To say nothing of how the cost compares to real live giants and mammoths, which is just astronomical.

@avclub-fec1b8d3fbc08f27a84e5a334d45bb5a:disqus And, being a doctor (and a ninja), I'm willing to trust that you're up to date on the horse-fucking literature.

I'd like this twenty times if it would let me.

I'm… not following.

Jesus, I didn't notice until you said something.  Now, it can't be unseen.  That girl must be like, 30% giraffe, at least.

No.  That would be one possibility I'd completely rule out.

They're just trolling you.  You, specifically.  Just because.

So that was Irri?  I couldn't tell.

@avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus Yeah, I read somewhere that "a lot of readers expected Aegon to pop up", which, what?  What in the world is there in the first four books that prepares one for the possibility of a non-Dany surviving Targaryen heir*?

Even Rome didn't have much in the way of battles.  The only real big "battle scene" was largely CGI, with scattered close-ups involving a handful of extras.

I never found her particular attractive, but then she started acting seductive and… my goodness.  I am now a believer.

I'm on the fence on that one.  There'd be no reason for him to lie to Kevan after hodoring him in the hodor (right after hodoring Pycelle, of course), unless he suspected one of his little birds to also be serving Qyburn, which seems reasonable.

Frey Pie for all the starving folk of the Riverlands?  Sign my ass up.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus Ahhh.  Mea culpa.  Carry on, my good homicidal robot.

Indeed.  It is the first of a series of Moments Of Holy Fucking Shit in the third book.

He definitely had a spark in his eye at one point, but the only time we saw them together in the first season was at the joust, IIRC, so he probably couldn't place her.

In the book, they talk about how in Qarth, when people are married, the spouses can each ask one thing of the other, and they must give it.  Dany refuses Xaro's advances because she is certain he'll ask for a dragon.  There has been no mention of this on the show, that I can recall.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus I honestly think that is a little bit of a reach re: Dawn.  A name is a name.  It isn't the sword, but the person who wields it, that matters.

Cersei may be an evil twat, but she does have some defensible qualities, which is more than Ramsay by a factor of infinity.

@avclub-adad33d3da210f8c6efe515ace3e7089:disqus Oh come now.  He likes dogs.