Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and yesterday I asked you to submit all your Game of Thrones
Questions so here we shall answer them. Just last night I also found some new evidence
for an official Winds of Winter release date so I’ll explain that first. Because it would
be a very very big deal.
There’s a little bit of math and a little bit of leaked information from an international
news site. They collectively say Spring 2015, which I don’t think is going to happen but
the data science website FiveThirtyEight ran their own stats based on known factors and
came up with February 2015 which will never play out. And there’s an international news
site that’s supposedly called Book Keep Library saying April 2015. But I can’t even
find their website so I can’t confirm where they got April from.
Five Thirty Eight is Nate Silver’s website, they do statistical analysis to write their
stories. Because they’re actually using real data to make predictions I tend to trust
them more.
The reason I don’t think the book will be done by February is because George RR Martin
would have to not leave his house and exceed his average daily word count every day until
February next year. There’s no way that’s going to happen. He will travel, he will take
days off.
The article was written in June and since then he already traveled to the Ediburgh Book
Festival. If you’ve never heard him talk about writing, he only writes when he doesn’t
travel. And during football season he takes every Sunday off.
I’d like to see the book by the end of Season 5, that would be June 2015, even that seems
optimistic. I do think it will be done in 2015. It’s harder to predict because book
releases don’t work the same way movie releases or tv seasons work.
I don’t even want to think about book 7. Dream of Spring was originally planned as
the final song of ice and fire novel but now he’s said that he might expand it and do
an eighth novel. There would just be more side characters and more plots going on around
the main characters.
I’ll do a separate Winds of Winter video soon and talk more about such things. Be sure
to subscribe to get it.
On to questions, Question Number 1 - 1 rebeccaam.PNG The faces they use are cured faces. The first
time I read the book and then saw it on the series I was a little confused. But the book
explains it much better. They’re worn like masks. So theoretically Jaqen has the face
he was born with. We don’t know if that’s the one we saw but yes, he could totally go
back to any face he’s previously worn if he still has the face.
It’s also important to note that if they’re on a mission to kill someone or infiltrate
a place, they can kill a new person, take their face and walk around as said person.
That’s why everyone is wondering if syrio forel is Jaqen, I don’t think that’s the
case, Syrio was a water dancer. I’m hoping Dan and Dave understand how much the fans
talk about this and at least include some easter egg for it during the Braavos scenes
in season 5.
Just to explain the new faces thing. If Jaqen were on a mission and he needed a new face,
he’d kill someone, then preserve their face so it wouldn’t decompose and start wearing
it.
Like constructing a mask from someone else’s face.
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I think the show is going to simplify it a lot so it makes sense inside the world the
show has presented. What they’ll probably do is have Alexander Siddig, who’s playing
Doran, seem like a weak person because of his gout and after the Sand Snakes start and
then surprise surprise he’ll get that “I will be your champion” type moment that
Oberyn had.
The way Doran is presented is a little different that Oberyn. In season 4 episode 1 the way
Tyrion talks about Oberyn makes him sound like a foppish version of Jaime, just fucking
his way across the narrow sea. Then as we get to know him better we find out he’s
cunning, leading up to the scene in the Black Cells where he reveals his revenge plan to
Tyrion.
I think it will be exactly the same type of slow burn with Doran. He’s seem weak and
indecisive then fast forward to “I have a plan”, “I’ve always had a plan”
and it’s all playing out nicely.
It seems like a very TV-thing to do. They’ll just cut out a lot of details from the book
version of the master plan to make it sound simpler.
I’m really excited about Alexander Siddig, I was huge Deep Space 9 fan. Especially after
Doctor Bashir got super dark during the Gem Hadar war.
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I didn’t see your first question so no worries but who says Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen
aren’t Jon Snow’s real parents. There’s no way the show would confirm or deny a big
reveal like that this soon in the series. That’s like Season 7 stuff. Even the books
have danced around Jon Snow’s mother.
I did a couple mega theory videos this year where I explain why they might be his parents.
I’ll add a link to that at the end of the video and in the description if people want
to watch it.
Right now, in my opinion, there has been no theory with more compelling evidence.
Just because the show hasn’t cast Lyanna Stark yet or done a big flashback sequence
doesn’t mean they won’t. They’re planning for 8 seasons, so we’ve only seen half of
what they intend to do.
On the other side of that, if any of you guys feel like you have better evidence for a competing
Jon Snow mother theory please write it in the comments. It’s always a fun topic to
talk about. And because no one knows for sure it’s not even spoilery.
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I saw a lot of questions about Jaqen’s whereabouts during season 2. The simple answer is he was
exactly where he wanted to be. He wanted to go to the wall so he let himself be captured.
Hopefully the books and the show will explain it in greater detail but I think that he placed
himself in Arya’s path.
I don’t think it guarantees that Syrio and Jaqen are connected, but Jaqen took an interest
in Arya and probably saw that she had potential as a Faceless person.
