Adaptation talks Game of Thrones season 5, going over all the major storylines—cheering for some, groaning for others—and making predictions for next season!

NOTE: We do not spoil anything past where the show is, but we do talk about things that happened differently in the books, so there are some minor book spoilers.

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Main Discussion

Game of Thrones on HBO (2011)

-Season 5  premiered in April 2015

-Created by David Benioff and DB Weiss

-Based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin

Notes

Cersei/King’s Landing

-the High Sparrow

-Loras and Margaery thrown in jail

-Cersei in jail and walk of shame

-Sir Robert Strong

Dorne

-Oberyn would not have wanted Marsella hurt

-weird coincidental fight scene

-Marsella’s death

Dany/Meeran

-Was opening the fighting pits the right decision?

-kills the former slave for killing the Harpy

-What do you think of Hizdahr?

-Barristan’s death

Tyrion/Jorah

-grayscale

-gets into Dany’s service

Arya/Bravvos

-gets rid of belongings, except Needle

-kills Meryn Trant, goes blind?

The Wall

-What do you think of Manse’s decision to burn rather than kneel? (“The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted.”)

-Manse is still alive in the book

-Jon is offered Winterfell, and I dissolve in a puddle of tears- gets elected Lord Commander- beheads Janos

-Hearthome- don’t like how Karsi died

-Jon is killed (Ollie, you little shit!)

Stannis

-burns his daughter, wife commits suicide and is abandoned by his men and Melisandre

-Selyse changes her mind

-killed by Brienne

Sansa/Boltons

-refuses Brienne’s service

-rape scene

-finds out about Bran and Rickon

-escapes to go where?

No Bran this season

maybe he’ll return with a better wig next season

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