Pushing the field of medicine by torturing his human experiments. But maybe that's more blatant in the books than in the show. I would put him on a level with Mengele and Co.

Nobody knew about the boning his sister part. And bookishness is not commonly associated with chivalry. It's also not necessarily counter-indicative of rapyness, sadly.

Qyburn's a torturer. How couldn't he deserve whatever he gets?

"Clearly his heritage is going to be a plot point of some importance" - I don't think that's clear at all. Maybe the "hidden rightful heir" trope is the one Martin ultimately subverts after all. Wouldn't it be rather poetic if Jon fulfilled the main gist of the prophecy without ever learning that he was the chosen…

Yeah, I also think that this is where Martin's going to take it, because he can be quite sentimental, and at least when it comes to romance, he's so far been fairly conventional. It still annoys me when people treat it as a foregone conclusion. Rhaegar might have been actually smitten, and even that is no guarantee…

So was presumably Jaime, until he became the Kingslayer.

I also think she was the Knight of the Laughing Tree and impressed Rhaegar, which gave him the idea that she should be the mother of his next child. Whether that was true love or just part of his prophecy based breeding programme and whether he bothered to obtain her consent for the scheme however is absolutely still…

Not a spoiler, because it's not based on any textual evidence whatsoever.

How is that relevant to the question why Robert would kill his own child? If Robert already consummated his relationship with Lyanna before she was kidnapped, surely he would at least entertain the notion that the baby she gave birth to might be his own, and not Rhaegar's. Is the idea here that he would have killed…

I think it has always been painfully obvious that Amy's more into Dan than Dan's into her. It results in her generally treating him worse than he treats her, because she's the one who has to compensate. I still think she's been handling it fairly gracefully, all things considered.

Well, the whole point of telling Jon would have been that Jon could have waited for the re-enforcements before sacrifcing so many of his own men. But the more time passes, the higher the risk that Ramsay catches wind of the new army.

Ugh, The Magus. I remember quite enjoying The French Lieutenant's Woman, but that one was a disappointment. It's one of those books that really makes me think romance is the worst kind of chore. The Nazi-occupation backstory was compelling enough, but as to the rest, I couldn't stop thinking "these are problems that I…

My first reaction too. I have read some books few people tend to finish that I found personally meaningful, but I wouldn't think of naming them in this context, because they're mostly part of the bloody canon, and as to the more contemporary ones, if they don't make it on a beststeller list, they certainly make it…

It's the kind of book you're not going to finish, unless you get at least a bit obsessed with it. Not surprising when it inspires some degree of missionary zeal in the eventually converted.

There are no boats right now, but I doubt ships will only be important for Dany. Whats about all that dragonglass on Dragonstone they'll need to fight the white walkers, for instance? Who's going to ship that to the location of the last stand?

She does see things - she just sometimes misinterprets them. (eg. most of her visions of Stannis actually applying to Jon). That said, "seeing Arya again" is not terribly amibguous.

Accusations of her enemies. Jaime doesn't necessarily know that they're true. That said, you do have a point - even he doesn't believe them now, he probably never would.

I want to believe.

It's bound to happen in the books. I can't imagine the show leaving that out.

Going home? Reuniting with Sansa and/or Jon?