At least he could have dressed less fancy; his outfit and Lannister hair -along with his distinctive scar - weren't helping him appear inconspicuous.

Woks out great for Sansa: She gets Winterfell, Jon gets King's Landing, and if Arya and Gendry get together, Arya probably gets Storm's End as Gendry is as close to a Baratheon as you have left.

In the books, you learn that Tywin's great hope was that Rhaegar would marry Cersei, thereby elevating him to father-in-law to the future King. But the Mad King tells Tywin that he would never marry his son off to a "servant." (Tywin was the Mad King's Hand at the time)

It's definitely not the Robert Baratheon school of diplomacy - poor king that he was, he was legendary for his ability to inspire loyalty and friendship in former enemies. I remember there's the story of him capturing some lords during the Rebellion and them later choosing to fight for him, one even dying at the…

It's basically a D&D/MMORPG party going north of the Wall now: You got Thoros as a healer, Tormund and the Hound as tanks, Gendry, Jorah, Beric and Jon as dps, and maybe Sam soon joining as a mage.

BUT MAGIC PROPHECY>> HUMAN DECENCY

Nah, Davos is Alistair. Jon is just your player avatar if you chose the Human Noble start.

I don't get why people want Tyrion to be a Targ. It would totally invalidate one of the most perceptive - and to me one of my favorite - parts of the books:

So "Game of Thrones" basically turned into full on "Dragon Age: Origins" by the end of tonight's episode.

Dany is a weakness of the series (book and show) period: Her story arc is based on her triumphing against poorly thought out, cartoon villains (Evil warlocks, slavers) and she is never forced to face the difficult moral quandaries of the other protagonists. In the books and show alike, it feels almost as if she…

And he would have been an awful monarch: He knew his father was insane and had begun to turn the Lords against him but didn't do anything about curbing his father's power in any way, which hurt the common people and the dynasty's own legitimacy. He was so obsessed with the Prophecy that he took no heed of the…

I'm just wondering, are there any other book/show fans that really don't like the fact that Jon Snow is Rhaegar's illegitimate son? Jon's Stark upbringing, his relationship to his "siblings" and Ned, are very much what make him the man he is today, more so than whatever prophecy foretold of his birth and world-saving…

Because democracy always works out GREAT in an illiterate, uneducated, heavily stratified, and war torn society that has no stable representative institutions?

"Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak… but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak…

What role did Jaime play in the Red Wedding? From my recollection, it was Tywin that orchestrated it, and Jaime was absent for most of the first half to 2/3rds of the book returning to King's Landing with Brienne. He meets with Roose before the Red Wedding, and it's very much hinted that Bolton will betray Robb at…

Yet the dragons eliminate the major appeal of the "game" of thrones: The fact that rulers or would-be-rulers are at any moment 1 wrong step away from losing their heads to a tactical error, betrayal by a major ally, personal rashness, etc. The War of the Five Kings was so interesting because at various points…

Let's be fair: this show doesn't care an iota about actual military strategy and the logistics of war. Otherwise Dany wouldn't be able to land her Dothraki army on the continent without being spotted by the Lannister/Greyjoy fleets, use the equivalent of medieval GPS to zero in on the main Lannister supply convoy…

Littlefinger's actions this season make absolutely no sense and go against most of what we know about him as a character: In essence, Littlefinger's goal is to always be 3 moves ahead of everyone else in the "game" and not place himself in personal risk. Yet he's staying in the North with no obvious allies - he's not…

They actually weren't. The whole idea of No Man's Land as a relatively fixed part of the war doesn't develop in the Western Front until after the First Battle of Ypres (so early 1915). And armies on both sides realized pretty soon that simply charging arms-abreast across a line of fire early on was rather… idiotic. In…

The show hasn't told us what Toby does, but he makes the comment that he "pair for his therapist's brand new Tesla" with the money he paid for therapy and it's clear he has disposable income just based on what we've seen of his lifestyle. I'm guessing they'll eventually give him some job where he's working on home.…