There are lots of sites that provide a variety of combined reading orders for AFFC/ADWD chapters. See here, for example: http://boiledleather.com/po…. You have to do a bit of work in going back and forth between the books, but IMO, it's worth it.

Tragic and sympathetic? He recent life at the beginning of AFFC is pretty tragic, I agree: She just saw her favourite child murdered, by her own brother (as she sincerely believes), and then said brother murders their father and runs off scot-free. And to add to it all, the other brother, whom she is in love with, has…

Pretty sure you're not the only one.

Good point. Besides, Show-Stannis is much more crazy than the pragmatic Book-Stannis. Show-Davos has to up the outspoken factor to counter all that crazy.

But that's Book-Dany. Show-Dany is not a teenager - or at least not as young as Book-Dany. I don't know what age she's supposed to be now, but presumably around 20 based only on her looks.

To an extent, yes. But I think that Peggy's story parallels Arya's more: they're both spirited and intelligent young women who initially feel like a fish out of water in a new environment (Sterling Cooper/King's Landing), but through talent and sheer willpower, have become a force to be reckoned with.

Yeah, probably. It's just that I felt that "You know nothing, Jon Snow" applied best to her.

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Substitute 'Ned' for 'Tyrion' in those lines, and read them again.

So Don Draper = Robb Stark? Nah, I don't see it at all.

Man, there are too many wine-related deaths on this show.

Dany is not 'rightfully' queen. Robert Baratheon's rebellion effectively ended the rule of the Targaryens, just as the Targaryens ended the rule of the individual kings of the Seven Kingdoms when they originally conquered Westeros.

S1E2, you mean. Joffrey showed how much of a prick he was when his actions got Arya's friend and Sansa's direwolf killed.

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Dorne may be able to 'hold out' against dragons - but that's not what Doran Martell wants. Dorne was already doing quite well in remaining neutral in the War of the Five Kings, and given that winter wouldn't affect them too badly, they would be one of the few places in Westeros that wouldn't be facing food shortages…

Whoa! That's amazing! Thank you!

I assume by option B you mean an alliance with Aegon - which is where the story seems to be heading anyway (see the preview Arianne chapters of Winds of Winter). However, there's no suggestion that the Dornish have spurned Dany completely, or even that Aegon and Dany might not band together if Dany ever manages to…

Myrcella's injury happened as a result of Doran's daughter's plot, so yes, the Lannisters can blame the Martells for it. But Quentyn died because he tried to STEAL a goddamn DRAGON. He basically died from terminal stupidity.

Five minutes only? You greatly underestimate the HBO CEO of Tits. That episode would be his crowing achievement. He probably has at least half the episode set aside for it, if not more.

I tried watching Rome … couldn't make it more than halfway through the first episode. Not that it was bad as such … it just didn't seem to hold my interest. But still, I assume it gets better later, and I fully intend to at least finish watching the first episode before writing it off completely.