A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[DinoDoc]

Season 6 won't air until April 2016 so if GRRM gets the manuscript finished by Nov-Dec 2015 they could publish it and have it on shelves by Feb-Mar of 2016 and beat the season 6 air date.

I am still hopeful.

Hope is but the first step on the road to disappointment.

[Guynemer]

So here is a good link with speculation:

Spoiler:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...reyjoys-tarlys

I am interested in the young Ned, young Robert, and young Brandon flashback speculation. Wonder if we'll run into young Cat and young Littlefinger as well in those. The Septon Meribald also seems to indicate that Brienne retreats to the Riverlands for some reason - in the books that's where she was, but in the show she's up North. Tarly's = Oldtown and it'd be fun to see that location in the show

I think it far more likely that

Spoiler:

Sam encounters him on his trek overland to Oldtown; stops off at Quiet Isle and Horn Hill on the way.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He's not going to want to stop there, but I did think of something else:

Spoiler:

Apparently Kevan Lannister named Lord Tarly to Tommen's Small Council, as Master of Laws, after the Walk of Shame. The family could be there as part of the King's Landing crew.

[Guynemer]

hmmmm, didn't consider that.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Current plot holes that are bothering me-

1- Have the Dothraki been ethnically cleansed? I know they were crap, and I really don't miss people endlessly banging on about horses constantly, but they seem to have abruptly vanished. True- there weren't many left with Perkytits, but they were still there, and surely as her oldest retainers they'd have positions of influence around her? But nooooooooo. As soon as the Unbollocked were introduced as her Instant Army, they were never mentioned again.

2- Where the hell are Osha and the spare Stark kid that nobody remembers? The kid was fairly pointless, but Osha was the strongest female role in the entire show- probably the only one that stands up to serious feminist analysis. Angela Carter would have loved Osha, and she was played by a great, charismatic actress in Natalia Tena. But it looks like we're going to rack up another Osha-free season.

3- What about that bunch of rogue knights headed by Dennis Pennis and the beardy one who had the resurrection thing going on? It's a crap plot device, but not one you just introduce and then abandon. Where are they hiding?

4- What's Varys up to? If they just abandon one of the most interesting characters as a loose plot thread I'm going to be sorely vexed.

5- Now that he's not at death's door any more, are we going to see Wilko Johnson back again as the world's most terrifying executioner?

[Imran Siddiqui]

1. They are still around. Note, none of the cities we are talking about are really around the Dothraki Sea (Meereen is the closest but still a little bit away)
2. They took a break this season because Bran's storyline last season matched where his storyline ended in the books.
3. The show has decided to not discuss them again because... I dunno.
4. Who knows... he's doing something different than he was in the books, but in the books he disappeared for 2 books until he did the most badass thing in the entire series.
5. Likely not, but who knows.

[Guynemer]

Yeah, if you look closely there are still a handful of Dothraki around Dany. None of them speak, of course.

Varys will definitely return, hopefully in the same manner he did in the novels.

No idea as for the rest of it.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

1. They are still around. Note, none of the cities we are talking about are really around the Dothraki Sea (Meereen is the closest but still a little bit away)

I'm talking about the ones that stayed with Perkytits. Can't see why they'd have just stayed unannounced in any given city.

2. They took a break this season because Bran's storyline last season matched where his storyline ended in the books.

They took a break last season too. They haven't been seen since the end of season 3.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm talking about the ones that stayed with Perkytits. Can't see why they'd have just stayed unannounced in any given city.

As Guy said, they are around Dany. There were only a handful to begin with when she entered Qarth.

They took a break last season too. They haven't been seen since the end of season 3.

Nope. Bran's storyline went through Season 4. The Season Finale of S4 was when Bran from the Greenseer.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I'm not talking about Bran. I'm talking about the younger one. And he's definitely not shown up since season 3, along with Natalia Tena.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, Rickon. Well, yeah, he's not going to be around for a while. He hasn't been around in the books either.

[Guynemer]

They just released the title for the final episode

Spoiler:

Mother's Mercy

That could refer to... well, just so very many things.

[rah]

Oh, Rickon. Well, yeah, he's not going to be around for a while. He hasn't been around in the books either.

I thought she was taking him to castle black. Should have been there by now

[Guynemer]

I thought she was taking him to castle black. Should have been there by now

In the show, she was taking him to Last Hearth, home of the Umbers.

[rah]

I guess that shows how much I cared about that story line.