And it's generally flat, whereas land has hills and mountains and forest and big rivers and stuff that makes it damn near impossible to walk in a straight line for long.

Westeros is approximately the size of South America

Use the Wall for scale. It's basically 300 miles long.

Roy Dotrice is the narrator of the audiobooks and the pyromancer. He's also an old friend of GRRM, as he was an actor on the Beauty and the Beast TV series that GRRM was a writer/producer of.

I sorta laughed when they FINALLY gave us the first shot of the Iron Throne this season. Any other TV show spends that much money and takes up that much stage space on a set and they'd be using it every episode. Game of Thrones waits till the end of Episode 6 (out of 10) before they finally bring us back to the throne…

My guess is limpy Frey is to make him easier to remember when Lady Stoneheart pops up at the end of this season and starts hanging people.

Under Beric's influence they were very much a Robin Hood-type organization, out to help the poor. But Beric dies his seventh and final death to rez Lady Stoneheart, she takes over the Brotherhood, and she's way more into slaughtering everyone who ever looked sideways at the Stark family than she is into helping the…

To quote Arrested Development, "Marry Me!"

The look that Gilly gave Sam when she realized he was highborn. Oh, Sam, you lucky bastard.

@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus But imagine the outrage on Fox!!!!!

Christmas! The War on Christmas!

What of the Fast Food Wars?

How many more movies do you think Spielbeg has left in him? He's got a weird output. Quiet for a couple years, and then he'll churn out two movies at once. I'm still astounded that he made Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in basically the same year. (Other two-fers include Munich/War of the Worlds and Minority…

So does Vin Diesel get sniped in this, too?

Mountain Dew originates from Kentucky, where the guys who came up with it wanted a soft drink that could mix with whiskey.

It's just too bad that Jennifer Ehle gave birth shortly after the original pilot was filmed. That's why she dropped out of the role. No offense to Michelle Fairley, but I love Jennifer Ehle. Plus, she really looked more like my mental image of Catelyn.

@avclub-da6fa9c20a9a60a17ca0bcd24a30dabe:disqus So, remember folks to make sure to tip your executioner well!

Though Bryan Cogman wrote the episode and could have put that in, I'd like to think D&D were responsible for that one. After all, they first met while both were studying Irish literature at Trinity College in Dublin.

Robert also had the Riverlands. And the Lannisters came very late to his cause, which would have pissed them all of if Tywin had seized the throne. They did all the hard work (and took the casualties) while Tywin did very little.

@Seedz, the Riverlands were traditionally part of the kingdom of the Iron Islands. The problem with the Riverlands being that they're flat and filled with navigable rivers, which meant they were easy conquest for the Ironborn. Harren the Black, who built Harrenhal, was the last Iron King. When he was killed during the…