Is poor Gene ever going to have even a line of dialogue on this show? Poor kid - he's almost 7 now, which is older than Sally was in the first season. But Sally had dialogue even back then, and since then, has become one of the major characters for the show. While Gene is so forgettable that I did a double take on…

Eh, why waste good wine? Especially if it wouldn't even stain.

This is what a lemon tree in a pot looks like: http://www.fast-growing-tre…. Surely it's not hard to believe that such a tree could grow in a sheltered courtyard in a temperate city during a decade-long summer - which, in effect, means that for an entire decade, that city wasn't temperate, but closer to real-world…

Cousin sex isn't considered incest in Westeros … except perhaps for the newly-converted, super-religious types, who think everything they've ever done is a sin.

Not her parents, but her grandmother.

Of course, in common parlance, most people (in-universe as well as out) do use the terms interchangeably. My reply was meant to answer the question "Is north of the wall technically Westeros still?", in which case the difference between the two terms is relevant. The Wildlings would certainly consider themselves as…

Wtf is going on with Disqus? I can't see half of my comments on this page, even though I've clicked the 'load more comments' button until all the comments are (supposedly) visible.

If it's a 'climate cycle', on what basis can it be called a 'year'? Those are two completely different things.

I made up nothing. Maybe you should read the books more carefully. Viserys lied to her her entire life, presenting her with a rosy picture of what life in Westeros was like, and what their family was like. (Granted, he was a child himself when his father died, so he may not have known the whole truth either.)

GRRM has clarified that. Years mean the same thing in Westeros as they do in the real world: http://www.westeros.org/Cit…

Braavos doesn't have lemon trees now, because it's winter. It probably had them during the decade-long summer - which was when Daenerys was growing up there. Also, lemon trees can grow even in small pots. There's no reason why there couldn't be one growing in a pot in a sheltered inner courtyard.

Does it matter? Either way, the kid is dead.

North and South America are considered separate continents because of the isthmus of Panama, which is a tiny stretch of land joining these two large landmasses. The Panama canal (which is barely a century old) has nothing to do with it. They've been separate continents for the hundreds of millions of years since…

Huh? Bran was beyond the Wall at that time. He can't warg long distance.

The deserter at the beginning did not have a good reason for deserting - at least, not as far as Ned knew. Sure, he deserted because he saw White Walkers - but why would Ned believe that? The White Walkers hadn't been seen in thousands of years, and as far as most people knew, they were mythical. In any case, Ned…

After lugging around AGOT, I gave up on paper books and bought the rest in ebook format. My back thanks me!

Reading AFFC and ADWD combined is the only way to go!

He definitely said 'time of year' - that's why I did a double take.

I hope to see Cersei throwing wine in Kevan's face. Heck, I'm happy to see Cersei throwing wine in anyone's face.

The Wildlings are ethnically First Men, the same as the majority of Northerners, i.e. they all came to Westeros at the same time. The Wildlings chose to live outside the boundaries of the Seven Kingdoms (or however many there were when the Wall was built) because they didn't want to kneel to kings. That's not even…