The thing kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers, etc have besides belief in a cause is a lack of an alternative. The kamikaze pilot doesn't have a workable way to surrender. If the suicide bomber doesn't go through with it, he'll be at best shamed for not living up to his religion and probably worse. (Plus, suicide bombers…

Yeah. Season 2, they cut the Ramsay stuff from A Clash of Kings totally and gave his role goading Theon to further atrocities to Dagmar the Not Cleft Jawed At All.

Well. Without being spoilery more than you'd like.

Show Brienne has some weird gender stuff going on, as one might expect. She says that Catelyn has "a sort of woman's courage" when swears her allegiance and she says it like she's describing a grumpkin riding on snark's back.

If you look at the announced episode titles, it's pretty obvious when it is.

I think Oleana is plotting with everyone, all the time.

Joff doesn't cooperate, but he also tries to tell Tywin what to do and Tywin sends him to bed without his supper. I'd say it was a win for Tywin.

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And the fandom surely mourned baby Daario (Or, did she fuck Hizdahr?) I bet. I'm not sure it's cannon that she hadn't had her period since Rhaego was born, but that'd be a possible explanation, surely.

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Naw, Taena Merryweather was from Myr, the free city that Thoros is of. Hence everyone's favorite description of Cersei thinking of her vagina as a "Myrish swamp." Way to go, Cersei.

Martin specifically said he wasn't thinking rainbow= gay when he wrote that. Whether you believe him or not, it was probably less prominent as a gay symbol when he wrote that in the mid 1990s.

@avclub-71289f361df2d092ca1b768e85a33325:disqus It's not suggested anywhere that Rhaegar was particularly close to Barristan. He was tight with Arthur Dayne and it's probably telling that Rhaegar choose the Dayne, who he was closest to, rather than necessarily the top three fighters, which would certainly have…

I think Cersei's not dumb, exactly. She's arrogant as hell, though, and it leads her to underestimate everyone else. Plus, she spent so long sitting on the sidelines thinking about how much better she'd be at running the kingdom that she believed her own press. If she'd ended up married to Rhaegar Targaryen or someone…

Asha's pretty smart and Euron at least thinks bigger than his dumbshit brothers.

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Doesn't seem as clear as Damphair's creaking door memories of his elder brother Euron, which still isn't 100 percent clear.

To go west, you gotta go east, duh.

I didn't think they felt justified in the book.

While the idea that we aren't a national economy is horseshit, it'd be nice if the south wasn't improving its lot by making it hard to form unions. That shit's trickling up to the point where it's going to ruin Michigan.

Somebody once said that the south basically starts about 15 miles outside of every major city. As someone who grew up about a four hour drive from the closest major city (Green Bay, Wisconsin) I believe it.

"It is about some rebels, but it ain't about the past."

No damn way is Happy Xmas worse. For one, it's trying to be Christmas song, so it seems like a lower standard of lyrics is required.