A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Dinner]

Why don't the zombies just walk under water? It is not like they have to breath so they could go around the wall and just pop up on a beach south of the wall.

[rah]

Even though they didn't show it, I always assumed that eventually he got on one of the ships. I did wonder how that was accomplished though.
You figure that eventually the water got too deep for him to walk

[pchang]

They did show the giant wading into the water. Since they're from north of the wall, they must be adapted for the cold.....

[BeBMan]

It was shown? Don't remember, or maybe I missed it back then

[Proteus_MST]

Which IIRC was exactly what we had seen in the series.
Of course that raises the question why he didn´t freeze to death in the icy waters of the northern shores

[BeBMan]

(...) and how the hell did they get that giant on one of their ships without it capsizing?
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They didn't had to. Here's my theory:

[Dinner]

Well, now I feel better.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If it's any comfort, in the work-shy layabout stakes he's way behind Thomas Harris. His gaps between books are 6 years, 7 years, 11 years, and 17 years (taking us up to 2006- not a peep since then).

[Proteus_MST]

I'm beginning to think maybe Martin can't handle the pressure. He was okay before when no one was paying attention to him, but now he has performance anxiety.

Douglas Adams always knew it best:
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams

[Dinner]

Yeah, about that...

Not what I was hoping to hear but at least he is honest.

Lori, yeah, he said deadlines freak him out and the closer the deadline gets the less and less work gets done. He said this has been a life long problem for him. He also said he was rewriting and changing stuff including in the Theon chapter which he had already previewed.

Hopefully it will be worth the wait though I worry about how his writing time between books seems to be getting longer and longer. We could be looking at an eight year wait for the last book.

[Lorizael]

I'm beginning to think maybe Martin can't handle the pressure. He was okay before when no one was paying attention to him, but now he has performance anxiety.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Damn, the release date rumors are changing by the day. Today the rumor is Feb 23, 2016 which is before the season premier.

Yeah, about that...

[Dinner]

http://www.mnrdaily.com/article/winds.of.winter.release.date.news.delays.caused.by.distractions.not.writers.block/7058.htm

Damn, the release date rumors are changing by the day. Today the rumor is Feb 23, 2016 which is before the season premier.

[Dinner]

http://www.vinereport.com/article/game.of.thrones.news.the.winds.of.winter.release.will.be.in.the.middle.of.the.shows.season.six.reports.say/6108.htm

The latest rumor is that The Winds of Winter will be released halfway through the next season of Game of Thrones. Since there are ten episodes a season with one episode per week starting in May that means we can expect the book in early June. Which sadly means still half a year to wait.

[Dinner]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=IxI8aPISq8I

Newly released teaser for next season.