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    <em>Game of Thrones</em> Ventures Into the Unknown

    Now that the HBO blockbuster series has caught up with the George R. R. Martin books on which it’s based, all bets are off.
    by Christopher Orr Apr 22, 2016 6 minutes
    Source: Courtesy HBO

    In the end, we are all rendered equal.

    For the past four years, I’ve written season previews for Game of Thrones with the smug superiority of the book-reader. Sure, there would be surprises ahead, but having made my way through George R. R. Martin’s successive tomes, I typically had a pretty good idea of the overall direction the  plot would take.

    Beginning this season, though, the showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have caught up with or surpassed Martin’s material in all but a handful of particulars. Moreover, HBO, which had in previous years provided media outlets with screeners of the first four episodes, has decided to keep a tight lid on this season for anyone whose name is not Barack Obama.

    Which is all a long way of saying that this time around I have no more idea of what is going to happen than many of you reading this—and undoubtedly less than those of you who have been poring through online speculation or

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