Thank you and others here for laying out this side of the story. I care deeply about the issue of privatization in the public school system, but am not so keyed into the major players, particularly outside of NYC. My stepsons are just about graduating high school, so unfortunately I’m also not as directly involved as…

Great!

Well played.

Probably more correct and certainly less fantastical, and my stomach hurts even more.

I’m getting a sick, Stephen King novel-type feeling in my stomach about this convention.

Warning taken! I like a good time travel story. And I’m a pretty fast reader so I never feel like it’s a huge waste if I didn’t like a book.

Yes, she was so frustrating. I suppose part of the point is that she was slightly ahead of her time as a woman in 1946 as well, but she totally would have been burned as a witch! They probably would have burned her as soon as they saw what she was wearing, truthfully. As much as I DON’T think these books should be…

I agree that it never seemed realistic for Jaime to be there and not kill him on the spot. Of course, in the books he’s basically Jesus-like in his perfection (and not much less so in the show!) after getting over some early bumps...you know, like spanking his wife.

Exactly. It made more sense to keep her interfering limited to preventing Jaime from killing Black Jack, and really that was enough drama.

Yes, sometimes I forget how annoyingly impulsive she was in the first few books (yes, I know this didn’t happen this way in the books, but her actions in the show are mostly based on how she’s portrayed in the books). I like her much better further on.

Right, I get that. But given that it’s very likely, as you say, that Alex must have been the one to bring Mary and his brother together, cutting them off from each other seems like a dumb idea. As in her idea of helping make Frank come about could have actually prevented it. But I also get that it’s the character’s…

A plot point that has bothered me to no end (in the show) is that Claire, after seeing Mary and Alex in love and Alex so sickly wouldn’t put 2 and 2 together and realize that MAYBE Frank wasn’t descended from Black Jack after all and MAYBE she should have just stayed the eff out of it. I get not wanting to let Jaime…

I’m getting prepared to cry my face off.

In addition to what Shanetoonae said, it appears to be very dangerous to go through, so they want to do it as few times as possible.

Yes, there is all of that. Plus, if her ruling of Meereen, etc. is any indication, she makes a pretty shitty queen.

All true. I wonder who Tyrion is even thinking of? Not sure how aware he is of everything going on in Dorne. He wouldn’t know about the decimation of the Tyrells of course. The only person I can possibly think of is Robin Arryn, and the only advantage there is that it makes me laugh to imagine it. I suppose he just…

Yeah, I’m not convinced either. Just saying that incest shouldn’t be a reason for that family. Although, Dany did have that heart to heart about how they all come from terrible families so let’s do it differently now. Also, someone else pointed out that it seems Dany can’t have children at this point, so the only way…

Yes, truth, he did. I’m sure he’s there to prevent her from becoming another Mad King (Queen). I don’t know why I’m not feeling her anymore, but I could turn it around depending on how the story goes. I do love Tyrion so that helps.

Right! And if we’re going to worry about confusing sounding names we get Yara-Euron. Not that anyone is going to confuse the characters, but still, it’s all dumb.

You make an excellent point about Dany’s inability to have children, which changes my mind on her and Jon.