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Professional Griefer · 13-09-2012 08:05PM #1

Just seen there that its back on the 31/3/13.

Im still reading the first past of ASoS. Almost half ways though it.

Can't wait for the new season.

199 days.:(

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Mickeroo · 13-09-2012 08:12PM

Reading the books has made the wait more bearable I have to say. On the 2nd part of A Dance With Dragons now.

I won't forget ASoS in a hurry, hope they do it justice over the next 2 seasons.

BamBam92 · 13-09-2012 08:20PM

I cant wait that long for GoT!

HBO hurry up and get them done! :O

Sleepy · 13-09-2012 08:30PM

I'll be married when season 3 airs...

That feels weird... in a good way though...

Jelle1880 · 13-09-2012 11:20PM

So will it be in two parts ?

Sleepy · 14-09-2012 12:58AM

Book 3 parts one and two will correspond to Seasons 3 &4 respectively.

Shazbot · 14-09-2012 10:01AM

Sleepy wrote: »

I'll be married when season 3 airs...

That feels weird... in a good way though...

Congrats but...Season 3 spoiler.

don't invite a Frey and leave if the music gets suspiciously bad.

Sleepy · 14-09-2012 10:30AM

If the timeline of the series follows the time line of the books, that's actually a season 4 spoiler!

Though personally I think it'll be the grand finale of Season 3!

beardedmaster · 14-09-2012 11:55AM

A palindrome!! Hurray!!!

Mickeroo · 14-09-2012 12:14PM

Does anyone else reckon we'll be seeing parts of

A Dance with Dragons

this season? Considering some of the characters that have been cast.

I also can't see them rigidly sticking to the book timeline. I'm expecting

Red Wedding along with Tyrion & Sansa's marriage, could see both events happening in parallel on screen.

Sleepy · 14-09-2012 12:29PM

Part of Dance overlap with AFFC but I can't see them bringing in stuff from that far ahead this season. Unless Danny's arc takes a different path and

she ends up in Mereen far sooner than in the books and has a longer arc of learning how not to rule there...

. TBH, her arc bored me to tears for most of AFFC and ADWD so mightn't be the worst thing in the world if they pretty much re-wrote it...

Mickeroo · 14-09-2012 12:41PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Part of Dance overlap with AFFC but I can't see them bringing in stuff from that far ahead this season. Unless Danny's arc takes a different path and
she ends up in Mereen far sooner than in the books and has a longer arc of learning how not to rule there...
. TBH, her arc bored me to tears for most of AFFC and ADWD so mightn't be the worst thing in the world if they pretty much re-wrote it...

Agreed there, I've not finished ADWD yet but her arc is reasonably boring bar a few decent parts here and there.

She just rejected Quentyn and got married, should get better now with Tyrion and Mormont getting closer. Distinct lack of dragons though

I wasn't referring to her arc though, I was thinking because they've cast

Ramsey Snow, we'll be seeing parts of Theon's ADWD story early, unless they're just going to show him being tortured for 2 whole seasons.

ArmaniJeanss · 14-09-2012 02:42PM

Is

Alfie Allen (Theon)

still a full cast member for season 3?

Also re A Storm of Swords (spoiler)

I'd be disappointed if they finish the season with Red Wedding, because being the last few minutes of the series even the dimmest of unsullied viewers will be expecting something other than a straighforward wedding, which would reduce the shock element imo.

Mickeroo · 14-09-2012 02:50PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Is
Alfie Allen (Theon)
still a full cast member for season 3?

Also re A Storm of Swords (spoiler)
I'd be disappointed if they finish the season with Red Wedding, because being the last few minutes of the series even the dimmest of unsullied viewers will be expecting something other than a straighforward wedding, which would reduce the shock element imo.

True, although I'd expect it to happen in episode 9.

I reckon Joffrey's death will be the middle of season 4, although I wouldn't be surprised if they move the red wedding to season 4 since Robb is one of their most bankable characters. I guess they'd want to milk both him and Joffrey for as long as they can. They could have Dany liberating the unsullied as the big season 3 finale instead I guess. That would mean all but ditching her for season 4 though.

Don't know re:

Alfie Allen, seemed to be doing lots of publicity work so I assumed he was.

Dubhlinner · 15-09-2012 04:15PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

True, although I'd expect it to happen in episode 9.
I reckon Joffrey's death will be the middle of season 4, although I wouldn't be surprised if they move the red wedding to season 4 since Robb is one of their most bankable characters. I guess they'd want to milk both him and Joffrey for as long as they can. They could have Dany liberating the unsullied as the big season 3 finale instead I guess. That would mean all but ditching her for season 4 though.

Don't know re:
Alfie Allen, seemed to be doing lots of publicity work so I assumed he was.

