BOOK 5 spoilers
I posted late in last episode's thread that I like Melisandre for the letter. Mel knows about Mance and could have seen the rest in her fires. She could be pushing Jon into attacking the Boltons because of something she read in the fires or just to help Stannis in general.

His Dark Materials? The way that wandered off in the second book, I don't think it ever recovered. The first was really good, though. Who wouldn't love an armored sentient polar bear?

If she kills him and someone comes looking for him, that person finds a dead Theon, and they're gonna start looking for her right away. It should at least be morning before anyone notices the kids are missing, so if she just lets Theon sleep peacefully, maybe nobody looks for her until then.

@AnalBumCover:disqus SPOILERS for Book 3 or 4 I forget which.

I will pretend these are Important books, here, to the extent that I think such a thing exists. Martin's got as much to say about morality and such as any book I've read. And the fact that he's doing it with dragons and fantasy what not while pretty much wiping out any notion of black and white morality seems pretty…

It isn't just prejudice over height. I think it's also prejudice over Tywin's beloved wife having died giving birth to Tyrion.

Vague Book 3 and 4 spoilers
 @avclub-fc1027164548d0abe0f897f083c29dd6:disqus People will tell you ridiculous conspiracy theories about that, but I've always found it believable in that Tywin's admonishing on the subject of whores was always about public behavior, not private behavior. And he really does hate Tyrion,…

BOOK Five Spoiling from here to Ypsilanti

Or the could just meet the Reeds on the road, to avoid having to cast them this season.

@avclub-e0b5b498f16be63117db8605f5ad6262:disqus Yeah, Xaro was supposed to be flamboyant, lisping Liberace figure skating gay in the books. He's not being played that way, but he didn't say whom he married he married for in this episode. The change to have him be a Summer Islander and outsider to Qarth works pretty…

Edric's a high-born bastard. I forget who his mom was (maybe a Florent?) but he was a conceived on Stannis' wedding night when King Robert took the lady upstairs and fucked her in Stannis' bed while old Stan was still downstairs at the feast. Robert mostly fathered bastards with whores and such.

Show Lorch actually explains himself to Yoren saying something like "I'm Ser Armory Lorch, bannerman to Tywin Lannister These goldcloaks came to me and said you're giving them shit, putting knives to their cocks and not giving them this Gendry character like my Lord's sister ordered. WTF, Night's Watch dude? Do as…

I get my Book 2 and Book 3 mixed up as far as what happens when, especially at Winterfell.

Most of the time in the books moon tea= some kind of herbal contraceptive. You take it like a birth control pill to not get pregnant. And tansy tea= a chemically-induced abortion that you take when you're already pregnant.Or abortion juice.

@avclub-ec0ee15712abab09eaacb2e7afafebc9:disqus doesn't like maps in his fantasy novels. Burn him!

I agree with @avclub-e6ec91cba600ca785d5e02beb0d0c8eb:disqus That's just the sort of joke Martin likes in these books.

I thought he should have seemed a little softer of voice and softer looking. Essentially evil John Hodgman is how I pictured Roose Bolton.

Cat kidnaps Tyrion partly in self-defense. She's on the road, protected only by one old knight and two awesome sidewhiskers, and is first surprised and then recognized by the man she's just been told tried to kill her crippled son. She actually is reluctant at first and tries not to be noticed, but only acts when…

He hopped quick to give Sansa his cloak when Tyrion said to, but nobody who isn't looking for it is going to notice that.

If book Joff wouldn't molest his little brother, it was only because he never thought of it. TV Joff seems like the same guy to me, just older.