Yeah - Gene Draper is supposed to be 7, but doesn't look like it at all.

Don is sexually and romantically attracted to brunettes, while he sees the blondes as mother figures. He chose Betty as his wife because he thought she would be a good mother (hah!). He thought of Anna as a friend/mother/older sister. He was initially attracted to Faye, but ultimately she didn't make the cut because…

People have been saying that for the past two seasons. Hasn't happened yet.

Yes, of course it wasn't vengeance that prompted her decision to kill the ex-slave - my point was that she didn't think of any other form of punishment than execution.

*Remembers the sound of a rusty hinge*

Well, last week they gave us a character nicknamed 'The Frog', who looked drop-dead gorgeous. Looks like the people in the 'Hollywood Homely' department are doing their job quite diligently. I guess next week we'll get a Penny who is tall and stunningly beautiful.

Lol! Now I have the mental image of a drooling Sansa following a pretty-boy squire carrying lemoncakes while Brienne hides behind a corner waiting to grab hold of her.

Her hair is more recognizable than her name?

It felt like Faramir in The Two Towers movie all over again. In the book, Faramir is the only person till that point who isn't at all tempted by the Ring, and is an all-around good guy. In the movie, he suddenly transforms into one of the endless parade of people who are out for the Ring, and then he just as suddenly…

'Somewhat weakened'? More like nonexistent.

Definitely. Before AFFC, the POV characters (who are all members of the nobility) never interacted with anyone lower in the social order than their own servants (who lead a fairly comfortable life within their castles). However dull a character Brienne herself was, I appreciated that through her POV, we saw something…

The Greyjoys all drowned during one of their religious rituals. Absolutely no one missed them.

But she didn't really take it to heart. When Barristan first told her about her father's 'kill them all' ways, she agreed to tone it down a bit, but the moment things didn't go the way she expected, she was back in 'kill them all' mode.

One doesn't need experience to see that executing that ex-slave (that too in public) was a terrible idea on all counts. It would make his fellow former slaves angry because they would see it as a betrayal from their 'Mhysa'. And it wouldn't pacify the slavers either, who still don't get what they want, i.e. a return…

Dany essentially cut off her nose to spite her face. Her actions did not seem remotely like justice - even to us viewers, who know that she was caught between a rock and a hard place. Rather, she seemed as if she was moving over to the Slavers' side - she refused to let the Son of the Harpy be punished without a…

Lines from the books:

GRRM explained nothing of that sort. He talked about the length of the year being the same as that in real life. Seasons are correlated to the length of the day even in Westeros. I can't find the precise line, but I'm pretty sure there's something in the books about the days growing shorter with the approach of winter.

It's not ad hominem, considering that you've spent 2 days and 4 posts trying to defend an obvious mistake, spinning increasingly convoluted theories, and then calling me 'rude' because I refuse to accept them.

GRRM isn't God, you know. When he wrote the first book, the location of all the Free Cities probably wasn't even clear in his mind, let alone what kind of climate they have.

Did you write the dialogue yourself? Because if not, I don't see why you're so desperate to defend a tiny throwaway phrase that was clearly a mistake on the writer's part.