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In the books about 2 years tops.
But i think they will change that from the books.The thing that's really odd is the first season ( 10 episodes) covered roughly 30 years; so there's no logic IMHO the next 30 episodes ( seasons 2-4) cover only 2 years.
Also, as evidence the 8th episode Aegon the younger and Viserys second of his name were only toddlers, but by the Civil war end

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Aegon III should be at least 11 years old when crowned.

So i think odds are the Dance of the Dragons will be longer in the Tv series
Another point: they left a lot out, speeding through these 30 years. They could have developed Rhaenira/Harwin story; show more about Daemon and Laena daughters ( very diferent characters from the book), show Laena claiming Vaghar, and

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Daeron Targaryen. This week GRR Martin said he will show in season 2.Probably not the most important character ever, but to the Tv fans that never followed the books it will be a really WTF moment when they learn Viserys and Alicent had more kids

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There were reports that Millie Alcock and Emily Carey will return. So i'm guessing, also, a lot of flash backs to fill the voids
As for the families/houses, the season finale will indeed introduce

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Borros Baratheon and his daughters. And the confrontation between Aemond and Lucerys that follows

So, that's a gimme a lot of House will be important coming seasons, specially that from the never forgeting north
{spoiler]Personally i'm very curious to see who will play Cregan Stark[/spoiler]

 

Any chance the show deviates from the books in any significant ways?

 

Since the plan seems to be 3-4 seasons, I think the last 5 episodes could be jump forwards that tackle the political uncertainty and machinations until you-know-who takes full charge, similar to season 1’s first 5 episodes.

Also are Laena and Baela really that different in the books at this point?

 

What they did with Alicent is criminal. They removed all agency and ambition from her and made her victim of sexual exploitation again.

I am disgusted.

And Aegon is now rapist and he loves watching children fighting to death? This is morally grey?

 

Punk, they are disgusted. This is not a time for levity.

 

The writer for this episode and creator of this show has disagreed on Daemon and his love for family. And she the reason why we have not seen more posetive Daemon, like scene with his kids. I hope this writer dosent ruin this show. She dosent fit the world of grey characters.

 

I’m not sure I want to explain what is the bee and what is the flower, because I think I’m going to be sick.

 

Since it was mentioned, Daemon beheading the prince was also a weird scene, not so much on Daemon side, but more for the prince completely switching his brain off and saying things he obviously shouldn't say, so that they could have their plot twist+graphic violence combo as usual. So far, this has been the main way the writers create drama in the show. People talking without thinking meet people killing without thinking. It's a game of bullies and psychopaths, where no character appears to have any clue of what to do apart from the littlefinger-ish ones.

 

I mean isn’t that realistic for an extremely prideful person who’s been pushed to the edge? I think we need to allow room for characters to make stupid decisions in the moment.

 

I have enjoyed every episode of this show, but there's always that 'water cooler moment' that is there to shock you with how brutal and lawless this society is, and it often doesn't make sense. I think Fire & Blood is better at these than some of the Game of Thrones equivalents, but they're still annoying.

I do think some people are overexaggerating Criston Cole's propensity for violence - as others have pointed out, it isn't random. It is, however, badly written, imo.

 

….. uh…. I don’t think that’s how fetishes work. We don’t have to get into the meat and potatoes of it, but her being there while he pleasures himself makes complete sense.

As far as her power coming from a man… fam this is a medieval-fantasy genre of course the women largely derive power the males, but I took the scene to be more of a quid pro quo scene. She lets him see her feet, he does littlefinger things, I don’t see a massive exploitation of anyone.

I mean if there is exploitation… she’s using her feet to get him to murder people. I feel like in addition to not having him be an enemy, she has him essentially doing all her dirty work.

 

I mean in the context of GoT a foot fetish is pretty innocent.

 

Christian Cole is functionally a serial killer at this point. What is this wild lack of consequences? Why is this show like this?

 

Oops! I did it again.

 

They were reluctant to entrust anyone to get so close to the king, so they chose the most emotionally stable and reliable person around.

 

what I thought was weird was that no-one even checked to see if Bill Patterson was dead.

 

I wonder if Bill Patterson's death is the reason we don't see the small council have large marbles in GOT.

 

I hope King Bran Three Eyed Raven is like time travel warg watching all of this and is comparing stupid decisions by people in King's Landing across the centuries.

 

What was the point of those?