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True, Southron Ambitions is just a fan theory. But the clues of it are really the important thing—the undeniable web of influence (unique in Westerosi history) woven by the warding of Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark to Jon Arryn and the betrothals of Catelyn Tully to Brandon Stark, Lysa Tully to Jon Arryn and Lyanna…

For a highlight show (especially for those of us, like you, on the West Coast), Quick Pitch is great. They actually show you the way the games play out rather than Sportscenter’s “Two home runs and one strikeout” standard baseball game highlight package. But it’s a highlight show on a official league netwoek—you can’t…

“ESPN dropping all it’s high price takers is pretty ample evidence in my mind that it doesn’t get ratings.”

The Rebellion really only started with the death of Rickard and Brandon Stark. It could very well have been fine if they had eloped—angering Robert and upsetting the Starks and (possibly) Martells—if there was a sane king on the throne.

Why would Jon's true parentage have to be hidden if his father was Robert Baratheon? He couldn't know that the woman he was betrothed to had his kid? Why would Lyanna be hidden away, protected by the Kingsguard? Nah, there's no way Robert is Jon's father.

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Nah. Lyanna is ice. Rhaegar is fire. Jon is both. (Honestly, there's a lot of Ice and Fire motifs throughout the series. You could also say Jon is Ice and Dany is Fire. Or Walkers are Ice and R'hllor is fire. It's kind of everywhere.)

If the show ever got into the prophecies the book did, it'd mean a whole lot more. Jon's parentage makes him the Prince that Was Promised.

Cuz it looked baaaaaadaaaaaass?

That's how it was in AFfC, but on the show Jaqen explicitly says she lost her sight because the faces make you go blind if you use them without being no one.

It's hinted strongly in the books that Rhaegar married Lyanna. Two wives, because "the dragon has three heads."

…and it apparently made it go blind. Though I guess for some reason "a girl is now no one" so she can have at it.

Poor, poor neglected Ser Pounce. He's the real tragic figure of this story.

Wow, they, uh, really condensed everything into one neat little package, huh? Now we've got two sides to the battle in the south, and then the North up there on their own all ready to fight the White Walkers. Both good and bad, in my opinion. We're heading straight into the end game, but I'm also one of the few that…

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Scotland barely voted to stay in the UK two years ago, before the UK voted for a far reaching, massively politically and economically impactful referendum that their citizenship was overwhelmingly against. The vote is going to happen, and many of the Scottish leaders of the movement to stay in the UK are now speaking…

Big whoop. So was 90% of the rest of the world.

That’s one single if, actually: if the UK leaves the EU. Which it has voted to do. Both of the situations mentions are already in motion: Scotland is going to hold another referendum on leaving the UK and Northern Ireland politicians are seeking to rejoin Ireland. This is happening.

I like Robin Lopez too for all the reasons you say, but I also think you can find a number of players to fulfill the role he had. As you also say, Grant and Calderon are no great losses.