In all fairness the fact that it looks fuck all like him does kind of help take the edge off.

There are numerous good reasons to take on a pen name; safety and comfort, working against a prejudice, creating a distinction between people or even just bodies of work, hell, even creating a persona for the sake of writing a meta fiction.

*Record Scratch*

My dad can attest to this, having made the youthful mistake of drinking from a “beautifully clear” stream when he and my mum went travelling.

I posted this as a light hearted reply to another comment but you know what? Screw it, give me my VEGETABLE LAMB movie!

Poor rams...so often used to how off the destructive abilities of large mythical monsters. Unfortunately AFAIK the only mythical sheep we have is the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary which is, if anything worse than an regular sheep.

Is it (by which I mean the fantasy genre’s love of dragons) just that us brits are traditionally rather fond of dragon stories and that fantasy is traditionally fond of brits?

Mother

Sansa has had nothing but grief from the men in her life and is doing much better without them. Arya has none and her revelation at the seasons end is that she clearly isn’t a psychopath at all. Yara might be the only level headed person on all of Pyke and I’m not sure what show you’d have to be watching to put that…

They basically made a nuke that was capable of making other nukes which...guys come on!

As someone else pointed out, it wouldn’t get through the wall, but it could get around it by freezing the sea.

A distinction I think it is worth making is Viserion wasn’t raised by a white walker but by the Night King himself, so I’m not sure if he’s just a dragon ice zombie, or a dragon white walker, which would be (I would think) different.

...the extra time would also have made it seem like the wights had to put more effort into hauling him out the lake.

I assume the wights ice weapons are not ice in the regular sense since they’d make pretty crappy swords if they were.

Ok you tackled this...I’m going with it breathing ice though, since otherwise it’d just fry its own insides...also ice made by wights is a weapon in and of itself (that was what killed Viserion in the first place), and he was resurrected by The Night King rather than an underling, so I would assume this made a…

I actually DID like the zombies not walking over the frozen ice until The Hound threw that rock at them, it just nicely reiterates that the foot soldiers of the wight army not a thinking enemy.

Would the ice zombie dragon even breathe fire though?

Honestly I think just looking like an O and thus being a cool thing to incorporate into the opening titles was probably as far as it ever went.

Yeah, I’m ok with that bit (Mach 5 ravens not so much) they were a hunting party so even if they’d been beyond the wall for a night already they wouldn’t have been going a direct route.