Geek alert: Game of Thrones on HBO

[Tippster]

Sounds reasonable, especially Sansa + Tyrion.
Why Varys doing for LF?
And why does Dany have to die? Can't she just be the dragon spinster?

I think it'll be varys undoing LF because he wants to be the Grand Schemer, and he has always maintained that his motivation isn't personal, but for the good of the Realm. He'll see that LF's motivation is antithetical to his and make him go away. Not necessarily kill him, mind you, just maybe stick him in Mereen or something.

Rulers need offspring to continue their bloodlines. She'll die because GRRM is a monster and everyone loves Dany.

[PB]

Yabut ..... if GRRM were still in charge, I'd be more inclined to agree; D&B, not so much, although it could be that she sacrifices herself to destroy the White King. And no sane ruler should leave LF alive; no matter where he was forced to go in exile, there would be trouble (classic shit disturber, so to speak).

[Elkhound Odin]

Looks like we'll have to wait an extra 3-4 month for season 7

Game of Thrones Season 7 Delay Confirmed—Winter Is Coming Next Summer

There's new hope of relief from this sweltering summer: Winter is coming. But it's coming next summer. Game of Thrones is set to begin production on season seven this summer, but not premiere until the summer of 2017.

HBO announced production on the seven-episode seventh season will be based in Northern Ireland with portions filming in Spain and Iceland.

"Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing," Carter Bloys, president of HBO programming, said in a statement. "Instead of the show's traditional spring debut, we're moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule."

Season seven directors Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Matt Shakman and Alan Taylor.

[summit]

Why only 7 episodes? Lame

[Elkhound Odin]

Why only 7 episodes? Lame

And probably only 6 episodes for the final season 8.

[summit]

Why? Because fatty-mc-writers-block isn't generating material?

[Elkhound Odin]

B&W said they needed 70-75 hours to get through the story. They'll hit 73 at the end. Look on the bright side, they will save us many hours of pointless filler episodes (ie LOST)

[Brock Landers]

B&W said they needed 70-75 hours to get through the story. They'll hit 73 at the end. Look on the bright side, they will save us many hours of pointless filler episodes (ie LOST)

You mean the pointless filler episodes where varys sends a raven to dany telling her the tyrells and Martells are on board and to come pick him up, and they show dany and crew sailing for weeks with nothing going on?

I'm glad they cut that shit out and we simply have the clans United sailing for westeros. Prob 100 other examples of the same type of shit that you can do in 600 page books that turns people off in tv.

[neckdeep]

Gendry busted arriving in Belfast, home to Game of Thrones production headquarters.



Now speculate!

[LightRanger]

Dorne+remnants of House Tyrell show up with him and attack KL?

[m5f66f]

There were so many dropped plots in Season 6, I wonder how they all going to cram all the content they need to explore into the 13 or so episodes they have left.

[doebedoe]

Well, i think they have more like 16-18 episodes so that helps. Season 7 in my understanding is going to be shortened and there will be a season 8 as well a la the Sopranos ending.

[Elkhound Odin]

Less than 2 months away.......

[schindlerpiste]

I just read a reddit spoiler for season 7. It sounds like it will be a very boring season with no big names (well one) dying.

[Diamond Joe]

I just read a reddit spoiler for season 7. It sounds like it will be a very boring season with no big names (well one) dying.

Gee, thanks

[John_B]

I just read a reddit spoiler for season 7. It sounds like it will be a very boring season with no big names (well one) dying.

Cool. Good to know the season goes. Keep the spoilers out of the thread.

[Danno]

new trailer

[Elkhound Odin]

Just minutes away!

[Sluff]

Locked in.

[Sluff]

Ed Sheeran with a cameo.

[Tippster]

"Tell them 'The North Remembers' ... and that Winter is coming."


So. Fucking. Good.

[Flyoverland Captive]

Arya kicks ass.

[pfluffenmeister]

"Tell them 'The North Remembers' ... and that Winter is coming."


So. Fucking. Good.

Oh, yes.
I knew she would be rolling-fucking-thunder.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Fucking great

[neckdeep]

"Tell them 'The North Remembers' ... and that Winter is coming."


So. Fucking. Good.

Actually, she said: "Tell them winter came for the Freys."

Even. Better.


It is definitely time to clear some pieces from the board. The Freys are off the board. Good riddance. Who will winter come for next? I'll bet the Martells, Tyrells and the Asha/Theon Greyjoys all get quickly wiped out. Littlefinger may also be gone by the end of the season. That will clear up some space for a more interesting season 8 story: Dany, Jon and Cersei will be forced into an uneasy alliance against the Night's King. Martin says he don't like to do the obvious pure Good vs inexplicable Evil cliche. So I'm thinking the "good" side will be an alliance of good (Jon), sort-of-good (Dany) and mostly evil (Cersei). On the other side, some day, maybe we'll get more insight into the motivations of the Night's King and it will turn out that he's not purely implacable and inexplicable evil.