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

yea littlefinger is playing ramsay when he says he doesnt know much about him, i think. bc while roose is pragmatic, cold and smart, ramsay is...none of those things (too much glee in his murder and depravity to be coldblooded), and it would prob be to baelish's benefit to have ramsay thinking he's just some sorta haughty ally of his father's

yeah ramsay is about as bright as joffrey

he has no impulse control, he would be a shitty 20c serial killer

miss littlefinger coldstoneheart

unless it's mixed with roasted direwolf or something

Don't forget roasted Theon dong.

miss littlefinger coldstone

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there are definitely things the show is doing better than the books in terms of moving the plot forward and adapting it for television...

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well, yeah

predicting that Sansa is assaulted or worse not by Ramsay but by his jilted ex

i dont understand why people think the latest season is "meandering" especially those who watch it as non-readers, for me it may not be the best season but is definitely the most concentrated, with the most momentum.

Do we think that Tyrion and Jorah will get captured like in the books? I would be disappointed if that didn't happen.

Like Tyrion was telling Jorah, I don't think Dany's going to be happy to see a former spy knocking on her door. And I don't think she's going to see the value in having Tyrion, at least not initially, so even more "wtf are you doing here Mormont".

xp some of the upcoming episode synopses more or less confirmed that - something like "tyrion and jorah come upon some slavers"

Oops! Misread/assumed wrong!

yes I am referring to the "riding the pig" parts

im guessing that storyline will proceed mostly as it has in the books, hopefully with some fat trimmed

still wondering wtf they do with the iron islands stuff. victarion & euron? yara? etc

I was re-watching some of the earlier seasons and took note of how for a while the show was drawing parallels between Theon and Tyrion: both youngest sons that are disappointments to their fathers and prefer fucking to fighting

Theon seemed to like both iirc! Kinda like Bronn.

He just wasn't very good at it.

still wondering wtf they do with the iron islands stuff. victarion & euron? yara? etc

this stuff is just not happening in the show. I'm sure they'll find a way to kill off Balon (he was in melisandre's leech prophecies on the show right?) and install Yara in his place or something to tie the islands plot off, but I don't think we're getting more than that.

Well near the end of last season, Yara says that she is going back to the mainland to rescue her little brother, so I'm guessing that part of the plot will happen and we will see her again

She said that after the first attempt?

Yeah she did that already and theon freaked out and she concluded that he isn't really theon anymore and placed out

*peaced out

wow i totally forgot that

Especially anticlimactic given the implied journey she went on.

xps clay i'm more or less ok with them severing the iron islands stuff if they end up doing so, largely bc euron seemed kinda comic-book-villainish by martin standards

evan did you start reading teh books are you qualified to be in this thread

she fought with Ramsey's dogs. It was early in season 4 and tbh pretty forgettable as it was not really related to the rest of the season in any way.

I am not qualified to be here except I figured why not given the show has essentially completely diverted.

yeah sloth the islands stuff was for me (outside of some of asha's sex posi narration and maybe the guy who liked to read a lot) the worst grind of the later books and seriously this show is gonna introduce jack sparrow this far along? If they're cutting stoneheart and aegon, well, sorry euron and your silly horn.

(Also shooting all those ship scenes would be prohibitively expensive.)

which one was aegon again?

rhaegar's and elia martell's child, who was supposedly beaten to death by the mountain but didn't die

i enjoyed that stuff in ADWD but its absence won't mess with the show much

right, and wasn't there some knight character that gets sent along to protect him?

And then there was some other Martell kid who is supposed to marry Dany and impress her but gets burnt to death by the dragons?

there are two boys right? not the same one?

yup. jon connington, briefly a hand of the king to aerys II the mad king.

other martell kid is quentyn (pours dornish red out for a dude) - him and aegon VI totally unaware of each other

fwiw aegon is prob not aegon

yup. jon connington, briefly a hand of the king to aerys II the mad king.

Jon Connington also notable for being gay for Rhaegar.

can't blame the guy basically everyone wanted to fuck the prince

With such beautiful hair and voice, it's no wonder!

damn, i did like aria martell as a character for reasons similar to what clay said about asha/yara greyjoy, oh well though

xxp wait...what? i mean male romance is far from unheard of in asoiaf but i don't remember that at all!

it's deffo subtextually implied his allegiance to the targ's isn't just an honor thing

obviously anything the show abandons has to be ultimately inconsequential and i am a little saddened by the sheer volume of inconsequential things. not surprised of course, but still it is kinda sucks to have read thru the books and thought, e.g. this oldtown stuff seems like it could be cool, and then while waiting for that to develop have some dudes take the plot from start to finish and dump that part in the garbage.

that is def the struggle, for every two inconsequential detours or characters there is def one sort of interesting one that will be sliced away

maybe they'll keep quentyn and send bronn and jamie off with him. kinda hard to believe that they would axe a sub-plot where a nice westerosi boy gets burned to death by dragons

just realized they kinda finessed varys and Tyrion thing whereas varys can quietly slither back to kings landing offscreen and do what he has to do in episode 10

what is varys's standing in the books w/r/t tywin's death and tyrion's escape? i made be remembering incorrectly but i feel like he is more definitely implicated in the show than the books.

pretty sure he plays a major role in the books too

jaime holds varys at knifepoint and coerces him into aiding the escape in the books. in the show, jaime lets him out and varys gets him to the ship and you don't see any interaction between jaime and varys

Quentyn wasn't even cast, I don't think.

With all the sudden focus on Lyanna and Rhae-Rhae, I'm wondering if the show runners are making a late push to lay the groundwork for R+L.