Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[Aroura]

I am pretty sure that there will be an age long debate with two sides firmly entrenched as to what is canon. There is no way GRRM is writing two books in one year. (Unless THAT'S the reason why he's so late, he's super secret going to release both books right before season 7!!! )

So the show will conclude first, and, probably 8 years later or never at all, the final book of the series will be released. The purist argument is that the series author has the canon right (as it were) and that Weiss and Benioff merely adapted an idea, but there will be people arguing that canon is established once the show puts it out there.

Good arguments on both sides, even I forget sometimes which is which now. Sansa's story is on a different planet, but maybe Martin was getting there. Who knows?

This is an excellent post!

I would normally agree that books come first and are therefore canon.  But starting this month, this show is telling this part of the story first, and therefore there will be some argument about which is cannon.  I'm not making that argument, just pointing out I can already see that this cause a divide in some of the fans down the road.

Humans are very visual.  Even though I've reread the books more than once each, I also begin to confuse the books and TV shows sometimes.  Once I started reading the books while imagining the actors who play those roles, things can start overlapping in my head.