Game of Thrones Season Six **SPOILERS WITHIN**

Not only are the last two seasons going to be shorter, but apparently the next season will be delayed until Winter 2017 (rather than Spring 2017), apparently so they can better film winter scenes or something.

If you look at the "map" that was released a few years ago you can see GRRM intentionally made eastern Essos a big unknown. A spin-off series with a Planetos explorer would be daunting, but interesting nonetheless.

Some questions I could see being answered (or not):

What happened to the Yi Ti Empire?
Why is Asshai such a mysterious place?
What exists in the Shadow Lands?
Why are there Five Forts? Is it another boundary like The Wall in Westeros?

In addition to those, I'd like to see visits to:

• in the South
  • the Summer Isles
  • New Ghis
  • - Sothoryos (specifically Yeen)
  • Port Moraq and the Cinnamon Straits
• in the North
  • the Forests of Qohor
  • Ibben/Far Ib
  • Leviathan Sound
  • area around the Thousand Islands/Mussovy/Nefer

I'd be interested in learning

• if the Five Forts were defending against White Walker-types or some other type of invasion
• the mysteries behind the Black Stone idol on the Isle of Toads (how does it relate to the city of Yeen, the Seastone Chair, and the foundation of Hightower)
• What's the deal with the "City of Winged Men"?

So now that we know Jon Snow's parentage I'm wondering why Ned didn't tell Catelyn about it?

I understand the need for secrecy. If Robert Baratheon found out he probably would have had Jon killed. But surely Catelyn could be trusted with the secret. It would have saved them a lot of marital strife and maybe Catelyn would have treated Jon better.

She even says in the show that all of the tragedies that had befallen the family were her fault because she couldn't love a motherless child.

Maybe Ned didn't trust her to keep the secret initially but after four other kids you would think he would have told her at some point down the road, at least for Jon's sake.

You largely answered your own question. A sharp, sudden change in how Catelyn treated Jon would have been noticed; Catelyn being jealous and treating Jon as Ned's bastard was a part of what kept Jon safe. Perhaps if she could have been told from the beginning that wouldn't be necessary, but at the beginning, when Ned returned from war with Jon, Ned and Catelyn were more-or-less complete strangers to each other and Ned wouldn't have been able to trust her with a secret like that.

Regardless, it was certainly safer to tell no one, even if Catelyn could be trusted 100%. It's far easier to keep up an act 100% of the time than to turn it on and off without ever turning it off at the wrong time.

You guys make good points, but I think the real reason is that I understand that Catelynn is a POV character in the books and it would've been impossible to keep the secret this long if she did know.

Game of Thrones stars visit refugee camp in Greece.

The very people who've turned the seven kingdoms into a blood-soaked disaster area want to advice Europe on refugees?

Jaehaerys Targaryen is Jon Snow's real name according to recent leaks.

Excited for season 7!

I hate that we have to we wait so long for season 8 and it's only 6 episodes.

They've already started wrapping up some storylines and bringing multiple characters together.

We are pretty much done with Essos, I don't think there are any characters left there. And all the remaining Starks are close to being reunited.

There are some loose ends like Melisandre, the Hound, the Brotherhood, Sam and Gilly, etc... but most of the other characters are converging towards Kings Landing or Winterfell.

I think the Iron Throne dispute will be settled just in time for the inevitable White Walker invasion.