Reason why "Winter is coming" was not used :)

[ssppiikkeeyy]

nice never watched it but now i must watch it :0 and it filmed not far from my house

[Daenerys_Sedai]

Read the books but haven't sat down to watch the show yet. I'm kind of waiting for the Blu-Ray release to see it all in its HD glory

[Lucifer]

Amazing series with extremely good acting and superb visuals that really bring the world to life.
Don't expect a lot of fantasy in the TV series. I doubt they will televise all the books but you can always hope they do.

[Naylia]

Televising all the books would just be 5 seasons at this rate, that's not unreasonable. With it's popularity I'd expect HBO to keep this going.

[quantumsaint]

Televising all the books would just be 5 seasons at this rate, that's not unreasonable. With it's popularity I'd expect HBO to keep this going.

They've already said they'll have to split Storm of Swords into two seasons if they keep going. It will end up being more than 1 season per book.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

Books 4 and 5 run contemporaneously... and while book 4 is thick, book 5 is thicker. If they're splitting books, those may 5-6 seasons total.

Then again, i think there's a bunch of stuff that could probably be cut for a TV series. Like Tom Bombadil in LotR, there's some stuff in there that doesn't really add or take away from the story.

Related to Book 5 (spoiler):

Like, do we really need the entire Reek/Theon and Ramsay Bolton story line?

[quantumsaint]

That was the best part of book 5 IMO.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

I enjoyed reading it too. The point, though, is that for the sake of brevity, removing that portion wouldn't take away from the main storyline (ala Tom Bombadil in LotR).