Books: A Song of Ice and Fire [SPOILERS]

[Halb]

He's a fker for sure.

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There surely must be suits looking at spin-off stuff?

[richtea78]

Undoubtedly. In fact I believe HBO have retained GRRM for such a scenario but I cant find the article now

[Halb]

Is Wildcard Joffrey responsible for the assassin's attempt on Bron's life?

[richtea78]

No, that was Cersei. She was pissed off that Bronn named the baby Tyrion to annoy her

[richtea78]

Isn't Joffrey dead by then?

[Halb]

Spelling mistake...Bran!

[Halb]

WoW chapter.
http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/r1v01/tran...

[lemmingjames]

just rereading book 2, but how many Reeks where/are there as im reading a chapter or was that said the bd was up to no good with his servent reek, yet the bd hasnt been freed yet (in the books) from winterfell

[garrykiller]

im half way through A Feast For Crows and i am struggling to see how this is going to be made in to a full season of a game of thrones.

[JagLover]

garrykiller said:

im half way through A Feast For Crows and i am struggling to see how this is going to be made in to a full season of a game of thrones.

It won't

AFFC and ADWD basically happen over the same period of time, with some of the characters in AFFC revisited in ADWD and taken further in their respective storylines.

They will start to go into AFFC/ADWD material for some characters in S4 and, if they have any sense, they will reach the end of them by the end of S5.

[richtea78]

From the trailers you can see some events from those books I believe in S4 although its hard to remember which books are which.

There are some bits that they could extend out though, particularly some of the battles, if they have the budget.

[Alapeno]

There's still some bits from book 3 to get into season 4 of the TV show. So I assume they are just merging books 3, 4 and 5 in a strange way as to not leave anyone out.

[JagLover]

Alapeno said:

There's still some bits from book 3 to get into season 4 of the TV show. So I assume they are just merging books 3, 4 and 5 in a strange way as to not leave anyone out.

Almost exactly 1/3 of ASOS is left.

Some characters are going to get extremely padded versions of their remaining ASOS material, like Arya & Jon

Others seem to moving quite strongly into their AFFC/ADWD material-for example Dany and Brienne.

It wont seem strange as long as it does not impact in any fundamental way on any other character and the main story.

Edited by JagLover on Monday 24th March 15:14

[Halb]

There are parts of the books that can be explained more fully. Some parts of the wall story just seem to happen. Stannis appearing out of the blue to save the wall, this won't be a surprise in the series methinks and we'll see the journey, also the way Stannis suddenly has 4,000 (I think) Northmen behind him in later battles. There is plenty of stuff breezed over in the books that can fill a series.

[richtea78]

I thought the reinforcements for Stannis were explained in the book? They were from the Northern equivalent of the Hill tribes that live in the Vale but they live in the Gift I thought? Many of them were thought to have been people from North of the Wall who had settled down once they got over the wall.

[Halb]

Yeah it's explained, but it's whizzed past...not even sure if it is part of the story or referred to in the past tense.
As I recall it, one moment JS is telling SB where to find thousands...and then they are relieving Deppwood Motte and the new recruits are refereed to? A lot of large movement is referred to in past tense, so I think there are plenty of bones of story to put meat on for in the series.

[Halb]

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-win...

[Alapeno]

So far there's been 3 excerpts for 3 different characters released - Has everyone read them all?

You have to download an app for one of them.

[Halb]

11 Must-Know Facts About "Game Of Thrones"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbal9k-ZifA

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/video/kevinmcshane/watch-g...

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/hbo-game-of-...

[richtea78]

So Purple Wedding tonight? Needs to be early in the series I think.