I think it’s really a combination of circumstance and design. Jaqen didn’t go to King’s
Landing just because of Arya, but once he was there he saw her and called an audible
on whatever mission he was on.
Book 5 provides a few suggestions as to what’s going on, so if you want to follow up on Jaqen
read that.
Question 5 - No I don’t think that Littlefinger will
Marry Sansa, he explains his grand plan in the books. I think the show will do that Sansa
stuff without changing it too much. It was a pretty simple situation as presented. To
explain it would be super spoilery, so I’ll just say read the sansa chapters, they explain
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As for your second questions, I don’t think he’s going to Kill Tyrion. At least not
in Winds of Winter. I know everyone wants Tyrion to be the focal point for the battle
between the forces of the great other and the red god.
I do think he’ll die eventually, it’s just not going to happen in winds of winter.
The way I think about it is that no one in the series gets a happy ending, they just
get an ending. People find themselves in situations and either adapt or die. So by the end of
the series, most of the characters we know now will have changed so much they’ll seem
like completely different people.
Hardship and war change people. I have my favorites I hope survive, but I wouldn’t
be surprised if most of them die horribly.
On to Question 6 -
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I assume when you say TV watcher you mean you haven’t read the books. I don’t think
Tommen will be assassinated. It would be too predictable if they killed Tommen so quickly
after setting him up as this totally normal kid. That doesn’t mean he won’t be killed,
I just think he’ll live to see season 6.
Yes things are going downhill in King’s Landing, especially since the smart people
are leaving. Tyrion left with Varys and Tywin is dead. That makes Cersei the person in charge.
Which is what she always wanted, but she’s a terrible person. So I’m really excited
to see things fly out of control.
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I’ll be so disappointed if they just drop Gendry for another season. As it stands, he’s
not a critical part of the story, so it’s possible they could never mention him again.
Unless they change the books and combine characters again.
It’s possible he could have rowed his little boat into the narrow sea and been picked up
by a merchant ship heading to the east.
Arya feels like she’s leaving everything she knows behind, so I’m not expecting her
to run into Gendry. If they want her to become a new person then bring someone from her past
in so quickly would put the brakes on that.
There have been a bunch of characters that have been separated by circumstances since
season 1, I do think that at a certain point a lot of them will cross paths again. But
we’ve still got like 4 more seasons to go. So it might be a while.
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I get this question a lot, congratulations. You will not regret reading the books. Reading
is very important. If you want to skip everything that’s already happened. Just start with
Book 4. The last scene in season 4 with Arya, is right where Book 4 begins.
They did spill into book 4 a little for other characters, but for all intents and purposes.
Book 4 will comprise the greatest portion of Season 5.
Then if you want circle back around and read the first three books.
If you have a lot of time then you can start with book 1, you’ve got till the beginning
of next april before season 5 starts.
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I don’t think I’ll be doing the exact same thing. I try to change the types of videos
I do based on what everyone enjoys the most. So a lot of it just depends on requests I
get. Like people asking for more explainers, book theories, history videos.
I have a lot more time to actually sit down and write stuff too. So what you’ll probably
see more this fall will be me asking people to vote for future videos and then I just
do the ones that get picked the most.
I’m also really excited to try videos that involve things from you guys. That’s the
ultimate goal, to make videos that involve things you guys contribute, whether it be
art or a theory or something funny.
That kind of stuff. That’s what I’m trying to figure out how to do right now.
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I don’t think they’re the same person. Howland is closer to Ned Stark’s age and
Jonathan Pryce who they cast as the High Sparrow. Looks like more of a plotter than a fighter.
Howland is described as being very small but incredibly formidable.
He saved Ned Stark’s life by holding off Arthur Dayne and he was the only other person
besides Ned to survive when they went to rescue Lyanna Stark from Rhaegar Targaryen at the
Tower of Joy.
For those that haven’t read the books, he’s the father of Jojen and Meera Reed. He’s
a crannogman who so far has supposedly been hiding out in the hills while everything’s
been going crazy all over the world.
For book readers, there’s also a theory that he is the Knight of the Laughing Tree.
I hope we see him on the show at some point, but so far I haven’t seen any casting notices
that fit his description.
Thanks so much for submitting questions, there were also a lot of really good ones that were
spoilery so I tried to answer those in the comments. Spoiler questions are totally cool
to ask as long as you use spoiler tags.
And for anyone who did catch me talking about it before, please make sure replies are turned
on for your account. When you leave comments, you should see the little reply icon below
your comment. Otherwise I can’t answer you.
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of any George RR Martin book. Paper back or kindle. I’ll message you on your channel
for details.
Since I saw so many questions about religions and gods on my last video I think my next
one will be an explainer for all the major religions in the series. They’re really
interesting.
The next round of the giveaway will start when I post that video. Remember all you have
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