This is what worries me about the upcoming season. While I began my adventure with GoT with the TV series, I ended up liking the books much more (not to say the TV series is bad, it's just that you can capture so much more in a book - much bigger volume plus no budget constraints).

Are you those spoiler or rather changes? I am trying to gauge how far they are going to go from the source material. If it's far, I will consider watching the new season. Maybe it won't spoil the books that much. Another problem is that the internet might simply be full of spoilers after the next season airs, so I won't be enjoying the show, while still getting spoiled. The dilemma.

AsnSensation

Germany24009 Posts

March 09 2015 20:42 GMT

#26175

fucking hyped!

Spaylz

Japan1743 Posts

March 09 2015 20:50 GMT

#26176

On March 10 2015 05:33 maybenexttime wrote:
This is what worries me about the upcoming season. While I began my adventure with GoT with the TV series, I ended up liking the books much more (not to say the TV series is bad, it's just that you can capture so much more in a book - much bigger volume plus no budget constraints).

Are you those spoiler or rather changes? I am trying to gauge how far they are going to go from the source material. If it's far, I will consider watching the new season. Maybe it won't spoil the books that much. Another problem is that the internet might simply be full of spoilers after the next season airs, so I won't be enjoying the show, while still getting spoiled. The dilemma.

I say watch the show.

Let's imagine here, for a second, that you choose to forego the show and instead finish the story with the books. TWOW will come out some time in the next two years (hopefully), and assuming GRRM takes the same amount of time to write the last book, that one will be published in 8 years or more.

Are you absolutely positive you can successfully avoid all spoilers for ten years?

karazax

United States3737 Posts

March 09 2015 20:58 GMT

#26177

Unless someone from HBO or Martin confirms it, it's impossible to say for sure if something is a book spoiler, or a change. They have already changed so many things. The show follows the books fairly well in some areas, and isn't afraid to completely change things in other spots.

No doubt some things will be spoilers though.

GreenHorizons

United States23488 Posts

March 09 2015 21:10 GMT

#26178

On March 10 2015 05:58 karazax wrote:
Unless someone from HBO or Martin confirms it, it's impossible to say for sure if something is a book spoiler, or a change. They have already changed so many things. The show follows the books fairly well in some areas, and isn't afraid to completely change things in other spots.

No doubt some things will be spoilers though.

Undoubtedly a suspected 'spoiler' will likely set up a much more dramatic surprise in the books.

Personally, I rarely find the time and quiet space for lengthy reading like it would take to really enjoy the books but I would love to have the actors do the audio book to kind of split the difference for me. Any quality voice actors would likely suffice though, I'm just not a huge fan of narrators having to do all the voices.

maybenexttime

Poland5673 Posts

March 09 2015 21:13 GMT

#26179

On March 10 2015 05:50 Spaylz wrote:

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Well, once the hype about the show dies down (let's say one year from the last season), I think there won't be that many spoilers flying around. So I wouldn't say it's 10 years of carefully avoiding spoilers. During that time I will be focusing my time on different things, so I won't be looking up anything GoT-related on the internet.

Spaylz

Japan1743 Posts

March 09 2015 22:03 GMT

#26180

On March 10 2015 06:13 maybenexttime wrote:

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I find that unlikely. People are still talking about Ned's death. Just as people are still talking about how HIMYM ended, or about Friends or Seinfeld or Dexter. I think avoiding spoilers would be difficult.