re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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Personally, I think he's done with the entire series and is slow playing the release.
He took forever to write the books even before the show was created.

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exactly. If he was slow playing, then wait a few years in between releases. 1996 is when the first book came out, it's almost 2016 and there are at least two more books needed. Who takes a full generation to finish one set of books?

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exactly. If he was slow playing, then wait a few years in between releases. 1996 is when the first book came out, it's almost 2016 and there are at least two more books needed. Who takes a full generation to finish one set of books?

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he was just waiting for a network to spend millions on nerdy series that will beyond odds connect with the masses. Then he is just going to wait 6 years between books just for the slow burn.

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Stephen King put out like 100 books between the time GRRM started GOT and now.

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Another example is Piers Anthony - that motherfricker can write books faster than I can read them, and I can read pretty fast if I want to.

I mean, he's written as many in the CroMagic - in the 21st Century (in his 70s) as Martin has written full ASOIAF novels ( you know, his "job"?) Anthony has averaged over 1 Xanth novel a year since the mid 70s - and written entire other multi book series since Xanth started.

And, don't get me started on Mercedes Lackey - almost 150 books SINCE NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN (1987). 5+ per year.

And yet Winter is Coming - and we continue to wait.

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BTW, looks like we will have to wait a little longer for season 6. The earliest it will start is late April.

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If it's simply a timing issue around other HBO shows, I'll be annoyed by this. But I'm wondering if it maybe has to do with potential book release timing so as not to spoil anything (fingers crossed). I guess it's possible filming ran over and they need the additional time for editing as well.

I know HBO has some new shows coming out that'll be extended into that time, but they could always move their schedule around to accommodate GoT. So scheduling alone doesn't make a lot of sense.

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But there is another rumor out there that the Umbers will side with the Bolton's on the show. I didn't take much thought of that rumor, since on the show Greatjon isn't a prisoner of the Boltons.

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And the Umbers are, at least publicly, split in the books.

Your scenario would be akin co-opting the Manderly story onto the Umbers (whom we already know in the show), rather than having to introduce yet another house (Manderly) or city (White Harbor) on the show.

How would Davos fit in, if at all, you think? Maybe the Umbers slip him in there to keep an eye on them? Or Osha, Rickon and Davos are imprisoned together?

Obviously, just spitballing - without the books, we don't even know how Davos to Skagos (I like the poetry of it ) adventure turns out.

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I don't have a clue as to what Davos' role will be on the show.

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Yeah - I don't either - with Stannis almost certainly dead, there is no one to direct him. I doubt he listens to Melisandre, even if she sees Rickon and Osha in a vision - maybe Melisandre convinces Jon to direct him, but - as far as the show, with Stannis and the Princess dead, absent a strong, strong motivation, I think Davos heads home - best way he can. He doesn't owe fealty to Jon and DGAF about the North outside of his duty to Stannis. He's doing it in the books because he wants the North to support Stannis.

Two characters who are "known" - Who could that be? Excluding Bran and the Reeds (and Coldhands isn't in the show), who else is in the North and assuming Ramsey is opposite Jon at the head of some Northern army (and this means we don't need a Stark heir, as in the books - at least not at the point we think this all turns south in the show, right?)

Osha, Rickon, Davos, Brienne, Podrick, Theon, Sansa... almost has to be 2 of those - and there are 3 sets of pairs in that group.

I'm thinking Brienne and Podrick, because without LSH and Kingslayer being captured at Riverrun - Brienne's story kind of ends - unless she and Podrick try to escort Sansa and Theon to safety - which would be Jon at this point, I would think.

ETA: But that makes little sense as they would mean nothing to Jon - however, either sibling (and Theon was practically a brother to him) and the sibling's companion/guardian might do it.

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I believe that Brienne & Podrick will end up there by the end of the season.

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The more I thought about it, the less it makes sense - I was just inventorying those we know are in the North - even if it was Theon and Asha/Yara - Jon wouldn't GAF - but either Sansa or Rickon would definitely get his attention.

2 "known" characters - yeah, Rickon and Osha or Sansa and Theon on the crosses, it would seem - or at least those are the most likely.

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And since Sansa has been seen shooting battlefield scenes with Jon, that is why I'm thinking that we will get either barbecued Rickon and Osha

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We've already seen this play out once before, though - in the books and on the show (peasant kids instead of Bran and Rickon).

Without Theon, Ramsey has no way of knowing who the real Rickon and Osha are - maybe the Umbers trade some fakes (a nod to Fake Arya in the books) perhaps even some Freys - for Greatjon, then join the uprising. But, then Roose and Ramsey think they have the real things?

Again, just spitballing - I mean, the fat man has killed lots of popular characters, but if he's just going to kill everyone in the end, that seems to be a sort of literary anarchy that belies all this effort.

Could it be the Blackfish and Edmure?

What if Ramsay really goes all out and flays Roose and Walda?