What are the ages on the show? I'm pretty sure Jon Snow is older than I read him, and it's confusing. A lot of my conclusions about Dany also hinge on her age, and I just can't tell.

Yeah, they aged up all the kids.

Dany is probably at least 2 or 3 years older than she was in the book - in the book she finds out she is pregnant on her 14th birthday. I think she is at least 16 in the show.

Arya was 10, Bran was 8 - Jon and Robb were 14 or 15.

At the very beginning of the first book Jon and Robb are the same age -14, Sana 11, Arya 9, Bran 7, and Rickon 3. I'm not surprised they have all been aged up - working with child actors is challenging, and the situations that the older children get put into kinda requires that they be played by legal adults. I was reading that book knowing a tv show was coming thinking that there was NO WAY Rickon could stay that young. A 3 year old on set having to say scripted lines? Good luck. Arya couldn't be aged too much, she still has to be clearly pre-pubescent.

A 3 year old on set having to say scripted lines? Good luck

Other shows manage it, though. I mean, I can see why you don't want to bother, but it's hardly unheard of. And you barely see the character.

I was confused by the aging up of Jon, because I was just reading the whole "are you sure you want to make this sacrifice?" bit where he's giving up what he doesn't know anything about. This Jon? Has totally tapped ass.

Have we ever seen Rickon?

I may be projecting from the books, but I do feel we have.

No, I got no citations.

There are so many people in so many of the Winterfell scenes, it's hard to keep track.

I had no idea the older boys were supposed to be so much younger. I had read that Dany was thirteen in the books, though.

Yes, he laughs at Bran in the archery scene.

Blogpost from the guy who makes the Dothraki language.

Mo Ryan interviews Emilia Clarke (Daenerys). Spoilers are redacted and put at the end of the interview.