Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150620174256/@comment-1600847-20150620183929

The Dragon Demands wrote:

ArticXiongmao wrote: Sigh. I explained it twice. I won't again, not elaborately. Just read what I wrote. A TL;DR: they couldn't cut all the characters' story arcs in half, because that's extremely bad story telling, much worse than rushing in a few plots. They sacrificed some plot to tell a much more satisfying and complete story. There are stopping points they COULD have used.

They could have used Hardhome as a finale, it was invented anyway! I would be utterly shocked if they cut out the AFFC/ADWD points they missed entirely. Rather they likely delayed them until season 6. There's no way in hell they've cut out the Grejoy/Kingsmoot/Dragonbinder storyline, for example.