...and then, they'll ALL be killed
“Ideally that wouldn’t have gotten out and it’s unfortunate it did,†Benioff said. “The fact is, even though we’re making changes to the books and adapting as necessary, we’re trying to keep the various storylines the same as the books and trying to keep them roughly [chronologically] parallel. And last year we caught up to the end of Bran’s storyline [in George R.R. Martin’s most recent A Song of Ice and Fire novel, A Dance with Dragons]. So if we pushed him forward this season, then he’s way ahead of where the other characters are.â€â€œIt made sense to stop where we did,†Benioff said. “He’s now entering a training period which is going to take quite some time, much of which isn’t particularly cinematic. So rather than being stuck in a cave for a year, we figured it would be interesting to leave him out for a little bit, so when you see him again…†Benioff didn’t want to reveal much more beyond that. EW
“From my point of view, the craziest one is the people who believe that I’ve actually finished all of the books, and I’m just sitting on them for some reason in order to get more money or increase the value, you know, to release them an appropriate point. That’s a pretty crazy one, but there seem to be people who actually believe that.†VIA
Military academies in Turkey will soon have to say goodbye to The Starks and Lannisters. That’s because the country’s armed forces has banned HBO’s Game of Thrones in an effort to provide “protection of students.â€According to local paper Hurriyet Daily News, the harsh ruling is part of a new set of regulations which looks to prohibit programs that show “sexual exploitation, pornography, exhibitionism, abuse, harassment and all negative behaviors.â€Back in 2012, four students were dismissed for allowing a showing of the series. Officials at the time did not cite religious reasons or so-called “negative behaviors.†Instead, they implied GoT was “an insult to Turkishnessâ€, referring to the “barbaric†and “pervert†depictions of the Dothrakhi people, who are thought to be ancestrally linked to Turkish tribes. VIA