Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150623232813

Reaction to Season 5 has been mixed...much of it stemming from the decision to condense two novels into a single TV season. A lot got cut out, and generally, a lot of the criticism centers around the storylines in the North (Stannis and Sansa) and Dorne. But that's a topic for another thread (except as far as it impacts the future).

'''Given that Season 5 has already happened and we can't change it, what are you looking forward to in Season 6? What do you hope they will do?

Minor book spoilers are expected in this thread, but try to keep it restrained.'''

We know from casting reports that the Greyjoy subplot wasn't omitted but delayed, with Euron Greyjoy, and some of the Riverlands storyline may appear as well. Also tying into the Greyjoy thing are that the Oldtown subplot was not omitted but also pushed back, so now we get to see that too. I hope that Loras Tyrell, painfully underused, gets more to do next season because it relates to the Greyjoy subplot.

I really hope that Benioff and Weiss stop inventing sexual assault scenes that weren't even in the novels - thinking specifically of the Gilly scene in late Season 5.

Dorne last year, despite their hype that "we're finally going to see Dorne!" was a failure on every level. Physically there weren't that many minutes devoted to it, and it was prioritized the least in terms of time and resources for cinematography, choreography, rewrites, everything.

Somehow, in general, I hope that they realize they need to make up for how bad it was last year by giving us GOOD Dorne material next year -- I even hold out faint hope that we might get Arianne Martell (not that we will, but that it would be great if we did, and really pull people back to the show who were turned off by the bad Dorne subplot last year). Also they didn't explain anything about Dorne's culture, we learned nothing from last year, we didn't "learn" anything about Dorne we just "saw" it.

I really hope beyond everything that LS comes into it next year somehow back in the Riverlands but I know not to wait on it.

Let's see, let's see....oh yes, related to the "Dorne" point, the absurdity of poisoning Myrcella on a ship Trystane is on. What did they think would happen? How will the writers solve this? Are they going somewhere with that?

It will be good to see the Dothraki again, we've had no Dothraki dialogue since Season 2, really (baring one line in Season 3).

Let's see...a couple of plotlines were closed off due to changes, while the others just caught up with the novels and were good enough that I don't know what to expect or ask for (Tyrion, Cersei, Daenerys, the Night's Watch, etc.)

Oh we're getting Bran again that's good

Oh yes, last: there is speculation about casting reports that we'll have many more flashbacks next year, to Young Ned Stark and other characters before Robert's Rebellion. Basically like that think in Season 4 when Bran had visions when he tried to warg into a weirwood tree. It wasn't just talk or myth that the weirwoods are the "eyes" of the Old Gods. The idea is that if you warg into a weirwood, you can see its whole memory going back centuries of years (they can live a long time), and every weirwood tree is connected. You warg into one you warg into all of them - the weirwood internet. So in the novels there's more of that Bran wargs with a weirwood in the Three eyed crow's cave and he has all of these visions of the past, memories from the trees, etc. 