Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150614172901/@comment-5014364-20150616153423

Quite possibly they'll attack Pyke instead of Dragonstone. I don't know.

Seriously if it weren't for the casting reports confirming that the Greyjoy and Reach storylines are coming back (plus confirmation at the end that Samwell is indeed going to Oldtown; his father is also being cast) I was on the verge of giving up on the show.

...if it was the writers who wanted only seven seasons. If even Benioff and Weiss say at any point "the contract negotiations forced our hand, we feared only seven seasons, and made massive condensations to make the best of a bad situation"...fine, I don't fault them for events beyond their control. But short of such an explanation...

At any rate, I realized that the show had a lot of problems after Season 2 as well, Robb and Catelyn of all people were badly done, so the bad North/Dorne stuff this season is something we may yet survive. If nothing else, HBO openly saying "why 7 and not more seasons?" may mean things will be different next season.

Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever truly dies.