Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and my Game of Thrones countdown continues, I think we’re
on our third or fourth video.
During my Breakdown of the last trailer I asked you all to submit questions and I picked
10 to answer with one bonus question.
Everybody really just wants to talk about the Titan of Braavos, but I grabbed some other
good ones.
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Now it’s time to talk some Braavos.
Careful for spoilers if you’re not caught up on the show.
Here we go.
Question Number 1 - Neto del Toro asks Do you think we’ll see Cat of The Canals House
of Black and White this season based on The Titan being in the trailer?
Based on that Titan, yes we will see Braavos but not quite the way you think.
There’s a lot of different stories tied up in that location during various parts of
the story, but the one I think we’ll see is Ser Davos at the Iron Bank.
Remember Mark Gatiss is playing Tycho Nestoris, someone who works at the Iron Bank.
Stannis had no money during season 2 when he borrowed all those ships from Salladhor
Saan’s ships.
The funny thing about that scene was that all that Saan seemed to want was to get to
have sex with Cersei when they took King’s Landing.
But since that very expensive fleet was torched with wildfire, Stannis has no more ships and
no money.
So Davos will get sent to borrow more.
Enter Mark Gatiss.
Question 2 - Fenrirnorgesen asks when the show catches up to the books will the do a
prequel series like for dunk and egg or Robert’s Rebellion?
Yes there will be a prequel tv series at some point, but it will be set way way back in
the past.
So no Dunk and Egg and no Robert’s Rebellion.
George RR Martin was signed to an HBO development deal of his own around season 1.
I personally want to see a series set in Old Valyria before the doom.
It’s the same situation with Robert Kirkman at AMC.
They also signed him to a development deal for a Walking Dead spinoff show.
It’s just because those world’s are so popular, and HBO and AMC want to keep that
type of content going for as long as possible.
No announcements have been made about the Game of Thrones Prequel series, but it took
David Benioff and DB Weiss 3 years to make the first pilot for the current Game of Thrones
show.
Plus Martin still has to finish Winds of Winter and then write Dream of Spring.
He’s a busy man.
Question 3 - Taylor Simpson asks will they add scenes for characters that aren’t in
Feast For Crows or Dance With Dragons?
You’re talking about the same thing they did with Theon last season.
Yes, they’ll re-arrange things so that they happen chronologically.
It just makes it easier to follow a story when you don’t jump back and forth in time
too much.
JRR Tolkein had the same problem with his books, so Peter Jackson had to re-arrange
the chapters for the movies so that events unfolded one right after the other.
As far as extra things, they’re really just blending Feast for Crows with Dance with Dragons.
They won’t cover all of those books, but most of the characters that aren’t in Feast
are in Dance, so logically it made sense to do events from the beginning of both books.
A lot of the later chapters will probably spill over into season 5 though.
Question 4 - Vermalgab Boom asks Is anyone going to go to Braavos since we saw the Titan?
Yes, Davos like I mentioned, but I also think that we’ll see teasers at the end for other
characters that are going there.
There’s at least two or four I guess, depending on how you look at it.
Question 5 - Sergio Vale da Serra asks, Do you think Ned Stark will come back?
What do you think the cliffhanger will be this season?
The only way Ned Stark could come back would be as a Wight, and even then he’s lost his
head, so I don’t think the white walkers would be able to re-animate his corpse.
The only way to kill them is to burn the bodies, so I guess they could reanimate his head so
that he’s just a biter like the ones in the Governor’s fish tank on walking dead.
As far as cliffhangers, there are several events in the middle of books four and five
that would be good.
All of the characters have multiple oh shit moments, so it will be amazing no matter where
they end things.
Question 6 - Steven U asks Will we finally get to see Barristan Selmy fight this season?
I hope so, the show stays really close to the spirit of the books and major plot points.
But it does take small liberties with characters.
As we’ve seen in the trailers, Daenerys still has a major battle ahead of her and
while all the Barristan Selmy scenes make him seem like more of a talker and less of
a stabber, I think he will get tough with people.
Daario is really the stabby one in her camp, the one who gets sent out to quote unquote,
take care of things.
Selmy is really more of a counselor, like Ser Friendzone.
With way less creepiness about him.
Question 7 - Conner Peckham (no avatar) asks I kinda want to start on the books, but I
want to start reading where the show is right now.
Which book should I start with?
Honestly, you need to read the second half of Storm of Swords if you really want to pick
up where Season 3 left off.
But if you want to be quick about it, you can just read spoilers for that stuff and
start reading A Feast For Crows.
Season 4 is going to be weird in that it combines chapters from the first half of both Book
4 and 5.
So you’ll miss out on some stuff no matter what.
But I think if you’re going to read the books, you should read them in the order they
were published, not in the order the show is doing them.
When the season does start and I do videos for the episodes.
I’ll try to reference chapters of events when they happen on the show.
In case anyone wants to compare.
Question 8 - Lisa Cunningham asks How far into the storyline of Cercei do you think
they will get this season?
I think we’ll only get about halfway through her character’s arc.
So there will still be a lot of big stuff spilling over into Season 5.
With all the mega stuff going on in King’s Landing already, including everything from
her chapters seems like it would be too much for the story to handle.
The problem with the show is that if it tried to do everything in a single book for a season
it would be way too disorganized.
And remember, she’s not going to be in every single episode.
Question 9 - Ryuga Zero asks Who do you think is the most important character or will become
the most important character?
So this is a huge debate, but George RR Martin has always said that he identifies with Tyrion
the most.
I always felt that a lot of fantasy authors make some of the narrative autobiographical,
in the sense that the character they identify with the most becomes the most important character.
That’s not always the case, but there’s something really logical about the way David
Benioff and DB Weiss went about casting Peter Dinklage.
He’s the highest paid actor on the show.
Yes, they are following the plot of the books for the big stuff.
The other clear choice is Daenerys, she’s been the face of the show on the posters and
everything for a couple seasons now.
The thing I really like about Game of Thrones is that unlike say, The Hobbit or Lord of
The Rings.
There is no one single main character.
But if I had to pick it would be a tie between Tyrion and Daenerys.
Question 10 - Henri-Martin Fayad asks How do you think the first episode will start?
Typically the first episode of each new season of Game of Thrones has started immediately
after the events of the previous season’s finale.
So if you re-watch the last episode of season 3, we’ll start season 4 a few days after
that.
So Jon Snow just came back to the Night’s Watch, Daenerys just freed all those slaves
and Jaime and Brienne just came back to King’s Landing.
So those will be the places we’ll start with in episode 1.
and one last Bonus Question - Ayan Tandon asks how many seasons will there be?
The showrunners just did an interview with Vanity Fair where they said they went to George
RR Martin’s house in New Mexico to learn how the rest of the story ends for each character.
That’s just because by the time we get through season 5, they’ll have passed the books.
They didn’t reveal any spoilers of course, but they did say they have enough content
for 7 seasons and maybe an 8th, depending if HBO would pay for it.
Believe me, they will pay for an 8th season.
For now, we can say confirmed 7, but in reality I do think it will be 8.
So thanks so much for submitting questions, this was a lot of fun.
I’m working on getting livestreaming running on my channel.
So I might do live Q&A videos in the future.
I’m also working on doing live videos right after shows end, like Talking Dead.
That probably won’t happen at least until Game of Thrones starts.
I have a lot of technical details to work out.
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My next video is going to be a history of Dragons in the world of Essos.
Remember they started out in Valyria, then came to Westeros and so on.
That will probably post late late tonight.
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