Did anyone else spot the irony of Tywin Lannister dying by his son's hand (crossbow) on Father's Day?
Also, this seems to be a thread for the television series and book spoilers should be confined to another thread for those who have read the books.
Finally, does anyone else know where the conclusion of the series puts us book-wise? I like to read the books after the series but not sure how they synchronise at the moment.
I haven't read the books but I know that season 3 and 4 are primarily based on the third book, however it includes some "elements" from books 4 and 5.
From Wiki:
It is adapted primarily from the second half of A Storm of Swords, along with elements of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, all novels from the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.[2]
Also, I know from accidentally reading a spoiler from the A Storm of Swords book page that they didn't get to every little detail in that book yet.
I guess the answer is the show is starting to follow its own tangled timeline and it'll probably only return to conforming with the books at the end (assuming Martin even finishes the books on time). One of the complications is that the third book is structured as separate first-person narratives, so in order to maintain a similar show narrative to previous seasons they needed to cut and paste stuff from future books. Otherwise, certain characters that weren't seen in the third book (e.g. because one of the dedicated characters did not interact with them) would have just disappeared from seasons 3 and 4.