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Thursday for me on my phone. But that's fine, I won't have time to play until the weekend, cause I will want to blaze through it without having to stop.

The second episode was rated slightly lower than the first. It received a lot of praise for character development, but lost a lot of marks because reviewers felt it lacked in story development Also the second episode suffered from somewhat poorer reviews on iOS because there were some glitches when it was first released.

They tweeted! Episode three will be out before April, no concrete dates yet though. https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/579041258028437504

Those choices are the ones I have the most hope for in impacting the storyline. I find I'm drawn the most to Mira's story. I can't wait to get back to King's Landing throughout the episode, I'm always upset when they take me to the Wall or Essos. Ironrath is alright I guess, but none of the choices I make there feel like choices, no matter what I do the evil guys are gonna do whatever they were gonna do anyway.

It's a shame to be sure. I love telltales games (so far I've played the Walking Dead and Fables iterations) and a frequent complaint is that many of the choices don't have a lot of impact in where the story ends up going. In the most recent Walking Dead game though there were three very different endings. Hopefully they will continue building on that for this game and the last couple chapters will be heavily impacted by choices made at the beginning.

Question: Should we spoiler tag things that happen in later books or later on in this book? I've done so in this post just in case. Very interesting points. In regards to turning corpses into wights and children into Others. Ser Waymar turns fairly quickly it seems, and yet the wildlings took a while, especially if it's presumed that Will watched them. It could easily be that someone killed by an Other will turn fairly quickly, but someone who dies from the cold might take longer. As to the show and Craster's child, he is directly touched by the crowned Other, so perhaps a touch from him will turn a child faster than a touch from another Other. As for Ser Waymar himself, he's the third child of Bronze Yohn Royce of Runestone, and is therefore pretty unlikely to inherit anything of note. A second child might hope for a keep and land, even a decent marriage, but the third is commonly left in the cold (pun not intended.) Spoiler for ACOK Another point is that the Royces seem preoccupied with glory, Waymar is not willing to let his first ranging end in failure, he demands the honor of command as his right of being a knight. Glory is available in the Night's Watch, and it wouldn't be ridiculous of him to harbor dreams of being Lord Commander. We later find out that Bronze Yohn is an accomplished tourney knight, another mark of a glory seeker. Spoiler for ACOK

Is it? Where? It's mentioned that he can't marry a Tully, but that's hardly having no good prospects. Just because he can't marry into a great house. Many nobles would be scorned if they sought such a match. Also his wealth alone can ensure a good marriage. He's currently buying the heir to the Eyrie for his bastard daughter. I'm sure he could do the same for himself.

I don't know about that. Littlefinger never married before Lysa, and he's pretty old to have never taken a wife. Even Lysa can be seen as a fairly obvious ploy to bring the Eyrie under Tommen's protection, not a marriage made because he desired a wife, but a marriage made because the Crown commanded it. Really I'm surprised there isn't more made of Littlefinger's extended bachelorhood; by all rights he should have tons of rumours flying around the kingdoms. He also doesn't seem to be a person who cares very much for his family lineage, he had no qualms about abandoning his father's sigil for his own mockingbird. A man who does that doesn't seem like one who would be terrible concerned with carrying on his family name. It's not unreasonable for anyone to assume he doesn't want to ever take a(nother) wife or have a child.

I'll try to do a reread, but I also tried to keep up with the book club we had on the old TWOP board. Real life just kept butting it's stupid head in. Stupid real life.

First off that is not a question of motivation, but a question of ability. Secondly, as the Lord Protectors daughter Sansa/Alayne has tons and tons of resources at her disposal. If she can manage to get the Freys killed, I'm sure getting a few chefs to bake a few pies is a task that is easily accomplished

I don't know about that. Old Nan told the story of the Rat Cook to Bran, I'm sure she told Sansa too. It's not difficult to connect the dots from there. But they could even have like a creepy monologue piece where Sansa tells the story in voiceover while Freys and Boltons scarf down the pies.

It's a wiki. Anyone can edit a wiki. In the books Jon even wonders if Ghost will howl for him if he should die. So even Jon isn't sure if he's completely mute, otherwise why would he wonder?

No I think we find out in ASOS. Oberyn tells Tyrion that even if Tywin crowns Tommen in King's Landing, Doran might crown Myrcella in Sunspear, and Tyrion thinks that Cersei might side with Myrcella's claim since it would set a precedent for her inheriting Casterly Rock cause she is the eldest.

Personally I don't think GRRM left it open to all that much interpretation. He just tried to misdirect us into thinking it would be Tyrion. And then our own perceptions make Jaime a more likely culprit then Tommen. But, I mean look at the quote in context. "Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds, she said. And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you." Maggy talks about Cersei's own children and then says "the valonqar" so to me it doesn't make any sense unless it's the younger brother among her own children, so Tommen. You can theorize until the cows come home that it'll be Arya or Stannis, but it doesn't make any sense unless it's Tommen. Even Jaime doesn't make much sense to me.

I know. I actually didn't think it was possible for me to hate Show Dany more than I hate Book Dany, but it's getting pretty close. This season could catch Show Dany up.

So then we're leaving it open to every male in the entirety of existance? I think they need to say something about either the valonqar or younger brother. There needs to be a reason beyond her hatred of him that points her to Tyrion.

That kind of robs people of the satisfaction of solving the riddle though. It goes from an actual puzzle to a scenario where anyone could be the culprit and really you're just guessing. If it does turn out to be Tommen, or Jaime it would be more satisfying for them to say little brother (or valonqar) and figure out that it's not Tyrion the Maegi is talking about but a different little brother.

Don't really need her to monologue. I doubt little Cersei spoke a ton of High Valyrian. And even if she did it's super doubtful Melara did. One of them could just ask in the flashback. But I agree they might just change it.

I don't think Ghost is mute, he just is quiet by nature. There's a chapter in a Clash of Kings where Jon has a wolfdream where he (Ghost) howls cause he misses the others and Bran hears the howl and answers him through the weirwood. Even if that was just a dream (which seems unlikely) and he is mute, that doesn't stop Jon from feeling his emotions when they are dreaming together.

I think you're reading too much into the wound. Ghost would've been in much more distress if Shaggydog had been mortally wounded. For instance, Grey Wind, Summer and Shaggy howled incessently when Lady died. And Jon (via Ghost) and Bran (via Summer) both get visions when Grey Wind dies.

Anyone think like I do that there's a hidden pun in this episode title? The Wars To Come = The Worst To Come? It seems like this episode is gonna lay the groundwork for a brutal season. Not brutal as in bad quality, but brutal as in bad stuff gonna happen.

You must've. Tyrion killed him by shooting him on the toilet or the privvy if you prefer the medieval terms. "You shot me. You are no son of mine" "I am your son. I have always been your son" Ringing any bells?

This was really weird. But also a lot of fun. Finn's plan to escape was the best, especially how it fell apart almost immediately. It reminded me of the plans me and my friends used to make when we played Dungeons and Dragons. The first 2-3 steps would go off without a hitch and then the poop would hit the fan and panic set in.

Hopefully the wedding in that movie will go better for him. Especially if there is a Jean Grey/Wolverine (Turner/Hugh Jackman) connection in the X-men movie she's cast in.

Oh if he has no wolf that's a crapshoot for sure. That's why Manderly is insistant on Davos bringing Rickon back with the wolf.