Hey team it’s Charlie, this week for my bonus video I reached into the mailbag since
I haven’t done a Game of Thrones Q&A in a couple weeks.
There’s also been a few important things going on with the show lately so a few of
the questions get into that but I’ll also have some announcements at the end of the
video.
Now to questions, careful for spoilers for everything through season 4.
So let’s get going
Question 1 - igo 170 asks do you think World of Ice and Fire will be out of date when Martin
publishes the rest of the books?
There’s a lot of things that aren’t going to be in there but the book is mostly intended
to be additive material that the future novels won’t cover in depth.
It’s not going to get into the life story for all the characters in the novels.
He’s written a lot of new things for it.
Not full chapters but snippets of history.
The preview he released of Aegon the Conqueror is a good example.
He’ll have things like that in the book.
It’s not going to be a summary of everything that’s going on right now.
So yes, there will be a lot of new things happening after it’s published, but it was
never going to be a complete history of everyone and everything.
I haven’t seen the table of contents yet, but think of world of ice and fire as being
like the book of maps they released.
Lands of Ice and Fire combined with some extra historical information about some of the families
and places.
There are complete family trees for the starks and the targaryens.
The way they said it made me think they only did those two families, but without a table
of contents I can’t confirm that.
The book is out tuesday October 28th so I might give a few copies away that week.
There is a kindle edition but I also pre-ordered the hardback.
It’s going to be a beautiful book, so if you were ever going to buy the physical book,
this would be a good time.
Question 2 - Marzie asks why did Daenerys say that Viserys wasn’t a true dragon.
If fire can’t hurt dragons does that mean he wasn’t a Targaryen?
That’s actually a misconception.
Targaryens can totally be burned by fire when magic is not involved.
Wildfire is particularly deadly to them.
Especially when they try to eat it.
It’s one of the things the books and the show haven’t fully explained, but it gets
into magic.
When Daenerys sits in Khal Drogo’s fire and emerges unburnt it could have been blood
magic, which sounds a lot like the magic the Valyrians practiced.
The show also called the burning of the leeches in season 3 blood magic, so it could also
be related to the magic of the red god.
Or it could be a completely unrelated type of magic.
I don’t totally expect the books to spell it out, but that’s where additive books
like World of Ice and Fire come in.
Martin will probably continue to support extra books like that.
The book itself was pioneered by the people behind Westeros dot org and Martin just helped
out.
It would be like someone writing a complete history of the Time War for Doctor Who.
That show will probably never fully do that event, but it’s this big huge thing that
fans want to know about.
So anytime people complain about Winds of Winter, just remember how much new info we
get from those extra books.
Question 3 - Navdaz asks Can you do a video about the unexplored places in the world like
Sothoryos?
There are a couple of really big places the books haven’t gone yet.
And I say yet, because Martin has talked about Flashbacks to Old Valyria before the doom
in future books.
Sothoryos however you want to pronounce it, is a good analog of Africa, just in the way
Daenerys describes it inhabitants and jungles makes me think of the Amazon or sub saharan
Africa.
Characters in the books have been there but I don’t think there’s quite enough information
about that continent in particular to do a whole video on.
It’s way too big a mystery for Martin to not go there in a future book.
Winter is supposedly coming for everyone right?
So Winter would have to come to the Jungle too.
Until the books go there I’ll probably just work those places into other videos when it’s
relevant.
Question 4 - This Vik asks are the faith militant a defence force or do they also attack certain
houses?
Their standing mission is to uphold the orders of the High Septon.
Or in the case of Season 5 the High Sparrow if you want to use his nickname.
In the past they’ve only gone after people they think are violating morals of the faith.
They’re like the censorship police.
If you are doing something that they deem unholy or ungodly they will meet you with
force and bring you before the High Septon for judgement.
Because we might see them in season 5, if you have read the books please use spoiler
tags in the comments.
Question 5 - Man I Hate wasp asks whos stories are split in books four and five?
The books were split because Martin felt he couldn’t fit all the POV characters into
one book.
So the time period is the same for both books,
you just don’t hear from book 4 characters in book 5 unless the characters in book 5
are thinking about book 4 characters.
The POV characters are a mixture of new characters they just cast in season 5 like Hotah and
characters they cut out like Arys Oakheart and Arianne Martell.
Most of what happens in Book 4 will be season 5 of the show.
But because Daenerys and Tyrion don’t really appear in Book 4, season 5 will also get into
Book 5 stuff.
Question 6 - Flame for Moonlight asks will there be more Dragons in season 5?
Yes, lots more dragons.
I feel like of all the possible CG things the show could choose to do, the dragons are
one of the first things they think about every year.
