>But there's a lot of speculation that this season will at
>times push ahead of the books.


My memory is off in general for this show and even worse for the books since it's been a while since I've read them and I didn't like the last two, so SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER WARNING for folks that haven't read ahead, but the already pushed ahead when they showed the result of the White Walkers stealing the male children from that pervert dude in the woods, correct? I vaguely remember something involving a ton of ice last season that wasn't in the third book.


Pretty adventurous for the show to want to push ahead even more given the ton of material in the remaining two books and the fact both books occur at the same time.