It's because I think Feast for Crows was ass, and Storm of Swords is the high point of th series. I wouldn't want them to waste the time and money on filming it. I am willing to give up seeing certain parts of Dance of Dragons (that I really, reaaaaallly want to see) in order to stop at the high point of the series.

I was thinking about that and it occurred to me that a TV audience wouldn't put up with a whole season of not getting their Tyrian fix, and the Martin himself described book 4 as only half of what he wanted for that installment; I suspect that there would be some structural reworking between the book and series at that time which I'm hoping will include separating the wheat from the chaff.

You clearly have far more faith in ... well, pretty much everyone, honestly, than I do, s'all I gotta say to that.

I wanted to ask how many ppl think that Jon will stay dead and not come back in some other form?

Fair enough.

I'm pretty sure the answer is none. I remember trolling the reddit boards and a few of the forums right after the book came out and I don't think anyone supported that theory. The closest I've seen is that he didn't actually die, but was healed by Mellisandre as he was stabbed

I actually give it 50/50 odds myself.

I consider it unlikely. I sincerely hope it is the case.

He might be totally dead, but then, so was Katherine Tully/Stark and she was revived by red priests of R'hllor. It might be that Melisandre foresaw this and is prepared for such an eventuality.



This is my thought as well.