Not only does Peter Dinklage apparently not watch Game of Thrones episodes—it's an issue with his cable package—but apparently the star is completely in the dark about his character's pre-written future.

During aGame of Thrones panel today at Comic-Con—that began with a standing ovation for Dinklage and an epic In Memoriam reel set to Boyz II Men's “Hard to Say Goodbye”—the Emmy-winning actor confessed that he has absolute no idea what is in store for his character, Tyrion Lannister, even though his fate has been written by series creator George R. R. Martin.

“In four or five years when this is all over, I think that I will go back and read all of the books and reflect upon it,” said Dinklage, when asked whether he is curious about his character's future. “But no, I don't want to know what is coming. I want to know what has happened. But I don't want to know what is coming so I stray from reading too far into the future.”

“You turn into a dragon,” jokingly spoiled a cast member.

“If have to breathe fire in every scene, I can,” Dinklage replied.

Another person on the panel who had been anxious about the future, it turned out, was George R. R. Martin. The franchise visionary was so nervous about how people would respond to the “Red Wedding” episode that apparently last year, the author said that he was going to fly to a country without Game of Thrones when it aired. When moderator Elvis Mitchell asked whether he had succeeded with his plan, George R. R. Martin revealed he had not.

“I discovered that there are no countries without Throne,” he explained. “In the last year, the books have sold in Mongolia, Iran, Vietnam, Iceland, Scandinavia. So I decided there was no escaping it. I figured I might as well just bunker down in Sante Fe and withstand the storm. And I managed to survive.”

It was not his first time dealing with “Red Wedding” fallout though.

“I had more experience because I went through a smaller precursor storm thirteen years ago [when readers first read his account of the massacre] when people were throwing the books into the fireplace and saying they would never read another word of mine again.”

“Thankfully,” he added, “no one, to my knowledge, threw their television set into the fireplace.”