I'm partial to "Lonely Town", myself. One of the first songs of his I encountered, and I love the evocative, high desert feel:

Yeah, what's up with that? Lots of much better Targaryens to choose from.

I don't think that anyone besides Jaqen H'gar actually knows that she's in Braavos right now. She didn't announce her intentions before leaving and unless she told the ship's captain who she really was (I doubt she's that thoughtless), nobody there would recognize her.

Yeah, I don't know how true it is in the books, but the whole "wimmins be emotional and irrational, amirite?" trope is getting a lot of play in the show, I'm noticing. I don't think it's coincidental that Arya and Brienne are the two most sympathetic female characters when they are also the most tomboyish/masculine.

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Somebody else was asking about this upthread; the book you're thinking of is probably "The Island Keeper" by Harry Mazer.

Some Googling shows "The Island Keeper" by Harry Mazer to be a likely candidate. Hope this helps!

That "twinkle-toes" moment, satisfying though it was, kinda encapsulated how Legend of Korra exists in this constant state of tension between being a show that stands on its own and being a vehicle for fanservicey callbacks and references to the original series. As much as I enjoy it, many of the strongest elements of…

It's called "ship-teasing".

Rural Massachusettsian here. Pretty sure I know the place you're talking about. :) Sometimes I and a few coworkers head over there to blow off some steam. It is a fun place; the dancers all know us now (most of my coworkers are female and some type of queer, so it makes a fun change of pace for the working girls), and…

"Forced-birth movement". LOL. Gonna steal that one.

Yeah, I've been arguing about this over in the newbies finale review. They definitely bent Shae's character to make her final betrayal happen. There's no way she should have turned on Tyrion so completely after trying to get him to run away with her to Pentos for the last two seasons. Not to mention Tywin breaking…

Several other people have put forth this theory as well; the main problem is that Tywin would have had to have magician-like foresight to engineer their relationship from the beginning. He pretty explicitly tried to break them up before he sent Tyrion to King's Landing, after all. Also, that doesn't account for Shae…

"So Jon Snow, I heard about that thing you do with your tongue…"

Absolutely agree. I was enthralled on so many levels with all of it's diverse elements.

He's gonna be zombified. They practically say it in Cersei and Qyburn's dialogue.

She did fire Jorah, so there's at least one opening on her small council. I bet she and Arya would be tight, they would have a lot to talk about.

If she wasn't actually in love, there must have been some ulterior motive she had for sticking with Tyrion for three seasons, even when Varys offered her money to go live comfortably in the Free Cities. Tyrion offered her much the same when he sent her away this season. Why on earth wouldn't she take these offers if…

You are right, and the reason this isn't making sense for you isn't that you aren't "getting it", it's that the show is bending its characters to fit the story. Tywin the ascetic powermonger shouldn't be fucking Tyrion's whore just for the shock value on the viewers, and Shae shouldn't fall in love with Tyrion for…

Part of the reason that scene feels a little off to me is that the show has not done a very good job constructing Shae as a character. In one season we've gone from "I love Tyrion so much that I will refuse Varys when he gives me money and tells me to get lost" to "I hate Tyrion so much that I will testify against him…