Yes. Jaime was the top gun post-Ser Arthur Dayne and post-prime of Ser Barristan Selmy, but that was as a righty. Post-Jaime's right hand, I'm not sure who's on top of the rankings. Maybe Brienne? Maybe the Hound if he's alive and healthy again? Maybe the Mountain, though Oberyn demonstrated that the Mountain was…

Three heads of the dragon? The conquering head, the plan-making head, and the beautiful, brooding head.

She's got some Stark in her, too. Go, Stark! One thing I was wondering is, would it be considered good storytelling? The Night's Watch already handed Jon a huge betrayal, would it seem too repetitive for Sansa to go the same route? On a tangential note, it would be sadder than Hodor if Sansa goes bad and becomes…

Cat's dad is a bit of an ogre and suffers from dementia late in life. Her brother's an idiot. Her sister is straight-up nuts, and her nephew is feeble-minded. Cat herself is rather brittle and reckless and goes insane right before she's murdered. In real life, all these "weak" personality traits are pretty much…

It is known.

Also possible that Dany might evolve into the main antagonist. She's crazy Aerys's daughter, and needs to grow out of her sense of entitlement to the Iron Throne/hatred of Starks.

The books do suggest that after some fighting, the Children did ultimately get along pretty well with the First Men. The Andals, though, those guys were complete jerks.

That's the question with Sansa: Will everything she's been through turn her into Littlefinger, Jr. (or maybe a smarter version of Cersei)? Or something better, maybe more like Tyrion? It's been hinted that there's some crazy floating around in the Tully gene pool, but I think most viewers are rooting for her to come…

I think it's a bi-product of the show deciding to split him and Sansa up. The show made a reasonable decision to change things up and give a character/actor who was more popular on the show than in the books a bigger role. But giving Sansa a different story line kind of took away from Littlefinger's arc. As I've said…

"The Iron Islands Were Never Great"

Even in the books, the Tully-er Stark kids (Robb and Sansa) aren't wargs. No word yet on Rickon.

Martin reportedly told his editor that Coldhands is not Benjen. I guess that could be just equivocating, as in "he's not Benjen, he's Benjen's reanimated corpse."

Is it true that Native Americans used dark magic to create Libertarians as revenge against invading Europeans?

Now that Jaime's a southpaw, Brienne would definitely be the survivor if they fought.

He's a legend!

I'm with you! Obviously, criticizing the medieval hierarchy is kind of shooting fish in a barrel, but a lot of fantasy novels (even good ones) love their benevolent monarchs. Martin makes it clear that kings and priests are bad news for the smallfolk. even when they're claiming otherwise.. Of course, most of the PoV…

Honestly, I'm hoping she'll kill a few (dozen?) Faceless Men on the way out. While Martin lets his readers form their own conclusions about the FM, my conclusions is that they're fanatical, death-worshiping religious nuts, who pay the bills by being professional hitmen, and who consider it impertinent to ask questions…

My problem with the Iron Islands plot in the book, which for now is basically the Victarion storyline, is that there's literally no one that I like involved. The Ironborn are similar to the Dothraki, in that they're a culture that takes pride in living by murder, looting, and rape. That makes them fun villains, but…

No, I think lots of viewers, including the reviewer, are on board with you. I guess there are also those who are psyched for Arya to be a ninja assassin. But one look at her face while she watches that play indicates that she is NEVER going to be "no one."

It would be cool if Jorah got a chance to talk to Sam or Jon and hear about what his dad meant to them.