re: Aggy Board OT Discussion Thread

If you don't know what is being mentioned as "left out" then don't research it if you can. Don't even know if it will be in the show but if it is you are spoiling something good for a season that is going to be a lot tamer than the previous season. The story has to take a bit of a break next year as the consequences of all that has happened start to take effect and the fact that all of the characters are scattered so much will slow the story because they have to keep up with so many plot liines.

The D&E stories are great, only about 100 pages each so you can blow through them in no time. It's all set 80 years before GOT in the time of the Targs but so many of the characters in she show you hear about are in it. It's worth it just for the background on the Blackfyre Rebellion and Bloodraven but there are so many things you realize how everything could have been different if not for a few random occurrences. It's a cool time because the folks that are older in D&E actually saw dragons before they died out and there are some cool cameos like Walder Frey as a kid. Mainly though it really gives context to how important the Blackfyre stuff is and you can see how that may impact the story in the end. There are a dozen smaller things I could mention but they would get in to spoiler territory.

It's really helpful just to see Westeros in the perspective of the Targs firmly in charge and with many of them seen as great people as opposed to all you see in ASOIF is hearing about the Mad King, Viserys the Dick, Dany is cool but annoying, and Maester Aemon who is great but he is 100 years old and blind. It's also cool because some of the Houses that are strong in ASOIF aren't necessarily in D&E and vice versa. Up to this point too the 3 D&E tales are in The Reach which is a place we haven't visited in ASOIF.