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Originally Posted by Matata
I really hope they come back to this and explain it better. It's not like someone got unlucky, they were deliberate and brutal murders in full view of the crowd. There should have been nobles brawling in the stands and calls to war. All it took in the original GoT was for Catelyn to arrest Tyrion.
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The entire universe, thus far, seems to be motivated by grudges. In GoT it seemed like every character was more concerned with revenge than actually accomplishing anything. People wanted to get into powerful positions just to enact revenge.
Just going through some wikis on the internet, it does look like "melees" were quite common:
https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Tournament
It was still kind of a big deal when someone died in a melee, particularly a highborn person. Some Melee were especially bloody, like the ones that resulted in people getting chosen for the King's Guard. This was probably so, as you had a bunch of low born people fighting for the chance to have a prestigious position. In this one two people died over the course of a week, and it was considered one of the most bloody ever:
https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.ph...e_White_Cloaks
As for this latest episode, I'm going to agree with other posters and chalk it up to the writers wanting an excuse to show more violence.