The new season of Game of Thrones begins this Sunday.
I want to make the spoiler policy very clear because we had a lot of threads ruined and derailed last year over it. This thread will only cover things that have happened in the show, up to and including the episode named in the thread title. No information from the books is welcome. If people judge for themselves what constitutes a spoiler and what doesn’t, they may get it wrong, and most likely they will ignite a fight over whether or not it was a spoiler, and it’ll create all sorts of hijacks and threadshitting - so we’re going to have a zero tolerance policy. No spoilers, even in boxes, of things that occured from outside of the TV show.
Now - last year we ran 3 threads, there was an omni thread where all spoilers were open for people who read the books to discuss the TV show, and there was an in-between one, where people who were watching the show but wanted to ask for more information or specific spoilers from the books, and the weekly episode threads concerning only the tv show. I welcome the people who made those threads to make them again, so we can take our spoiler discussion to those threads. Once we had that system worked out last year, everything went smoother, and the weekly episode threads were about discussing just the TV show. Please no fighting about the spoiler policies - if you read the threads last year, you’d realize what a giant clusterfuck it turns into when we start discussing that. If you have an idea for a thread that involves a greater allowance for spoilers, please go ahead and create it and link to it here.
And of course don’t read this thread if you haven’t seen season 1, or (after Sunday night), season 1 episode 1. There will be open discussion of that content. So there should be no need for any spoiler boxes for any reason in this thread.
So when we left off, the Lannisters and Starks were at war. Drogo is dead, and Danyris laid some dragons. Ned was executed. The Lannisters have Sansa, the Starks have Jamie Lanister, and Arya is in hiding. There’s evidence that things are stirring north of the wall, and the Night’s Watch are sending out a party. Differing factions are fighting for the throne - claimants are Geoffry, Stannis Baratheon, and Robb Stark.
Moderator’s Amendment:
Spoiler policy for this thread:
- Anything that has not yet been AIRED ON TV is not acceptable in this thread. (This includes webzines, DVD extra content, magazines, speculation based on unaired content and so on.)
- Any discussion, comparison or really anything related to the books the show is based on needs to go to the Closed Spoilers thread. (See below)
- We follow the US airing schedule. There is no “grace period” for letting the rest of the world catch up. (Like us Europeans, people who DVR the show, stream it later, etc, etc)
This is in order to allow people who want to ask specific questions and receive specific answers regarding backstory or things they missed, be able to use this thread as a resource. For those who wants limited spoilers - for instance people who have read the books up unto a point but don’t want spoilers for the rest of the books - this is the place to be. Please report information which should not be in the open by using the Report Post tool.
If you want to ask questions regarding backstory, discuss how the series reflect the books, speculate in the future based on unaired information or otherwise engage in a discussion in an enviroment in which posters are to use their best judgement to decide what is or is not a spoiler, please follow this thread:
Game of Thrones Season 2 - CLOSED SPOILERS Discussion Thread
For those who want to discuss in a COMPLETELY open-spoilers enviroment in which the books, the series, webzines and in short all the information available anywhere is valid and open for discussion, please follow this thread:
Game of Thrones Season 2 - OPEN SPOILERS Discussion Thread
Meta-discussion of the spoiler policy itself should happen in a separate ATMB thread if really necessary, though I invite people to PM me instead.
With regards,
Gukumatz
Game Room & IMHO Moderator
Consulting Game of Thrones Moderator