Game of Thrones: experts speculation [SPOILERS!]

If the Battle at the Wall is Ep 9, then I'm pegging the purple wedding somewhere between Eps 4 and 6.

What happened in the next book again? There was a new point of view character banging the princess of Dorne and also the big duel with Gregor Clegane but I can't remember much else. Did Bran reach the tree man yet? And I forget what Jon was doing. Did the Purple Wedding happen near the end?

Season 4 is the second half of Book 3, so the purple wedding should show up fairly early in the season (episode 3 or 4 I'm guessing).

As for Bran, he didn't reach the tree until midway through Book 5, and I don't believe he was seen again after crossing the wall until Book 5. He'll probably meet Coldhands at some point this season while wandering in the North.

The Battle of the Wall will be in episode 9, and the vote for the new Lord Commander of the Nightwatch will culminate in episode 10.

Dany's storyline is either going to be pretty damned boring, or they'll try to spice it up like they did in Season 2, and hopefully they'll succeed this time.

Arya will, as always, have one of the richer stories across the entire season, starting with hanging out with the Hound for the first half, and joining the church in the second half.

Thanks, the Wikipedia summary has entirely too much detail in it.

Damn, you are right! ADWD is just Jon working with the wildings. I guess it does mirror Dany's story in Meereen as far as the difference between being good at fighting battles and being a good ruler. I am guessing the end of those plots will not be until season 5.

The Braavosi banker Tycho will be in this season, as well. The reports say that this is who Mark Gatiss was cast to play. So, apparently we are at least getting to the point of the banker getting to the Wall to speak to Jon Snow. Which is pretty far through A Dance With Dragons, I think? (The last two books are very fuzzy in my head.) So, it sounds like at least the Jon/Stannis storyline is going to be moving very quickly.

Wonder what that means for season 5?

The banker will probably be showing up in King's Landing first.

Put a bottle of Dom on ice.

Well Stannis does not get to the wall until the end of the battle, so that should wrap up season 4. Then season 5 is Jon wrestling with being commander and treating with the wildlings. His big moment at the end of ADWD probably won't happen until episode 9 or 10 of season 5.

Similarly we might expect Meereen to stretch into 2 seasons for Dany. This season is her struggling with ruling. Next season we focus more on the dragons and she gets her big moment with Drogon.

The good thing about combining books 4 and 5 is that everyone gets something to do. The bad thing is that there is not a lot going on for some of them. I get the feeling people who already did not like Dany's storyline are going to like it even less this season since the real payoff will not be until season 5.

Perhaps her escape in the aftermath of the purple wedding and trip to the Eyrie could be padded out for Season 4, leaving the manipulations of Littlefinger in the Eyrie for season 5. It probably does not even need to be padded out much, we could easily see her on a boat with Littlefinger in the 4th or 5th episode and not see her again until she realizes where she has been taken in episode 9 or 10.

And just like the books no one notices what Littlefinger is doing or Stannis and his crew heading up to the Wall. Meta!

There have been a few new 30 second teasers out, I don't think they provided any new info, i.e. Tryion going to prison and Danni having dragon trouble. This latest one though does I think give us a hint that the Sansa/Littlefinger plot may be introduced this season.



Not sure that looks like the Eyrie, but where else would she be with snow?

I would like it if she was just alluded to most of the season, maybe as Brienne goes on her quest. They can save the reveal for the end of the season or even push it to next season if they want to draw out Brienne's plot.

It is hard to tell with anything given the messed up chronology of AFFC and ADWD. The writers are trying to pull the books back together after Martin split them up. They have done a great adaptation so far, so hopefully they can pull this off as well.

Ugh, I hate trying to figure out twitter conversations. But the maps were cool.

She loves Tyrion, but she is also very jealous at times. I could see that being used to make her turn against him at least as a way to hurt him. The biggest problem is that her relationship with Sansa has shown her to be be quite clever and astute. She would have to be more dumb and emotional to make a play like that.

The only way for it to work is if she is tricked to believe he really has wronged her in some major way.

I do think they will give Tyrion some out from at least intentionally killing her himself. Even if he is blinded by rage, it would make the TV character too hard to sympathize with. I don't think they are as willing to go there with several fan favorite characters as the book was.