Saturday, March 29, 2014

Reminder: don't have high expectations for this year's Game of Thrones

So remember last season, where they had about 700 pages of material to get through, and they wasted about half an hour on Theon Torture Porn, and about a full hour with Tyrion (dude gets married and grouses a bit about how he's out of power. That's the sum total of things that happen to him in the first 700 pages of A Storm of Swords).

Yeah, this season they have about 400 pages to get through.

SPLOILERS!!!

Joffrey's wedding is Episode 2. The Mountain/Viper duel is Episode 8.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what we're going to be wasting the intervening episodes on. My guess is that the equivalent of a full episode will be spent gearing up for the inevitable Gendry spinoff they'll stick us with while they wait for GRRM to finish the books.

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