The first two seasons of Game of Thrones were pretty square : one season , one book . But season three cover a openhanded glob of George R.R. Martin ’s third book , leaving some for season four . What ’s forget of A tempest of Swords for the show to cover ? And how much of Holy Writ four and five could we see next year ?
Spoilers below …
To receive out , we spent some time revisit our copies of A tempest of Swords , plus the next two books , A banquet For Crows and A Dance With Dragons . We also consulted two great experts on the A Song of Ice and Fire series : Elio Garcia , webmaster ofWesteros.org , and Adam Whitehead withThe Wertzone . As you believably bang , A fiesta for Crows and A Dance With Dragons take place simultaneously for the most part , and they also ramp up the complexity of Martin ’s saga with tons of new reference . So adapting them isgoing to be a fascinating process to watch .
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And Whitehead , for one , thinks it ’ll be important for the show to get into some of Crows and Dragons in season four , especially if the creators really require the entire show to last just seven or eight season . They may postulate a season and a half each to tackle Martin ’s last two books , so it pee sense to do the mass of Crows and Dragons in season five . Garcia seems to believe that the rest of violent storm of Swords can occupy almost all of the next time of year , however .
Already , some events are affect pretty quickly — the storyline of Davos Seaworth convincing King Stannis to go to the Wall could have been string up out over several episode , or else of crammed into the finale , for example .
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Major Events from A Storm of Swords That We Haven’t Seen Yet
1 ) Joffrey ’s hymeneals
This leads to Joffrey getting poisoned and Tyrion being incorrectly accused of mutilate the King . This in twist leads to Tyrion ’s trial by combat , and Tyrion escape and killing his forefather Tywin . Which might be something that ’ll hap at the climax of the time of year .
“ They ’d be absolutely insane not to ” boast these events heavily in time of year four , says Garcia .
The freehanded question is , how tight will these events happen ? Whitehead notes that George R.R. Martin is writing installment two of the new time of year , rather than a belated - season episode as usual . So Whitehead would n’t be surprised if the Purple Wedding happens as presently as episode two or three of the season . That could put the trial run by combat around episode five , with Tyrion run away from his cell a couple episodes later on . Of course , producer David Benioff and D.B. Weiss may see Tyrion pop his father as “ prime end - of - time of year material ” — which it totally is — but Whitehead thinks it would be a misapprehension to wait that long and “ turn a loss time they may be desperately searching for in posterior season . ”
2 ) Catelyn ’s torso being rescue from the Red Fork and deliver to ( sort of ) life .
This mostly happens off - concealment in the playscript , until Catelyn turns up as Lady Stoneheart and we watch that the Brotherhood Without Banners have resurrect her . But this show has a caterpillar track phonograph recording of render things on screen that the books left alone ( like Theon ’s transformation . )
But Garcia says Michelle Fairley has a recurring part on wooing , and she may just want to sit out time of year four . At the very least , we might not see her again until towards the terminal of the season .
3 ) Arya wildness Sandor Clegane and finds men unforced to take her to Braavos .
Whitehead was actually half expecting the Hound to be critically injure in the season finale , perhaps as a termination of his conflict with the Freys . As for Arya going to Braavos , Garcia sound out many people believe we wo n’t see this happen at all . Instead , “ she ’ll run into Jaqen in Westeros and essentially become his padawan assimilator . This cuts the indigence of a new alien strange location , and they could have her interact with familiar characters who do n’t jazz she ’s Arya . ”
4 ) Jaime has a rift with Cersei and institutionalize Brienne to find the missing Arya and Sansa .
We ’ve already regard the seeded player of this being plant .
5 ) Sansa Stark run low to know at the Eyrie , and Littlefinger wipe out his new wife Lysa .
Poor Sansa Stark — another atrocious berth . She flees King ’s Landing after Joffrey ’s destruction , and jazz up pretending to be Littlefinger ’s bastard girl . Garcia sound out the show might wait until time of year five to show us Lysa ’s death , but it ’ll probably happen at the oddment of time of year four .
6 ) The Wildling Army blast , Stannis saves the day , Jon becomes Lord Commander .
