I think they can still make a season out of the written stuff. The curse of this series is that it seems to peak (so far) in book 3.. so yea it won't be as good, but there is still enough content to fill at least one more season before they have to dip into un written stuff. The John 'death' will probably be the best season ending cliffhanger to date. If he survives that long people must think, ok, this is one guy we can bank on. Nope. Nope... nooo ... noooooo n ooo o DAMN YOU MARTIN!!!!! Although I wouldn't mind seeing Kit Harrington get stabbed a few times with rusty knives.
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It will be interesting to see how the writers depart the show from the books as basically nothing happens in the story from this point on.
We'll get alot of the Iron born next season obviously. We'll get the slow trod to Winterfell. We'll get Tyrion fighting the greyscale apes. Hopefully John Connaughton will be completely cut out. And we'll get White Harbour. But in terms of big set pieces or tantalizing cliff hangers and intrigue, we're done for.
This is the show we're talking about, they left nothing to the imagination with Reek or Renly/Loras. They're literally going to make a scene of Manderly baking the 3 Freys into meat pies.
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I suppose we're at the point where the TV series transitions from "based on" the books, and instead starts to become "inspired by". Still plenty of good stuff to cover for some characters (Arya, mostly, and Tyrion), but they've already brought Bran's story to the end of the books -- no idea what they're going to do with that now.
It should still be largely well-made, well-acted, and well-written until the end, but I mean, Jesus, a kid lobbing fireballs!? That part felt like something you'd see on a late-night Bravo fantasy drama.
Not to mention unnecessary. Could have just had the hands come up from the snow if they wanted, didn't need the skeletons. Honestly a bunch of dead grasping hands would probably have been creepier. But I guess they felt they needed another fight scene...
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Michelle Fairley…confirmed that Catelyn’s Red Wedding death is her final one.
“The character’s dead,” Fairley says. “She’s dead.”
When asked if she was upset about Cat not getting her resurrection, [she said], “You respect the writers’ decision. I knew the arc, and that was it. They can’t stick to the books 100% It’s impossible — they only have 10 hours per season. They have got to keep it dramatic and exciting, and extraneous stuff along the way gets lost in order to maintain the quality of brilliant show.”
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Just finished all the books, after a few months of straight reading.
Obviously I'm waaaaaaaay behind, but how painful was A Feast For Crows?
I didn't think I was going to make it through.
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Just finished all the books, after a few months of straight reading.
Obviously I'm waaaaaaaay behind, but how painful was A Feast For Crows?
I didn't think I was going to make it through.
It depends upon which characters you like vs the ones you don't. That seems to define who likes which book.
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The worst part of AFFC was easily the Brienne chapters, so much time spent searching for characters we already knew she wouldn't find and nothing really noteworthy accomplished. The Cersei chapters were also too many and too long, they could have been shrunk down by half. But those are somewhat made up for with the Dorne and Arya chapters, but it's still the weakest book in the series
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Man what I wouldn't do to see this scene in the show through Brans visions:
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Man what I wouldn't do to see this scene in the show through Brans visions:
That would be so good!
The history of all the houses/famous knights/events really sets A Song of Ice and Fire apart.
I haven't read the Dunk and Egg books yet, which I imagine delve a little deeper into the histories, but when reading the Ice and Fire series, I constantly found myself reading wiki pages of all the houses/knights as they were introduced.
It would be great to see more played out in the show.
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Man what I wouldn't do to see this scene in the show through Brans visions:
Bran sees through Weirwood trees, which, if I am not mistaken, are only located in the North. The Tower of Joy was in Dorne I believe, so it wouldn't make sense for Bran to have this vision.
Bran sees through Weirwood trees, so far. Did Brynden Rivers get his other 1,000 eyes only through Weirwood trees? Perhaps he can pass something on to Bran. Hell, he may be able to see the whole scene POV through Ned for all we know.
Bran sees through Weirwood trees, which, if I am not mistaken, are only located in the North. The Tower of Joy was in Dorne I believe, so it wouldn't make sense for Bran to have this vision.
This could still be a way to put a lot more content into the series if they're worried about catching up to the books too quickly. Have an episode showing the First Men meeting the children of the forest, or Bran the Builder making the wall. There's a lot of stuff the books only mention in passing that would be awesome to see fleshed out in the series
