I didn't watch the trailer. I didn't read the OP. I am avoiding any possible spoiler. I just wanted to say, I'll never understand why book purists whine so much. Especially with George being part of the TV Show and green-lighting whatever changes book purists don't like.

If that doesn't fit into anything you are trying to discuss, apologies. Out.

As someone who read the books long before the show ever came out, this is pretty unacceptable. I stopped watching the show before season 3, and I won't be watching it anymore until I have read the final word of the final book. And if I am exposed to any major spoilers, I have no issues with not reading another page or watching another episode of this whole farcical situation.

The internet being what it is, spoilers are nearly unavoidable, and I will not support this thing any further if it's ruined for me.

The book crowd was more than kind enough to avoid spoiling things for the TV crowd for five years. Now the TV crowd has to return the favor for at least two. Simple as that.

I won't watch season 6 until I read the book! But after that I will watch the show first. It will have taken its own direction by then.

Good luck with that.  The TV crowd practically Tweets out every single thing that happens during the course of an episode as it's happening.  With the books you kinda had to go out of your way to get the spoilers... with the TV show and the tons of media converage and weekly recap blogs and articles it gets, spoilers are inevitable.

Some major news & entertainment sites have even been so brazen as to pretty much announce major GoT spoilers right in the headlines on their homepage, so someone who innocently goes on there instantly has the whole episode ruined for them.  After the Season 5 finale was over, everyone pretty much knew Jon Snow's fate whether they had watched the show or not.

As has been noted from the Game of thrones producers, George isn't very healthy and thus they have the major plot points of the future books at their disposal. Unfortunately if he did die then the producers might change his plot. But that would be such a scum move to not finish his vision.

I didn't say they would. I said they had to if they had any respect for the guys who could have spoiled every single thing for them six years ago. 

Read the books many years before it was even been considered for a TV show and I want to finish the books before watching any more of the TV show but doing that without spoilers will be impossible.

Some of them did, though, and you need only one person to scream the emperor has no clothes after all.

Besides, it's a routine unlikely to work. Even if the chance was merely 1/1,000 of being spoiled on a given day... one would more likely than not be spoiled after two years of waiting. Raise the chance to about 1/100 and that makes it a mere two months.

So, the effort is probably not worth the hassle. It would place constraints on a person's daily life more annoying than being spoiled on a single book series.

Yep, it's gonna be tough.