Still one of the best Arrested Westeros posts:

I didn't even know what a nuclear panner plant was!

"Maybe he wanted the kingdoms in Chaos?"

I agree with this except I got through ADWD in two weeks by fast-forwarding everything to do Quentyn Martell and every time Tyrion drunkenly moaned about whores.

As a stand-alone book, I suppose it's fine, but as the long-delayed fourth entry in a seven-book series, the one that should begin advancing existing storylines toward a convergence, it's a complete failure.

"Varys outlining his plans in uncharacteristic specificity ("You will go to me with Mereen to meet Daenerys Stormborn")"

Well, I felt like I wasted a lot of time reading many of the parts of ADWD even before this season. If Benioff and Weiss want to trim a bunch of late-starting stories that don't go anywhere, fine with me.

It's a shitty service and this kind of thing happens all the time.

"The IRON PRICE! The IRON PRICE! Hey, instead of making a deal with anyone on the continent, let's raid them as soon as their back is turned so they can come beat the shit out of us again soon! Because we pay THE IRON PRICE!"

And yet there are book readers freaking out over this "terrible unnecessary exposition that would never happen." lol.

The "whole Tysha thing" was an unnecessary layer to the story that was more about GRRM wanking to his own capacity for cruelty toward his characters, so I don't miss it.

Did something happen with the actor who plays Illyrio? I feel like he's been sort of deliberately cut out of the story post-S1.

You should probably find better things to do with your time.

Yeah, after seeing his comment in the Newbies article about how he thinks this is some righteous crusade he's on, you should probably just blacklist him.

The actress who played young Cersei was so good it was immediately obvious that that was who she was.

The Connors winning the lottery and abandoning their blue collar life
crapped on everything the show had built up to that point, much like the
last season of the X-Files. That wasn't just a "bad plot from a late
season", that's how Roseanne ended. That's the show's legacy.

This sounds defensive. I liked MWC and all I was saying is that it was less concerned with being a realistic portrait of blue-collar life than Roseanne was. And if we're going for bad plots from very late seasons of long-running shows as emblematic of the whole, how about Seven?

"Today is not the day for cunning plans and crazy capers!"
"Claudette, you never wanna do any cunning plans or crazy capers!"

the Byz-Lat king is Santi.

Isn't that the rare instance of The Simpsons ripping off Family Guy? Stewie sings the same song about Lois.