It's kind of funny these novels are being adapted for TV. Martin has said in interviews that he wanted to write them as huge, epic fantasy partly because he'd been frustrated by the limitations of budget and time so much while working in Hollywood.

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That's a good point. R + L=J is the one among the crazy fan theories that makes the most sense within further explaining the characters' motivation. On the other hand, if Jaquen is Syrio, that actually makes that character's motivation harder to understand, not easier.

The episode of "Firefly" she wrote says you're wrong.

If you ask for oven mitts while pouring molten metal onto an enemy, you have to cut your braid. Sissy.

I see your point Gauephat. Maybe it was just the way up they showed that I didn't like, with what looked like stone paths transported from the Mines of Moria. The way it gets described in the books, there are a few areas like that you have to cross on the way up, but they aren't descrbed as that long. Mostly, it's…

You clearly know nothing of nerds or the Internet.

Yeah, there wasn't any exposition in that scene. Neither said anything that we hadn't been told already. It was just a funny taught-off.

The Eyrie didn't look right
It didn't really match the description I read in the books. Didn't appear to have seven towers (or any towers) and that wide shot made it appear less remote than it should have. It also wasn't white.

People telling each other legends and about the doings of the great lords are the trashy TV of this world. What else are they going to entertain themselves with?

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The RLJ theories is the only one that manages to explain why Ned is so close mouthed about who the mother is. If Jon is a Targaryen, that explains why Ned has to keep his actual parentage secret, because Robert would kill him.

Tyrion in the books is described as being pretty ugly, with a giant brow or something. I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more nerdrage about that.

I did read that. It made Harry Turtledove look like great literature (or at least George R.R. Martin) and was bad fake history. I retroactively blame you.

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There's a character named Dickon Manwoody.

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I think she gets too much crap and I really do like her in the books.

Yeah. The Dothraki scenes are not working. I mean, couldn't we get one aerial CGI shot of the whole horde leaving Pentos? Then, you could act like they'd split up to travel in smaller groups on their way to Vaes Dothrak.

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Wouldn't one way…
…..to empower women be to select one of them to direct a movie like "Bridesmaids"?

I'm not much of an Amanda Palmer/Dresden Dolls fan, but "Oasis" is funny and catchy enough to justify an entire career. And "Just Drop Me" is pretty hilarious, too.

What if you don't give a fuck about who plays Thor, because that movie will suck? And if you don't give a fuck if someone called someone a racist on the Internet and the second someone doesn't think they're really a racist? And what if you don't see what this has to do with Neil Gaiman.

I think that's basically just the world of the show. It's a pretty extreme patriarchy, where Dany has to be married to the guy who (by our lights) raped her. I think they've showed us enough of her trying to figure out how to be queen in other ways that we should understand she's partly just trying to survive. When…