As good as the Game of Thrones TV series is, if you have not read the books by George R.R.R. Martin

yet, you absolutely should.

And even if you read them before, there's a great new way to experience them.

IBooks has an exclusive version of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones books called The Enhanced Editions.

One of the things that I love,

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to and how. These books are available exclusively on iBooks, so go to apple.co slash game

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Welcome to a special episode of the Game of Thrones weekly podcast, where we're going to talk about season seven as a whole, what we thought worked, what we thought maybe didn't work so well.

We're going to update our ranking of all the Game of Thrones seasons.

Then we're going to totally speculate about season eight, the final season, what we think is going to happen.

I'm EW editor at large, James Hibbard.

I'm here with senior writer Darren Frannich. Darren, let's start with you. What was your sort of

overall takeaway from watching season seven? This was a very strange season of television. I think like

a lot of people, I've found the feeling of whiplash has been

kind of interesting. And we talked going into this season, James. You had a lot of great

reporting circulating around the idea that this season was just going to move at a much

faster pace, certainly than previous seasons. And arguably, faster than the show has ever

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