Yeah, I think the writers just made a list of characters whose plots don't have a predetermined outcome, and then picked a large percentage of them to just off in order to simplify the plotting going forward.

Please explain how it is inconsistent with what I wrote? He can't straight out kill Tyrion, because Tyrion is (legally) a Lannister. He refuses to let him inherit Casterly Rock, he carefully chooses his words when describing Tyrion's misdeeds (he shames the lion that Tywin's father and grandfather wore, not the one T…

Are you thinking of Edric? Not many of Roberts byblows get names, and Edric is the only one I can think of in the Stormlands. He was also Robert's only acknowledged bastard—a status that earned him a degree of social status, but no right to inheritance of either property or title.

Yeah, I feel like people have mistaken misdirection for randomness. Things seem to come out of left field because GRRM intentionally plays our expectations of fantasy to subvert them. That said, he's not playing "hide the ball." When you look at what has happened, it's all pretty well foreshadowed. You just didn't…

You get real magic from her right in the second book (which is her first appearance), so I don't think Martin ever flirted with her being a fraud. Thoros of Myr also raises the dead in either the second or third book, so the Red God is established as being the real deal pretty early in the story. That doesn't mean…

It depends on Westerosi law and custom. Given the strength of House Baratheon (as liege lord of a major and powerful region of the larger kingdom), it's likely that they would find someone with a plausible claim to the realm through some mixture of succession law, genealogy and military/political judgment. This…

Tywin does little to keep Tyrion alive, up to and including placing him in the line of battle early in the War of the Five Kings. Tywin is obsessive about the family pride, and losing/killing sons is a bad look, unless it's in an honorable pursuit, like combat.

I hear this sometimes, and I don't see the resistance. It gives you a ready-made restored Targaryen dynasty: King Jon, Queen Daenerys and Hand Tyrion. It explains Tyrion's bizarre appearance, his father's hatred for him, his fascination with dragons and fire, Tywin's behavior during Robert's Rebellion and so on. It…

I'm more mixed on it. I love that they kept it, but without the context of how badly the War of the Five Kings has ravaged the smallfolk, it feels kind of out of left field. Pryce is a great High Sparrow though.

I don't understand how anyone can read Book 1 and not come away with "Jon and Tyrion are both secret Targaryens." The dragon has three heads, yo.

Not anymore, Stannis is dead.

The Roose is loose :(

I'm genuinely curious if you're able to read.

You also have the Sparrows/Faith Militant (have they even gotten a name in the show?), Arya clearly on the way up again after hitting bottom as a blind beggar, the Wildlings finally successfully taking Castle Black and overthrowing Thorne and Jon Snow literally rising from the dead. There's a lot of reversals of…

Killed by his son when caught off-guard by said son who had escaped from a prison with the unexpected help of his brother, navigated his way through secret passageways unknown to Tywin and ambushed Tywin on the john with a loaded crossbow.

I'd say the kindest interpretation of the season thus far is that it's tearing down the existing power structure and reversing the relationship between the powerful and the less powerful. It's a hacky and badly plotted implementation of the idea, but at least it's a consistent through-line. I think the more likely…

Premature cognitive decline from rampaging loss of source material-heimers.

The point is it's not realistic, or in character, for Roose to let himself get stabbed to death that way. He's the Tywin of the North—the methodical and brilliant strategist and planner who sees the big picture and acts without hesitation or emotion. The idea that Ramsay could kill Roose that easily, and thus seize…

What does that have to do with anything? The DC movies getting made now bear no resemblance to the Donner Superman movies (Superman (1978) is much more like a modern Marvel movie than a modern DCCU movie), and there is no continuity in creative vision. Ditto the Burton Batman movies. The studio, once upon a time,…

I don't think it's true the houses do—it's only been about 300 years since Aegon the Conqueror, and the Targaryens were both really into inbreeding and highly death-prone, all things considered.