For fans of "Game of Thrones" who just watch TV and haven’t read the books, they were in for a huge shock with Sunday’s episode. Many characters were killed off during the "Red Wedding."

Being a fan of storytelling, I know that writers enjoy using large family events as a setting to move multiple story lines to their peaks. It’s a tool to wrap up sidelines and bring back a focus to the main story. The "Godfather" films are a great example. A daughter’s wedding, a baptism … everything comes together in a wonderful bloody mess.

Some fans were very emotional and went to Twitter to vent. They swore to never watch the show and would cause physical harm if they ran into writer and creator George R.R. Martin.

Martin told Entertainment Weekly the reasons behind killing off some of the main characters.

*Spoilers*

Martin said that the ruler of the North’s demise was intended to kill off expectations after the death of  Ned Stark, played by Sean Bean, in the first season.

"I killed Ned because everybody thinks he’s the hero and that, sure, he’s going to get into trouble, but then he’ll somehow get out of it," Martin said. "The next predictable thing is to think his eldest son is going to rise up and avenge his father. And everybody is going to expect that. So immediately [killing Robb] became the next thing I had to do."

The season finale is set for Sunday night on HBO.

OFF THE DESK: The trick about transformations for people in television, is that they often happen in the public eye.

As reporter Abe Lubetkin moved from evening reporter to weekend morning anchor, the transition was witnessed by the thousands who tune into broadcasts on WISN-TV Ch. 12. Now, his newest transition will be happening off screen.

"I'm going to work for Johnson Controls, where I'll be doing media and community relations. I start next week," Lubetkin said on Monday afternoon, after finishing his last morning shift at the station. He will be working for the Power Solutions division of Johnson Controls starting next week.

"Here in Milwaukee I've gotten to cover a wide range of stories, including the Act 10 controversy and the recall races that followed," Lubetkin said of his time spent as a general assignment reporter.

It was his background at other stations that prepared him for a spot with Sally Severson or Jeremy Nelson on the weekend morning shifts.

"I graduated from Brown and made an unusual move," Lubetkin said as he left Providence, Rhode Island and headed west to El Paso, Texas. "I spent two years at the ABC affiliate in El Paso (KVIA) reporting, anchoring and producing. I worked an overnight shift on the weekends, producing the weekend morning show, which I co-anchored."

As the weekend morning anchor, he would finish off his shift as a reporter and file reports for the evening newscasts.

"Working the Sunday morning shift, I was the first reporter from Channel 12 on the scene of the Sikh Temple shooting. I was struck by the kindness and composure of the Sikh community in the midst of that tragedy, and in the days, weeks and months that followed ," he said.