In the books, Castle Black is huge but mostly in bad condition. The Night's Watch used to be orders of magnitude larger, and in their depleted condition have been unable to man most of their castles, or even to fill the ones they do man, let alone maintain them.
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The show is all caught up, even past the published books in some stories, but also far enough apart that it wouldn't make any sense to try to read ahead anyway. If you like the show, you really should just start from Book 1.
If show-Littlefinger doesn't know what Ramsay Bolton is, then he's an idiot. They've started flaying men again. He is notorious across the north for having forcibly married, raped, and then starved a lady in an attempt to steal her land. Even cursory inquiry about the boy would get you a boatload of "he's a psycho"…
Pretty sure those are in the books, too.
Not the way it happens in the books. Your theory could be right for the show, but it's unrelated to the books.
Not in the show. In the show he has precisely two victories to his name, and one was the result of a surrender following magic and the other was a cavalry charge into a bunch of unmounted wildlings engaged in a siege against a magic, 700' tall wall.
He warged into his executioner and then passively watched the Kingsguard abuse his elder daughter and hunt his younger daughter like a fox gone to ground. Okay.
Not great, but not any worse than it did for Archbishop Sudbury or Sir Robert Hales.
That's true, but there is some precedent for religious authorities successfully pushing aside secular authorities. Also, if one were going to pick a rebellion to weave into this world, Wat Tyler's Rebellion is in the historical neighborhood, and featured a peasant uprising stoked by a radical and outspoken preacher,…
There is a 0.0% chance that Cleganebowl is not happening in the books. A significant percentage of the total length of the story has been setting up the final, climactic fight between the brothers Clegane—a fight that was foreshadowed in the very first book by actually having them fight.
The question is not "when is Cleganebowl?" The question is HOW HYPE ARE YOU!?!? THE ANSWER IS GET HYPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
By far the most deaths in the episode were the men who stayed loyal to Stannis and were then brutally slaughtered by the Bolton forces. You may remember them from such previous hits as "saving the realm from the Wildlings busting the damn Wall down".
I think it's very much in question which of them is right, and I don't read Olenna as being particularly sure it's her. There are examples of violent peasant uprisings in the era which inspired much of the setting, many of which had a religious (or at least heretical) component. House Tyrell is blessed with…
It doesn't make a ton of sense, but I'm willing to forgive it on the basis that the High Sparrow seems convinced that the common people could overthrow the monarchy more or less at will. If the King was impotent to retrieve his mother, then the mother will likely be equally impotent. If Cersei attacked the faith,…
Right, but Doran pretty clearly didn't know the plan. The whole staging suggests that it was Ellaria and the Sand Snakes carrying on their personal vendetta and attempting to force Doran's hand. If Doran wanted a war, he could just start a war. He had the means, but repeatedly demonstrated that he lacked the motive.
My pet favorite implausible theory is that all the Starks fail except Rickon, who comes roaring back at the head of a Northern horde with a personal retinue of Skagos cannibals.
Bronn probably. I can't remember how Tyrion and Jaime left it though, and I know that show Jaime wants to gut show Tyrion, though in the book I think it's the reverse (or maybe mutual?) Either way, not likely a hug-it-out reunion, given the patricide and all that.
Oops we changed too many plot details and forgot to fix these characters' escape so now we have to live with them committing suicide.
That was exactly their plan. They want a war between Dorne and the Lannisters, and they're going to give Doran every reason to engage in that war while simultaneously given the Lannisters every reason to launch it.