A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Imran Siddiqui]

Considering that a Stark may actually come out on top in the end, nothing too badly .

[Guynemer]

So has anyone pieced together what someone with the name Stark might have done to GRR at some point in the past?

Ate the last slice of pizza, the ****er.

[DinoDoc]

So has anyone pieced together what someone with the name Stark might have done to GRR at some point in the past?

[regexcellent]

Lots of people were speculating that Benjen Stark, Jon Snow, or Stannis Baratheon would wind up turning into the Night's King for various reasons.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well regardless of if it had in those instances or not, we are well past when those events could have happened.

[Guynemer]

I couldn't remember whether or not the Night's King had been mentioned on the show or not.

[Dinner]

Yeah, until this point the Night King was only mentioned in Nan's ghost stories and in Ygret's talk to Jon about the lore of the free folk (both already covered in the TV show so no spoiler needed).

[Imran Siddiqui]

So for the people who thought the random speculators were clutching at silly straws, can we count it as non-spoiler .

[Hauldren Collider]

The fact that he isn't one of the random people speculators on the interwebs thought he was.

[Imran Siddiqui]

What's new about the Night King? That he exists or that he turns kids into mini Others? We've had the stories told by Nan to Bran... and prophecies have a way of turning out to come true in the narrative structure of the books.

[Hauldren Collider]

The Night King part is what's new. Everyone already knew what happened to Craster's kids.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Technically it only spoilers the books if there was going to be some reveal that the Night King turns Craster's babies into baby Others (albeit that was a reasonable speculation of what happens to them).

[Hauldren Collider]

Night's King stuff is actually the show spoiling the books for once.

[regexcellent]

Yeesh people, use ****ing spoiler blocks when discussing the book. It shouldn't be that hard.

This stuff didn't appear in the books, it is new to us too.

[Guynemer]

I honestly don't see why this should matter, even if it is the Night's King.

Honestly, that synopsis was probably written by an intern or something, something that easily could have been confused or transposed from something else.