Game of Thrones [SPOILERS]

[Threash]

[Bunk]

So when does next season start?

[Arthur_Parker]

Most likely March/April 2014 at a guess.

Episode 10 was a bit odd, Asha Greyjoy is pretty far from the book version.

[Khaldun]

They've almost got me interested in Bran's story, which is saying something. Though it is really the most "classic high fantasy" choked of all the arcs in the books and now the series--the prophetic dreams, the reluctant heroes, the vulnerable travellers, marching into Mordor alone, etc.  I hope Martin has a big twist in store--say, that the Children of the Forest are almost as scary and pagan and sinister in their own way as the walkers.

[Arthur_Parker]

I expect the White Walkers are more misunderstood rather than evil.

[Khaldun]

The scene with Asha and her hand-picked asskickers going off to rescue Theon felt like it came out of something else entirely. It was kind of kickass, mind you, and at this point I think I'd welcome a change in Theon's storyline involving being rescued by her instead of being Reek for a whole season. But yeah, it was curious.

[eldaec]

Asha reports having led a rescue mission for Theon when talking to an uncle or similar in Feast. The ironborn are roaming the north so it makes sense for it to happen now, before Moat Cailin.

I'd be surprised if they manage to rescue him, as it would leave us without a character we understand in Bolton's camp. Ramsey's wedding is important for the impact it has elsewhere so Theon in that mix is more useful than Theon escaping to the iron islands, especially since he can identify Starks. Asha/Yara can carry the iron island story on her own.

I do imagine they'll make TV Theon angrier and less broken.

[Threash]

[Korachia]

 

[Samwise]

It's been more than twelve hours and I haven't seen a "dick in a box" joke yet.  You're slipping, Internet.

[Arthur_Parker]

It's been more than twelve hours and I haven't seen a "dick in a box" joke yet.  You're slipping, Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kvZIJlhp0

[Samwise]

Thank you.

[MediumHigh]

Dany storyline remains the weakest of the bunch....

[Cheddar]

Dany storyline remains the weakest of the bunch....

Just like the books.   

[Threash]

Sam is by far the weakest.  At least with Dany there is the occasional Emilia tits to look forward too.

[Khaldun]

I'm sure Sam has some tits under there to show if the occasion arises.

[MediumHigh]

Sam would be more interesting if GRRM wrote him with some base in his voice (especially after what he went through). But nope just a sniveling man-child, who is good enough only because he isn't Will Ferrell.

[Setanta]

Screw finishing the season with Dany - most boring ending ever :( Iwas hoping for the arrival of  but realised it was far to early ton end on that note.

Asha was a great addition and that scene could have made a great ending.

Other than that, I loved the Arya/Hound arc, regardless of how brief it was - the chemistry feels even better than the book.

[Arthur_Parker]

I like the Sam story, cowards make more interesting heros. 

[Merusk]

You're correct, sir.

Theon wasn't castrated in the books as I remember. Just flayed and fingers/ toes removed.  Guess he or his line dies off at some point in future books, no more Greyjoys from him and he's the last living son IIRC.

[Evil Elvis]

Theon wasn't castrated in the books as I remember. Just flayed and fingers/ toes removed.  Guess he or his line dies off at some point in future books, no more Greyjoys from him and he's the last living son IIRC.

He was, they were just more subtle about it in the book.

[Arthur_Parker]

Yeah, I remember picking that up.

[Khaldun]

Yeah, it's heavily implied in that really really squicky scene where Ramsay forces him to go down on Jeyne Poole. I really hope they accelerate Theon's escape so we don't get a whole season of Reekery.

[eldaec]

Its not too early for the thing setana spoilered.

It happened straight away but gets hidden for half a book.

I suspect they'll make Theon less Reeky (especially as there has been no Reek) rather than let him escape. I'm interested to see how Roose and Ramsey work in the same scene since they are both scarier than in the book, keeping Theon will help there. Also not sure why they'd want him escape before Jeyne arrives. The Yara scene is likely to have  been an easy way to involve Gemma Whelan in this season and a setup for the holding pattern the North is in until 2015 at least.

[Threash]

They can't accelerate Theon's story or they'll run out long before they have anything else for him to do.

[Khaldun]

The show runners did say that their current plan is to run for seven seasons and wrap it at that point.

So what that means to me is that they're going to deep-six a lot of Feast. (Let's hope.)

So I expect next season that we'll be well into Feast for a few arcs and we'll see significant changes to the most aimless or holding-pattern plot arcs. I don't expect Brienne to spend all season doing "your princess is in another castle", for example.

[Shannow]

The show runners did say that their current plan is to run for seven seasons and wrap it at that point.

I gotta say that seems rather ambitious.

Either that or they save the last part for .....Game of Thrones - The Movie.

[Threash]

Either they plan on making the ending up or have a break and do some prequels while fatass finishes the series.

[Hayduke]

Martin has already told the HBO writers how the series is supposed to end.  They can finish it without him.  It'd be better for it anyway.

[schild]

That season finale was shit.

Joffrey should be dead.

[Xerapis]

Naw, they couldn't kill the bitchking off yet.

They still have to intro all of Dorne and such.

Was expecting the intro of UnCat though.

Slave mosh pit was a lame ending compared to the last two seasons.

[Arthur_Parker]

I thought it was a safe and predictable ending to this year, which maybe after the craziness of episode 9 they were going for, here's the good true queen on her way to put right all the wrongs, but it did feel flat to me.

[eldaec]

It had a tonne of tyrion/Joffery, Tyrion/Sansa, Tyrion/Tywin, Tyrion/Cersei so I was content.

Bran foreshadowing pretty good, Arya's scene brought together the wandering in the rain and made it an arc, I kind of liked the letter to the greyjoys for how it foreshadows the letter at the end of dance.

[eldaec]

Regarding 7 seasons.

They can finish this in 7 seasons if Martin can finish in 2 more books, or if he gets hit by a bus.

Only one of those eventualities has a material chance of happening.

[MediumHigh]

Considering nothing has happened since book 3 plot wise, its kinda hard for me to imagine that 2 more books will finish the series....