@avclub-95d952510e02ffba7fa228e4d43866cb:disqus "Clearly" for you maybe. All of that stuff makes him a marginally more considerate person, but it doesn't change the fact that he's going along with it, and there's no way it would make Sansa feel any better about it— which was what it sounded like you were talking about…

@avclub-001d507e80c4e4d2ce4ba0a5590f8313:disqus Ah yeah, I forgot about Fat Walda. Nice way to establish Roose's pragmatism.

@avclub-5464de04a20d6f48ab22695edf00475e:disqus The issue was the river, not the "narrow strip of land." If you're in the North and you want to get to the Riverlands, or down into Lannister territory, you have to either cross the Green Fork on Frey's bridge, or go through a shitload of forest to get around the north…

I loved the brief bit last week where Edmure says basically the same thing: he's perfectly aware that Frey has always wanted him to marry one of the kids, and he knows he's a catch while Frey is just an uppity employee, so he figures he may as well say no just to get a better deal. Menzies's delivery did a great job…

Bolton made his reasoning pretty clear in his talk with Jaime last week. If Robb loses, Bolton will need to not be on Tywin's shit list. He's counting on Jaime to convince Tywin not to blame him for Locke's actions; Jaime's incentive for doing so is that Bolton is saving his life— otherwise he would've been killed…

@avclub-94d231f11cdc1fae024849f33f7a7156:disqus I really hope you're just trolling, because… wow. Shae's complaints have nothing to do with how much stuff he buys her. Tyrion is the one who keeps focusing on her "standard of living" and being unable to understand why that's not more important to her than little things…

@avclub-ecd1c184fc20f875e7adf649ca44182e:disqus "a spoiled child who has no understanding of how Westeros works"? Good grief. Shae understands how Westeros works at least as well as Tyrion does; he's the one who's in denial, trying to convince them both that it'll all be fine as long as he can just keep buying her…

What's this about Shae getting "some comeuppance"? You mean she deserves something bad to happen to her, for— what, being pissed off at Tyrion when he tries to tell her she should be happy with him being in a sham marriage and her life being constantly in danger, as long as he buys her a nice condo?

Well, also you may have noticed Locke's guys singing it in this episode, at the bear pit, during the bear scene.

@stuartsaysstop:disqus The more obvious reference in the family name is to the Wars of the Roses (Stark/York vs. Lannister/Lancaster), but I like your Kennedy idea, and Google tells me that only one person has suggested it before. Just to be a party pooper, though: the Lannister "family compound" is at Casterly Rock;…

The HBO Viewer's Guide has family trees that aren't as detailed as the ones in the book, but then again some of those details have been changed from the books anyway so the book-only sites might be slightly confusing.

Joffrey's crossbow obsession is mentioned only briefly in the books— he gets one as a present and he goes nuts for a while trying to shoot rabbits or cats, but he's still pretty much a kid at that point— and I don't think we're given any distinguishing features of it to know whether Tyrion finds the same one. But…

"Some people" are going to have any kind of oversimplified impression of stuff you can think of. I don't see how the show has made Tyrion any less complicated than the books, or any less implicated (from Sansa's POV) in his family's evilness; they've just made him less physically ugly. And really, what do you expect…

All the rules about succession have the same benefit: they give people something predictable that they can agree upon most of the time, or at least often enough that they're not constantly fighting and don't have to revise their loyalties every five minutes. It's never about "is this 100% logical", so much as "is this…

It's pretty much the same deal as with the White Walkers: everyone with political power either doesn't believe in them or doesn't think they're a serious threat. Obviously they know dragons at least used to be a real thing, but remember that for a long time before they died out the dragons had all been pretty crappy.

@avclub-c4d038b4bed09fdb1471ef51ec3a32cd:disqus What? Dany does ask Barristan to tell her about Aerys and Rhaegar. She just doesn't do it right away, because she isn't sure for a while whether she trusts him or wants him around at all.

@lawanddisorder1986:disqus There are dead guys that are brought back to life, and don't know how to do anything except kill you. And then there are guys that don't look like human beings at all, and they're the ones who bring the dead guys back to life.

If Jaime killed the bear it wouldn't just be unrealistic, it would be a huge change to the kind of courage Jaime showed here, which was really a new thing for him. Laughing at death and prevailing by being a badass swordsman would not be a new thing for him. What he does here is throw himself into a situation where…

@avclub-0840875a9da6f24c4e0fc883b399d93a:disqus That'd be an even weirder Downton Abbey/GOT crossover than Ygritte. Yes, the Mormont women are badass warriors, but they're all four feet tall…

@avclub-a9dbf6c70f867fb5d09900f7bab79c25:disqus I'm pretty sure that Jaime doesn't have a clue, and yeah, that makes Catelyn's post-mortem obsession pretty ironic since by this point Jaime has lost all interest in fighting the Starks.