"Ia Game of Thrones set in a Dyson Sphere?" Topic

It seems like it is from how they do the map at the beginning. It curves up. Is that just like a map uncurling or is the world set in a Dyson sphere?

That would explain the clockwork nature of the map in a lot of ways.

Hopefully the show doesn't end up with Tyrion waking up in his home in Dallas, realizing it was all just a bad dream.

or in bed with Suzanne Pleshette.

Especially since she is dead.

It's pretty well established that Sam is George RRRRRR Martin.
Like Blackford Oakes was William F Buckley.
Note that LOTR is based on the Red Book, started by Bilbo and finished by Sam.
So, I believe that Sam will finish the story by writing it at the Citadel, using that astrolabe thingie and some pretty potent pipeweed.
So, which cheating writing do you want? Tyrion waking up in bed with Susanne Pleshette or Sam trying to catch up with the plot by making the Night King wear a dress?

Someone at work tried to bum me out by telling me there were only 2 seasons left. I hope so. The story has to end somehow. We don't need to continue it with a rom com sitcom with a love triangle of Brienne, Tormund and Bronn.

That whole "Patrick Duffy in the shower" trick wouldn't have been necessary, if they'd have just written a Priestess of the Red God into the cast sometime earlier.

two seasons? season 8 is the last.

Yes.
6 + 2 = 8

Someone at work tried to bum me out by telling me there were only 2 seasons left. I hope so. The story has to end somehow. We don't need to continue it with a rom com sitcom with a love triangle of Brienne, Tormund and Bronn.

HBO finally confirmed what the Producers had been saying, that there will only be two more seasons. D&D the producers, actually wanted to end it after season 7 but, in a vain attempt to allow GRRM time to finish the books they agreed to extend it to 8 seasons but these next two seasons (7&8) will be shortened so in reality there are only 15 episodes left or a season and a half at their normal 10 episode length. HBO has hinted that there might be either some spin-offs or a prequel in the future but D&D have made it clear that they would not be involved. Season 7's debut has been delayed until next summer so we have about a year to go. While they have said that delay is weather related there are those who are holding out hope that it's actually being done to coincide with a summer 2017 release of Book 6 "The Winds of Winter". Personally I have my doubts about that and, while I am an avid reader, I find that I like the HBO series and plot lines better than the books so frankly when or if Book 6 ever comes out doesn't matter all that much to me, although there are those I know who are desperately awaiting it.

What are you saying? You don't like Harry the Heir and Penny?

I like Penny. I would like Harry a lot more if GRRRRM stuck him on using a better quality of duct tape.

When a character has to get from Point A to Point B, and it's a long road (or sea voyage), why on earth does George have to torture him along the way?
Just checking in….
Sam is seasick. Again.
Tyrion is being beaten and is a slave and he has to wipe the bottom of an obese master. Again.

Penny whines.

What are you saying? You don't like Harry the Heir and Penny?

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERs

Penny is okay, Hairy the Heir not so much since it means that we're going to have a few hundred pages of internal politics in the Vale that doesn't matter. But overall look at the differences, in the series Tyrion is now Dany's advisor, he's turned her away from her "Dark Side" they've ditched Daario and they're on their way to Westeros. In the books Tyrion is signing on with yet another mercenary company and he and Penny are picking out his and hers armor.

In the series Sansa is The Lady of Winterfell. She may or may not be entering into a long term agreement with Littlefinger but either way she knows what he is and what his ambition is. She survived Ramsay Bolton and right now is tough as nails. If she had Lagertha from "Viking" by her side there's be no stopping her. There should be a Queen in the North whose name is Stark. In the books she's still Alayne, still being readied for some sort of intrigue in the Vale, which will be a few hundred pages of pointless diversion.

The series, in 6 years, finally has the pieces in place for an epic fight, not just for the Throne but for survival of the humans. Meanwhile the books are still moving away from the conclusion. In the books we're still waiting for all this stuff about Dorne, for Euron and Victarion and Posedion and Professor Ion, in the books we've got Fake Aegon, sponsored by Varys and Illyrio and we're going to have hundreds of pages of that.

In the series, the Waif, dead---Ramsay, dead----the Khals, dead----Rickon, dead----High Sparrow, Loras, Maergery, Blackfish, Stannis, dead. Niedermeyer, DEAD!

The series is, to me, just a tighter, cleaner narrative, it's as if GRRM had a really good editor.

A tv show can just hand wave away "continuity" issues. 1500 page doorstops cannot. Or more likely, choose not to.
Maybe we'll see Book 6 before the start of Season 7. Maybe not. Book 7? Seriously? Cent'anni.

I was rooting for Niedermeyer.

Nah, I'm rooting for the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.

It is inside the eye of a giant.

I wonder for how many chapters will Quentyn Martell linger in agony before he dies.

wonder for how many chapters will Quentyn Martell linger in agony before he dies.

IIRC he was introduced, lived out his storyline and died all in Book 5 and all without adding anything to the overall plot. A really good editor would have asked GRRM why he was even including the character. The only thing that he accomplishes is to release the two dragons, surely there was an easier way to do that in the plot then to waste page after page.

To answer the original post.

No the world is not set in a Dyson sphere. GRRM is being tight lipped, but says there's a reason for the seasons.

Astronomically they could be explained by axial tilt if the planet had no moon to stabilize it.

Our moon is what prevents the Earths wobble from swinging wider than it does. Without our Moon, Earth would swing poles back and forth as it went around our sun, which would cause extreme weather and unpredictable season lengths (or at least unpredictable at the technology/science level of Westeros).

"Magic" is the reason.

Nah, I'm rooting for the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.

"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's rolling"