I honestly just pretend that Ghost has been at Jon’s side this entire season. He was making the rounds at Winterfell, and sneaking off between important business to go roll around in the snow. He was there at Dragonstone, and let Daenerys pet him. He went Beyond the Wall with the supergroup, and Jon warged into him to…

Was the Red Wedding not one of these? I remember reading that was the scene that convinced one of them that he HAD to make it into a TV show. Or is that just from unpublished books?

It was published in the early 90's. Definitely stood out from what was being published then, and its first three books definitely went out of their way to turn fantasy tropes on their head.

They’re speed holes.

Right, it’s easy to make assumptions about Rhaegar, but the truth is, we know so little about him. Maybe he was just a jerk. Maybe he was someone who was so wrapped up in his own scholarly and prophetic learning he didn’t stop think what the consequences of his actions would be. Or maybe he knew exactly what he was…

POV’s are still a useful device. Even a scene that includes two major POV characters can be highly colored by whoever is narrating. So, for example, if we get the truce scene in the books, the scene will come off very differently if we get Tyrion’s point of view (my bet on who GRRM would use, just so we can fully get…

I actually think Rhaegar’s problem was he was the opposite of short sighted. He was obsessed with the Prince that was Promised Prophecy, and I believe he was determined to create that child, no matter what. Falling in love was just something that happened along the way. He was playing the long game of saving the…

Myself, I basically pictured Rhaegar as a Final Fantasy villain. Long silver hair, black armor and sword...

They’re speed holes. They make him go faster

I’m hoping Jaime goes before Jon and Daenerys to “confess his crimes”. He owns up to killing Aerys, and shows no regret, but also owns up to trying to kill Bran. Bran himself forgives him, allowing Jon and Dany to let Jaime join their ranks.

I found Jon forgiving Theon to be surprisingly emotional, myself. He’s suffered so much, nice to see him get some small measure of absolution.

See, it’s a well established fact, in book canon and show canon, that the Iron Born are testosterone fueled morons. They’re frat guys who like to rape and pillage. So I have absolutely NO DOUBT that, if they were confronted with a guy who is impervious to getting his nuts punched, they’d pretty much be all, “whoa...…

Yeah, I wonder if Jaime will appear before Dany’s court, and do a deliberate callback to Tyrion before Lysa: “I have come to confess my crimes.” Except he won’t be joking. He’ll own up to killing Dany’s father, and shoving Bran out of a window... and maybe Bran’s forgiveness will be the thing that convinces Jon and…

While Game of Thrones incest doesn’t work like real life incest (Targaryen incest signs never showed up as physical deformities- pretty much all Targaryens were beautiful- but as a 50% chance of being stark raving mad), even in real life, I don’t believe physical deformities tend to show up until you start incesting…

I kinda wish we wouldn’t talk about the whitewashing, and instead talk about the actual movie... in this case, how disappointing it was.

To address the pedantry here: it’s very likely that the Night King has some kind of Sight, like Bran does. He could have foreseen an opportunity such as this, and known they needed some damn chains for their future pet dragon.

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You shut your whore mouth

As someone who was, for the most part, stuck somewhere in the middle of the argument, I think what truly got under the other crowds skins was the intent on stopping the show from being made, not necessarily the objection to it. Undeniably, some truly great works of drama are sourced in subjects that are truly…

As someone who is interested in the concept of Confederate as a show, partly because I’m a Game of Thrones fan but also because I’ve always loved the Dystopian genre (plagued as it is by YA novels), I personally think this is awesome. Aaron McGruder is a proven genius, but I also love that this show can coexist with…