That was bugging me, too. Fellow nitpicker. :-)

See, I don't think it would be a twist. I think it would be kind of repetitive and blah—I know I'm in the minority, and I could well be wrong, but I don't think it's gonna be Jamie, or rather, it could be Jamie but I don't think he'll do it to keep her from blowing up the city.

Hmm. That's a thought; I don't remember Ned being cold toward Jon (only circumspect) but I could be misremembering or just not have noticed. It's entirely possible, though. It's possible, too, that his coldness came from an awareness that he had to treat Jon like his bastard son of whom he was a little ashamed, and…

Ooooh! I don't think it will actually happen, but what an interesting and creepy theory! I like it. :-)

Yes, but she also told Jon that he should take the master bedroom because, as far as she was concerned, he was the lord of Winterfell.

I thought it was a slightly smooshed eyeball.

Stabbed in the pooper, kind of like Edward II.

…especially since, had it not been for the prophecy that made her so fearful of and hateful toward Margaery, she never would have conspired to get rid of Margaery in the first place, and she would still have her son and, probably, a position as a trusted advisor to him (since Margaery didn't want to alienate her at…

That she wasn't in love with him, and her throne is more important to her?

Pycelle would also have been one of, if not the, only influential, powerful members of court left to object to Cersei's crowning—or, given that Cersei didn't plan on Tommen dying, the only man of influence and power who could object to whatever else it was she had planned (like, becoming Tommen's Hand, or whatever).

He might have just gone to seek an alliance of some kind with Dorne, though. And they were all confident that Dany was alive; when she would return was a big question, but they were pretty sure she wasn't dead.

Her fleet will pick him up along the way.

I used to wonder that, too. But I figured that in order for other people to believe it, Catlyn had to believe it; people would think it was weird if she treated Jon with benevolent affection, knowing how she felt about Ned. And it might have been hard for her to remember he was supposed to be a brother to her kids,…

It reminds me of Nosmo King (if you remember that).

I see what you did there.

JMO, but I think if Littlefinger has the Iron Throne and Sansa as his wife, he'll be happy to let Sansa's brother play "King in the North"—at least, he will knowing that Jon will bow to him and let his sister be Queen, and will do what Littlefinger wants him to do, basically.

Exactly. He's being made Hand because he deserves it, because she genuinely values him and his advice, not because they need a Lannister to fill a spot until the real Hand can do it.

Fuck the Guardian, though. They published an article applauding a website that harassed and outed women for the crime of reviewing books, and that engaged in an outrageous hate campaign against me and a few others for speaking out against it. The Guardian didn't bother to look into the actions or behavior of this…

Not to mention what the Wildlings might have thought while watching Jon just sit there as his brother ran for him. They're fighting for him because they believe he's a good and honorable man; would they still have thought so after that?

And the thing is, just saying, "Don't do what he wants you to do," isn't much as far as advice goes. "Uh, okay? He wants me to fight, should I not do that?" You know what I mean? Saying, "He's great at setting traps, don't do what he wants you to do," and some vague stuff about how they should give up on Rickon isn't…