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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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Totally agree. It's just, Sansa?
PsychoSoldier
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I sincerely doubt it. He's the lord of the Vale and has no loyalty to the Lannisters, especially if their position is as precarious as it appears to be.
The Freys and Balon are assumed to still be alive and doing things off screen. The viewer has that expectation in place when those characters return after an absence. The unspoiled viewer has no reason to believe that Catelyn has been running around still alive for the past three years, and if you reveal it now, there's nothing in the previous seasons that they could go back to and say "Oh I should've seen it coming!" It would feel 100% out of nowhere to them.
bitbydeath
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Freys and Lannisters are allies. The siege at Riverrun was about taking out the remaining Tullys
It was 100% out of no where in the books too, it occured in an epiliouge where Arya was first learning to Warg which also hasn't occured yet in the show either.
Maybe her going blind will kickstart that ability.
Maybe her going blind will kickstart that ability.
FootballFan
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Including Lady Stoneheart would not have ruined Jon`s revival
Remember that when LSH comes back she is not the same anymore, "She hates" ,the anticipation would have been to see how 'damaged' Jon would be after coming back. LSH would have set the standard as an undead ruthless killer and people would anticipate the same for Jon I assume.
Remember that when LSH comes back she is not the same anymore, "She hates" ,the anticipation would have been to see how 'damaged' Jon would be after coming back. LSH would have set the standard as an undead ruthless killer and people would anticipate the same for Jon I assume.
That was only a handful of chapters after her death though. The show would've had to bring her back in 310 to make it work exactly like in the book. Once they decided to omit that and delay any reveal beyond that point, they had a bigger storytelling burden necessary to sell the resurrection, and they haven't done that work at all. Maybe they'll do it anyway, I just think it would be a bad idea at this point, given the decisions they made in seasons 3-5.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
nobody remembers beric dondarrion
I remember his actor reciting his dialogue like he just picked up the script 5 minutes before.
bitbydeath
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We'll have to wait and see but even George said she is a major character that should be on the show.
http://whatculture.com/tv/george-r-r-martin-wants-lady-stoneheart-on-game-of-thrones
I read that spoiler as the "Lannister's lay siege on Riverrun", and thought something must have happened this year to precipitate a falling out. The Lannister's arriving to support Frey makes more sense than that.
FootballFan
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i remember but you are right the show runners are at fault here for not making these character 'stick out'
season 1 beric or the later more bearded version?
Dash_Riprock
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That would literally be the shittest thing ever.
Basileus777
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It wouldn't even be the shittiest thing they've done with Sansa.
Season 3
FootballFan
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don't know if i brought this up before but is there any fear out there that the show and reactions to its content by the masses impacts how GRRM writes his material, as in would he change his original plans in order to appease readers?
He's addressed this many times. It doesn't.
FootballFan
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thanks
Well not that of course, but wherever LSH was the catalyst Sansa will be instead.
Like from trailers, previews and leaks from set (somewhat big spoilers)
we know Brienne saves Sansa and Theon, we also know she ends up in the Riverlands, Sansa probably doesn't attempt to hang Brienne but she will send her to the Riverlands somehow, Brienne's only "duty" lies with Sansa now, there is no other possible reason for Brienne to go there if not for Sansa's orders.
bitbydeath
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She got off easy compared to Jeyne Pool though.
Cpt.Underpants
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Nice
HowardRoark
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Okay, I'm pretty excited. Well done HBO.
Cpt.Underpants
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Hard to tell who's who really. In the books each of the kingsguard has his own unique flair to tell one apart. Neither of the knights in the trailer shown anything unique except one kingsguard dual wielding
Lactose_Intolerant
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Bran goes to the White Walkers' stronghold where they changed that baby. Well, he dreams it.
So dual-wielding Arthur Dayne is going to be the book-purist freak-out moment for this season, isn't it?
I guess he left Dawn at Starfall.
I mean, I can understand why they won't just throw in a cool big ass sword into a TV show just for fan service. People will want to see it again and it probably isn't important. A mention of where the Morning Sword left his morning sword would be nice.
I mean, I can understand why they won't just throw in a cool big ass sword into a TV show just for fan service. People will want to see it again and it probably isn't important. A mention of where the Morning Sword left his morning sword would be nice.
"And now it begins."
"Now it ends."
So uncivilised.
I know! Guess we'll get a small snippet of it for this season.
Cpt.Underpants
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Kinda thought they've abandoned Dorne entirely then Elaria pops in the teaser
The wait is unbearable, I am looking for any glimmer of hope that Jon is brought back.
Lactose_Intolerant
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She's going to get beheaded. I doubt they spend more than 5 minutes in Dorne in the whole season.
Or will they do one of those Spanish soap opera reveals where all the sand snakes just appear in the hallway and were working with Dorann all along?
Lol, the idea that they're just going to execute Ellaria and cut off the Dorne plot there is just wishful thinking. They will find some way to weasel Doran out of his threat to kill her and keep those characters going.
You want to use that ax, but you need the bad pussy.
bitbydeath
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I'm sure Cersei will want a lot more than just Ellarias head, will likely be all out war with them.
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