Sam would have to get thin eventually, right? I mean, he's not going to get bigger portions than everyone else in the Watch, and he's spending 3/4 of his life trudging through deep snow.  

I still don't understand how there is a huge Wildling army.  It's permanent winter where they live. Forever.  And that's when things are still warm.  If the North below the wall is so sparsely populated because of conditions, how the F do they have massive amounts of people beyond the wall? 

Greyjoy's plan seems impossibly bad.  Unless I'm missing something, he has a good navy and little army to speak of.  It's already been stated that the Andals never were able to conquer the North, and it's only the fact that Aegon had dragons that caused them to surrender. Given that the South is already split several…

We never saw Pycelle do anything particularly scheme-worthy or brilliant. I can accept that maybe 40 years ago he had been a big deal, but he seemed like a sitting duck in that nest of vipers. 

In the case of Robert's rebellion, "claim" to the throne seemed to stem entirely from the fact that the Targaryean king was off his fucking rocker, and the other noble houses were done seeing their own kind killed on a whim.  To the common man, the Targaryeans were probably seen as a foreign conqueror anyway, much as…

His love for Loras will still be strong, after the knights of summer have gone.

In a way, it's fairly amazing that the Nights Watch has lasted as long as it has.  They talk about how no one respects their mission anymore, but for literally thousands of years, it has just been the most impenetrable fortress in history vs a few primitive hill folk scrounging for some extra food and steel.  Unless…

The eyes are there, but "blink and you'll miss them" fast. No pun intended.

Has the Watch not tried building a few of their own houses out there?

It opens up a greater mystery, though. What are the walkers doing with the infants? It doesn't seem like they'd be eating them, because a couple of rabbits-worth of flesh every few months isn't a very good reason to let literally tons of meat stay alive.  

There's a great Wiki site where you can set your level of knowledge to avoid spoilers.  I'm not sure you can fully appreciate the story without it.  I got all the way through one viewing of season 1 without picking up that the commander of the Nights Watch was the father of the exiled slave trader, and I definitely…

Another factor is probably territoriality.  In return for all that they sacrifice, one of the few benefits bestowed upon men of the Watch is that unless they abandon their vow, they are untouchable by anyone else's authority. They may have to give up everything, but at least they can tell the rest of the world to fuck…

Plus, what's it going to take for those women to realize they can just kill his ass and be done with it? If there's that many of them and only one of him, it can't be something like he's the only one who knows how to hunt so they'll starve.  I guess Stockholm/Electra Complex/Whatever syndrome.

Betty White math:

70's SNL ain't exactly…."watchable" when revisited.  Pick an episode from then and an episode from now, and I assure you the newer one is much better.
I'm not talking about picking the best three nostalgia-stroking skits out of 4 years, I'm saying a whole episode.

Odobama was a Hope and Changeling.

He doesn't "own" Roz per se, but you'd have to assume that any girl leaving without his OK had better have a fast ship out of there before he knows she's gone.

I got a few chapters in and lost interest.  As works of literature, the books fall flat. As a story for an HBO series, however….

Balon seems like one of those villains who is just too cartoon-ish.  It's not that he steals what he can't get otherwise…he thinks stealing is the ONLY way you should get something that you want. That's a bit too bad for bad's sake.

I don't think Bran is going to die any time soon. Rob, however, is doomed. In Bran's presumably prophetic dreams, he is the Dire Wolf, which means he is the Lord of Winterfell….which means Rob ain't.