Commentators had the best stat.

If you live in Iceland and are male, you have a 1 in 2,000 chance of being in this squad.

Well I forgot about Tywinn, but all of those except Stannis were book deaths. Published/written years before HBO thought about making this into a show.

In the books their's alot more set-up to make sure Jon isn't done. Jon/Bran/Arya/Tyrion/Danny are the principle characters of the story (you can argue though that it extends to Jamie/Cerseri/Sansa). If one of those died this season, it'd be a bigger deal.

Ygritte was a secondary character though, but her death plays a role in how Jon thinks about things afterwards (never explored in the show). Oberyn's purpose is to set up Dorne which of course went in a completely different direction in the show.

Tommen/High Sparrow and a few others are almost definitely dead in the season finale, but again they're secondary characters. Their's actually still a version of the ADWD epilogue to play out in the show, involving characters that haven't been killed off yet.

It's complicated and you'd have to read the books to get it, but the show is still technically at the end of the 5th book (exactly where it was at the end of last season) in several of the character arcs. They've technically went around in a circle Jon (in Stannis role), Slaver's Bay, Jamie/Brieene, King's Landing.. only with Sansa for example being completely different. Bran's story is the only thing that seems to have went past the published story (that said, the Benjen thing is probably very different).

Must be .

Isn't the set-piece in the middle of it?

I enjoyed it for what it is, but I've never expected Nolans Dark Knight films while watching the MCU films. Only so many times you can see invincible super heroes hitting each other, repeatedly without any of real sense of threat... before the novelty wears off.

That said, I enjoyed Civil War more than The Avenger films.

Since they have done so much stalling and certain characters only seem to show up on screen, because they're too costly to pay and not use (like Peter Dinklage)... I'm wondering if even if certain major characters do die in the next book, they wouldn't just hold to them anyway until the final season?

I'm not saying this is going to happen, but if lets say Jamie or Cerseri dies early on in the book. Maybe they'd think "we have to hold on these guys until the final season, because they're our stars".

Other than Stannis (who's a different character in the books), they haven't really killed off a major character since Joffery. It's just been secondary characters, albeit some who had more screen time than others.

I want to know Olorin's opinion. We have more UKer's than this .

Anyway this is probably the first time I've agreed with Smoking politically.