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Say something nice about him
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First watch GoT S03E09: WHAT THE HELL!!! My jaw is on the floor.
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Daenerys really needed a dunk in her life instead of jorah mormont

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Battle of the Bastards

On the yearly rewatch and GOT back to BotB. I haven't reached this bit in the books yet as life gets in the way so this may answer it but why doesn't the giant have a weapon or a nearby tree? Just a thought when I was watching it.

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A Conversation Only For Those Who Believe WoW Comes This Year — why do you think so?

I genuinely did not expect to see so many people think Winds is coming this year.

The reasons I see are pretty various: some think he needs just one more burst to finish, others think he’s riding the success of AKOTSK, others think the Bantam Books rumour quashing is reverse psychology. Some list anniversaries of previous books. Ha, one guy said it’s likely to happen because his girlfriend just started reading the books and the universe will spite him by giving it to her without a wait.

To all the people who will inevitably be pouring saying it isn’t coming… find another post to be miserable under.

This one is for all the people who think it’s going to be announced this year. My fellow summer children, why do you think so? Let’s discuss.

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Who would have made the worst queen of Westeros?



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The Mad King play cast is out!

I don't know if this is the right place for this, so apologies if not. But the cast list for the Mad King play about the Harrenhal Tourney is out.

Here's the cast list on the RSC Site, but it's crashing pretty frequently.

Here's a Twitter thread instead, with the names and headshots.

While I like just about all of them, they have made some casting decisions that I expect people to be completely normal about, the same way everyone was totally normal about the Velaryon castings, so brace yourselves for that.

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Why the lack of Lady Stoneheart changes the show completely.

I'm a book reader and show enjoyer and likely not as hard on S8 like most after HBO made it so I could see the battle of Winterfell.

Here is what I think happens during the filming of season 3 and after release the show runners realized most people like the show not too goofy. I think George gets kinda goofy with it and they already had enough issues with budgets and they decided dragons were enough.

At the Red Wedding Cat keeps her head which allows her to be resurrected. She can't save Rob or Ned because they lost their heads but Jon is buried in ice. This is when I think budgets would explode and why it stayed grounded. She uses a sword to melt the ice and resurrects Jon and that's the flaming sword in the prophecy.

Dany still is across the sea but hears about that. Jon gets wildings and loyal houses in both versions. When I read the book I assumed House Arryn would save the day and it happened. I also think Davos brings almost a He-man Unicorn riding Rickon who is more wolf and he dies early but Jon is left with Skaggos men and unicorns or they save Rickons cavalry late against the Night King.

I think the "fake Targ" loses to Jaime but at a heavy loss. That leads to betrayal at some point when Jaime leaves Cersei she doesn't have control. Winterfell either hides an ice dragon or maybe magic. Bran's story is just way too expensive so his character suffered. Jon uses the magic to buy time possibly or he meets Dany on a ice dragon asking for help maybe both. Dany still unravels and like in the show Bran lets Jon and Dany choose their fate. Jaime fights in the battle with maybe a loyal host. Cersei is likely worse in the book with wild fire as Jaime doesn't stay by her. Drogon is the only dragon left but how we got there is the expensive part.

The show struggled with budgets and when HBO offered more it was too late and they couldn't change course to more sci-fi when people didn't like that element. I think this sub over reacts but I thought the season 8 ending was foreshadowed with Bran so w.e. but the goodbyes sucked and another hour explaining a few more things would have made it better.

I think they saw the show as a medieval succession compared to a more sci-fi epic and GRRM stopped helping. It's clear the directors had to end it and the things he pitched weren't good. Yea, dunk and egg is great but GRRMs other books tend to be goofy and I didn't realize he had a few famous knights based on native American warriors.

Man, I just want the books.



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It's sad we'd probably never know the fate of different noble houses unless George RR Martin hurries up it's two books and includes the events sequel to got

At this point what we have is that brann is the king ,house stark survives obviously,north is independent meanwhile house Tyrell ,house mormont,house targaryen, house Martell,house baelish ,house baratheon and house Bolton are completely extinct replaced by who only the seven Gods will know

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