I would argue that those are some of the best examples in all of the series of GRRM's prose really shining. Perhaps you are confusing "narrative drive" or "plot propulsion" with the quality of the prose.

Plus they mass rape, kill, and enslave. Fuck them. Dany and the widows taking over and uniting them is great.

I liked when he said the word "charity" for the first time while having dinner with Margery and mom. The look on his face when he said it!

I love the travelogues. Some of the best writing happens in those scenes. With something as good as ASOIF, I don't mind it being drawn out if the quality remains high.

She's been likable for years now.

I thought the secret was that Margery's having her walk of shame in a couple days. Cersei takes that info right to the small council so she can have a lever to attack the sept.

That is an insane scenario and it would be both brilliant and horrible if it happened.

Agree! Although Natalie White actually organized the Erik Cardona blindside. John Fincher blindside was due to Hantz.

She hasn't done anything wrong, she just hasn't done any thing. A pawn.

Oh you are one of my favorite people on here, and PR, mostly I love your comments

I agree to disagree (except that you are actually wrong, of course).

Tortoise and hare race?

Tai has a lot of empathy and yet he has very little emotional intelligence. He can't read a room nor another person's reactions. That always makes for a fun person, especially on Survivor. Although it means players like Tai are rarely strategically successful, they can still usually impact the game in some way or…

This is a great post.

Yeah, you're reading that wrong.

I've been wrestling with continuing to watch this ridiculous show because hate-watching is such a waste of time. But I just read a couple great comments here that have given me a new way of looking at it: the show is all about the power of mistrust, especially between morons; this group of particularly horrible people…

Yep. One of my favorite winners, she's amazing. Fuck Probst.

Good points. Especially that last sentence!

Yep, he's definitely a paranoid control freak.

Threatening is not the same thing as turning on! Threatening is his style in general. He did end up turning on them, but that was late in the game - prior to that, he had planned to stick with Parvati and Danielle to the end. The only reason he turned on them is because he felt they had betrayed him with Parvati's…