I've been re-watching the series in preparation, finished S4 last night. They've deviated from the books so much at this point, this season is really an unknown. People that I think will be essential in the books are either already dead in the show or simply weren't included, so they're going to have to come up with some clever explanations around that (or, you know, just **** it all up).

Either way, I'm looking forward to this season, and that's a great hype trailer.

Ian McShane has been lambasted about things he's said regarding his role this season as being "spoilers". His response, "'You say the slightest thing and the internet goes ape. I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think get a **** life. It’s only tits and dragons," is the best descriptor of the show I've ever seen.

Pretty certain the biggest spoiler is in that trailer -- Jon Snow is dead.

Davos, king of the flip flops. Bane of writers who have no idea what "consistent character arc" means.

As for me, I was mostly disappointed with this season. It contained a whole lot of "nothing." I think part of the problem is that this is the first time I've been "caught up" with the series. Before, I avoided anything I could that dealt with GOT and tried to remain spoiler free (yeah, that's **** impossible to do). This time, however, since I was caught up I'd gladly join discussions. Most of them led to fan theories. And many of those theories were very, very good. And then show's actual plot would just be disappointing in comparison.

Arya's non-arc was probably the worst offender. I had super high hopes for where her character was being taken for a very long time. So, so very and utterly disappointing.

I didn't hate this season, but it really felt like it only had about 3 episodes worth of story stretched out over many episodes as filler, as only Caramello could be proud of.

I agree with you entirely about Arya, after the "stabbed in the gut" moment at the end of an episode, the fan theories were amazing. She used the wrong hand to pay for her trip! She was walking around unarmed in broad daylight, when she KNEW assassins were after her who could look like anyone! There were so many reasons that WASN'T Arya, she's smarter than that, that has to be Jaqen in disguise, etc etc etc.

Next episode? Nope, she's an idiot, Jason Vorhees pacing foot chase, plotline over. So disappointing.

Bumping for Season 7. Quick spoiler comment for the premier episode.

Yeah, like I said, I didn't remember whether it was brought up in the show. Now that I think back on it with some confirmation that it wasn't, I remember that this omission was a major gripe of mine about that scene, as you identify.

The entire kingsmoot was so glossed over in the show, it was 10 min of "I think she should be king, nah, I'm going to be king." I'm sad that they've completely excluded Aeron in the show as well, as he was such an interesting character (who helped to really dive deep on the ironborn belief system) in the books.