Some Book Spoiler Free Reasons You Should be Stupid Excited for Game of Thrones Season Five (and beyond)

Instead of breaking my back to come up with new jokes for the same situations, I have forwent doing a Season Four Recap for Dem Thrones. You can find all my episode recaps (1 – 3) on Tumblr and episodes (4 – 10) here on the site after the launch. Also, you should be caught up with the TV series to read this as there are some season 4 spoilers, but there are not any book spoilers for the story beyond that point. Let’s do some fuzzy math together, shall we? A Song of Ice and Fire, by author George R.R. Martin’s declaration, will be seven books in total. Five are already written (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, The Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons) with two more coming (The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring). Do not ask me when, Martin doesn’t even know (seriously). On the TV side, in four seasons, the show has explored up through book three now with some elements of books four and five, but not wholesale. The show has been renewed for two more seasons already, but since this show will never be in danger of being cancelled, we could actually go by the showrunners desire for this show to run no more than six or seven seasons. I’m guessing they’re going to need seven. I say all of that to say that both by book standards and show progression, we’re more than halfway through this story and are now on the down slope of the mountain (spear or skull crushing strength not accounted for). I know, it’s a scary thought, but there is plenty of awesome stuff…