8 ways GameofThrones did not spoil everything for readers of George R.R. Martin's books
After eight seasons and 73 episodes, Game of Thrones finally reached its conclusion Sunday night. The story is all over, unless you're one of the millions of fans who have also read the George R.R. Martin books.
While this list is nowhere near exhaustive, it does highlight some of the more salient ways in which what happened on the TV show will have to be different from how these particular aspects occur on the page. The last time Sansa was seen in the extant books was A Feast for Crows, where she is still posing as Littlefinger's bastard daughter Alayne Stone, with plans to marry her off to Ser Harrold Hardyng of the Vale before revealing her true identity.
The TV show also leaned heavily into Sansa's abuse at the hands of Ramsay as a catalyst for her character development — a move that some fans criticized for using sexual assault in this way — forcing her toward a more jaded and cynical worldview. Of course, this may not be needed in the books when you consider she's seen her father beheaded, she's been married off to Tyrion, been accused of poisoning King Joffrey, and seen Littlefinger murder her aunt in cold blood.
On TV Daenerys brokered her union with Dorne via Varys . It seems likely that Quentyn, who dies in the books after being burned by Rhaegal's dragon fire, will act as a catalyst for any connection between Dany and Dorne.It was one the show's biggest and most deadly moments — with virtually all of her King's Landing enemies and frenemies waiting in the Sept of Baelor for her to stand trial, Cersei Lannister decides to just blow the entire building up in a huge ball of wildfire.
Additionally, as mentioned above, Princess Myrcella Baratheon is not yet dead in the books — disfigured by an attack, but not deceased — so even if the big boom at the sept does push young Tommen to take his own life, that would not be the end of the Baratheon royal line. And even if Stoneheart plays no direct role in the outcome of either the battle with the white walkers or the fight for the Iron Throne, surely Brienne would mention to the surviving Starks that"Hey all, I saw your mom a while back and she has looked better. Also, she tried to kill me and Pod; not cool."The big revelation on the show was that Jon Snow was the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, giving him a pretty solid claim to the Iron Throne.
Aegon was excised entirely from the TV series, and the arrival of the Golden Company is explained away by having Euron Greyjoy hire them to impress Cersei. The sellswords also acted as Cersei's private army during her final stand at King's Landing. On TV, Euron first intended to sail to Essos and take Daenerys as his queen, only to give up on that idea after realizing his niece and nephew will get there first.
It's difficult to imagine that Victarion's pop-in to Slaver's Bay will go so swimmingly, what with him possessing a horn that threatens to strip Dany of her winged children. However, unlike the TV show, it's later revealed that the person in that fire was not Mance, but instead his former associate Rattleshirt, and that Melissandre had used her skills to make Rattleshirt appear to be Mance.
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