WindyNights

That didn't happen because they only said "When he told us this was going to happen". They never said on Stannis' orders Although I do think Stannis will be heading that way which is why I think he's going to beat the Boltons.

This doesn't make any sense to me because the prophecy isn't fulfilled. The point of the prophecy is to tell her when Drogo will return to her not when she'll bear a living child. If you want to count Drogon returning to her as Drogo returning to her then I have to say the prophecy was false. First she has to bear a living child for Drogo to return to her.

I believe there's an interview saying that GRRM had the prophecy in mind for Cersek from the beginning. Although if he didn't, I suppose GRRM wanted to deconstruct the Evil Queen from Snow White using Cersei.

Well it seems more like D & D made the decision to diverge rather than GRRM. D & D have twice gone on record saying that season 6 won't spoil TWOW aside from a few key elements. I'm guessing Jon's parentage is one of those things. Like Ellaria is a pretty peaceful person in the books and the Sand Snakes know now that Doran wants revenge the same as them so there would be no reason to kill him.

Believe me. The first episode contains no major spoilers for TWOW really. I can tell they're already making massive divergences from the source material.

@Shanna Well if you can hold out until tomorrow, you'll be good. Let's just say something is extremely mishandled in episode 1.

@Alayne I'll recommend some weed with that hard liquor.

Oh boy. Spoilers are out for the first episode and people are not going to be happy.

I assume people told him like Ashara's sister/ his aunt or even his dad.

So something I was thinking about but it still doesn't make sense that it was Brandon that slept with Ashara not Eddard. It's just that Edric Dayne thinks it was Ned who was Ashara's lover not Brandon so I'm not sure why they would lie about it unless they were in on Jon Snow's secret parentage which I find unlikely.

6 more days until season 6 starts, guys. Get disappointed I mean hyped.....for disappointment .....probably

Man, they really want this show to be done already. 7 episodes to take the throne and 6 episodes to defeat the Others?

From what I remember book Shae ran away from home because his dad was forcing himself on her as well as making her a scullion which is why Shae reacts so negatively when Tyrion tries to do the same And I believe the one time Shae tried to get him to stand up to his dad, Tyrion felt that he was being mocked and he slapped her for it Tyrion's sensitive to mockery

That's because Shae was acting for Tyrion. He only wanted him for money. He paid her to act like he wasn't a freak and pretend to love her. It's kind of on him if he fell for his own lie.

Here's the new trailer:

When I first started reading the books I kept thinking that Robb and Jon were virtually the same character. Honorable, kind, smart but then it hits you that there are some big differences between the two even in their intro scene. Robb is a lot warmer and optimistic than Jon who is cynical and sullen. Jon has a lot of issues with feeling inferior stemming from his bastardry. Robb doesn't. Rohb is warm to his men and Jon is more cold and distant like Ned. Robb loves Theon. Jon hates him. Robb doesn't engage in intrigue. Jon does. Funnily enough both Robb and Jon are oath-breakers.

I agree but they could've at least had tried to keep Richard Madden's face shaved. At least it would've made him look younger Anyways I would've probably cast younger for Robb and Jon and even Daenerys. Not even in season 1 could I believe they were 17. They all looked like they were in their mid 20's.

The idea that they could've done more with Robb with a different approach is on the money. Theyr should've focused more on Robb being a young boy trying to shoulder the responsibilities of a man and King. I would've liked more focus on his learning and adapting. One thing I wish had really made it in is his conversation with Cat right before the Red Wedding where he talks about the Mudds, his heir, what he thought being a king was about and where he stubbornly refuses to make peace with the Lannisters .

Jaime isn't the world's greatest jouster. At best he's a good one. And I wouldn't say he's greatest swordsman either as Barristan Selmy in his prime is his equal or better and Barristan finds some boy in Meereen who he thinks has the same potential as Jaime.

This was Aimee Richardson's response to the Sansa rape scene on her Tumblr when someone asked her about it:

According to GRRM, Littlefinger is the most different from his book counterpart in season 1. [ ]There's a short video on GRRM about LF: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MtYhmD2TZs0 Basically LF alternates between seeing Sansa as his could have been daugher with Cat, another piece to move around and Cat reborn.

Does he? I doubt it. He seemed like he pitied her more. And she still left him to die in the show.

Not sure why the Hound would want to help Arya. She left him there to die because he didn't try saving her mom.

That seems super unlikely. I'm pretty sure we're just going to see the Hound to the same degree that we saw him in AFFC as the gravedigger. Clegane-bowl has always been a dream because Cersei can't lose her trial unless you think GRRM is going to have the Mountain kill the Hound.

Those are obviously not going to be the same, but right there we have a lot we can reasonably expect. There's a ton the fandom suspects will happen, so (for example) we are not going to be terribly surprised if Dany ends the season with the Dothraki fighting united behind her. For the other stories, of course we are going to be spoiled on the broad strokes. Cersei's trial will have to be resolved and how she continues from there. That's a broad stroke that I think would be hard to work around. I'm of the mind that there won't be a ton of surprising stuff this season due to extensive fan speculation and them reaching back into books 4 and 5, but enough that we're going to be spoiled on some big things. I am resigned to it. Plus I don't trust the showrunners on this - of course they would want to scratch George's back while also convincing people that really, they can watch the show no matter how die-hard a book fan they are. Yeah but they've already been prepping us for a while that the show is going to get further and further from the books. This is confirmation of that. And I think it's noteworthy that they said there will be some key similarities rather than there will be some key differences. That strongly implies that there will be more differences than similarities. Also are we even doing a trial by combat in the show?