This is another thing that Whitehead sees the show probably saving for a big end - of - season black eye - out — although , as with Tyrion killing Tywin and fly , he call up there ’s a strong argument to be made for doing this clobber sooner , to make room for more of books six and seven by and by on . Plus Stannis is already heading for the Wall , and it seems weird for him to drop a whole season getting there .
7 ) Daenerys find out about Jorah ’s past perfidy , and conquers Meereen , resolving to stay there and harness .
The job with this , Garcia points out , is that there may be no way for Daenerys to learn that Jorah was spot for Varys back in time of year one . But there will definitely be some sort of breach between Daenerys and Jorah , and
- The decease of Balon Greyjoy
As with Theon ’s transformation , the show may find a way to pad the death of his father Balon to some greater extent .
9 ) Bran travel northerly and meets Coldhands , the mysterious mystic .
This has already been set up , and he ’s already snuff it past the Wall .
Things From Books Four and Five That We Could See Next Year
1 ) Yara Greyjoy will have to have something to do next year .
The show made such a freehanded pot out of showing her lay off to rescue Theon , there has to be some payoff . In the books , she takes place in a Kingsmoot after Balon drop dead , and tries to replace her father .
But since she ’s already locomote around Westeros , she probably wo n’t be there when Balon go — and she wo n’t be there for the Kingsmoot , either , say Whitehead . Garcia think there may not be a Kingsmoot at all , and Yara may only have one uncle on the television set show instead of the three she has in the books .
Whitehead ’s prediction ? Yara will be travel to rescue Theon , and she ’ll run into Stannis ’ fleet on his elbow room North to the Wall . That way , she still ends up being captured by Stannis , like in the books — just a little rather .
2 ) Theon / Reek goes back to Winterfell .
We ’ve already seen Theon become Reek , so we ’ll want to see some forward movement on his storyline next year . Garcia “ ca n’t imagine ” what they ’ll do with his character , but one alternative is to have him return to Winterfell a second earlier than he does in the books . The risk is that Theon ’s storyline will get too far ahead of the others , and then get stuck in a rut waiting for everyone else to bewitch up , says Whitehead .
One pick Whitehead suggest : Ramsay has already sound out he wants to hunt down the surviving Stark male child . Ramsay and his newfangled buddy could go on a hunt for Bran and/or Rickon , before being forced to revert to meet up with Ramsay ’s father , as seen in Dance With Dragons .
3 ) Brienne ’s quest for Arya and Sansa
How long can Brienne pay heed around King ’s Landing before Jaime sends her off on a new quest ? in reality , she might pass most of the time of year there , foreshadow Garcia , setting off quite belatedly .
Here ’s one style it could diddle out , according to Whitehead :
In Episode 1 Ser Loras face Brienne [ about the end of Renly ] and has her halt . Then in Episode 2 or 3 they have their public lecture and Brienne convinces Loras of the truth . This in turn could help motivate / catalyse Loras into joining the Kingsguard , foreclose his wedding to Cersei . Brienne is then sent on her mission around the mid - season mug , perhaps team up with Pod ( clearly all this ‘ Boogie Nights Pod ’ stuff is establishing him so the fooling viewer knows who the heck he is when he team up with Brienne ) . They could then do her whole Feast for Crows storyline in five episode at the remnant of season four .
Also , if we do n’t really see Catelyn being rise , then the first time we gather her as Lady Stoneheart could be at the end of the time of year , when she meets Brienne , and promptly hang her . Says Whitehead , “ this may be more impactful : we see Cat ’s animated ( hooray ! ) and the first affair she does is hang Brienne ( wait , what ? ) . ”
4 ) The Blackfish under besieging at Riverrun
call back Catelyn ’s uncle , Brynden the Blackfish ? He escaped from the Red Wedding , and there was a raft of discussion of this fact in the season finale . So will he reappear in season four ? Garcia thinks we may just hear about him next year — but Whitehead feels Clive Russell is too good an actor to have vanish for an intact season .
The show may launch the “ siege of Riverrun ” story a number early , says Whitehead . Or there are a couple of other options : the Blackfish could sprain up in Brienne ’s storyline , or in Arya and the Hound ’s , since he ’s in airless proximity to both of them . birth him go on the run , get circumvent , escape , and go on the run a second clock time may wind up being surplus , Whitehead adds .
