Clocksquirrel

My bad! Didn't see there was a preview for the next episode! If Mance is there, then Stannis obviously will be

They've already started leaking AFOC and ADWD into the fourth series, I don't see why they wouldn't leave some ASOS stuff for next series, you only have to look to Balon Greyjoy to believe that...

Given that Mance has not appeared at all in this series, that we've just had an entire episode at the wall, and that putting in Stannis's attack would require all of the Stannis crew to be shipped to a new filming location for a scene or two, it seems unlikely that we'll see anything else of the wall next week. Surely it'd be more convenient to save the Jon-Mance-Stannis confrontation for next season and just pack next week's episode with the mass of other stuff they have left to cover? Which wouldn't bother me to be honest, Stannis is still coming :p

So i'm not totally solid on the chronological order of the third book, but can anyone tell me what Asha's leaving for Theon will do to the king's moot? Doe she also do this in the books and then return home, or does this mean she will be absent for it now? I feel like it'll be hard for the show to sell the greyjoys to the audience if theon, asha and balon are all gone. Also, does anyone think that Balon will get given a more dramatic death in the show? I loved how simple his death was in the books but the tv audience may not approve...

"Exactly how old are you?" "Fourteen." Made me chuckle :)

I was concerned about this after the second (I think) episode came out. the Sansa-Shae scenes are setting her up to be quite a nice understanding character, which won't really make sense if she flat out betrays Tyrion later on... Very much hoping she doesn't get turned into a victim

Is anybody else slightly concerned with how many new scenes have been added in? Most of them have been incredibly done and obviously they don't want the show to be exactly the same as the books, but I feel like they're taking a lot of the mystery out of characters like Littlefinger, Varys and Olenna, who we still don't know a lot about at the end of the fifth book