I dunno, I think killing Joff the week after the Red Wedding would kinda take away from the shock/anger/disappointment of it all.

It won't be in this season... it doesn't occur in the book til 75% through. http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Chapters

so next season will contain
joffs wedding
tyrions trial etc all the shiz that happens there
the wildlings attacking the wall with stannis rocking up
arya leaving for braavos (they'll leave her this season with being knocked out at the red wedding when she is whisked away)
arya's nymeria wolf dream pulling up catelyn from the river
end the season with catelyn zombie being there
sansa being taken to teh eeryie and all the shit about the crazy aunt and little finger throwing her out the moon door
oberyn martell and gregor clegane shiz,
jaime giving brienne the sword
cold hands
dany discoverin treachery
her rocking up at mereen and staying there forever

soo much more shiz too.

going to be a fucking full on season!

soo ep 10 could contain the death of balon greyjoy?

Attack on Castle Black will be next season too.

yeah i said the wildings attacking the wall, isnt that all part of it?

Negative:

- Jon does the runner at Queenscrown and gets back in time to warn his "brothers"
- The raiding party attacks Castle Black and is defeated by the Watch
- Jon is elected Lord Commander of the Watch (or does this happen after the main battle?)
- Mance Rayder's main force attacks the Wall

Anyone else think once it starts to get more magic and zombies etc the shows ratings will start to drop?

Lady Stoneheart has so much potential to be done wrong. The Dragons is fine but once all the zombies and magic etc really kicks in I cant see it going well

jons elected after the battle im pretty sure.

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Anyone else think once it starts to get more magic and zombies etc the shows ratings will start to drop?

Lady Stoneheart has so much potential to be done wrong. The Dragons is fine but once all the zombies and magic etc really kicks in I cant see it going well

nope, not at all. i think itll be fine.

I think the Bran story is already losing people, and it only gets more ridiculous and confusing.

To be fair, the Bran storyline was always going to be a **** to portray.

nah shiz will get more interesting.

bran story is losing people because all theyre doing is travelling and argueing with the occasional green dream.

Even in the books I can't be fucked with Bran, so I don't like him in the show at all. Want Cold Hands though.

i was gonna jump in and attempt to agree/correct with all the above but there's just that much going on i really cbf...

a lot of shit is going to happen in season 4... red wedding is so catastrophic they couldn't possibly introduce anything else... balon greyjoy dying isn't too complex that they could throw that in the last ep too

yeah balon dying seems like a good hanger for whats happening.

just thinking about current storylines, i think ep 10 will introduce cold hands on his great elk to leave people "wtfing" like they did with the "white walkers".

Coldhands is surely going to be Benjen Stark right? Any other theories as to who he is, or what happened to Benjen?

Agree with the above. Next ep will obviously be the Red Wedding, and Balon's death/Coldhands would be good setups for S4, looking forward to more Iron Islands stuff. I guess we'll get a bit of Dany/Daario stuff as well.

westeros forums kind of proves it most probably isnt cold hands. one of the main reasons is the children of hte forest say he has been dead a long time.

theyre long is longer than a humans too.

its most probably the nights king
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Night%27s_King

much more likely given evidence etc.

interesting why the fuck he is helping them though.

So where the fuck is Benjen? So much story about him, surely it has relevance. Or was it just to set up the Night's Watch travelling north of the wall?

That night's king thing, maybe the baby that he impregnated in the other went on to be coldhands?

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Coldhands is surely going to be Benjen Stark right? Any other theories as to who he is, or what happened to Benjen?

You were thinking of this at 1:47am?

I got sucked into a Wikipedia loop I stayed up to watch the F1 qualifying, then I watched this weeks episode.

coldhands came and led the group (bran, hodor, the reeds) from village to village when they were going to meet the greenseer didnt he? bran would have recognised him if it was benjen.

Not necessarily. Didnt bran mention that he seemed familiar?

But yeah, he also helped Sam and gilly through the wall.

Sam never saw him on the wall though, he came later than jon did. I guess coldhands always has his face covered, so it would be hard to see... it woukd be cool if it was benjen.