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

season 4 trial drama: "I mean if you think about it technically the children were abusing the first men..."

law & mordor

Kinda morbid wish is that I hope they give Aemon a good death in the show before Peter 'Grouty' Vaughan has to stop appearing for any reason. So great to see pros over 90 in shows this big.

not to mention actual targaryens!

law & mordor

Law & Hodor, surely?

HO-DOR, dun-dun dun-dun-DUUUUUN.

its so ad&d the child of the forest was casting magic missile

this is awesome

http://i.imgur.com/ZpJMTNf.jpg

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

. . . the heat lost on father's day too . . .

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11108354/jason-whitlock-lebron-james-do

This is a GOT spoiler thread, not an NBA spoiler omg.

you have to admit the resemblance is a little hmm.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/24/who-died-and-made-you-khaleesi-privilege-white-saviors-and-the-elusive-male-feminist-who-doesn-t-suck.html

There are like a million threads I could put this on but I'll do it here for the GoT aspects

Think Mance-in-deep is another example, had him pegged as a Kurtz until we met him

Wondering if we'll ever see a powerful faction that isn't headed by Westerosi or ex-Westerosi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVfIFrpslI

Wow. I want an entire episode edited in that style

GRRM's response to anyone who says he won't complete the series:

http://i.imgur.com/bL9FKGM.gif

Don't recognize him without his hat.

Recognize him now?

http://www.dorkadia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/youngGRRM.jpg

The Fun Shirts thread is that way itt "FUN SHIRTS"

Internet seems convinced that Arianne isn't going to be cast??

how it looks. also appears no lady stoneheart though i still think they might be leaking hints at that as a means of throwing ppl who've read the books off.

Maybe they've just dropped Stoneheart? Big WTF moment in the books that has amounted to exactly nothing.

we're also not exactly presently acquainted with the legions of frey's she's stringing up. in the book we at least have passing familiarity with several. my best guess at this point is they're leaving her out, maybe giving her plot just straight to beric dondarrion who is still around in the show i guess?

yeah it wouldn't be hard to leave her out and they may feel they've addressed that enough in passing already. still it was such a huge 'holy shit' moment that i thought they wouldn't be able resist and then when it didn't figure in the finale i guessed they were saving it as there early season 'omg', a la joffrey last year and some other things i'm sure i'm forgetting.

it kinda makes sense, particularly if they're gonna do the jon snow is dead + jon snow is (presumably) resurrected thing at some point. if they start killing people are bringing them back from the dead left and right it kinda kills the stakes to a degree for the viewing audience. the show's reputation is that they don't pull punches and zombie characters might feel like a pulled punch.

oh i didn't realise this was the spoilers thread. that's quite the opening post.

Haha, right at the top there? Yeah that got me too back in the day.

Prepare for the biggest head-exploding-in-shock moment "Game of Thrones" has ever served up.

Bran Stark and Hodor reportedly won't appear in "Game of Thrones" next season. The two were a part of a major storyline from last season as they ventured beyond The Wall and met The Children.

In a recent interview with Yahoo, Kristian Nairn, who plays the silent Hodor, said that both he and Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran) won't be returning for Season 5.

"We have a season off and we have a year's hiatus, solely because I imagine our storyline is up to the end of the books," he said. "So, I get my year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world."

That's great that Hodor gets to keep busy DJing awesome raves, but seriously, what does this mean for "Game of Thrones"?! Dan Weiss and David Benioff couldn't have left their story at a more jarring point in Season 4.

HuffPost reached out to HBO, but the network declined to comment.

That's interesting, but hardly head-popping. I also don't think a lot of fans are going to be terribly disappointed, if this is a real thing.

Maybe in their place we'll be getting Rickon and Osha?

Bran is gonna be old as FUCK by the time they come back. Although I guess he is a tree now or whatever

They are waiting for enough advances to be made in CGI so that they can de-ageify actors

They are waiting for enough advances to be made in CGI the narrative so that they can de-ageify actors

We're probably gonna get more Dorne than anyone really wants.

Aw, I like Dorne. Better than the Iron Fucking Islands anyway.

No way I want to see Victarion's crazy squid helmet and tentacle cape.

Really both the Dornish and Ironborn plots in AFFC essentially come down to 'Yeah, we're sending a dude to get Dany'.

Dornish case was more, "We're sending a dude to get eaten by a dragon."

now shut up and eat your olives

or now shut up and drink your seawater

I'm quite intrigued as to what they'll do with the Dorne-plot. Because, yeah, the whole point of book four was that Oberyn had been sent to get Dany, but then book five followed him from much earlier on. Like, in a streamlined timeline he will only be revealed after he has already proposed to Dany. And an episode later he is eaten.

Just occurred to me that show only people have no idea she thinks of herself as 'Dany'.

I bet the way they do it, it will take way too long for that guy to be killed by the dragon. Plus there are a bunch of other sub-plots with the princess and the king's guard dude and the gout-y dad.

there has been no mention of Quentyn in the casting for the new season btw

Oh, Quentyn, that's right, Oberyn is his uncle. Man, I cannot remember who is who. Well, that puts a stop to what can happen in the Dany storyline this season. People will love that after all the excitement that was her in season four.

When do the zombies fight the dragons

All the dragons die of a surprise dragon virus on the way to fight the zombies at the start of book seven, the zombies wander around aimlessly in the North, remainder of the final book is Littlefinger, Lady Olenna and Prince Doran discussing heraldry atop the wall.

On the one hand I feel the zombie/dragon battle will be held to the last possible moment, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure he'll need a couple hundred pages to describe the courses at the victory feast.

don't forget the description of Dany's outfit and underclothes during the Dany/Jon Snow sex scene

Amidst all the liberties HBO's Game of Thrones has taken with the source material so far, and despite the promise that beloved characters alive in the books will die in the series, fans might have hoped that there was enough time not to spoil the novels. But we all saw this coming. In a recent appearance at the Oxford Union, showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff revealed that upcoming seasons of the show will have to start outpacing the books. That means that major developments author George R.R. Martin hasn't had time to write will show up onscreen first.

During the talk, Benioff reiterated that they've been talking with Martin about the story for years, and this was always a possibility. Still, it's a difficult move to make. "I kind of wish that there were some things we didn’t have to spoil," he said, "but we’re kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. The show must go on, and that’s what we’re going to do."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/23/8276911/game-of-thrones-hbo-dan-weiss-david-benioff-spoilers

they don't HAVE to spoil anything, they could stall with a season or two about rickon