Buzzfeed tested Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner's real-life friendship: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/sophie-turner-maisie-williams-best-friend-game
Question from season 1 (TV but want to ask it in this thread) The knife that was used to kill the Star kid that can't walk, it belonged to little finger and allegedly lost in a bet to Tyrion. Was this established that it was the Lanisters that sent the assassin? or could it be that the little finger guy did it?
Excellent, informative interview with the two showrunners, Benioff and Weiss. Very long but totally worth reading the whole thing if you're at all interested in some inside dirt regarding making the show. http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/game-of-thrones-benioff-weiss-interview
Littlefinger framed tyrion. This was a major event in shaping Tyrion as a hero and that Stark bitch as a bomb lobbing moron. Kate Starks sister and nephew in the Vale are both insane as well.
Sophie Turner is ridiculously sexy New Arya preview chapter from WOW....it is ...AWESOME. Theon's with Stannis is the only one that's better right now from the released previews.
It is! Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware he had put up a new chapter. Here it is for anyone else who might be interested. http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/
I read today that so many people were reading it that it crashed the site. Fortunately I read it myself late last night. And yes, tremendously satisfying. Was really happy he released one that wasn't even remotely cliffhangery. It's also heavily rumored that Arya gets a revenge scene in the first episode of this season, so I'm wondering if he released it in that spirit.
That's.... hot. Btw what's this ''preview'' chapter? Is it really going to be a part of the 6th book?
Yep, minus the Tickler, who's already dead. And it also means Sandor isn't likely to take a wound in that battle, too early in the Arya-Hound Road Show.
In terms of the depiction of the Thenn, I don't recall them being cannibals in the books? In fact, apart from their armor and equipment, they don't really look at all as I had imagined them from the books. Sigorn even is depicted as having quite a bit of sensitivity in regard to his betrothal to Alys Karstark.
Even though I loved the scene at the inn, I do feel they missed an opportunity by not making it very clear that the Hound knew Polliver well. In the book, it is made quite apparent that Sandor hates the Mountain's men almost as much as he hates the Mountain himself, and Polliver is the guy at the very top of that list. In the show, he is just another one of Gregor's men.
He should have expressed his hatred for the Mountain even more in that scene IMO, although he didn't say much overall.
They're not cannibals in the book, I assume they added that to make them scarier. I'm guessing the Karstark plotline will be completely dropped. I don't think the Hound knew him in this version. Yeah, I think that would've been better too. Overall I think it was a great first episode, didn't feel the need to touch on absolutely every character, and didn't seem to care about getting newbies up to speed, they just seemed a lot more confident in the material and the fact that they know people are really into this show. And ending with the scene they did was brilliant, although I assume that means there will have to be some other way for the Hound to get seriously wounded later.
So here is the preview of Episode 2. I don't think I should post in the other as this would be considered a spoiler.