Game of Thrones - season 5 TELEVISION show thread

[Uncle Ruckus]

They aren't the same person.

Barristan
Stannis
Shireen
Selyse
Mance
Greatjon(apparently)
Pyp and Grenn
Myranda(she's a Sansa competitor in the Vale in the books)
etc...

This is a huge divergence from the books. They aren't even the same thing anymore. This 10 hours is going to put them "within 10-13 hours" of a completed story. I felt like last season was a lot of filler -- but this year is going to get us to the end game prettymuch. It's going to close prettymuch all of the open storylines IMO -- many of which have been dangling prettymuch since the beginning.

You can add Doran, Myrcella, Hotah, Tystane, Lord of Bones, maybe Jogen for people dead on TV but not in books. Then there's just people that are flat out not in the show who could have big twist in Trystane, Jon Con, fAegon, Damphair, Victarion (biggest disappointment), Arianne. Then the people alive in the show but dead in books Pycelle and Kevan come to mind. Clearly there's going to be a huge deviation from the books. At this point I'm hoping that the end game is the only thing that is the same so when I'm reading in will be completely new to me.