There's also the moment when he tries to call her out for being bored and she counters about he must've been bored often to know. Shireen is a smart girl.

I specifically came here to see if Rhaegar was mentioned in this review. I'm sad as well.

Agree. Robert would've been overjoyed to have a child with Lyanna. He would've legitimized him and made sure that Jon was his heir.

Yeah, I noticed it too.

Yeah, she's already talked about the importance of "king's blood" and she's been feeding off of Stannis' "king blood," but Jon has some "legit" stuff going on in his veins (if R+L=J turns out to be the direction we're heading, which I hope it is).

By arbitrary you mean financial right?? I know HBO is spending the big money on GoT but I don't think they could afford 22 episodes a year. Although they do have this influx of MayPac cash… but maybe they're planning to use that for season 2 of The Leftovers or season 3 of True Detective (I'm joking)??

I agree… but then I'm still lost for how much screen time Brienne and Pod have received. If there's no Lady Stoneheart, then why are we spending some much time on her. So she can help Sansa escape Winterfell?? And then what?? I'd feel better if we got one minute of screentime with her traipsing in the Riverlands and…

To be honest… I could do with less Brienne in the book and the TV show. Her and Pod are occupying valuable real estate on Sunday nights. For the record, I haven't finished reading ADWD, so I'm still waiting for her character to become relevant again.

Feast and Dance dragged for me as well. Feast didn't get good until the last three chapters anyway. I understand the need for Theon, but seems like the Greyjoys should've been written out of the TV show from the beginning. Almost everything they do is filler. Also agree on LSH… I'm not completely done with Dance (even…

I think I missed that Linttlefinger connection to Ramsay marrying the fake Stark.

Have any book readers been bothered by the changes happening on screen? Has anyone who is currently reading just given up on some characters or parts because the TV show makes it seem like they're not important in the long run?

I've been waiting for Dorne to appear on the Map and it hasn't yet. Ugh!!!

Anyone surprised that they've toned down the creepiness of Littlefinger's advances on Sansa? They make perfect sense in the book, but seeing as Sansa's plot has taken a different direction here perhaps that's why it's toned down. But then it doesn't make sense for why the creepiness was on 10 last season except to…

This revelation from Littlefinger in the books was the best. It was like a huge "aha" moment for his motivation.

I agree. I don't understand why the Boltons would go for it?

You're better at reading these books than me… I honestly don't know what the hell he's foreshadowing, lol. The dragons could end up wiping out Westeros and Essos for all I know so the White Walkers can inherit the planet.

Grantland made a fascinating argument that Martin totally thought he'd finish the books before the series ended and that he seems blindsided by the fact that the show will tell his story before he does. They point to his weird comments in the past few months about how he had some great idea for a character to become…

What are the chances Martin screws everyone over and completely changes whatever ending he told Dan and David?

That would certainly piss off the newbie fans.

I find it amazing that for the first time ever (maybe?) you have a tv show based on a book that will finish telling the story of that book before the author of the book has a chance to. These are two separate entities at this point. There may be similarities between DBDW's end and Martin's end, but they will be…