GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Maester Chuk_sl said:

i dont know how true that is, if you look at it as only introducing characters that matter, then are we supposed to believe that everyone new this season will matter and that all the unkilled characters this far matter as well?

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All of book 4 all of 2 things happen. Cersei fucks up and re-establishes the faith militant and fucks her self in the process, and Dorne's master plan is revealed. Everything else is fluff. Arya's training, cool, shoulda stuck with the 5 year gap bro cus she's done for the next 3 books before she's ready to do anything. Who else is in book 4? oh right nothing else happens.

Cersei's story is being presented this season we know, including her walk of shame, and so is dorne's master plan. In the books it takes a book and a half (4 & 5) for Ariane to be a uppity cunt and try to crown myrcella which immediately backfires. then 90% of a book her whining about it and the sandsnakes being imprisoned, then Dorian revealing that they are going to ally with Dany and conquer westeros via a marriage pack with Quentyn. Before they find out that shit didn't work out Arianne has already decided being an uppity cunt was fun last time and decides to completely undo her father's master plan and is going to woo Faegon, try to take over, and get his/her shit pushed in and die to Dany.

With only 2 seasons left for the entire series after season 5 they've trimmed all the extraneous fluff. they've aged Mycella and Trystane up. Ellaria Sand (character TV audience already knows) is initially Arianne in this version and she is the one wanting vengence for her dead lover Oberyn (character tv audience already knows) and will be the one crowning Myrcella and having her wed Trystane. Dorian may have a master plan to wed Trystane to Dany and Ellaria will fuck it up. insert romeo/juliet type story for the two young lovers. Trystane plays Aegon's role, Myrcella plays Arianne's in the coming winds of winter spoiler (late season 5/early season 6). Arianne/Aegon equivalents still get to die just as they will in the novels. minor changes. Dorian's son (trystane this time) still gets to die, his plan still fails due to his family fucking shit up. Also Myrcella also still gets to die (as that's her ultimate fate in the novels as well) it just plays out differently condensed for TV viewing audience with existing characters they are already familiar with.

TLDR: Book Version, Dorne's plan is to ally with Dany but it gets fucked up and they ally with a pretender who dany ends up having to defeat before she can take the throne.
TLDR: TV Version, Dorne's plan is to ally with Dany but it gets fucked up and they ally with a pretender who dany ends up having to defeat before she can take the throne.

Does Ellaria sand actually matter? no, but then again neither does Arianne except as a antagonist (or protaganist if your prefer) to Dany's conquest. The same is true as Faegon or any other late addition characters GRRM added when he decided he didn't like writing books anymore.

+1 for being unhappy that the Iron Islands are getting skipped. I thought all the stuff with Victarion, Euron and Aeron was the best parts of those books. Plus Asha is hot in ways I'm not comfortable with.