A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[DaShi]

Game of Thrones might not make any movements next season:

In what could be called a spoiler—offering advance knowledge of events that do not take place and characters that do not appear, and the surprise that you may have otherwise felt when things do not happen—Yahoo brings news that the next season of Game Of Thrones will be missing two characters, and one magic word. Kristian Nairn revealed that his current “Rave of Thrones” DJ tour of Australia won’t conflict with shooting on the fifth season, because neither his Hodor nor Hodor’s annoying backpack Bran are in it.

“We have a season off and we have a year’s hiatus, solely because I imagine our storyline is up to the end of the books,” Nairn said, acknowledging how their particular journey has already all but outpaced George R.R. Martin’s writing, leaving them with little to do until Martin spends another month filling a page with the word “Hodor.” Anyway, Nairn is happy about it, saying he gets the year off to DJ and “gallivant all over the world,” and even use complete sentences. And in the meantime, fans who need their Hodor fix need only turn to the Internet when ****’s slow. Somebody’s probably made a video of their dog saying “Hodor” or something.

http://www.avclub.com/article/next-season-game-thrones-will-be-missing-two-regul-208816

[Guynemer]

I saw the interview in question, and it is not clear at all who the "we" is that he's referring to. Might be Bran, might be Meera, might be all of them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That is good, because he is right that they've outpaced things in the Bran storyline because they jumped to close to the end of Book 5 at the end of the season.

[regexcellent]

I think it's all of them. Hempstead-Wright said in an interview that "they" (as in them and not him) are shooting all over. I assumed we'd be getting

Spoiler:

magic tree-o-vision discount flashback warehouse

from him. I'm a little disappointed we won't be.

The annoying thing is that's what they should have done with Asha Yara Greyjoy.

edit: quote in question

Collider: Isaac, are you excited for what is coming up on Game of Thrones?
HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT: Yeah. There’s certainly some more action stuff, rather than sitting down in various forests, all over Westeros.
Collider: When do you start shooting the new season?
HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT: They’re actually filming, at the moment.

[Dinner]

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/570628/20141024/winds-winter-release-date-george-martin-next.htm#.VE2z9GDn8v4

GRRM is blaming excessive travel and media interviews for the slow pace of progress writing the winds of winter. He also says he's tired of interviewers asking the same questions over and over.

[Lord Avalon]

So stay at home, stop giving interviews and write!

[Imran Siddiqui]

At this point, I think it'd be hilarious if he's already written the books in full and has given instructions that they are to be released after his death .

[Dinner]

Thatwould be evil.

[Lord Avalon]

The books would really sell, and he could spend a year or two dead for tax purposes.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[DinoDoc]

At this point, I think it'd be hilarious if he's already written the books in full and has given instructions that they are to be released after his death .

So they'll probably be released soon then. Unless he starts taking better care of himself anyway.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He'll outlive us all.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yep. Plot armor.

[rah]

He might out live the older one here, but not the younger ones.

[Bosh]

If you go and dig up some of his old speeches from his website you can see even way back 30 years ago that he got way into fandom stuff and attended a huge amount of cons, read stacks of fanzines, etc. I`m sure he`s spent hundreds of hours lurking on fan forums ovrr the years. He was also always a slow writer. During his first career before Armageddon Rag killed it he wrote way less words per year than these days, it just looked like more since it was mostly short stories. He seems to like being a writer more than actually writing **** and but he does have talent an does spend a lot of time revising stuff.