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Geez. Hadn't even heard that one.

That is a pretty cool theory. Though I wonder if it was Bran or perhaps the three-eyed-raven who did it? It's hard to imagine Bran doing that now that he's just had a really sobering demonstration of what happens when he screws around in his "visions".

I've cared about why he was the way he was - the books at least implied he wasn't always that way or that there was something mysterious about his background, and yes, I assumed the word "Hodor" factored into it somehow.

I dunno about that. Vyseris and Joffery were both kinda nuts just from being assholes…

Wait. No one cared about? I've wondered about Hodor's origin since he was introduced since there was *clearly* a mystery there. And Bran just was simultaneously responsible for Summer, the Three-Eyed Raven, and Hodor getting killed *and* Hodor's fairly miserable life - that is pretty clearly going to have massive…

Maybe. A bunch of people on a specific message board != a poll.

I enjoy some of the meanderings, but some of them get frustrating. When it's "here's 200 pages and now we're exactly back where we started" is a little trying at times.

Umm, yes I *definitely* believe that. GRRM clearly had something planned for Hodor and he chose that name for a reason. I'm not saying everything GRRM does is well thought out - 2 books of false leads and faffing around makes it clear he's getting bogged down, but there was always clearly a mystery about Hodor and I'm…

Not in on the Howland Reed == Sparrow theory? I mean, I'm not either, but it does exist.

Best thread ever.

I love that Lion King was the main image for this. The songs are nice, but the movie is basically "shitty hamlet".

Huh. I thought Maths was hilarious and I watched the next 1 or 2 and didn't think they were as good.

Sorry, I just meant it introduced it to *me*, not that Rand originated it.

Sorry, yes, she was certainly not the first to say that (Socrates I think said something at least close) - it was just the first time I'd heard that idea concretized.

The Rand idea that stuck with me was "morality can exist without God".

I read it when I was in my early 20s. I liked it fairly well, but my taste and ability to understand I was reading terrible prose were stunted by a youth spent reading Piers Anthony (which oh my god I don't know how I managed to get through the prose, much less the misogyny).

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I had an English teacher my freshman year who would give tests and then leave the room. Since I was one of the few kids in the class that actually enjoyed reading (and ergo read the books), I would proceed to read out the answers and tell them to make sure they got a few wrong. To the degree I might feel guilty about…

You realize this is a niche opinion right? Into Darkness has an 87% rotten tomatoes rating. I appreciate that it was not popular among hard core trek fans, but it was definitely not "offensively stupid" to the vast majority of the audience.