I completely agree. If anything during the battle or even this 20 person mission, Sansa will light the candle to be saved and Brienne will end up killing Stannis during the rescue. Stannis kills Ramsay then immediately killed by Brienne. That's the only way I see him dying so soon. There needs to be some conflict still in Westeros until the WW attack the wall and Dany brings her army.

Mel knows that Thoros revived Beric (multiple times) from previous seasons, but i don't remember how much they really discussed how he did it.

I thought we were discussing how book readers could still spoil the show.

Ramsay is definitely going to get got

Jon getting stabbed is def going to be the last scene of ep 10.

ah maybe I misunderstood

The only way that can happen is if he's staying dead. If he gets brought back that will have to happen this season as well.

Pretty sure I remember someone on r/asoiaf saying that GRRM straight up said one of the chapter titles in TWOW is Ghost. But I could be remembering that wrong.

Well he's signed up through season 7 so the former isn't happening.

Yeah, an interesting conundrum. Killing him near the end of Ep 10 might help set up a bigger cliffhanger, but killing people off in Ep 9 is the pattern so far.

What if, to hide Harrington's continued involvement, they already filmed the season 10 resurrection scene? I suppose the problem with that is that if Jon is resurrected right away he'd have a whole bunch of season 10 scenes, and they almost certainly didn't have the production time to film them all already.

However, we don't know how or if Jon will be resurrected. Perhaps Jon will stay dead for most of the next book and most/all of the next TV season, only to come back later. If Jon is revived in Ep 10, it will amount to the show spoiling the books in a big way, and I'm not sure that B&W want to do that.

The published episode summary for EP 9 is: so we can expect to seeDoesn't GRRM have a contract to write one episode per season? He's not credited on Eps 1-9, so he might be doing 10. That might be a way to handle book spoliers related to Jon's resurrection. AFAIK, there's no episode 10 description, title or writing credit published yet. But wan't it the one rumoured to be the one to"blow up the internet"? Given the Ep 9 description, what we know from the books, and published news reports, I expect Ep 10 will include: At this point I doubt we're going to see an attempt on Myrcella's life and Bronn dying this year. We might see that drawn out and developed over next season, but an attempt on Myrcella's life after the Sand Snakes have already been locked up for kidnapping seems unlikely. Perhaps they haven't yet decided what to do with Jamie and Bronn. Do the Lannister bros reunite next year?

Yeh, but she didn't know before then that such a thing could be done. She was surprised when Thoros explained what happened. Now that she knows, she can try it out.

Yes, but the way Sansa now has more agency makes me hope that she has something to do about it, even if it's just Brienne.

my understanding is this is a one way guarantee. if this character is killed of, they cancel the contract

He didn't write one this season so he could focus on TWOW.

Dany of the show doesn't really need the dothraki. That prophesy doesn't exist requiring fulfilment, so just to compact her story they can skip the entire flight to the plains and meeting the khal etc. They are hacking out a lot of the essos plot already, so seems logical that goes too.

That said I expect she mounts Drogon but stays nearby. Final shot of meereen is her landing Drogon on the great pyramid? Good meaningful visuals.

Jon revived has to end the season imo. Now his watch is done ldo.

I'm not sure it's super clear that Dany has enough power to invade Westeros with just her current forces though. Unsullied are an army but I don't think (?) she has horses.

Hasn't stopped them before.

Did one of the promos for season 5 not have a dragon flying over the red keep? I just thought of that now. It could of been season 4 either.

edit - ye it was season 4. Dany flying off on Drogon in episode 9 and having Cersei look up at the sky and seeing a dragon to end episode 10 would of been cool though.

That was meant to be a glimpse of the future

In the context of the show and it's background, borrowing a bit from the books to further support this, I disagree.

One dragon decimated the largest most powerful castle ever made and if she gets Drogon under control riding him that is probably all she needs. The unsullied as a professional army could likely tear up most westeros armies anyway if commanded correctly. Historically 3000 unsullied beat a 50000 dothraki force and she has 8000.

Tywin had 30000 at the peak of the war of five kings, probably the peak of a westeros army now, but it's likely less than 10% were trained professional fighters (knights) with the rest peasants armed with spears. Its plausible that if the two armies met in open battle dany could be victorious with just one dragon under control terrorising the opposing army, but more likely she would use tactics more like Robb, especially guided by Tyrion who knew how close Robb came to winning the war. She could quickly move through the lands taking down smaller houses and building her force that way, when the dragons turn up no one will fight.

Its also worth noting that Aegon I probably had a smaller force than Dany in his conquest. A dragon or two is pretty unfair in medieval warfare.

Its also likely that Tyrion will get her heavy cavalry from Dorne. The show has done plenty setting the groundwork for this union.

Or she'd just send 3 soldiers in through a side gate and have them conquer the city.