A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones Spoiler-Filled Discussion

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ Was thinking that as well - she spends way too much time there.

I suspect we'll be seeing the majority of the following season watching Tyrion meandering about Essos to get to her after he gets out of King's Landing. And that is likely not going to happen until at least 2/3 of the way through this season. His parting scene with daddy should be awesome.

 

[Anwar]

Well, the real reason Martin has kept Dany away from Westeros for so long is because he probably realized the dragons made her too powerful and she'd end the story too quickly. He either had to find a way of killing her dragons (which would leave her more or less powerless) or just keeping her away.

 

[Brendan Moody]

Dany was never going to get to Westeros all that quickly. When the series was a trilogy, her landing there was planned for the end of book two.

 

[DarthPipes]

Yeah but now it's book five and Dany isn't anywhere close to getting to Westeros.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Dany's involvement in Meereen is the result of a kind of awkward series of revisions to the original plan for the series. As the first book in the trilogy (A Game of Thrones) expanded into two and then three books (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords), he devised the idea of a five-year gap to allow certain characters to age, etc. Ruling Meereen was Dany's holding position for the gap, and the fourth book would open with a recounting of what had happened there. But Martin (correctly, I think) decided that the five-year gap really didn't work for a number of stories, so it was junked.

 

[Yoda]

GRRM is gonna keel over and Benioff's interpretation will be definitive.

 

[Venardhi]

Don't be a jackass.

 

[Yoda]

Would you tell a fish not to swim?

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Here are character posters and a short teaser video for the Starks.

And here are character posters for the Lannisters and a short teaser focusing on Tyrion.

 

[Evil Twin]

Uh oh, time to update my avatar.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Here are all 18 character posters released for season four.

 

[InklingStar]

There are fewer and fewer Stark posters each season.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Tormund seems an odd choice to me. Same with using Oberyn, whom nobody will be familiar with yet. Even book readers will have to be told that's Oberyn Martell.

 

[InklingStar]

Tormund seems an odd choice to me. Same with using Oberyn, whom nobody will be familiar with yet. Even book readers will have to be told that's Oberyn Martell.

Part of the campaign to build up how awesome he is before he appears on screen, I suppose. Book readers are already aware of his greatness.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Here are character posters and a short teaser video for the Starks.

And here are character posters for the Lannisters and a short teaser focusing on Tyrion.

The second link now has a teaser for Dany, too.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Dutch HBO twitter posted Melisandre and Daario posters. Daario is not a main cast member this season - he gets that status in season 5 - but they obviously want to promote the Dutch actors. The Oberyn poster first appeared on HBO Latin America twitter.

Oddly enough, the Mel and Daario posters have "All Men Must Die" in English, rather than "Valar Morghulis".

http://twitter.com/HBOnl/status/438589658411200512/photo/1
http://twitter.com/HBOnl/status/438590727342133248/photo/1

There are fewer and fewer Stark posters each season.

There will be fewer Lannister posters next season. The Starks will stay the same. At least for the time being (I have no idea how they'll play Jon's "death" and his inevitable comeback).

 

[EmoBorg]

I feel that Game of Thrones just need This to make it even more interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujo65bBRQ4I

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ [George Takei]Oh...MY![/George Takei]

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Here's the breakdown of writers and directors for season four:

Episode 401
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Directors: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss

Episode 402
Writer: George R. R. Martin
Director: Alex Graves

Episode 403
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Alex Graves

Episode 404
Writer: Bryan Cogman
Director: Michelle MacLaren

Episode 405
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Michelle MacLaren

Episode 406
Writer: Bryan Cogman
Director: Alik Sakharov

Episode 407
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Alik Sakharov

Episode 408
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Alex Graves

Episode 409
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Neil Marshall

Episode 410
Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
Director: Alex Graves

And here's the official poster for season four.

 

[DevilEyes]

The titles and length of the first four episodes have been released by HBO Latino:

Spoiler: titles

Season 4, Episode 1: Two Swords.
Running time: 58 minutes
Season 4, Episode 2: The Lion and the Rose.
Running time: 52 minutes
Season 4, Episode 3: Breaker of Chains.
Running time: 56 minutes
Season 4, Episode 4: Oathkeeper.
Running time: 54 minutes

http://winteriscoming.net/2014/03/first-four-episode-titles-of-season-four-revealed/#comments