I remember that Aegon thing and I think it was deliberate. Martin likes slipping hints to things and playing with the reader and Tyrion had figured it out and started thinking of him as the prince before he says it out loud.

I think it applies. King didn't write Dark Tower books because he was stuck and then got unstuck.

Jon didn't ahve a trusted advisor, either, who could put the brakes on him. He sent everyone away that he might have listened to.

Meh. It happens. King took a big break between The Waste Lands and Wizard and Glass, then another between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, then pumped out the last two books pretty quick.

I love it. He sounds to me like he's decided Tyrion thinks everything is kind of  a put-on, so he'd talk like that.

I'm thinking Martin's hedged that a bit by having the Vale and Reach be very rich agricultural regions that are so far untouched by war. The North is just so fucked, though, and the Riverlands are not much better.

To be fair, you like War and Peace a lot more than the non-Russian royalty among us.

Book 5 spoilers, of course

Tyrion sends a rescue attempt/peace mission at some point, presumably we'll get that made into a bigger deal than in the books.

SPOILERS FOR BOOK V

Are still marking BOOK 4 SPOILERS:
 He's so sure that, what it is it again, Aeron?

The dude they picked for Greatjohn played Little John in this weird 80s British TV Robin Hood.

I like Cunningham. The Onion Knight was never from the Han Solo school of smuggling, he was probably always as careful as a man risking a death sentence to get rich can be.

@avclub-a9dbf6c70f867fb5d09900f7bab79c25:disqus Because Stannis acts like your angry uncle who goes to Tea Party rallies and won't shut up about it at Thanksgiving.

I think we need a Rule 35 that states if you can come up with a convoluted theory involving parentage in A Song of Ice and Fire, it has already appeared on the internet.

SPOILERS THROUGH EARLY IN DANCE
Theon being dead is one of those things that was kept hidden from the audience just to do the Reek reveal. In the show, it wouldn't make much a difference if we knew Reek was prisoner of the Boltons.

I think you guys are misremembering. We don't see Euron until Book 4, when (SPOILERS I GUESS) Balon turns up dead. Him and Theon never meet.

Yeah, he tells it a lot more like "Can you believe what I did?" than "Can you believe what I did!!!!"

I love that Smith's solution to help Mewes stay off drugs was the same as his solution to everything nowadays. Give him a podcast!

The best part of the stupid thing is the story he tells about trying to talk Eliza Dushku into showing him where Witherspoon lives so he can egg her house. Because that's what a successful film director does. It's endearing as shit.