HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

if GRRM is smart he will put out the next book just ahead of the next season and make a bajillion more dollars

we don't really believe stannis is dead, right? it doesn't make sense to do the cut-away just to reveal that yes, actually he did die there we just didn't feel like showing it

xpost I'm kidding. It's not actually a spoiler anymore, but book readers have apparently being speculating for 10 years about who actually wrote a letter supposedly from Ramsey that Jon received right before he died. It said something like "My army has destroyed Stannis' army. I demand you hand over the lady Melissandre. Also my wife and my Reek are missing, give them back to me." After last night it seems likely that Ramsey actually sent it.

stannis is dead. haven't you seen enough gore?

are we allowed to speculate openly about Jon now? I'm curious if in addition to wolves he might have other...affinities...that only one other character has shown.

maybe he'll come back next season as the dreaded Ser Stoneheart

worgs into wolves, has Hodor-sized cock

^^^exactly

i hope Davos sticks around, i like him. maybe there will be more adventures w/him and melisandre, havent had one of those since the renly takedown in s2.

also re stannis, why'd they rush out to confirm that kit isn't going to be in the next season, that jon is 100% for sure dead, and then not discuss stannis. i'm telling u it's very suspicious he is still alive i believe stannis 4eva.

After learning a few more spoilers today (nothing massive but I probably shouldn't have read Arya's wiki entry) I realise it really isn't safe for me even though I already knew some other bigger spoilers that haven't been on the tv show.

he gets sent elsewhere in the books and gets "entrusted" with another mission. pretty sure Davos will return next season.

xxp - do you think that at the moment Brienne is gonna kill stannis, sansa and theon appear and disrupt the execution?

are we up to speed now w/the books?

no but i think brienne is not exactly trustworthy to carry out a cold-blooded execution

They should have somehow engineered it so that Sansa and Theon land on her as she's about to land the final blow.

i do wonder about the possibility of characters being brought back because that whole deal in season 3 w/beric and his crew would be a really, really odd side story to not bring back. i assume in the books it was used as a tablesetter for lady stoneheart?

an odd story to not revisit, i should say

still don't get why anyone would think Renly had a right to be king

bc he was kind to them and they were an ugly duckling

because everyone hates Stannis basically

he does have the exasperated look of a sitcom patriarch

Book SPOILER: Most of book four especially takes place in the Riverlands, in the region most harmed by the War of Kings, and while Beric and crew doesn't play a big role, they loom heavily over the proceedings. Show has removed all those stories, thereby also removing the most potent thematic layer in the whole series, kinda.

xp if max wright had set fire to andrea elson on ALF

sacrifices his daughter to the lord of light and STILL he can't beat the boltons, nothing goes right for this poor guy!

The disappointment of saving a daughter for years waiting for the perfect moment, only for it to be a waste.

cersei's new golden guy going to have some good storylines, I know it.

looked to have a real bad hypertension problem going on underneath that helmet.

i think the mountain zombie does indicate that Jon Snow might also return from the dead

and then they can fight

why is mountainstein any evidence? You're already got the lord of light extra lives cheat code. No need to look beyond that.

Also Jon may have a cousin who burned herself up and came back with dragons

I'll accept Jon Snow coming back to 'life' only if it is as a wight

just narrative proximity.

i hope joffrey comes back

Do we know Robert Baratheon is dead? It didn't happen onscreen.

next season should just be all the dead characters wandering around in purgatory

"oh, you're dead too?"
'well, I might be reincarnated as a wolf, not sure yet"

It was honestly really weird that they didn't show Stannis dying, not least since they showed his moral downfall in such detail.

Ok I can buy that Stannis telling Brienne to "Do you duty" reminded her of her duty to protect Sansa. And that she decides to keep Stannis alive to trade him for Sansa.

peggy killed stannis.

Or, they just decided to choose the POV angle for his death blow? Is that so ridiculous? Why all the denial?

Stannis sent off to recuperate with The Hound and Benjen Stark and Catelyn's uncle and gendry. Can't wait for that B-team to step up in season 8.

he does have the exasperated look of a sitcom patriarch

― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:48

My favourite post today.

Or, they just decided to choose the POV angle for his death blow? Is that so ridiculous? Why all the denial?

bc in genre fiction if you don't see the person die you better believe they're still alive

>next season should just be all the dead characters wandering around in purgatory

MAYBE THIS *IS* WHAT WE ARE WATCHING!

nb it could very well be that this is another one of GOT's genre defying moments just to screw with the audience, but any genre savvy watcher/reader is going to skeptical of a death that isn't shown

Do we know Robert Baratheon is dead? It didn't happen onscreen.

― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, June 15, 2015 4:40 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i guess i could break down exactly why stannis dying here is different than robert dying in season one (i can think of like four reasons off the top of my head) but if you don't get the feeling that the quick camera break away was concealing some narrative trickery than i'm probably not going to convince you

Didn't King Robert have a funeral with the body there?