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

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

I'm probably the only person who got into the Ironborn stuff and thought Dorne was a big sandy snooze

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/when-i-started-writing-game-thrones-i-didnt-know-w-292

Whyyyy?

No LS?

THANKS OBAMA

the motherfuckers played us like yo yo ma

lol

I'm not really that pissed, but it's kinda jarring and baffling that they didn't use such a ready-made cliffhanger "Wow!" moment.

Guess they wanted to wait until next season for it. That or it was hard to get MF for some reason.

It was weird. We were half joking 'well it's the epilogue so maybe after the credits' but no.

Otherwise it was actually a great episode! Loved the Harryhausen-style skeleton wights.

I mean THANK GOD they fast-forwarded Bran's story

I AM SHOCKED.

LIKE THIS IS THE MOST SURPRISING THING D&D COULD'VE DONE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

Maybe NOW we'll get dead Freys?

lol by NOW I mean next year.