I don't understand why you're fighting this. He's totally right: it's a plot hole. You can't premise your big battle that takes place simultaneously with the jump on a sudden and miraculous thaw that allows Stannis to march on Winterfell and keep GRRM's "they jump from a very tall wall but are okay because snow had…

I'd find some other back-up, but B&N refuses to fix its Nook website. I think we may have a fundamental disagreement on what constitutes rape. To my mind, the activity described by Cersei above is pretty clearly rape. You can rape someone by forcing them to blow you, for example, even if they "choose" to blow you…

There's the more fundamental issue that if Stannis becomes king, he will absolutely cut Roose's head clean off, because Stannis is all about The Law, and Roose participated in the assassination of his liege lord in violation of guest right. This doesn't come across in the show at all because Stannis in the show…

Vale definitely, maybe also the Reach and Iron Islands. The Riverlands have gotten the worst of it, followed by the Westerlands and Crownlands. I think that the Storm Lords got pretty badly hurt at the Blackwater, so they're definitely weakened, too, and obviously the Northern Lords took some big hits after Robb got…

My only regret… is that I have… boneitis

He wasn't a sadist, but he was impulsive and violent. Where Joffrey or Ramsay would take pleasure in hurting the defenseless, Robert would act on his fury in the moment and kill people, or slap them around (as he did with his wife). He lacks the same vile intent that those two have, so I guess I would agree that…

I don't remember any offhand well enough to find it on asearchoffireandice.com, but I find it highly unlikely that King Robert (or even Robert Baratheon) let a simple "no" get in his way when he was fucking his way through the Seven Kingdoms, a habit which his scores of bastards attest to.

"She lifted her head, defiant. "Your Robert got me with child once," she said, her voice thick with contempt. "My brother found a woman to cleanse me. He never knew. If truth be told, I can scarcely bear for him to touch me, and I have not let him inside me for years. I know other ways to pleasure him, when he leaves…

It works out for him either way. If Stannis annihilates the Boltons, then either he rallies the North and marches on Kings Landing, and probably ratifies Littlefinger as Warden of the East in order to pick up the support of the Vale (which he can't really just leave at his rear without addressing) or he gets bogged…

I think he's always had a pretty realistic view of how the balance works. Ned overdid it by telling Cersei about his plan instead of just executing it, but otherwise was one of the most effective leaders in Westeros. In defeating him, his opponents opened a pandora's box of violence and betrayal that increasingly…

Isn't that intentional, though? There is some sexual violence towards men—Theon's castration and repeated sexual humiliation being the most obvious example, but by no means the only one (think about the number of eunuchs in the story)—but for the most part, men are killed. There isn't the emphasis on sexual…

Ooh and putting little silver bells in our hair!

Do you have a source for that? I mean, he pretty clearly raped his wife from time to time, so he was definitely a rapist. Do we have any evidence that he didn't rape other women as well, though?

I mean, you give a man with huge appetites and little self-control unlimited power, and yeah, you've got the recipe for a monster. I'm sure he was more jovial about it than Roose, but he was doubtless a serial rapist who murdered a lot of people and sent way more to their deaths, ordered the assassination of…

They couldn't have been on Jaime's boat because they were still on the dock when it sailed. The obvious explanation is hurr durr a derka durr we don't give a shit about this show anymore have some tits and dragons and shut the fuck up.

To be fair, the show makes clear that most of the younger residents of Westeros really were basically raised on the medieval equivalent of pulp fantasies. Anyone too young to have participated in Robert's uprising—other than, I guess, the soldiers and Iron Islanders who fought during the Greyjoy Rebellion—has known…

Either "first" and "his" should be lower case, or "name" should begin with an upper case letter. Find out which it's supposed to be and then Hang MizzouCogNeuro

I think Show Littlefinger (the dumb cousin of Book Littlefinger) figured that the Boltons had the North sewn up, so giving them Sansa was a way to cement an alliance with Roose. He probably underestimated how badly they would treat her, and figured that being Queen of the North was not such a bad deal for Catelyn's…

Yeah, he probably had a man or three in Meereen already, and is in the process of making those guys actual lieutenants (or replacing them) and fleshing out the spy network.

Okay, here's the right play for D&D. They keep Melisandre old, get Billy Crystal in, and do that scene word for word. If that doesn't get the Nobel prize for dragons and tits I don't know what would.