Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150614172901/@comment-15030876-20150616205634

Stopping in the middle? You ARE kidding, I hope. The only reason that was a possibility with ASOS was the Red Wedding, and even then the storylines not involved with that event in some way suffered greatly, with lots of fluff to pad out their storylines. The middle of AFFC and ADWD have absolutely NO climaxes in the middle. If you were adapting the books, you would reach at the same conclusion D&D did... or you would't and it would be a terribly uneventful and anti-climactic season five.