I didnt notice… but I felt odd the whole time I saw Carcetti

You know Littlefinger’s got something good cooking up.

I would never for one single moment count on him being behind the eight ball.

His plan seems to be to stabilize & control the North (along with the Trident and the Vale), while waiting for the Targaryens to return and ally with Dorne. We know he’s got a strong ally in Highgarden, old lady Tyrell (cannot remember her name right now), which should at least keep Highgarden neutral once Dorne marches.

I assume that he’s expecting to be named the Hand of the King if he can pull this off.

is actually real, or if he’s the “mummer’s dragon.” Right now I’m leaning more towards he’s the real deal.

Plus, how and why is Lyanna dead? And why did Robert want to kill Rhaegar? All because he didn’t like that Rhaegar stole his girlfriend.

/Looks at grad school schedule

Never mind.

Definitely older than Joffrey.

But I was under the impression that only a Trueborn son would qualify, yes?

You’d think they’d have seen him enough to know if it was someone else on the block.

it wouldnt surprise me.

But all we know is that he passed out. We don’t know if he actually died.

That all seemed weird

He’s still been a bastard at times, but for the most part, he’s been much more understandable since you started getting his POV.

to look back and realize the only really “bad” thing Jamie’s done (setting aside the whole incest thing as merely “squicky”) is now so bloody out of character that it’s hard to believe he did it.

I am with you. I am going to really enjoy it when Jon Snow fucking kills her. And that it’s the White Dragon or whatever that goes over to him.

Although I guess they needed to salvage Tyrion, so maybe not. But the OMG OLDER BROTHER OUT OF NOWHERE line – which is consistent with the “don’t narrate the actually pivotal people” thought process he’s used before – is making me think she might just be killed off.

It felt very WoT-level unnecessary to get that tied up in day-to-day court life.

I mean, come on.

It’s a very good series, although it starts a little slow and drags badly in the late-middle.

Though it does get bogged down around Book 8 and stays that way for a good bit. Brandon Sanderson has done an excellent job at finishing it up, and I’ve become a huge fan of his work. I’m rereading the Mistborn series now, and really look forward to how his “Stormlight Archive” series develops. That’s one of the more intriguing fantasy books I’ve read in a while in how it has an entire ecology Sanderson developed that has adapted for a world that sees hurricanes go over the entire world every few days.

I can already feel it slowing down a little, but I’m not really surprised. Long-arc series like that always seem to drag in the middle; the trouble is trying to figure out whether the payoff is worth it, and that is something you can’t really know until the end of the series when you find out how much of that slow middle turns out to be important.

Discworld is awesome – I’m a particular fan of the stories centered around either Death or the City Watch.

I love GoT, but I wish I’d never started Wheel of Time. Honest to god, the last four or so books\ Jordan wrote take about 7,000 pages to give you about 500 pages worth of actual plot and character development.

Anyone who like this place would like the Discworld books.

Sad. Sorta like GRRM, he fell into OMG I MUST MAKE THIS PERFECT mode, with a compunction to introduce new points of view, but without the utter ruthlessness of GRRM to murder characters when it was time. So instead of “well, we lost Ned and Catelyn but we pick up Jaime and the Greyjoys to take up those pages” it’s just “3 more characters! wow that’s a lot of pages! Guess Mat gets left out of this book LOL”

bored → batshit way to dissappear him → kills the reeds because he is bored with them too → his problems solved

Poor Rickon.

Though, what do you write about a 5 year old and his wildling Nanny?

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(the night is dark and full of terror)

I doubt Bran would be getting into conflict with them directly, at least not before the Others have been defeated.

That vision of her chosen one fighting the evil from the northlands: is that hot brother-on-brother violence being foretold, or just another reference to the Others?

She’s fighting some implacable winter thing. She’s worried about the wars of succession only insofar as they help pursue that.

And let’s remember what’s happened to the last genuinely good person we saw. Eddard Stark? The Knight of Flowers? The Sword of the Morning?