Seriously, these are soldiers who are trained from infancy to have no emotions whatsoever to interfere with their successful execution of orders. It's the defining feature of the Unsullied. They're given a puppy to get attached to at a young age so they can be made to kill it, had to buy and murder infants from…

A few hundred (non-wildling) people up at the Wall, maybe, but the Wall is thousands of miles from Dragonstone and doesn't have much truck with the outside world. Even among those at the Wall, only a small number could swear to the fact that Jon Snow was dead and then came back, though most would have heard it…

Maybe, or maybe not. The Unsullied are not exactly an enormous garrison for a castle of that size, and they don't have the civilian mouths to feed. Unless the Lannisters completely emptied the stores, the Unsullied can hold out for a long time. Odds that the show goes into that level of detail: 5-to-1 against.

If Olenna's forces were behind those walls, the castle should not have fallen. There's a reason that people built castles: they're a defensive force multiplier par excellence. Ned Stark tells his boys that every man on a wall is worth 100 beneath. We have numerous examples of sieges in the show demonstrating that. …

Man, thank god you're here. I often feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I notice things like multi-thousand mile trips taking place in days and the fact that plot convenience has completely over-ridden all internal logic to the story.

I actually kind of like the whole "march where they aren't" conceit. It's cleverer than the show has been lately. However, it shouldn't be presented as the kind of unmitigated coup it has been. High Garden, at best, should be under lengthy siege, even if you assume that Olenna returned there with a modest fighting…

Tyrion's military prowess has never been truly first rate. He's good, and much better than Cersei, but his dad was much better, as was Robb Stark, and likely Ned and Robert as well. Looks pretty clear that they're setting up Jon to become Dany's military advisor and partner.

That's not quite what happened. Jon left at least 17,000 men with Roose Bolton to draw the larger part of the Lannister host to Green Forks, where Roose mounted an essentially defensive action against the superior Lannister cavalry. Bolton was chosen because he was an able and wily military commander, whom Jon…

It's really funny that post-Braveheart this has become a kind of go-to signifier of military ruthlessness/ability when it's a big part of what cost the French the Battle of Agincourt. Don't murder your own men with your archers. It's fucking stupid.

I mean, the Targaryen dynasty lasted 280-ish years, and the Starks were undisputed Kings in the North for 700 or 1,000 years prior to that, having finally subjugated House Bolton. For several thousand years before that, House Stark was by far the most powerful house in the North, and self-styled Kings of the…

Jon Snow believes that the war is in the North and that all other conflicts are pointless distractions from that. If he bends the knee and Dany says "march your armies south and help me win the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, then we'll see about these White Walkers," Jon would have to order his banners south, which he…

I got a little mixed up, but the strong circumstantial evidence is from The World of Ice and Fire, a companion book fleshing out the setting by GRRM. In it, the Anniversary Tourney is described, commemorating Aerys II's tenth year on the throne in 272. Tywin Lannister, then Hand of the King, organized the tourney…

True, but only because the bolt hit the dragon in the eye. You can't plan to hit a dragon in the eye with a balista bolt.

Bronn is basically a REH-pulp fiction style fantasy hero. He's similar to some versions of Conan, and calls to mind '70s pulp antiheros like Cugel the Clever. You could definitely have a show that followed a Bronn-like character around.

What about Tyrion's love of dragons, and his ability to calm them in Dany's absence/their non-violent reaction to him?

Call me a third way-er but I'm not going to feel too badly for Tyene because she's a flat fucking horribly written character about whom I could never, even if money were on the line, have any emotional investment whatsoever. I'd sooner feel bad for a mime trapped in an invisible box, even if the dude were clearly…

That wouldn't make any sense. There would be 4 Targaryens if Cersei and Jaime were Targaryens. The fan theories I'm aware of are that Jon and Tyrion are Targaryens (Jon's father being Rhaegar and Tyrion's being Aerys), and that makes three Targaryens for the restoration, mirroring the Aegon the Conqueror and his two…

Tommen is also described as having "golden curls" later on. Even if pale blond hair runs in the Lannister line, it still doesn't explain the black hair. On the Targaryen side, Aerys's grandmother was Betha Blackwood, who had black hair.

Look, we agree on the norm: people should be allowed to express their opinions. But as a matter of law, you're almost completely wrong. Private citizens cannot violate the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment does provide legislative authority to Congress to enforce its provisions (14th Amend., Section 5) and the…

bookTyrion also has "pale blond and black hair." The odds that Tywin Lannister's trueborn son has any black hair is zeroish, given the extensive research into the Lannister/Baratheon coloring that we are given. Every blond(e) Lannister who married someone with black hair (or at least married a Baratheon) wound up…