This list is better than the list for pre-K, which inexplicably left off Yo Gabba Gabba.

SPOILERS

GRRM has gone to the fake death well far too many times. It started with Bran and Rickon in ACoK. He got me there- I definitely thought they were dead. Then Arya outside of the Red Wedding. Then Asha (Yara) in the battle of Deepwood Motte. Then Tyrion in the River. I'm sure I'm forgetting other incidents. I…

That scene was brilliant.

What happens if the show actually finishes the story, while GRRM never gets around to finishing the books? What's canon then?

Go back and rewatch the first episode of the series. Sansa was unquestionably in Winterfell.

Brienne working for Stannis would be interesting. After that, they'd just need to figure out some way to get her to serve Balon Greyjoy and she would have technically been on each side of the War of 5 Kings.

Maybe that's part of why Littlefinger said they were taking the East road in episode 2- to keep Sansa in the dark as to precisely where they were headed. She would have been more suspicious if she knew they were going to take the King's Road.

And I disagree with you that they're changed things beyond recognition. As I discuss in an earlier post, they haven't made any major changes that outright contradict major events in the book. Rather, they've streamlined and combined storylines by taking threads from tertiary characters and giving them to major…

I can see where you're coming from, but I thought that the mental issues as presented were over the top in AFFC. Granted, there were no Cersei POVs until AFFC, but her prophecy obsession seemed to have come out of left field. She didn't seem to be the superstitious type in the prior books. All the sudden, this…

In the Vale, still disguised as Alayne, and betrothed to "Harry the Heir", a brutish young noble who is next in line to succession at the Eyrie if Sweetrobin dies.

It's a shame. The first 3 books are fantastic, some of the best fantasy I've ever read. AFFC is too meandering, but it is well written. ADwD isn't as well written (and really isn't finished- it seems like it was rushed to the publisher to capitalize on the premier of GOT) and is still too meandering. Adding the…

Not at all. I thought that GRRM took a fascinating story about what happens when an evil, manipulative woman who thinks she's a genius actually gets control and finds out that she's way over her head and ruined it by all the sudden making her bad decisions motivated by her fear of the "valonqar" prophecy. It seemed…

Sam is a relatively boring character on the show and in the book. But at least I don't hate him on the show. You're not going to be pissing yourself with fear in a Nightswatch meeting if you survived a ranging, survived a Wildling siege, and killed an Other.

Book Cersei became a cartoon character motivated by fear of a prophecy. Rather than pin her downfall on her arrogance and ineptitude, GRRM decided to make her crazy. I thought that made her character less interesting.

Spoiler Alert

Yes, it is.

I bet we'll get a toned-down variation of it. Maybe we'll get a departure and it will be the thing that makes Reek snap, and Theon will turn on Ramsey rather than defile Sansa. Maybe Theon will kill him right there.

I don't think it has anything to do with "trying to shoehorn Sansa into a shocking scene with Ramsay." It has to do with streamlining the storylines. The show can't at this point afford introducing 57 new characters to play out the "Harry the Heir" plot line with Sansa. So they've merged her story with the Jeyne…

I would certainly rather watch a Stannis scene than a Sam scene because Stannis is a more interesting and consequential character. However, I much prefer show Sam to book Sam. I came to hate reading Sam chapters in the book, because he never really developed beyond the pants pissing coward introduced in AGoT. Show…