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

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.

they had to treeify bran asap before he got any taller

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/predicting-when-game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin-will-come-out-with-his-next-book/

jfc

I guess Tyrion is too much of a fan favorite for them to include the bit of him lying to Jaime about killing Joffrey

I was wondering about that.

the reveal about his first wife tysha seems like the more significant omission, i think that makes the following scenes make more sense

Yeah - this last ep would have benefited from 10 more minutes, I think

when they cut to tyrion for the first time at like 9.58 i was thinking "what the fuck is going on here"

Used to be worried about the series outpacing the books but now in a full blown panic after they accelerated Bran + Dany's storyline

They can probably get 2 seasons at most out of AFFC/DwD

Think the only logical choice would be to fully split off the TV series from the books and have them come out to different endings

they shd def do that anyway

Yeah it would be cool

Jon Snow becomes King of Westeros but he is trapped in the body of an owl and his attendants never know what he wants and always have to ask him yes or no questions to which he responds with one blink for yes two blinks for no

invent a scenario where varys and tyrion go to braavos and meet arya, and then have a whole holding season of those three getting into mischief

I guess Tyrion is too much of a fan favorite for them to include the bit of him lying to Jaime about killing Joffrey

but on that front, I thought the worst bit of whitewashing was having Shae try to stab him, and then him saying "I'm sorry" afterwards.

and blah blah noone cares about book/show whinging I know, but they need to stop cutting out backstory/motivations and leaving the big events the same. The Tysha story has been mentioned in the show, and the Jaime & Tyrion interlude before the trial by combat would have been a good place to do a reminder.

I agree with that but OTOH what we got was a good five minutes of the writers bashing Orson Scott Card, which was kind of hysterical

he's significantly more moral than in the books.

Yeah I find it a tad ironic that GRRM made this series partly through deflating a lot of swords and sorcery cliches but the TV series has pretty much gone on full steam ahead with wellworn TV tropes

they def were trying to sully tyrions rep as a good guy via killing shea but just gently

yeah i remember in seasons past when they made the tyrion-shae relationship seem more reciprocal wondering if it was going to make it that more devastating at the end or if it would kinda ruin it and i think it turned out the latter. was generally happy w/ the finale, thought the appearance of stannis' army north of the wall was handled fantastically, they're getting better at that kind of thing. surprised they didn't have lady stoneheart, it just seemed such an obvious 'holy shit' moment to wrap the finale on but i guess they like to keep a surprise on standby to drop early next season plus they've done so little to set it up. was laughing a little on the other thread where someone was saying 'nobody ever dies of infections' thinking 'just you wait' but then nope they off the hound a different way. loved that, in general like the deviations and think when they allow the characters to breathe and let scenes play out a little it really works and becomes nearly as good a show as some ppl think it is.