Hmmm.

If the red wedding doesn't happen in this series it will be pretty uneventful. I reckon it will be episode 9.

paulbok · 18-09-2012 01:55PM

If they don't have

the red wedding

as the finale, then they may just jump to

Catelyn's ressurection from the river

as 'the shock' finale

Sleepy · 18-09-2012 02:15PM

If they follow the timeline of the books in how they split the seasons at all, surely that'd be the shock end for Season 4...

Mickeroo · 18-09-2012 02:21PM

Sleepy wrote: »

If they follow the timeline of the books in how they split the seasons at all, surely that'd be the shock end for Season 4...

Yeah, wouldn't expect that to happen until then tbh. I presume

Catelyn/Stoneheart and the brotherhood

are going to get stuff made up for them in the show since they're hardly in the book at all after

her ressurection

.

5starpool · 20-09-2012 09:13PM

They deviated quite a bit from the story in season 2, so that might continue, although surely the big headline events spoilered above will still happen, but the timeline might change a bit for tv I reckon. Once the episode names are released ahead of the season we'll know I guess, much as we knew episode 9 in season 2 was going to be the battle of the blackwater.

jones · 26-09-2012 02:58PM

i'm half way through the third book and loving it at the moment. Some interesting stuff happening already

Tywin ordering Tyrion to marry sansa stark

Mickeroo · 26-09-2012 03:00PM

jones wrote: »

i'm half way through the third book and loving it at the moment. Some interesting stuff happening already
Tywin ordering Tyrion to marry sansa stark

I envy and pity you in equal amounts

Sleepy · 28-09-2012 01:44PM

I'd be more on the "envy" side of that equation...

So much good stuff in book 3!

Take a break from the series before reading Feast for Crows though. The pace changes considerably in books 4 & 5. So much so that they really suffer in comparison to the first three if you read them all back-to-back.

fitz · 01-10-2012 09:02AM

I really, really want them to

do the wedding in episode 5 or something. Season 1 we had Ned kick it in episode 9, dragons appeared in episode 10. Season 2 we had the wildfire/Tyrion possibly killed/Tywin's sudden appearance in episode 9, white walkers appear in episode 10. They need to be careful about not falling into a formula of episode 9 being the big set-piece/twist episode, and episode 10 being the big reveal ending. If the wedding is going to have the impact it should, I think it has to be played as just another filler event in the build up to what the viewers are expecting to be the season climax in episodes 9 and 10. Hit them halfway through, when they're not expecting it. The ratings for the remaining 5 episodes would go through the roof I'd say.

Sleepy · 01-10-2012 09:28AM

I agree completely on the

idea that the Red Wedding shouldn't happen in episode 9/10, could it be done as early as episode 5 though? It happens a good half-way through book 3 and episode 5 would only happen about a quarter of the way through the text since it's being split...

fitz · 01-10-2012 10:32AM

Sleepy wrote: »

I agree completely on the
idea that the Red Wedding shouldn't happen in episode 9/10, could it be done as early as episode 5 though? It happens a good half-way through book 3 and episode 5 would only happen about a quarter of the way through the text since it's being split...

The beginning of Robb and Catelyns arcs from book 3 were dealt with in season 2 (release of Jaime, marriage to Jayne). They can start right into the plot for taking Moat Cailin and the need to mend bridges with the Freys (pun intended). I think they could get it into episode five or six, but even 7 would be ok, though not as good. It needs to come out of left field like in the book.

Sleepy · 01-10-2012 11:02AM

I suppose they could push some of the earlier Daenarys / Ironborn / Jon / Arya chapters to later in the series in order to get there in that kind of time-line...

Liamalone · 01-10-2012 12:29PM

Sleepy wrote: »

I'd be more on the "envy" side of that equation...

So much good stuff in book 3!

Take a break from the series before reading Feast for Crows though. The pace changes considerably in books 4 & 5. So much so that they really suffer in comparison to the first three if you read them all back-to-back.

Taking a break too, big queue in local library lol, sounds like a blessing in disguise

Mickeroo · 04-10-2012 04:19PM

Looks like there'll be no Vargo Hoate in the show at all (SPOILERS in the link for non book readers): http://winteriscoming.net/2012/10/filming-rumors-and-reports-taylor-is-in/

Mickeroo · 08-10-2012 02:33PM

Set pic with a big old spoiler if you haven't read the book: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4lg2hqCUAADBYL.jpg:large

5starpool · 09-10-2012 01:12AM

Took me a while looking at that to get the spoiler, but I got there eventually.

Mickeroo · 09-10-2012 01:14AM

5starpool wrote: »

Took me a while looking at that to get the spoiler, but I got there eventually.

Yeah, its a bit of a where's wally one, but it's there!

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