re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Just saw what they're using in Sevilla for Dorne. Just gorgeous.

ETA: Apparently the courtyard they're using in the Alcazar of Seville is the same one Ridley Scott used in Kingdom of Heaven.

Good point. I'm mainly trying to figure out which scene at Hardhome they filmed that took 3 weeks to do so.

There's not a scene from the books that they would film at Hardhome. This is David and Dan going off script. From the looks of it there is going to be a battle there, because they just have to have a major battle in every season.

Is this day in the life of thing on HBOGO?

Well, he's right. The woman never did say that it wouldn't come out this year, just that it wasn't on the schedule. Everybody knows he doesn't like deadlines.

I still don't think it comes out this year, but maybe he'll post something on his blog before summer saying it's done. Then the publisher will put it on the schedule.

At this point 2020 is looking optimistic.

Alright, Crackpot Theory: Littlefinger orchestrated the riots of King's Landing. Jaime makes note in AFFC that Varys was not there, but then he thinks about Littlefinger in how the throne needs a man like him. But this is a false trail. LF is completely behind the riots, and Varys merely got word of it from his Little Birds and didn't show up.

Let's think about it:

1) A woman with a dead baby in her hands somehow makes it past the Gold Cloaks (who are paid by LF) and doesn't accept a large sack of gold that Joffrey throws at her. She then proceeds to call Cersei a whore.

2) Santagar, Robert's Master-at-Arms and the only living person who knows of the dagger's true origins, is killed in the riots.

3) Lollys Stokeworth, a woman who LF is repeatably invited to marry in the first novel, is rapped, making her basically un-marriable and takes a slight burden off of LF's shoulders. Plus the Rosby's appear to be wealthy, and with her being now a raped retard, no one could marry into that fortune to threaten him.

4) Tyrek Lannister is kidnapped, and having a Lannister under his control would benefit LF as much as it would Varys when the Lannisters are inevitably destroyed under both of their plans.

5) The High Septon is murdered, and LF makes note that the High Septon refuses to take his loans. May have had him killed out of spite.

6) (And most damning) Sansa is kidnapped and was supposed to be guarded by Ser Mandon Moore. Ser Mandon is from the Vale, and was appointed to the Kingsguard well after Robert's Rebellion under suspicious circumstances. It's safe to rule out that Cersei told Ser Mandon to kill Tyrion since she would have repeatably thought of it in her POV chapters, and while Joffrey could have told him to kill Tyrion, I think LF is the most likely culprit and told Ser Mandon to make sure that Tyrion not make it back from the battle alive. Thus I think Ser Mandon was also instructed by LF to let Sansa be kidnapped in hopes she falls in his hands, and he uses the excuse of protecting the King in letting her get away.

LF was the only person who gained from the Riot, even if he didn't get Sansa out of it, but this later worked to his advantage in using Tyrion and Sansa as catspaw in Joffrey's death.

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There's not a scene from the books that they would film at Hardhome

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That isn't entirely true. Hardhome is mentioned multiple times and there are a number of scenes that they could do. You have the slavers taking the women and children, Mother Mole's group seeking shelter there and the ships from Eastwatch going to rescue them. They probably write out the slavers and focus on wildlings vs walkers. The report back to Jon "dead things in the water" has a lot of cinematic potential, as does the general desperation of the wildings being over-run by wights, walkers and God knows what else. I'm actually pumped for that scene, my only concern is that they are going pretty deep into ADWD if they make it all the way to that point. Fat man needs to write like the wind.