Game of Thrones- now we are all unsullied
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shipperxSo it seems on GOT. We are beyond the books for everyone save Arya who is both beyond AND way back at the end of A Feast For Crows.
The same and yet different. Spoilers below.
So for the record:
*. Cersei is at the same point as in the books and FrankenMountain is confirmed. I stand by my theory of Cersei eventually going the full Mad King and burning the whole place down as she has now threatened three times, only after this week she'll hate the peasants a whole lot more. (In the book Margery was released unmolested ahead of Cersei. No word on Margery or Loras here).
*. Dany is in the exact same place as she ended the books only not quite as worse for wear (In the books it's implied that she miscarried a baby though she hadn't known she was pregnant. Assumption is it was Daarios child, and she was told by the witch in season one that she wouldn't carry a live child until the sun rose in the west so it didn't have great emotional heft but did seem to leave her more physically demoralized when faced with Dothraki than she seems here. No idea where this goes other than I'm guessing when she maybe someday ever (?) goes to Westeros, she might also have a Dothraki horde.
* Theon and Sansa... Well they are off book because Sansa wasn't at Winterfell in the first place (and neither was Brienne). In the book it was Sansa's friend Jeyne that Littlefinger set up as a faux Arya Stark. It was Theon and faux Arya who jumped from the battlements *spoiler* they made it. They then, however wound up in Stannis's camp. So that's not happening. So there's no way to know what happens to them from there. Possibilities are Littlefinger or Brienne (who is also off book). At any rate they almost certainly survive the jump. After that... Who knows.
* Stannis was way way way beyond the book. There was a letter from Boltons claiming that he was dead but we never read a scene where it happened. It wasn't Brienne because she was in the Riverlands with Jaime.
* So yeah Jaime is off book too. And Myrcella was disfigured in Dorne rather than killed outright but I suspect her purpose was served so I'm not surprised they dispensed with her. Bee knew from prophecy that the child was destined to die before Cersei so it's probably just acceleration. They have radically altered Jaime's plot as in the books Jaime has consciously broken from Cersei whereas he still seems obsessed with her here. I suppose her confession of sexing her cousin plus her reaction to Myrcella's death may advance that next year but they are still far afield from the books.
* Weirdly Arya is both ahead and behind. She doesn't get a kill on her hitlist until one of the sneak peek chapters from the upcoming book, while her being blinded came at the end of A Feast for Crows. I didn't think they would skip over it though. I figured summer is a good place to end it to elide over more of her ninja training. Plus I was convinced they would save all the warging until Bran is back on the show as he's in a place to explain the Starks warging. Which leads me to--
* Jon is sincerely dead... But only to warg and to be resurrected by Mel. I don't know this to be true. There are no spoilers, and the book ends as the show did. Still, I'm utterly convinced this is true. Jon will be Azor Ahai.
Convinced.
They just hold off until bran is back to explain warging. Nice fake out with the previouslies though. That worked.
The same and yet different. Spoilers below.
So for the record:
*. Cersei is at the same point as in the books and FrankenMountain is confirmed. I stand by my theory of Cersei eventually going the full Mad King and burning the whole place down as she has now threatened three times, only after this week she'll hate the peasants a whole lot more. (In the book Margery was released unmolested ahead of Cersei. No word on Margery or Loras here).
*. Dany is in the exact same place as she ended the books only not quite as worse for wear (In the books it's implied that she miscarried a baby though she hadn't known she was pregnant. Assumption is it was Daarios child, and she was told by the witch in season one that she wouldn't carry a live child until the sun rose in the west so it didn't have great emotional heft but did seem to leave her more physically demoralized when faced with Dothraki than she seems here. No idea where this goes other than I'm guessing when she maybe someday ever (?) goes to Westeros, she might also have a Dothraki horde.
* Theon and Sansa... Well they are off book because Sansa wasn't at Winterfell in the first place (and neither was Brienne). In the book it was Sansa's friend Jeyne that Littlefinger set up as a faux Arya Stark. It was Theon and faux Arya who jumped from the battlements *spoiler* they made it. They then, however wound up in Stannis's camp. So that's not happening. So there's no way to know what happens to them from there. Possibilities are Littlefinger or Brienne (who is also off book). At any rate they almost certainly survive the jump. After that... Who knows.
* Stannis was way way way beyond the book. There was a letter from Boltons claiming that he was dead but we never read a scene where it happened. It wasn't Brienne because she was in the Riverlands with Jaime.
* So yeah Jaime is off book too. And Myrcella was disfigured in Dorne rather than killed outright but I suspect her purpose was served so I'm not surprised they dispensed with her. Bee knew from prophecy that the child was destined to die before Cersei so it's probably just acceleration. They have radically altered Jaime's plot as in the books Jaime has consciously broken from Cersei whereas he still seems obsessed with her here. I suppose her confession of sexing her cousin plus her reaction to Myrcella's death may advance that next year but they are still far afield from the books.
* Weirdly Arya is both ahead and behind. She doesn't get a kill on her hitlist until one of the sneak peek chapters from the upcoming book, while her being blinded came at the end of A Feast for Crows. I didn't think they would skip over it though. I figured summer is a good place to end it to elide over more of her ninja training. Plus I was convinced they would save all the warging until Bran is back on the show as he's in a place to explain the Starks warging. Which leads me to--
* Jon is sincerely dead... But only to warg and to be resurrected by Mel. I don't know this to be true. There are no spoilers, and the book ends as the show did. Still, I'm utterly convinced this is true. Jon will be Azor Ahai.
Convinced.
They just hold off until bran is back to explain warging. Nice fake out with the previouslies though. That worked.
