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Just read a load of spoilers for the first 4 episodes of the season, and I'm not really looking forward to it all that much now. They have changed too much.

Contains huge show and also book spoilers:

Spoiler:

In Keeping with the books:

*Stannis offers Jon legitimacy and Winterfell in episode 2.
*Jon becomes Lord Commander in episode 2.
*Jon beheads Janos Slynt in episode 3 and Stannis nods afterwards, apparently it's a great scene.
*Kevan is back and taking zero sh-t from Cersei.
*Kevan says he will serve as Tommen's Master of War if the king himself calls upon him but he will not be a puppet of Cersei's.

Changes:

*Ellaria is taking over Arianne's material
*Winterfell is introduced in episode 3 (with Sansa and LF going there). Littlefinger is still there in episode 4 but gets called back to KL by Cersei.
*Sansa's marriage plans to Ramsay is revealed in episode 3.
*Roose puts Littlefinger in his place and does a good job hiding Ramsay's dark side from the others.
*Jaime heads to Dorne after episode 1, arrives in episode 4
*Tommen and Margaery have sex, it's off-screen but you can still hear them f-cking like jackrabbits and Tommen post-coital looks like he's in heaven.
*Regarding the Dorne storyline, all in all; "As a die hard book reader I was okay with Jaime's part in the Dorne storyline, it all seems to carry out organically and Ellaria and Doran have nice scenes together. So far it's promising."
*Not a single mention of the ironborn or Balon, or Yara.
*Illyrio never even shows up.
*Brienne meets Sansa but is rejected by her
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Spoiler:

Mance

dies in Episode 1 (what the ****?)
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Spoiler:

Grey Worm

dies in Episode 4
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Spoiler:

Barristan

dies in Episode 4
*No hint of Davos going to White Harbor.
*Theon has zero dialogue in both episodes he appears in.
*Jaime continues to be pussywhipped by Cersei and wants her affection.
*Brienne has some speech about wanting to kill Stannis

Most of this sounds like it will make for an entertaining TV show but it is all just so different from the source material, no wonder GRRM didn't take up the option of writing an episode this season or next.. The

Spoiler:

Sansa marrying Ramsay part is the worst.. what a load of nonsense