A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

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I'm hoping this season they actually portray Stannis as the awesome badass that he is, instead of morally bankrupt. I think David and David really hate him or something. Stannis for King of Westeros. Stannis the Mannis.

It would seem he is going to Braavos, probably so he has something to do before showing up and saving the day. Maybe he will treat with the Iron Bank.

[DinoDoc]

Braavos!

Wrong network.

[Guynemer]

Braavos!

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New season 4 trailer.

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http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/03/game-of-thrones-season-4-first-four-episode-descriptions-released.html

HBO just released episode descriptions of the first four episodes of the new season.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/06/big_boi_s_game_of_thrones_song_mother_of_dragons_stream_it_here_audio.html

Rapping about Game of Thrones?

[Ming]

Great stuff

[DinoDoc]

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The first ful trailer for season 4.

[Bosh]

There are some good indicators out there that Winds of Winter will be released in 2014.
A good friend of George R.R. Martin has said (most probably by accident) that George had one new episode almost finished.
He has also cleared up his schedule for the next coming months.
There is more.

So let's go with the 2014 release for Winds of Winter, and then a 2017 release for Dream of Spring (same 3 year gap)
Then we have:
2014: Season 4: Book 3b / Book 6 released
2015: Season 5: Book 4/5
2016: Season 6: Book 6
2017: Season 7: Book 7 / Book 7 released

If HBO decides to split Book 4/5 somehow into 2 seasons (2015 book 4a/5a, 2016 book 4b/5b) then we're certainly safe. It's also possible that book 6 needs 2 seasons, or book 4/5/6 need 3 seasons in total.

If the rumors are true, and Winds is indeed released in 2014 and Martin can manage the release the last book in 2017, then we're looking at a photo finish between book and series. (And of course Martin can then already spill the beans to HBO while writing, so that the last season is in line with the book)

I absolutely certainly hope to finish the books for the series.
I doubt that it'll be possible to not spoil myself while waiting for the books while the series are already finished....

Really really doubt they can cram two whole books into one Season, no matter how much they cut. I think it'll go more like this:
Season 4: finish Book 3, do a bit of Books 4/5 for some of the plot threads that are running out of Book 3 content.
Season 5: finish Book 4, get to about the fighting pits scene in Book 5 with some fairly large deviations from book plotlines in some cases.
Season 6: finish book 5, do enough of book 6 to resolve the stuff being set up at the end of book 5.
Season 7: finish book 6 and either start in on book 7 or stop there.
Season 8: finish it up.

The showrunners have said they want 8 seasons if possible and I think the above is the set-up that makes the most sense in that light, especially since:

Spoiler:

they didn't merge Yunkai and Mereen into one city, the fact that we're going to have a campaign against Mereen and then only start a little bit of the Bunny Ears stuff leads me to think that they're not trying to compress book 4/5 massively enough to get it all into one season, as if they were planning that they'd want to start in on the Bunny Ears ASAP in order to plot through it but instead they're keeping Danny's campaign against Mereen.

[Colon™]

Yes, we all have read the books from start to finish.

[Robert]

HOLY BALLS

https://vine.co/v/h3j0E330FvQ

HER NAME WAS ELIA OF DORNE

That's the scene I'm looking forwards to the most.
I hope they included the continuing accusations of Oberon.

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This is the other season 4 teaser trailer they have released.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/game-of-thrones-season-4-trailer_n_4576278.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

There are actually five of those little mini trailers and they were released as a way to build up buzz for the first real season 4 trailer which comes out on the 12th of this month.

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Spoiler:

My name is Inigo Montoya Oberyn Martell, you killed my sister, prepare to die!

I cannot ****ing wait for that scene.