# Valar Hiatus: The Game of Thrones offseason thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208 "2012-06-05T22:13:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/461 "2016-03-08T23:22:40Z")
I too am super excited about this season. I hope it lives up to expectations. I just re-watched S5 to get back up to speed. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/462 "2016-03-09T14:45:17Z")
Arise John Snow! You still know nothing, but soon you will. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/463 "2016-03-09T16:47:47Z")
Looks pretty cool. Thanks, **TroutMan**. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/464 "2016-03-15T13:34:36Z")
Those who liked the first Daario might want to see _Deadpool_; Ed Skrein, the actor who played him, has a prominent role in it. [![](http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/195/224ce130-9739-0131-f0b6-4294e5a140ae.jpg?w=684&h=513&fit=crop&crop=faces&auto=format&q=70) ](http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/195/224ce130-9739-0131-f0b6-4294e5a140ae.jpg?w=684&h=513&fit=crop&crop=faces&auto=format&q=70) [![](http://m.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/4714978.jpg?type=article-full) ](http://m.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/4714978.jpg?type=article-full) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/465 "2016-03-16T13:48:26Z")
For those who don’t regularly follow the Baker’s Dozen game thread - a recent category: **Major changes that probably won’t be seen on this season’s Game of Thrones** 1. Reba McEntire joins the cast as sassy mountain woman Catsuppa Gravy and sings the show’s new theme song, “A Way Down East in Westeros” 2. Plot elements taken from the published sixth and seventh volumes 3. Tyrion Lannister becomes a monk. 4. After becoming a monk Tyrion Lannister falls for a very clingy princess (Sarah Silverman) 5. Olenna Tyrell starts getting naked every week. 6. New catchphrase: “You know everything, Jon Snow.” 7. Ned Stark returns to the series and repeatedly tells other characters that Tahiti is a magical place. 8. Hodor 9. The dragons learn to talk (voices of Eugene Levy, Kevin Hart, and Arianna Huffington). 10. Donald Trump buys the Iron Throne 11. Author George R. R. Martin arrives and has sex with all the beautiful naked women one after the other. 12. King Tommen grows a pair. 13. Episode 3, “How Much is that Dragon in the Widow?”, will be filmed live in front of a studio audience. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/466 "2016-03-16T14:34:43Z")
Game of Thrones played an amusing role in last night’s episode of “Limitless”: Brian bribed the chief officer of a Russian prison into letting his girlfriend out by arranging for a 15 minute conversation with GRRM in which he would reveal how the entire saga would end. Oh, but first Brian had a three hour conversation with GRRM in which he helped him “work out some difficulties.” Hmmmmmm. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/467 "2016-03-16T18:57:14Z")
Given her fondness for family and need for power, I’d always expected Cersei to pull an Agrippina and seduce Joffrey. Never happened, but I wonder if she might try Tommen this year. She’s not as fresh and lovely as Margaery, but she’s not locked up and she does know a thing or two about mind games. Not sure how I like Varys in Daenerys’s capital city. I’m not so sure that the head of the KGB could self exile to Buenos Aires and immediately form a network to rival the one he had at home. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/468 "2016-03-16T21:21:39Z")
Ian McShane has pissed off some “NO SPOILERS!” fans by giving away what they felt was too much about his character. So his response to angry fans: [QUOTE=Ian McShane] “I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think, get a fucking life. It’s only tits and dragons.” [/QUOTE] If George R.R. Martin is still looking for a title for Novel 7, I just don’t think he can do better than TITS AND DRAGONS. I’d say on a range where 1 is “It isn’t happily ever after for Sansa and Joffrey” and 10 is “Robb and his mom and thousands of others get murdered by Walder Frey at Robb’s uncle’s wedding” Ian went about a 5. For more about the hubbub WITH the spoilers, [go here](http://europe.newsweek.com/ian-mcshane-just-gave-away-another-game-thrones-spoiler-436399?rm=eu). For more about the hubbub WITHOUT spoilers, [go here](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2016/mar/15/ian-mcshane-game-of-thrones-season-six-tits-and-dragons). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/469 "2016-03-16T22:21:49Z")
[When New Yorkers are promised dragons, there should be fucking dragons.](http://nypost.com/2016/03/15/is-that-a-pile-of-trash-or-a-game-of-thrones-promotion/) Good thing only about 30 people showed up for this GoT promotion. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/470 "2016-03-16T22:31:30Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [When New Yorkers are promised dragons, there should be fucking dragons.](http://nypost.com/2016/03/15/is-that-a-pile-of-trash-or-a-game-of-thrones-promotion/) Eh, all they did was complain to a journalist. I was expecting some beheadings at least. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/471 "2016-03-17T01:36:58Z")
I’m have expecting season 6 to be when the show goes totally over the cliff. Tits and Dragons indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/472 "2016-03-17T04:01:06Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Game of Thrones played an amusing role in last night’s episode of “Limitless”: Brian bribed the chief officer of a Russian prison into letting his girlfriend out by arranging for a 15 minute conversation with GRRM in which he would reveal how the entire saga would end. > > Oh, but first Brian had a three hour conversation with GRRM in which he helped him “work out some difficulties.” Hmmmmmm. 😃 Ha! Did Martin appear as himself on the show? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/473 "2016-03-17T04:21:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ha! Did Martin appear as himself on the show? Sorry, no. You don’t even ever hear his voice. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/474 "2016-03-17T16:11:55Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > I’m have expecting season 6 to be when the show goes totally over the cliff. > > Tits and Dragons indeed. What have we been seeing the last 5 years again? ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/475 "2016-03-17T22:28:08Z")
A pretty good story, with tits and dragons (and violence). I fear they’ve run out story now though. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/476 "2016-03-17T22:30:48Z")
Based on the most recent trailer, I disagree. There are so many interesting story developments strongly hinted at, including past events that had only been vaguely referred to way back in the first part of season 1, that I’m getting steadily more excited about the upcoming season. I think they still have plenty of story to tell! ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/477 "2016-03-17T22:55:01Z")
I hope you’re right, I guess we’ll see next month. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/478 "2016-03-17T23:16:18Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > I fear they’ve run out story now though. I think there’s a somewhat valid criticism that there’s _too much_ story, particularly in the books. Tying everything together and finishing all the open story lines is more of a challenge than coming up with enough story. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/479 "2016-03-17T23:35:05Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I think there’s a somewhat valid criticism that there’s _too much_ story, particularly in the books. Tying everything together and finishing all the open story lines is more of a challenge than coming up with enough story. No kidding. Last we saw Gendry (Robert Baratheon’s bastard son), he was rowing a boat to King’s Landing, and that was two seasons ago, going on three. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/480 "2016-03-18T03:01:12Z")
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