5 ) Tyrion goes to Pentos
This really get down to the inquiry of how long Tyrion will be stuck in a cell . Assuming Joffrey conk pretty early on next class , he could be out of his cell by episode seven or eight . But Garcia carry Tyrion vote out Tywin to be in episode nine , or even ten , given that it ’s such a huge turning point . We might see the beginning of Tyrion ’s journey , however .
Could we at least see Tyrion going to Pentos and cope with Illyrio Mopaitis , then getting utter into help Daenerys ? The Tyrion / Illyrio confluence could be good material for the final episode of the season , read Whitehead . We might even see Tyrion meeting Young Griff and cypher out who he really is — but that might be too much , too soon .
6 ) Arya ’s adventures in Braavos
See above — there ’s some debate over whether we ’ll go to Braavos at all . And Garcia believes we wo n’t even see Arya desolate the Hound until towards the end of the time of year . In the meanwhile , we might see more of the chaos in the realm through Arya ’s eyes .
Whitehead , meanwhile , thinks Arya and the Hound is a great sales pitch for a spin - off show , but not enough to keep up a whole season . The main thing she needs to do is get her brand , Needle , back . Whitehead could see her abandoning the Hound as presently as halfway through the time of year .
7 ) Some of the Dornish consequence , leading to Quentyn lead to assay Daenerys as well .
This is less potential . We ’ll definitely meet the Red Viper , Oberyn Martell , but he ’s probably the main Dornish character that we ’ll meet in time of year four . Whitehead tell some people have wondered if Arianne Martell could arrive in King ’s landing place along with Oberyn , thus streamline that storyline considerably — but there ’s no foretoken that she ’s been cast .
- Cersei becomes Queen Regent
This one depends on how soon Tywin dies . If he pass away in sequence nine , for example , we could see the origin of the story in which Cersei attempts to rule , with disastrous consequences . Garcia , of course , believes Tywin ’s death will be hold back until the very remnant of the season , to maximize our precious Charles Dance screen sentence .
9 ) Daenerys becomes swayer of Meereen
The main problem here is that Daenerys train over Meereen , the next slaver metropolis , is terribly interchangeable to what just happened in Yunkai . Is the show really going to give us the exact same scenario a second time ? One possibility is that this sentence , there could be a huge field battle , which incidentally leads to Jorah ’s perfidiousness being give away somehow , says Whitehead . Another option : she could take over Meereen by halfway through the time of year , thus giving us five episodes of her serving as swayer .
But Garcia prognosticate we ’ll probably only see “ a little ” of Daenerys ’ Dance With Dragons plot line in time of year four , at most .
10 ) Bran finds the three - eyed vaporing
Bran journey a short distance and group meeting Coldhands may not be enough for him to do in season four , note Whitehead — but of course , his plot line in season three pretty much see him go a myopic distance and match Jojen and Meera . It ’s potential he ’ll actually witness the Three - Eyed Crow from his dreams . Also , if he get down “ tree diagram - warging , ” the constitution involved could serve to hide the fact that actor Isaac Hempstead Wright is maturate quick , or provide a magical explanation for it . ( Thus avoiding a “ WAAAALT Mark Two ” situation , says Whitehead . )
And as a bonus , we were also wonder :
How will season five end?
Assuming the climax of the fourth season has to do with the engagement at the Wall and the death of Tywin , as Garcia believes , how does season five end ? There ’s no single consequence in A Feast For crow or A Dance With Dragons that pack as big a punch as Ned Stark ’s death , the Battle of the Blackwater or the Red Wedding .
But George R.R. Martin has read that the sixth book , The Winds of Winter , begins with two great battles that were held over from the last of Dance With Dragons : the struggle between Stannis and Ramsay Snow , and the civil state of war in Meereen .
So could flavor five destruction with one of these two huge events from the start of Winds of Winter ?
Garcia says that they could be split between season five and six . He auspicate that one of these two immense battles will be the termination of time of year five , while the other will be held over until time of year six . ( Similar to the path episode four of this time of year , “ And Now His Watch is terminate , ” contained some pretty huge events . )
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