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I know nothing about the books or the series, but it was just some people riding around and not falling off cliffs or out of castles to me. I don't think there's much in the way of spoilers in there unless you're only halfway through or something.

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True. You'd already need to be familiar with the characters and settings to consider them spoilers, but at that point, they wouldn't be spoilers, because you'd be at least that far in the books/series.

I've read a couple of the books, but not quite as far as the bit depicted in the last scene, so technically it's a spoiler for me. However, it's not exactly a big surprise ;)

The bit depicted in the last scene is the end of Season 1 of the series, as well as the very end to the first book. Minus some creative liberties, Book 1 of the series maps to Season 1 of the show in lock step.

Am I missing something? How are you a couple books in and that was a spoiler?

Hah! So much for my memory - it's been about four years since I last read them, and I've obviously forgotten which events happened in which book. Thanks for setting me right. Guess I should go back and re-read them at some point...

The last scene in the video is a pretty big spoiler I think.

Not really; it was telegraphed a few times in a couple of episodes. I knew it was coming even before the crown incident.

But you wouldn't know that by seeing it.

Hm. Seems we need a new term. Spoilers tend to be things that people see, and immediately go "OMG WHY DID YOU SHOW ME THAT". This is closer to "huh. dragons.". Maybe "fridge horror"[1] is the closest? A "fridge spoiler"?

[1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeHorror

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