GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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The showrunners understandably have to trim some of the book fat and condense stuff in order to create a coherent show, but many of the changes have been downright unnecessary (the Shae-Tyrion dynamic, the relationship between Cersei and Lannister, The Mountain, the list goes on). It seems like they're taking greater artistic liberties as the show progresses.
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Surprised to read just now that the shot of the massed white walker army was 2 seasons ago.
This show is full of 'cock tease'. With the white walkers and the Dragons ( big shadow flying over King's Landing = only Bran's vision ) There is a point that the white walker's cannot advance until winter sets in, plus also they're WhiteWalkersnot White Runner's or White Cavalry. So they don't get anywhere quickly.
This show is full of 'cock tease'. With the white walkers and the Dragons ( big shadow flying over King's Landing = only Bran's vision ) There is a point that the white walker's cannot advance until winter sets in, plus also they're WhiteWalkersnot White Runner's or White Cavalry. So they don't get anywhere quickly.
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Wow, you can visually see how close they were to the first book and how it goes downhill from there.
As has been mentioned before I've gotten a little looser with book stuff since the finale. Part of this is because it's after the show so anyone hunting in this thread wants more than what the show has to offer, and also because the last episode was a bit confusing and had some omissions with Tyrion that I think people should know about. I'll probably continue to not hit people for posting innocent stuff until people start dropping hints about the next season.
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Cybsled
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This. Book 4 and 5, while expansive, are rather meandering. You've got some good plot material for some characters, but for others not so much. A lot of S5 and S6 is going to hinge HEAVILY on how finished book 6 is.
Right. While more plot in the books satisfies that lore itch, a lot of it is similar to LOTR and them busting into poem/song every other damn page is a drag on the story. Visual storytelling is much different than the page. With the page, you need to describe the world enough so the mind can paint a picture. With visual, they paint the picture for you already, thus you need to fill it with the "core" story. Unless you are Tree of Life, in which case you just put pretty looking shit on the screen.
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So gathering from this, will season 5 be a mix of book 4 and 5? Do you think it will cover most/all of both?
Several characters (e.g. Bran/Sansa) are 0-2 scenes away from being ahead of their chapters in Book 5; others like Dany are 3-4; so yeah, I expect season 5 to almost entirely cover the books and possibly even some parts of Book 6.
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So what's up with that other thread? Seems like a bunch of dudes pretending to each other that they haven't read the books or spoiler sites yet.
WHY IS THIS FARCE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE?
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It will probably cover almost everything left from books 4-5 and start digging pretty deep in to future stuff.
And it will be awesome. Because the show is awesome.
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I feel like Cersei loves her kids, but she loves them best for what they can do for her.
As for what happened to her friend after the prophesy tween Cersei murdered her for daring to say she wanted to marry Jaime. Bitch was completely crazy starting at a young age.
I expect next season to cover all of 4 and 5.
As for what happened to her friend after the prophesy tween Cersei murdered her for daring to say she wanted to marry Jaime. Bitch was completely crazy starting at a young age.
I expect next season to cover all of 4 and 5.
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It's easy to think that since the victarion shit is out but Affc+Adwd is fucking massive. They had to split book 3 into 2 seasons, theres no doubt they'll have plenty of material for s5 just with AFFC.
They've already made casting calls for the Dorne Shit (including Areo Hotah and a new Myrcella) so thats like a third of a season right there alone. Theyve also cast for the High Sparrow and Septa Unella so we'll see the rise of the Poor Fellows and the Faith Milititant uprising because of Cersei's partying--that's another half season just developing the rise of the abused peasantry that the show spent so much time building up in S3 during Hound+Arya's road trip.
I suspect we'll see some housekeeping scenes for Sansa, a little jon+stannis at the wall and some maintenance shit with Dany and trystane but most the season will be dorne+high sparrow uprising. They'll get Margaery arrested as the omfg mid-season and then maybe end with cersei's walk-of-shame/ungregor intro and arya going blind.
They've already made casting calls for the Dorne Shit (including Areo Hotah and a new Myrcella) so thats like a third of a season right there alone. Theyve also cast for the High Sparrow and Septa Unella so we'll see the rise of the Poor Fellows and the Faith Milititant uprising because of Cersei's partying--that's another half season just developing the rise of the abused peasantry that the show spent so much time building up in S3 during Hound+Arya's road trip.
I suspect we'll see some housekeeping scenes for Sansa, a little jon+stannis at the wall and some maintenance shit with Dany and trystane but most the season will be dorne+high sparrow uprising. They'll get Margaery arrested as the omfg mid-season and then maybe end with cersei's walk-of-shame/ungregor intro and arya going blind.
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They have to use both books because main characters appear in 4, but not 5, and vice versa. Considering Bran and Sansa are already at the extent of their written material for the most part, starting next year we are going to be dipping into uncharted territory. 4 and 5 still aren't meaty enough to support 2 full seasons, though.
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Isn't number 2 completely wrong? Each book is a year or more in time. This is medieval times... travel and sieges took forever. They even mention how much time has passed in some of the small council meetings.