Season 6 Book Readers Thread...It is Known (spoiler heavy)

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  1. Cronk

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  2. Hoss Bonaventure

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    No. Daynes look like Targs. I forgot what book it's in but there are 3 different types of Dorninsh people and the Daynes are the type that look Valaryian.
     
  3. Jax Teller

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    I just get sad reading all this.
     
  4. coffee

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    Why?
     
  5. Xander Crews

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    I don't think they can do a prequel season. Just the sheer size of this cast, and the amount of money they'd spend paying the new and old cast for a year would be absurd.

    Any prequel season would have to be done simultaneously to the main series IMO
     
  6. Xander Crews

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    Yeah, Arthur Dayne was young, light-haired, and beautiful.
     
  7. Jax Teller

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    Because it reminds me that the chances of him ever finishing the series get lower every year. He's 66 and has been working on TWoW for 5 years now.
     
  8. Pawpride

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    Old cast? Seeing how there would be a 15 year age gap, they would have to completely recast everyone.
     
  9. Xander Crews

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    I mean that the current GOT cast is under contract and will need to be paid.
     
  10. London Humphreys

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    I think I've had enough internet for today. Might go pick up my son early.
     
  11. Codename Duchess

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    Another great casting choice

    http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/03/game-thrones-max-von-sydow
     
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    Good casting but pretty dumb to cast a guy for two minutes of screen time just to change him two seasons later. Just bad foresight
     
  13. Fidelio

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    could have been that von sydow was unavailable for just one ep or the parties decided that he could come on later for a full series
     
  14. UA412

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    Not to mention less money and less getting someone of his caliber involved for two minutes of screen time a couple years before you need him.
     
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    That happens all the time. Money reasons. See Beric Dondarrion.
     
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  16. Sir Phobos

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    they re-cast constantly. off the top of my head there's Beric, the Mountain(twice), Tommen, Myrcella, Daario, and Rickard Karstark.

    some of those were re-cast because they had to be so the stuff with Tommen and Myrcella didn't get ultra-creepy but others were just mainly placeholders probably done because the character had to be introduced but they hadn't yet sat down and decided enough about it to know how to cast it.

    obviously arguments to be made about whether they made the right choice with stuff like Daario and the Mountain but their casting is more or less top notch so I'm fine with this. I honestly didn't like looking at old Daario and the current Mountain is the largest human being I've ever seen. Mountain #2 was some thin rail of a man but I was OK with Mountain #1 because his angry face was damn fitting to that character. I can see why they finally settled on the huge Nordic guy once it came time for Mountain vs Viper and going forward with Robert Strong since now it doesn't matter who makes a better angry face and the more pants-shittingly huge you can make Robert Strong the more terrifying he'll be. he's seriously looks like he's going to rip that septa's skin off like Pyramid Head next season, it's going to be brutal.
     
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  17. three stacks

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    don't care about a recast when it's fucking max von sydow taking a role
     
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  18. Cronk

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    seriously people are complaining that they just added MAX FUCKING VON SYDOW????

    that is like adding a 5 star recruit and being pissed that the two star guy got told to find a new home
     
  19. Krieger

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    I'm just glad they are redoing the character. I always pictured him as like inside the tree and shit. The other guy just looked like he was caught in a hammock
     
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  20. BP

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    Recasts for the Mountain were done bc of conflicts in the actors schedules. The 1st mountain left to be the bad guy in the Hobbit movies, which were later changes to cgi. I think the current mountain is perfect. Daario was recast bc the actor left to go be in the a new Transporter movie
     
  21. coffee

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  26. RockHardJawn39

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    This looks like it would be well before TOJ...

     
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  27. TheGrifter

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    There has been a lot of smoke that it's happening.

    A filming location for next season looks like the Tower of Joy is described, and a casting call went out for someone who pretty much has to be Arthur Dayne.
     
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    How old was Ned for the TOJ? This kid looks way too young to be taking on Dayne.
     
  29. TheGrifter

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    Yeah, it was only 20 or so years ago for TOJ. They'll probably just use Sean Bean again.

    I'm interested to see who they cast as Rhaegar.
     
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    I almost feel bad for GRRM that his big reveal is going to happen in the show before the books, but it's his fault.
     
  31. 34

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    They probably won't cast Rheagar. He wasn't there. Just a guess
     
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  32. TheGrifter

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    I'm obviously just guessing as well, but I don't think they'd show the TOJ without showing some Rhaegar/Lyanna backstory. If anything, just to show Jon is a legitimate Targ and not a bastard.

    Or maybe I'm just hoping.
     
  33. bignate50

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    They'd have to show Rheager for the show peoples I think
     
  34. Doug

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    Will have a huge nerd boner when they shower TOJ, and Rhaegar.
     
  35. Truman

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    In a perfect world, s06 is a flashback season to Roberts Rebellion & Blackfyre Rebellion. Sets up the storylines for the rest of the show, gets GRRM to publish and s07 picks up @ WoW

    Boom. Problems solved.

    I'm sure I'm not the first to think of that. But as I said, I just jumped into this thread.
     
  36. zeberdee

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    don't think the Blackfyre Rebellion really fits into this story.
     
  37. 34

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    No casting calls have gone out for any characters at this point. Hell, they haven't even casted Connington/fAegon, so safe to say they don't have that much time to do these flashbacks.
     
  38. Truman

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    I was thinking they have to do something on Myr to tie in w Dany. Sets up the Golden Company. They skipped over them in the show, but could introduce later.

    My original post was just a wishful show hypothetical that isnt going to happen anyway.
     
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  40. CUZ28

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    the actors that play osha, rickon, and the hound have been spotted in belfast.
     
  41. Hoss Bonaventure

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    Who could find the Hound?
     
  42. Xander Crews

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    Really hope they nail the casting on Arthur Dayne. Such a great character
     
  43. CUZ28

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    weren't they casting someone who sounded like septon meribald?

    seems like using the hound to establish meribald would be a good move.
     
  44. 34

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    GET FUCKING HYPE
     
  45. Hoss Bonaventure

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    No clue
     
  46. CUZ28

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    Next up:

    • Priest, in his 40’s or 50’s. A gruff ex-soldier who found religion. Now a no-nonsense rural priest who ministers to the poor of the countryside. He’s salt-of-the-earth man who has weathered many battles.
    Sounds like Septon Meribald, although it’s a little surprising we’d see him next year instead of this year. If it is him, that hints at someone surviving the season.

    http://watchersonthewall.com/game-of-thrones-season-6-casting-has-begun-and-heres-the-list/
     
  47. Hoss Bonaventure

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    Who's left in the show to see and interact with both of them now since Brienne is in the North?
     
  48. CUZ28

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    Why do you need anyone else? Everyone knows the hound. He becomes the viewers link to meribald and we see how he changes or whatever from the relationship with the septon.

    Edit: to elaborate a bit more. The book needed brienne or some other established pov character to introduce the septon and hint that the hound is still alive because it is told through pov. The show doesn't.

    Now you don't want to just introduce someone totally isolated from established characters, but the hound is established and can introduce meribald. The fact that the hound isn't a pov character doesn't matter. Show watchers are very familiar with him. And because we actually see people on TV, you can't really hide that the really strong gravedigger is actually the hound. Plus, I doubt that an island of silence would work well on TV, so you let meribald sort of take on that role. Let him make the hound the devout, non angry dude or whatever he becomes as the gravedigger.

    The hound becomes the champion of the faith, and we get hype cleganebowl!
     
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