She has a storyline in the books? The one where she sits around in the Vale, mostly talking to characters nobody cares about, to ends that have remained unclear for the last decade?

No. Why do you keep saying this? Jaime did not offer him Casterly Rock. Why would Jaime offer him Casterly Rock? Why would Cersei agree to offer him Casterly Rock? Aiding in one kind of generic special ops type mission is going to net a nobody like Bronn the historic seat of the Lannister family? How does that make…

An army on foot takes much longer to get anywhere than a man on horseback (and Littlefinger may have sailed, for all we know)

If he sailed from White Harbor, it'd be quicker, no? Catelyn left Winterfell weeks (a month?) after Ned, but still beat him to King's Landing. At any rate, we don't really know how the time frames matchup.

How did it kill the previous development of the character? Why do people keep saying this?

Surely the BOOKS did in fact have a rape at this very point. It wasn't Sansa's rape, admittedly.

No, she *wrote* to her grandmother. Margaery never left King's Landing.

What makes you say it takes her back to Square One? We haven't seen her response yet! More broadly, "it's different from the books" is not actually an argument.

Robin Arryn is Lord of the Vale, and he's with Yohn Royce, who is certainly not Littlefinger's man - he was deeply skeptical of Littlefinger in that inquest last season, although obviously they'd found some sort of modus vivendi by the beginning of this season. Littlefinger's command of the Vale is almost certainly…

Surely Thor has a relationship with his father? Surely, in fact, that's one of the main themes of both Thor movies, especially the first one.

Isn't it basically that The CW has its own management that mostly makes decisions as it sees fit, and CBS and Time Warner hire and fire the management and take the profits?

I fell off the show, what with it not being very good, but didn't they adapt much of the Alan Moore Brujeria Swamp Thing arc? And there were definitely some straight up adaptations of Delano storylines.

I feel like there would be less hostility to this feature if you changed its name to something like "Shitty meme of the day".

Aurane could also be a Stannis spy (the Velaryons were backing Stannis) or an Illyrio/Varys spy (the Velaryons were very closely connected to the Targaryens)

The Winterfell story, as presented so far in the show, is clearly Sansa's story, in which Theon is a supporting character. They are obviously going through some of the Jeyne Poole beats with Sansa, but that doesn't mean they've just gone with "Theon's story from ADWD, except with Sansa instead of Jeyne Poole for…

*Two* books full of boring, waste of time new characters.

Martin has managed to allow as little time as possible to pass over the course of these five books, to an almost ridiculous extent. This seems to be a general problem with him - how on earth can he fit all the events of the Dance of the Dragons into two years? So Rickon is unlikely to have enough time to grow into a…

In the books, all the Wildlings think Shireen is an abomination who will eventually get contagious and start spreading the sickness again. It is not yet clear if they are correct.

Connington was an old friend of Rhaegar who served as Hand of the King during Robert's Rebellion and got beaten by Ned at the Battle of the Bells. He was disgraced, went into exile, and then entrusted by Varys and Illyrio to care for the purported Aegon

That really, really isn't going to happen, and you know that perfectly well.