Maybe The Mountain was just a very bad eight-year-old during Robert's Rebellion which was 17 years before the first episode, right?

Nouveau riche, probably got spinning rims for his new Dornish chariot too.

Because the daughter is special? "We're gonna need the girl?" Is Melisandre going to perform tests on her?!

Get ready for the Thrillin' in King's Landin'.

Is this one of those comments where we're supposed to alert the authorities, lest Nancy Grace consider it an overlooked warning sign down the road? Food for thought. What kind of food?—kidney pie. Please don't hurt me.

"A drop of this in any man's wine will drive him wild with lust."
"Did you use it with Stannis?"
"…Uh, no? Have you not been watching me this scene? Jesus Christ, woman… I mean R'hllor. Lord of Light, whatever."

How could you of all people resist the 'if-you-look-closely-you-can-actually-pinpoint-the-exact-moment-his-heart-breaks-in-two' Ralph freeze-frame?

"Aww, man, we got Judge The Mountain, we are so screwed."

They come from MEREEN. Danerys isn't freeing slaves, she's selling them to buy SWEATERS for her DRAGONS.

Wait, the ANGLE button on my remote actually does something?

Yeah, and Arya went full Rust Cohle with her whole "nothing is nothing" spiel.

Yes! I did too, and before that I really never thought Game of Thrones would connect to me on any level other than 'holy-shit-I-can't-believe-what-happened'.

I never thought Game of Thrones could make me emotional, but I'll be damned if Oberyn's "that's no monster, that's just a baby" story didn't get to me. That scene was one of the best in the series.

Yikes, I just realized with your comment that due to sheer numbers, in a few years we're going to have World War II veterans outliving all the Apollo astronauts.

, CALL lee.exe.

The old murder case of Snow v. Snow set the precedent in Westerosi law that a man loves his eldest grandson from a daughter as much as he would love a dwarf third-born son, making him a truly impartial arbiter. Of course, here it's a double-grandson incest situation that would likely tip the scales, but Tyrion can't…

That would make a great flowchart for determining if a given person is a Stark child.

He only played that card when he was trying to pick up women while on vacation in the Summer Isles.

I think people consider Varys' extenuating circumstances but not Shae's because she actually has to go out of her way to screw Tyrion like this. With Varys it's just the 10:30 AM slot in his Outlook. Shae doesn't give a damn about "the realm" or ostensible "stability" or have any larger machinations in play. It's just…

You're somewhat belaboring the point. It's preceded by a sentence about the books that you yourself cited, and the use of "story loses…steam" instead of "lost" or "is losing" makes it pretty clear to me that the commenter is speaking as a portent.