THE GAME OF THRONES/ASOIAF SPOILER THREAD (WARNING: SPOILERS)

Not if they introduce Stoneheart next episode- or if they've filmed ahead.

oh yeah i guess i was assuming it wouldn't be next episode but that would actually make perfect sense

Season cliffhanger is a toss up between zombie Cat and mammoths really.

DJP, my misread? I couldn't think of how to type that niggling concern sorry if it came out weird. It makes sense that a bastard can't claim a title on his own, but I thought Stannis would play it different, somehow. Something Arthurian. I guess getting your dick sucked for black magic was a pretty good consolation prize.

lol no, my misread of "the Martells are my boo(b)s"

(when in doubt, look for the labored dirty joke)

Good, I guessed right then. I must be learning to speak DJP after all.

final scene of seasons one and two have ended on a new intro to the supernatural in this world, so the reawakening of catelyn (plus giving new viewers a brief glimpse of hope and vengeance after last week's devastation) and closing out the dangling story of beric is pretty much inevitable in my mind.

I think it'd be strange, dramatically, to have her come back to life this coming ep, but we'll see. They've def. got to kill The Hound tho

I hope Littlefinger has arrived at the Eyrie, that'd be fun

Sandor is (almost certainly!) still alive in the books!

oh man final ep will be so great if littlefinger gets to eyrie

I thought he was stabbed a bunch and his fate uncertain

It's hinted that he's now one of the monks at a monastery that Brienne visits in AFFC

NFW does Lady Emphysema show up til next season

it makes a lot of sense tho. they find her just a couple days later right? and to have the reveal out solves the logistical problem of her continued participation. plus a great thing to toss in at the end of the season, while the scene with beric and thoros is relatively fresh in the memory.

it makes no sense dramatically. she needs to be dead and gone and the red wedding already a legend among the smallfolk for the reveal to have any punch.

i think after seeing her throat cut square on camera, having her come back to life the next episode would be fairly dramatic. and remember, it's not like on the page where you can feature her without revealing who she is.

410 Mhysa - Joffrey challenges Tywin. Bran tells a ghost story. In Dragonstone, mercy comes from strange quarters. Dany waits to see if she is a conqueror or a liberator.

not giving us much

altho, someone upthread reminded that mhysa means mother so, maybe?

i can't actually think of anything that happens on dragonstone in the books after the leech ritual but before jon gets back to the night's watch and they send out ravens for help

i've said my piece. happy to lay wagers. my money's on arya leaving the hound to die and our coldhands as our supernatural surprise.

oh and based on the summary you posted, maybe Davos becomes Stannis' Hand

not sure if coldhands is happening in the show, since the scene where he showed up in the book already happened and the bran scene in the ep10 synopsis should be the one where he meets sam

they're probably just moving up his appearance to next season

with stoneheart too it's like a week after she's dead that beric resurrects her. if they do it next year the viewer will see it as having been a lonnnnng time since she died and who's that guy with the eyepatch again? In the books we don't see the resurrection, we come across her long afterwards, but a tv audience won't accept that. ("Wait catelyn came back to life? Or she's a zombie now? i missed that episode!") So for it to work as serialized television it pretty much needs to be in the closing episode of this season, literally a week after the red wedding.

probably still training the elk

rip tyewing

i could believe them dumping the coldhands character wholesale but that would be a shame. tho, assuming coldhands is benjen, that's going to be a great reveal for the tv crowd. "omg, it's benjen! who the fuck is that??"

I thought Davos was already Stannis' Hand on the show? Sometime last season, right before the Battle of the Blackwater?

I agree that unveiling UnCat this soon is dramatically less potent, but the logistics (keeping Michelle Fairley under wraps being the biggest issue) all seem to point toward her coming in in the next episode.

Coldhands they could do like they did the Reeds by excluding his stuff with Sam and only include him escorting Bran + The Reeds to Third Eye Blind Raven.

It's probably not Benjen though! Unless he's decomposed beyond recognition, Bran should've been able to recognize him.

Sam said some stuff in the last episode implying he knew where the door was, making me think they're cutting coldhands. maybe let jojen guide them with his ~powers~ or something, b/c honestly they need to give the reed kids something to do, they've been useless thus far on the show.

am kinda looking forward to seeing that scene TV-ized, with everything getting scary and dramatic and bran freaking out and then sam's fat face pops out of the well

not sure if coldhands is happening in the show, since the scene where he showed up in the book already happened and the bran scene in the ep10 synopsis should be the one where he meets sam

― ciderpress, Wednesday, June 5, 2013

I dunno if he's happening either but I'm holding out hope and Team Bran crossing the wall would be the time for it to happen.

with stoneheart too it's like a week after she's dead that beric resurrects her. if they do it next year the viewer will see it as having been a lonnnnng time since she died and who's that guy with the eyepatch again? In the books we don't see the resurrection, we come across her long afterwards, but a tv audience won't accept that. ("Wait catelyn came back to life? Or she's a zombie now? i missed that episode!") So for it to work as serialized television it pretty much needs to be in the closing episode of this season, literally a week after the red wedding.

― Clay, Wednesday, June 5, 2013

you do realize you're talking about a 6-year cliffhanger right?

I agree that unveiling UnCat this soon is dramatically less potent, but the logistics (keeping Michelle Fairley under wraps being the biggest issue) all seem to point toward her coming in in the next episode.

given that the actual screen time she'll eat up will amount to a couple of flashbacks i think a pro operation can manage this but hey, that's why they play the games. my money's on this team to hang on to its shock-and-awe opportunities. i'll wager 108 sun salutes.

The six-year cliffhanger was the experience book-readers had when reading the books and in no way reflects how the vast majority of people consuming the television show will be experiencing that material.

they could maybe do the scene where arya wargs into nymeria and drags cat up on the shore w.out actually resurrecting her

^^ ENDORSE

i hope nymeria's still under contract

that have cast a totally different wolf to play her, they barely look alike

hi dere red viper

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so, hispanophone accents for ppl of rhoynar descent

Dorne -- like Baja, but side to side! (Kill me.)

that dude seems hella young for oberyn as i imagined him!

btw where do i claim my 5 on the "no stoneheart in finale" wager?

yes i was fully wrong about that, my apologies, cash is in the mail

yeah ro-mex, you called it. but i maintain the writers fucked up there.

^^^^

i assumed dorne was equivalent to spain/iberia. that seemed obviously what grrm was going for.

i believe its a wales-spain-palestine hybrid

Huh. Well I can't make those other two scan at all. Wales just because of the marches? And why Palestine?