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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.

So, because you've finished the books as written, this is now going to be as safe to post as it is ever likely to be: About a year ago, a letter GRRM wrote to his agent back in 1993 when he had just started working on the series was posted online. It contained a rough outline of his ideas for the series (which he incisions as a trilogy). The thoughts explicitly referenced in the letter get us more or less up to the point that we're at now in the books (which he anticipated would cover book 1 of his trilogy). Some of it is basically what happened, some of it you can see the seeds of what would actually make it to the page, and some is just... wow. There is some definite AU stuff going on. There are a couple of things that could be considered vaguely spoilery (the names of a few characters that he sees as making it all the way through to the last book and who the story is essentially about), but A: a lot of the stories for those characters are very different from what wound up in the books and so that may or may not apply any longer, and B: There are no surprises there anyway. Unless you consider the (very, very) broad strokes of the direction that GRRM was thinking in a few years before the first book was actually published, there is nothing terribly spoilery, but it does provide some really interesting insight into where some characters came from and how they changed in the process of making it onto the page. I'll link to the pictures of the letter and provide my transcription of each one under spoilers because it's easier to read and there are some reflections that make it difficult to read in the image, but I'm pretty sure I've figured out what all the illegible spots are. Anyway: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

I still think the first season of Game of Thrones is one of the best book to screen adaptations I've ever seen.

Well, there was certainly a sun that rose in the West and set in the East.

Shimpy, do you remember what Mirri Maz Duur's taunt was?

Nah, that wasn't me. I think I remember that comment but I don't remember who made it.

Sounds like he already was Baelor Breakspear, basically.

Well, the one in the post I just quoted for one.

Yeah, I've heard a lot of theories about what "under the sea" means, but none of them have been completely consistent across all of his little rhymes.

Didn't she (season 5)

Which I think speaks to Jon being an intelligent person with strong leadership potential who simply lacks experience and some of the patience and wisdom that tends to go along with that.Being Jeor Mormont's steward was exactly the right place for Jon and I think he probably would have been the perfect person to lead the Watch through this crisis if he'd had a few years in that position under his belt before everything went south in spectacular fashion. Unfortunately he didn't, and this is the result.