I also give Tolkien a lot of props for the fact that his hero fails in the end and is corrupted. The world is saved by the grace of Gollum, for fuck's sake.

I also give Tolkien a lot of props for the fact that his hero fails in the end and is corrupted. The world is saved by the grace of Gollum, for fuck's sake.

I'm not 100 percent sure Varys isn't playing some even deeper game past even what Illyrio's playing. If anyone could be playing his only friend for decades, it'd be Varys.

I'm not 100 percent sure Varys isn't playing some even deeper game past even what Illyrio's playing. If anyone could be playing his only friend for decades, it'd be Varys.

The whole "RIP Yoren never forget" thing is especially funny because the books go on about how foul smelling and uncouth he is. He's supposed to have not bathed since before Robert was king or something and his teeth are stained red from chewing whatever sourleaf is.

They could do the Unsullied in Qarth, but on further reflection, I bet they don't just to give the audience the impression she's moving closer to Westeros.

This. Rash, violating social norms and maximally brutal are very much Jaimie's style.

His name was given as Alton Lannister, so he wasn't a Frey. He was talking about squiring for Jaimie at a Frey wedding, though.

Naw, Jorah says he saw Rhaego, too.

You're supposed to mark spoilers that happen past book 2. Probably couldn't read that through all the tears about Yoren.

I kinda wondered if they plan to play Dany's whole arc in Qarth instead of having her pull up stakes for Slaver's Bay.

A dead Theon would warn anyone finding it that something was up. A happy, snoring Theon won't. What isn't clear at all to me is why she needed to fuck Theon at all to pull off the plan.

@avclub-d398cfe88c1586d7b1722360d9ad3f00:disqus I'm pretty sure he wasn't, given that the Dothraki call the Qartheen "Milk Men" and there isn't any indication he isn't from Qarth in the books. Maybe you're thinking of Jalabar Xho, the exiled Summer Islands prince.

@twitter-499832989:disqus Nixon was in some ways just unlucky in that he was in office when times changed. Previous presidents pulled all sorts of similar shenanigans but got away with it.

@avclub-e0b5b498f16be63117db8605f5ad6262:disqus I think we get told at one point that Aerys gets really bad after he gets kidnapped and held by the lord of Duskendale, whose name I can't remember. Barristan narrates to us about it some during his chapter in Book 5, I think.

@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus Dr. Paul says he's in favor of making abortion illegal, so he's as much a social conservative as most of them. He's just not directly in hock to the rich and cares less about killing people overseas than the average Republican. 

I haven't seen it, but isn't about how political consultant Ryan Gosling becoming disillusioned by his political hero because he found out he was fucking an intern? That seems kinda stupid to me, but I just want politicians do the stuff I like that they say they'll do. If Ramsay Bolton promised to hunt Lloyd Blankfien…

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 I gotta say, relating the anecdote "And then my dad thought I messed something up and my dad said 'Don't make me sorry I ever raped your mother' would probably get any therapist in the land on your side.

As far as killing Elia's kids, Tywin also knew that he'd come late to the rebellion and handling the dirty work would put him firmly into Robert Baratheon's good graces.

Four half fingers lost=two full fingers lost=eight oniony digits remaining.