury,

OK, true enough. I just knew it was Doreah who killed her, it was so obvious to me, that the official revelation didn’t come as surprise at all.

Do I really need to be reminded that Dany’s storyline is desperately trying to be fixed and in the process is even worse? RIP Doreah… you were cool enough in the book and in the show you are a dumb caricature of fiction cliche. POS stills.

Still upset over Irri’s death. Amrita was fantastic.

I found out why it was deleted because the producers ,or writers it does not say who decides where the story goes, but I found out they decided to keep the doreah betrayal, or non-betrayal storyline open so doreah “could” come back, if they were to kill off doreah, would they not behead here like everybody else? and not “kill” in a way that people like me say she could come back. you know what I mean? and the deleted scene was deleted because of that decision, so it is not canon. is they people who agree with me on this?
Lastly
Dany/doreah

i still think there a small chance she and xaro is alive……..lol i just have a feeling!.and they didn’t show what happened after they was lock in i know they might have die of thirst or starvation or xaro maybe ate poor doreah :’( i dont really think she meant to betray dany i think she had to or be killed……..i think anyone would of done the same if they was going to be kill or thinking they was after seeing all their friends dead(well not really their friends but u know what i meaning) and probably being told that your leader/khaleesi is dead.or maybe he told her if she sleep with him they would spare her and dany or something.just dont make sense to me she seem to of cared for the dragons and dany.i think it was cruel what dany did to her cause if they are dead xaro may have ate her to try to stay alive before dying also(i would even prefer dany beheading her something less cruel n quicker cause i know if shes dead she died a painful death.i think doreah had a hard life she was trying to survive and maybe even trying to save khaleesi.