Much like the fugitive Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones viewers are heading into new territory when the fifth season of HBO’s hit show returns this April. We’re still reeling from the dramatic events of last year (I still can’t look at crushed tomatoes without thinking of Oberyn Martell), based largely on the last half of George R. R. Martin’s arguably greatest novel, A Storm of Swords.
Written as two distinct novels, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons take place almost simultaneously for all of the former and a big chunk of the latter. It’s George’s great “Meerenese knot” untangling the various plots and loose ends and theories that still have yet to play out. While not considered the strongest installments of A Song of Ice and Fire, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been given some editorial spoilers for Thrones’ not-yet-written endgame. While this isn’t good news to book fans—some of whom have even decided to stop watching the show for fear of outpacing what’s known in the novels—fans of the show might just get another really great year of television as Benioff & Weiss trim some fat from George’s manuscripts and quicken the pace in ways the published novels have not.
And that’s to say nothing of the liberties the show is taking, creating rampant speculation and huge anticipation. So what themes might the show cover in its fifth year?
[A distinct animal motif, powerful women, and adult language...]
An interesting read via Tor.com Frontpage Partial - Blog and Story Content
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