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

What's left? The Hound "dying" and Arya going to Braavos (possibly where the Children of the Forest come in, too?). Tyrion offing Tywin. UnCat reveal (which looks to be the last shot) -- and I'm peeved that we STILL haven't gotten any dead Freys.

final episode is called "The Children" so will bran make it all the way to the tree? or run into coldhands? Something big has to break in zzzz dany's story. add Arya/Hound denouement, stoneheart, patricide and egress, *something* for Brienne and Pod, idk it starts snowballing into a lot of big moments.

i suppose timing wise the hound has to die this season but it is a shame that that will get lost in the shuffle somewhat.

Ep 9: Jon Snow and the Night's Watch face a big challenge.
Ep. 10: Circumstances change after an unexpected arrival from north of the Wall. Dany must face harsh realities. Bran learns more about his destiny. Tyrion sees the truth about his situation.

so i guess not much else happens ep9 but the battle still carries into the last ep. and bran meets the forest friends but i figure like 5 mins of screen time, immediate first encounter, no meeting tree dude etc. where is coldhands?! and lol at tyrion description.

Brienne and Pod -- if we get Stoneheart at the end of 9 instead of 10, is there enough time for them to get nabbed by the BWB and put on trial?

if they do that, which I wouldn't be surprised by really, that means they're just straight cutting the entirety of brienne's AFFC story which is kind of hilarious.

Dany may close out on Drogon killing that kid actually. No chance we won't be seeing grown dragons in the finale anyways.

good call, i was wondering what that might be

i wonder if there will be a book by the start of season 5 or if the show is actually going to go past the books in a meaningful way. shouldn't be bothered by that prospect but i guess i am.

aren't we essentially still in book 3 for the most part? so there's still 2 more books to mine for another season or 2 before GRRM has to catch up.

it kind of depends on how the show decides to deal with dorne and the iron islands stuff. like are they gonna fritter away half a season on completely new plots and characters? Or just cut euron and victarion entirely? I've already seen sand snake casting calls, so dorne is in, but I could see jettisoning everyone but "yara" as a v real prospect. and the more they cut the deeper into book 6 we are by late next season, I guess?

We're in book 3 for Tyrion's story, book 4 for brienne's, book 5 for Dany at the moment. It's all kinda relative.

they foreshadowed tywin getting capped when baelish tells robyn people die on chamberpots -- wondering if they'll have the spine to film tyrion killing shea in cold blood. that would be wicked

just working with existing material means that some storylines - sansa, bran - have to dramatically slowed down or suspended tho.

oh lol, good pick up on the chamber pot ref. i was actually pondering if they would let charles dance die on the loo.

i think there's at least a season there in the rest of 4&5 even cutting most of iron islands and brienne. tyrion's trip east, theon's redemption, all the fallout in kings landing from the lannisters' loss of control after tywin's death, etc

also whatever the hell arya does in essos, i forget all that but its there.

Yeah, lots of Queen vs. Queen stuff with the new High Septon (kind of an eerie premonition of Francis??) to deal with, too.

Arya trains to become a Faceless Man!

House of the Black and White, kissing skulls, eating worms, killing wayward Brothers of the Black.

next year might be comprised largely of Cersei v Margaery spy vs spy hijinks, for good or ill

Arya should get a spinoff

also sam gets it on. important stuff there.

Sam getting it on should get a spinoff

god those later books really are mostly just terrible aren't they

Yes.

theres some neat stuff in book 4 that's too low-key or tangential for the show to bother with. but yeah its mostly terrible.

like i actually found jaime's arc in book 4 to be really enjoyable but there's no action or anything. also theon's arc in 5 made me pretty happy for whatever reason.

I do hope they don't skip over the faith militant stuff, that seems irreplaceable and potentially v interesting well down the line.

eh, maybe i'm an optimist but i think most of what's less good about the later books (parallel plot branches, one-note POV characters who don't change our perception of them or the action; GRRM getting sloppy and leaning harder on stock phrases) is rectified by the episodic format of the show.

there is still a ton of material to cover. book 6 should be out before the show rubs up against it.

can see HBO taking this to the theaters LOTR style for Book 7 but i hope not.

yeah whatever their value as individual books there is still a ton of good material in there for the show to use.

yeah the catchphrase thing in book 5 for tyrion and theon (maybe others too?) was pretty obnoxious and i hope he drops it for book 6

I don't see him abandoning that kind of a writing crutch. :\

i love those loglines

Ep 9: Jon Snow and the Night's Watch face a big challenge.
Ep. 10: Circumstances change after an unexpected arrival from north of the Wall. Dany must face harsh realities. Bran learns more about his destiny. Tyrion sees the truth about his situation.

Jon Snow and the Night's Watch face a big challenge when Jon is invited to two weddings at the same time. Also, Daenerys accidentally loses her sexy neighbor's cat, and Tyrion is torn when he finds a winning lottery ticket on the sidewalk.

Game of Two and a Half Men.

the last episode being called "the children" could easily refer to:

- tyrion (considering what he's up to in that ep)
- dany's dragonz

it's definitely going to have the children of the forest because they were cast for this season

yes also we will prob see bones of a children ;_;

http://www.avclub.com/article/game-thrones-lena-headey-has-maybe-been-spoiling-s-205342

http://fansided.com/2014/06/04/game-thrones-season-5-casting-audition-video-obara-sand/?utm_source=FanSided&utm_medium=Network&utm_campaign=FS%20Widget

I got me mammothses :)

Lots to get through in the last ep. I'm guessing they'll be saving Jon becoming Lord Commander till next season.

They did pretty good justice to this battle- good ep overall.

So this means we're not gonna have that dreary electioneering subplot at the Wall, I hope?

Dreary? I loved the sneak election!

Me too! Politixxx!

I mean it's the Kingsmoot where it's more POLITICZZZZZZZ.

Kingsmoot was cool because they brought boxes of skulls and that one dude died after he blew the horn & when they cut him open it was like he had smoked 3 packs a day for 50 years

That was GRRM polishing a turd that is the Kingsmoot IMO.

Yeah but a dude blew a horn and then died because he blew the horn

a little cribbing from

http://michelenigro.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/rolandsoundshorn01-l.jpg

a little cribbing from yr mom more like