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That wasn't Euron. It was an Ironborn follower of Yara's that kind of looked like Euron from some angles.

I can think of practical examples that say you are wrong, but I don't want to get into book talk. Also did a 20 second search on AWOIAF out of curiosity, and the results disagreed with you there, as well.

Such a good movie, and I can see why you'd think of it in relation to this even though they aren't really all that similar.

Yeah, she was talking about the other woman whose throat was cut.

I like horror novels, but they don't scare me. I don't really know why. Horror movies evoke a fear response, but while I enjoy reading horror books, they don't get the same reaction from me. For the most part, American Horror story has been more like the books than the movies. I enjoy watching, but I rarely ever get scared by it. Occasionally it will have a moment that is creepy and gets me to feel the tension for a bit, but those moments are usually rare and brief. For the most part, it's just an entertaining show to watch. Last night I was freaking out from start to finish. I caught the later showing at 1 am, which probably didn't help, but still. This is the first time I have ever been on edge like that for the entirety of an episode. Even es despite some of the silliness, and when you have one character ask another character why they are filming something so that they can explain to the audience why there is footage of a situation even though there is no real reason for there to be three separate times with three different characters in a single hour, you've definitely cross some kind of line, the episode was legitimately scary, which is not something I usually associate with this show despite the theme.

Shot from behind, Tyrion and Varys are sitting in a pair of simple chairs overlooking rows and rows of grapevines and watching the sun set off in the distance. Tyrion hands Varys a glass of Imp's Delight and says "Did I ever tell you about the time I brought a honeycomb and a jackass into a brothel?" Cut to black, series over.

William Hung was clearly a fake surprise, but it seemed like Ryan was expecting Simon to come from a different location a little bit later and that the surprise was that he walked out from behind him at that point in the show.

It really would be kind of funny if Jon were Lyanna's and Faegon were Brandon's. The one raised in hiding as a Stark is a Targ and the one raised in hiding as a Targ is a Stark.

It didn't occur to me until you brought up personal stakes, shimpy, but I've got a doozy of a personal connection to the whole secret illegitimate child thing that I don't think I'm quite comfortable sharing in detail until at least October since there's a book coming out (not mine), but it starts with a man calling my grandmother claiming to be her nephew who the parents had told everyone in the family had been stillborn 40ish years earlier, and that whole story is only a tangential catalyst to the bit that I'm actually referring to. I have to laugh because aside from the royalty and mystical savior angle, a lot of the secret Targaryen stuff is kind of normalized by some of the things that have been going on with my family the last couple of years and I didn't fully recognize that until literally just now.

Also, there are indications that the great grass Dothraki Sea is drying out. It'd be kind of tragically funny if Mirri Maz Duur was just telling Dany how long it would be before Drogo came out of his coma and then she went and killed him when he would have eventually been fine.

There are too many examples of GRRM playing with the Beauty = Good, Ugly = Bad trope that exists both within stories and society at large for that to be a coincidence. He knows exactly what he's doing there, even if he didn't voice it in the interview. And really, I don't expect that he's going to go into every layer of meaning and things that he is trying to do with each character in any given interview. Most interviews like this are fairly shallow by their very nature, so of course it's mostly going to be the most well-tread material that gets discussed because those are the easiest themes to articulate and talk about with your interviewer, and most of the stuff that makes any one particularly interesting character exploration good is often the details of how the author goes about it, which is obviously going to get lost in the broad overview of the subject. So in an interview, of course you're just going to say "I'm interested in exploring redemption" and give a few easy to understand examples to make your point. You're probably not going to go into very much depth on the subject of all the different ways you are playing with that theme, how someone's appearance affects how their actions are viewed, how variable information on motives and the timing at which that information is uncovered impacts how people view things, how other circumstances interact with the whole process. You have beautiful people doing terrible things, ugly people doing wonderful things, beautiful people doing wonderful things and ugly people doing ugly things. You have people slipping slowly into darkness from a place of goodness. You have good people making compromises. You have conflicting values and loyalties where both options presented may be good or evil depending on how you look at them. How are these things prioritized? You have people who do seemingly terrible things for good reasons. You have people who do terrible things and are then punished severely for them or rewarded handsomely. And I think to some extent, a lot of this is GRRM setting up a variety of different circumstances and seeing which ones more readily allow us to empathize with a character, agree with them or simply forgive them. But these are things that might be difficult to discuss with any depth in a coherent manner in a typical interview.

Well, really, though, everything is under the author's control to some extent. Sure, he can make Winter "arrive" when narratively convenient, but it does mean that there is a potential in-story reason for why the Others haven't stormed the Wall beyond just "the author hasn't said so yet."I mean, practically speaking that is why, but there is a difference between setting up a reason for why something hasn't happened (that you have complete control over the timing of) and simply not having something happen for no apparent reason until you are ready for it. Edit: In both cases, events are flowing directly (and visibly) from the author rather than from the previous events of the story, but in the former case they are at least aligning with the logic of the story, whereas in the latter case the timing of events is breaking the internal consistency of the story, which is a problem. There is nothing terribly inconsistent about not having had the Other launch a full scale invasion yet, in part because Winter is only just bearing down on them, and in part because we don't yet know enough about the motives and tactics of the Others to tell what is inconsistent yet.

Children were born and lived and died all in the time it has taken him to write this much.

Outline!Jaime was renamed Cersei, and GRRM then added a new character named Jaime that stole plot and character elements from the outline of his two siblings.

There was more than you'd think, and I took a crack at it myself. At least the parts that were decipherable didn't seem to have really been worth redacting, frankly.