And it's not that Castle Black is tiny (though the set doesn't appear to be very large). It's in disrepair and severely undermanned, so much of it isn't in use. Not a spoiler; merely context.

Probably because the books all end with big, groundbreaking cliffhanger finales.

So it was less about shame, and really about not wanting to get pigeonholed. I can't be mad at him for that.

Definitely not an X-wing; it's only got one engine per side…

"I don't know that this is necessarily relevant to GRRM."

Simplest answer? He's Westeros' Han Solo. It's not that hard to figure out.

No, because that would just be the rich paying/convincing/blackmailing someone to die in their place. And then the rich could do whatever they wanted, without any accountability at all.

No, first one to die loses.

He did have his daughter-in-law gangraped just to prove a point, but, yeah, a perfectly reasonable gent…

Things happening there =/= more interesting. Jon's election always felt ridiculous to me, but maybe it will be less so on the show, where he's no longer 15.

But then, unfortunately, it's much harder to justify the crazy climate shifts between "perpetually-frozen Wall" and "Miami Kings Landing"

I could destroy you, *snap* just like that!

Watch a game, sometimes, and I dare you to tell me with a straight face that the outcomes are realer than those of the WWE. ;-)

"FLǕGGȦ∂NKđ€ČHIŒβǾLʃÊN!"

"Throw me the Iron Throne, I throw you the whip."

Trejo is immortal.

It's not really ambiguous; it's his parents. He wouldn't have known Granddad and his wife at that age, so it wouldn't make any sense for him to paint them young, even if he'd seen photos. Not to mention that granddad is still alive.

The martyr line was almost a direct lift from "Braveheart" as well.

Um, what?

Instead of Gorbachev, or the Cold War, or anything else important, every time I read/hear the word "perestroika", I immediately think of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Movies/TV totally don't mold us in their image.