The Artisan
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I don't want to take everything a character says as a hint for their own demise, not everything. When I watched the mountain vs the viper, Oberyn said something like "i will die, but not today." he was wrong.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 7 - Sundays on HBO
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This is why you have lots of kids.
The Artisan
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so is stoneheart the one who killed walder frey in the books? where is arya at now?
The ol' medieval strategy.
lol
Arya is still in Braavos, where she has done fuck-all.
The Artisan
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and lady stoneheart? who killed the freys?
LSH(with the brotherhood without borders) has been slowly killing them, the show is way ahead of the books.
Walder is still alive in the books.
demosthenes
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Freys still being sucks. Lsh, is killing a bunch though.
She's killed a few but most are still alive, including Walder.
The Artisan
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okay so it sounds like the show is just doing things completely differently here. If stoneheart was with the bannerless dudes then the whole subplot with the hound would be different and Arya wouldn't...have been back from Braavos so quickly? idk
The Artisan
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I only worry because I don't know how far off the show has gone from the source material.
But it doesn't matter.
Considering how garbage the last 2 books were you don't need to worry anyway.
George getting so much power he could ignore editors was the worst thing that ever happened to the franchise
The Artisan
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If it didn't matter then there wouldn't be gaffers on the front page of every new GRRM thread asking about the books.
wait, what? so he's making so much money off of the show that he'll just take hbo's version as a satisfying enough conclusion to the asoiaf saga???
H.Cornerstone
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To answer your question, yes at this point the show is about 100% different than the books so I wouldn't worry about it. There are certain details that will also be in the books (Hold the door and white walker origins.) but right now the show is it's own thing.
The Artisan
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I hope the "bittersweet ending" at least will be the same.
The Artisan
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so a much bigger deviation than say, the walking dead show vs comic
Well GRRM recently said he's introducing a massive twist he just thought up (so it can't be in the show) so who knows.
This alone is a big reason why the books would be different alone (if he ends up getting to them). Ideas coming along that he didn't think of during the show.
TWD was never that close, Season 1 of GoT was pretty much as close an adaptation of AGOT as possible.
Sansa never married Ramsay and is safe in the Vale. He married an imposter instead. Like I said, what happens in the books doesn't matter for the show so don't worry about them.
Yep, Harry the heir storyline is missing from the show.
Fake Arya was pretty stupid though so I really didn't mind the change.
The end result will probably be the same, the Vale comes to Jon's rescue (assuming he get brought back) but it will be because Sansa is married to the Lord of the Vale.
I liked LF's plan with fArya. He gives the Boltons someone the North will think is real while actually keeping the valuable one.
It was Tywin that sent them fake Arya and everyone knows she is fake, even the Boltons IIRC.
Rad Shadow
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The good guys staying alive and characters like littlefinger and Jaime dying would be so typical.
I hope that's not where we are heading.
I hope that's not where we are heading.
LF arranged her though. I didn't say the Boltons didn't know she was fake, only the North.
Cornballer
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- Via WiCnet: SDCC: HBO releases trailer for the next two episodes of Game of Thrones (please spoiler tag any discussion)
You have to scroll down a bit to get to the trailer. I'll post a better link if I see one. The GoT panel at Comic Con is this afternoon.
Edit: Youtube link.
Twitter link.
You have to scroll down a bit to get to the trailer. I'll post a better link if I see one. The GoT panel at Comic Con is this afternoon.
Edit: Youtube link.
Twitter link.
The Artisan
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? i'd say twd is pretty much the same storyline in both mediums, notwithstanding some filler and some characters in other characters' places.
Oh, yeah he did arrange it. I should reread the books, I am getting rusty on remembering. She is currently with Stannis right?
Also a big change from the books is that Stannis has a lot of the Northern houses on his side in the books. The Karstarks aren't but it is a rogue uncle, not the actual Lord, and Jon marries Alyce off to the Thenn leader, right?
Maybe it will be totally different. Idk.
Still think the Vale saves the Starks though.
John Dunbar
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Meifu
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The one way I see them saving the euron storyline is having him attack the shield islands and kill some highgarden knight. This would make up for that awesome chapter in the book with Victorian.
They also totally missed the chance to get that whole Loras takes dragonstone but gets hurt storyline.
Basically the grejoys are most interesting with victorian, who i cant believe they got rid of
They also totally missed the chance to get that whole Loras takes dragonstone but gets hurt storyline.
Basically the grejoys are most interesting with victorian, who i cant believe they got rid of
The Artisan
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Nice meeting there at the end.
That good old fashioned Targaryan incest
Let's be honest they would have removed everything interesting and crazy about Victarion and made just another angry beard man like they did with Euron.They wouldn't even do the lava arm or him hating monkeys laughing at him
The Artisan
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IF that even happens, it'll be the last time Targaryens can commit to incest anyways, as they are the last 2.
Assuming Dany still can't have children by the end
The Artisan
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I heard there was an event in the most recent book that implies that Dany can be pregnant again?
The qaith prophesy maybe? I honestly don't remember what she told Dany.
Dany has her period, yes.
The Artisan
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Not anything to do about a prophecy, I just remember reading somewhere that she had her period again unexpectedly.edit:
^ this
I'm sure just looking at his stupid beard caused her fallopian tubes to tie themselves in a knot.
Hmm I just don't remember it, it's been over a year since I last read ADWD though.
Latvian Hitman
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Meifu
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Youre right, D&W have gotten so wrapped up in their own alternate stories, they forget its Martin's writing that made the story go.
They also forgot that when you kill literally everyone, you need to build up some new characters, which GRR did during book 4 and 5. This show needed to be 8-10 seasons to do the story justice. Even so its still baffling some of the plot decisions they have made
Oh well...at least its pretty and the actors are mostly on point