Surely he'd be knighted for his service in helping to protect a Stark daughter? If Tyrion's bodyguard can be knighted, why can't Arya's?

Why should it matter to her if the people on her hit list have changed?

Yeah, I took the Wolf/Lion line more as him saying: they both betrayed their oath to the king, Ned in armed rebellion, him to prevent a slaughter. Why was Ned's killing of thousands of people more just than Jamie's murder of a single, lunatic king?

Having just read the first book, he's a perfectly good writer. Are there people who like the show but not his writing? That's very odd. The first season at least is the most pain stakingly faithful adaptation of a book to film i've ever seen.

To be fair, it makes sense to keep them if you know your god has the demonstrable power to raise the dead.

I think you missed the point of the scene with the grieving wife. The important information relayed there is that Hyder wasn't a church-going man, so his entry into heaven isn't automatic, even though he's a good person. Later on, he asks about his wife, who is a practicing Christian, and is assured by the Angel…

No, read the first part again. Luna had been creating fake SSN's and such for a while to file false Medicare claims long before they ever got into the kidnapping/torture game. It just so happened (or it's how they knew they could rob a guy and not have his family go to the police) that the first guy they targeted was…

But the people this story is based on weren't stupid, they'd already made millions from Medicare fraud before their kidnapping/murder spree started.

I say that because they both rely more on being impressed by their own outrageousness than being funny.

I agree totally. People here don't seem to realize he's basically a slow talking Carlos Mencia.

You would think a guy who trains slave armies would have some way to prevent that from happening. Like never selling more than a third of his force at a time. I don't know, it just seemed weird that he was so foolish, like he'd never dealt with someone willing to double cross him before?

I should have gone to dental school.

Well he already has Robinson Cano. He's pretty big and will get a crazy contract from the Yankees next year.

They get the cultural references right at least.

I liked the first 100 pages, took a week off from reading because work got crazy, then never got back to it. It was pleasant reading, but nothing about it drew me back in. I'd watch the miniseries though.

I prefer Tommy Lee Jones as aging rage monster Ty Cobb in Cobb.

He didn't say he'd be the first to tackle the question, he said he was considering making it punishable by death. Maybe at this point it's just a flogging offense or something.

Plus she's had lots of practice seducing kings. Hopefully Joffrey doesn't behead her like Henry VIII did.

It's not, but he has power and she doesn't.

She's had some training, but she's still a child, with the muscles of a child. It would be ludicrous if she out-duelled a well trained and experienced fighter.