I feel like the producers and casual fans of the show use dragons as a way to explain
what it’s about to other people.
Like when someone who has never read the books asks what’s game of thrones about?
Another random person says Dragons and Ice People.
That’s a fraction of it, but it’s something easy for non-hardcore people to latch on to.
So there will always be dragons on the show.
They’d be the last thing that would ever get cut.
Question 7 - Albert A asks, do you think they’d ever freeze someone’s story from the books
for a whole season?
Not one of the big main characters.
Little characters like Gendry, Hodor and Lancel yes, either they’d just not use them for
a season or they’d just drop them from the story completely.
Hodor is confirmed sitting out season 5 even though Isaac Hemstead Wright has said he has
shot scenes for the premiere.
When Martin talks about the show changing more and more from the books over time, it’s
because the show keeps using characters that Martin hasn’t used
and as a result it doesn’t have room to bring in new characters that Martin brings
in.
Like Arianne Martell.
Question 8 - Troll Kidd asks would HBO ever fire one of the stars like Emilia Clarke if
they said a spoiler?
Not if they felt they were critical to the ending they’d envisioned.
And to be honest, I feel like all the hardcore fans will have already imagined every possible
outcome for the show.
Most of the people that watch the show don’t search for extra information online, that’s
usually just the highly engaged part of the fandom that really wants to talk about what’s
going on.
Most people are just passive observers.
Like they want HBO to wheel the dump truck of content up to their house and leave.
That’s slowly changing because of something google calls generation C. It’s a way to
describe the millenial, gen x, gen y crowd that consume content primarily on digital
platforms.
Those people, of which we are all a part are much more likely to actively engage with shows,
search for information about it online and engage in online conversations about in on
social media
like this youtube video.
In the next 5 years, we will become the majority.
But we’re not quite there yet.
Question 9 - Dan Cummings asks, could you do a video on what scenes they have been filming?
Okay, since this could be potentially super spoilery I’m going to put this tag up and
you can just skip till it goes away if you want.
I’ll wait just a sec...okay.
They just started building the Winterfell set again, so there will be lots of Winterfell
scenes.
Remember, the Boltons were marching there during season 4.
They also constructed sets for the House of Black and White, the place where the faceless
men are headquartered.
They filmed near the cathedral in Dubrovnik with Cersei, so they’re doing that big scene
from Book 4.
They filmed a river boat scene with Tyrion, Varys and possibly Jorah Mormont.
Mormont was described in the same post I saw but he wasn’t pictured with Tyrion and Varys.
And none of them were actually filmed.
It was just reported they were on set.
And they’ve also filmed the fighting pits of Meereen.
This is what it looks like.
Most of those scenes are for pretty major things, so again, please use spoiler tags
if you want to talk more about them in the comments.
Okay spoilers over Question 10 - Juan Hunter asks, how many seasons do you think the show
will run and will they do prequel shows?
HBO seems pretty comfortable with 7 seasons for less successful things like True Blood,
so bare minimum 7.
Game Of Thrones is by far their most popular Drama since Sopranos, so they’ll try to
keep it going as long as the producers can keep coming up with new stories.
I think it will be season 6 before we see how much they stretch the plot of the books
out.
There’s no reason they couldn’t do 10 seasons, but I’m not expecting them to take
it that far.
As for prequels.
George RR Martin signed a development deal during season 1 for a separate show.
There’s no word on what that will be other than it will be a prequel and it will not
be from recent history.
It’s not going to be a Robert’s Rebellion prequel.
It would more likely be from the time of the Dance of The Dragons or during the reign of
one of the crazier Targaryen Kings.
Either way whenever it gets here I’ll continue to support it.
But thank you so much for submitting questions everyone.
I’ll try to post my next bonus video either this friday or next friday.
I’m trying to turn Fridays into my Game of Thrones days but so many new things are
coming I’ll just have to see how it goes.
Congrats to this week’s giveaway winner Meli West.
You get your choice of any of Martin’s books.
I’ll reach out to you on your channel for details.
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I also do a weekly book giveaway as you’ve seen.
Couple of extra announcements.
Since I’m having enough trouble getting regular bonus videos out with all the other
new tv shows coming I’m going to postpone live rewatches till the holidays this year.
Just so things don’t get too crazy.
This week Gotham and Agents of SHIELD start.
I’ve done preview videos for both shows so I’ll add links in the description.
You should check them out they’ll be a lot of fun.
Gotham is tonight and Agents of SHEILD is tuesday night.
UK people might have to wait a couple weeks if you don’t stream your shows.
Right now click here to learn about the Religions on Game of Thrones and Click here to learn
about the Faceless Men.
Thanks for watching, now everybody high five and we'll meet back up for Gotham later tonight.