Game of Thrones begins....

[Solmyr]

Jon Snow is dead, though, he'll just get rezzed.

[Habbaku]

Zombie Mountain, and Jon will be more than enough of Martin's "hah, you thought I kill everyone but in fact I kill NOBODY!" shtick, thankyouverymuch.

There are literally dozens of characters, from major to minor, that aren't being resurrected.  And LSH hardly counts as being an original of what she was...

[Tamas]

Zombie Mountain, and Jon will be more than enough of Martin's "hah, you thought I kill everyone but in fact I kill NOBODY!" shtick, thankyouverymuch.

There are literally dozens of characters, from major to minor, that aren't being resurrected.  And LSH hardly counts as being an original of what she was...

I don't care I still don't like the whol resurrection business.

[Jaron]

GRRM also likes to make chapter endings that make you think a character is dead or hurt but really isn't.

A couple of examples is when the Hound smacks Arya with an axe and when a chapter ends with Tyrion drowning when the stone men attack.

[grumbler]

Okay.  THAT I did not expect. 

[HVC]

Dorne was boring and useless in the book, and it's even more so on the tv show

[Admiral Yi]

Dorne was boring and useless in the book, and it's even more so on the tv show

Some people appreciated the jailbit tits.

[HVC]

Dorne was boring and useless in the book, and it's even more so on the tv show

Some people appreciated the jailbit tits.

ok I'll give you that

[Martinus]

Brienne of Motherfucking Tarth. 

[Habbaku]

Dorne was boring and useless in the book, and it's even more so on the tv show

It has much more of a purpose than it does in the show.  I think they just wanted to be done with the storyline there instead of utilizing it for anything.  Now they can conveniently pretend it doesn't exist until they need a Dornish army to appear...

[HVC]

But even in the book the basement bbq means the dorne storyline goes nowhere since we now know what happens to Marcella anyway.

[Martinus]

Oh great more female full frontal nudity already on the first episode. 

[viper37]

Oh great more female full frontal nudity already on the first episode. 

about time.  General tv is flooded with gay stuff, but hopefully, we can still count on HBO for something.

[Habbaku]

But even in the book the basement bbq means the dorne storyline goes nowhere since we now know what happens to Marcella anyway.

You're assuming the point of the Dorne storyline is Quentyn.  I don't agree with that at all.  The Dorne storyline seems, to me, to be centered around Dorne attempting to side with and put a Targaryen on the throne again, which they are doing in the books, and probably will end up doing in the show, in abbreviated form.  The Sand Snakes will almost certainly side with Daenarys when she makes her landing.

[Martinus]

I gotta say that, from the first episode, the two storylines I am most looking forward to are of payback and revenge - Sansa's on Boltons and Freys and Jaime's and Cersei's on the entire world (starting with that old sanctimonious prick). I hope Weiss and Benioff are going to wreck their plans with a few curve balls too.