Much agreement here! And biased, as a leather-crafter, myself. When 90% of the work is in the artisan construction of an item, you invest the last 10% to make it fantastic.

I know we can’t say the modern stuff is the same as the historical stuff, but the samples in museums look pretty, and that’s what I base my opinions on. Smiths were magical, they danced with the devil because of their conuuring of the intense heat that others those was Hellish, and that’s just your Medieval European,…

Actually, Arys Oakheart fell in love with Arianne Martell, the legitimate heir to Dorne, who wanted to start a war because she felt she was being cheated out of her birthright due to misunderstanding part of a communication from her father that was not meant for her. Oberyn’s death was just an excuse, the catalyst…

You bring up something that the haters in the comments threads forget about: when D&D are improvising, they're often more rushed than Martin is (... since Martin hasn't been rushed since the 1990s or so) and so their additions to Game of Thrones are not always good.

Soolin in Blake's 7. In the first five episodes of Series Five, all she did was stand around and make the odd sarcastic remark but she kicked major ass in "Headhunter" and was generally used well after that.