Uh… her becoming the queen is such an assumed fantasy trope that I cannot but assume that she is *not* going to be queen.

Yes and, as Americans, we spend most of our time at work reading the internet and commenting on articles found thereupon.

Oh, you say that now…

So… they're like most normal people in the real world, who are motivated by greed, deception, truly inconvenient and/or stupid sense of loyalty or duty, or their genitals, then?

Why invest in *anyone* who could die at any moment from things completely out of their control?

Yeah, what @avclub-2fbebea362d6f3e36ada31ac1069f163:disqus says is true.  I've read all the books as well, but I still thoroughly enjoy the show, and love seeing how they adapt different things, introduce (or combine) characters, or follow the same plot-paths with different, created-for-the-show characters and stuff…

Hope is the first step on the road to Disappointment.

That was the sight and sound of Shit Getting Real, is what that was.

The North stopped giving a fuck about Robb when he cut Karstark's head off.

The Lannisters acted through a patsy.  Their hands are clean, as far as society is concerned.  Also, they hold the Iron Throne.  They don't give much of a fuck.

@avclub-f3165be83d2dd835403b494eb7185ce2:disqus  "Lawful" does not mean "good".  It means that you live to the letter (if not the spirit) of the law of the land in which you reside.  Devils are Lawful and Evil (Demons are Chaotic and Evil).

Funeredding?

Yup.  Worse, even.

They're wolves, not a friendly German Shepard.

Most real-life professional killers don't look like stone-cold badasses, either.  Most of them have weak chins and watery blue eyes.  They will, however, cut your neck while you sleep with fucking piano wire, or put three rounds in your chest at point-blank range.

Mmm… I dunno.  Maybe?  The line isn't standing out in my memory, though I thought they discussed the ages of the characters in S1 and had moved everyone up 2-3 years, based on what some characters were telling other characters?

Didn't Stannis' wife mention that Edric was one of the fetuses-in-jars?  Or was that Eddard?  Dammit, Imma have to go back and watch that scene…

The Lord of Light works in mysterious ways.

Oh, if only we could get a resolution to Dany's story so quickly…

He's dumber than Theon.