The Chrome extension doesn’t even work!

The river Jaime fell into had to be the Mander, which goes past Highgarden. Or maybe the Blackwater Rush, depending on how close they were to King’s Landing. But the Reach is the name of the region, not a river.

I was hoping for Jahaerys. Then it would still be R + L = J. I assume it’s “Aegon” because the show is conflating the Jon storyline and the ‘Faegon’ storyline.

I just installed the Chrome extension that promised me I would never have to click “more comments” again. I just had to click “more comments.” :-(

Ugh, this is truly the worst. When I click to read more comments, I just get the same ones I already read, and then there’s a button for “staff discussions.” Why the hell would I want *that*?! I come here for the commenters! I don’t believe that after 36 hours (which I think we’ve exceeded anyway) we’re going to…

Just testing to see if this works. I did supposedly claim my account, but I have no idea how this links to my old Disqus account/AV Clubaccount content. One thing I SUPER hate already, with the fire of a thousand nuns, is how after signing in it reloads the comments and dumps me within them someplace completely…

Thanks. I mean, it was forty years ago, but yeah, it was awful, particularly for them. I was 15 and had a lot of life to look forward to, but I really do think it broke them.

A large number of marriages can't survive the death of a child. My parents didn't split up after my sister died of leukemia, but they were never the same people afterward.

It was so beautifully framed, I actually went back and stilled it to show my sister-in-law that it's not without (flimsy) evidence that I believe Tyrion is a secret Targaryen!

That's interesting. So, the burning of corpses is to prevent them from being able to be turned. Technically, they could have brought all of their dead back south of the Wall and buried them. This does make more sense than everything north of the wall just being magically magic. :-)

How did Othor come back, then? His corpse was at Castle Black when it rose and tried to kill Mormont. I'm not being snarky; I'm legitimately trying to puzzle out the rules of wight creation.

But remember that even Robert Baratheon leaned on his fairly small percentage of Targaryen blood in some measure when he took the throne. So even he knew that succession means something to the subjects of the Crown.

Shoot, I just answered my own question via awoiaf,westerns.org: Robert's Rebellion was "close to a year." So I guess Jon probably *was* conceived within the boundaries of holy wedlock.

Were they married prior to Jon's conception, though? Or prior to his birth? The wedding took place in Dorne, according to the found book. So the question is, how long was Robert's Rebellion? Longer than nine months?

Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

Ugh, stupid autocorrect again, and stupid Disqus not letting me edit! That was, of course, meant to be "Jorah."

Jonah doesn't have a sister. Who did you mean?

Wait…what are you talking about? The letter from Lysa to Cat — the one that Cat burns in that scene — is NOT the letter that Littlefinger arranged for Arya to see. The letter that Littlefinger arranged for Arya to see is Sansa's letter to Robb, written at the direction of Cersei, asking him to bend the knee after Ned…

Yes, she specifically did that. Here's the scene: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I was thinking flashbacks. And since (in the present time of the original series, anyway) he was more tied to Donna, and LFB didn't return (thank jeebus!), there wasn't much reason for him to be around.