Angel Eyes

The Wall doesn’t stop wights. The attack in AGOT at Castle Black proved that. Bowen Marsh is an idiot. His assassination of the Lord Commander leaves dysfunction in the ranks and will leave the Watch vulnerable to the white walkers. One can reason with wildlings, wights will attack and kill anyone they see. Leaving wildlings outside the Wall? The White Walkers/wights will kill them and make more wights, who, as I say, will attack anyone until they are ripped to pieces or set on fire.

Or Viserys would want to keep Daenerys for himself. Remember the stunt he tried in Pentos the night she married Drogo?

Robert Aramayo (Young Adult Ned Stark) as a thief named Tray in Galveston starring Ben Foster. Rupert Vansittart played Mr. Hurst (Mr. Bingley’s brother-in-law) in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, which also starred Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet, who played Catelyn Stark in the Game of Thrones unaired pilot.

I wonder how that would go. Tywin would likely want some deal right away, such as breaking off Jaime’s Kingsguard appointment.

I guess nobody’s ever tried harvesting ice. There’s a frozen heart worth mining, might prove useful. So why did Rickard just give up, for lack of a better term? I’m sure he would have wanted to betroth Alys to Robb, but he settled for Daryn. And Ned has no excuse for not having Robb betrothed at 14, Brandon (Ned’s brother) was betrothed to Catelyn at 14.

That’s cause Robb probably wanted to marry a pretty lady, which most Freys are not. As for his biggest mistake, he crossed the Rubicon with accepting his Lords’ declaration of King in the North. That meant that nobody outside of the North and the Riverlands would support him, and gave Balon Greyjoy an idea...

This is what I’m saying. Plus, Tyrion’s happiness has never been on Tywin’s radar.

Also about bastards rising high, don’t forget William the Conqueror, also known as William the Bastard.

So Ned brought Jon to Winterfell as an infant and raised him amongst his children. What did Ned want Jon to do with his life? Join the Night’s Watch? Rule a small holdfast? Marry a lady of a minor house? He could have set Jon up with Mya Stone, Robert did say he was interested in joining Houses Stark and Baratheon, and it’s much more suitable than Sansa and Joffrey. Maybe he did want Jon to join the Night’s Watch, he wasn’t particularly resistant to Catelyn kicking Jon out of the house.

Doran’s plan for his family has failed. He’s failed as a father, since Arianne always thought he was trying to replace her with Quentyn, and Quentyn got killed trying to make Doran proud. Continuing his family? Most men will most likely not touch Arianne as she is a spinster, Quentyn is dead, and Trystane has an assassination attempt coming down the pipe. Though maybe there’s a reason why Arys Oakheart has only one chapter, it might set something up...

So when Tywin got wind of the Tyrells’ plot to marry Sansa to Willas, why did he choose Tyrion as Sansa’s Lannister husband? Surely another member of the family would have served the role. And since Tywin views Tyrion as an embarrassment because of his dwarfism, surely he wouldn’t want Tyrion’s condition to spread, per se? Did he intentionally give Sansa to Tyrion as a means of humiliating her, because she wouldn’t want to be married to a Lannister, whose family executed her father and spawn (Joffrey) had her beaten and humiliated, much less Tyrion, who had a reputation for debauchery and perversion, which didn’t fit into Sansa’s vision of a brave, gentle and strong husband? Tywin certainly isn’t above abusive and petty tactics, just ask Tysha.

You know, I’m still not quite sure how Stannis started his suspicions that Robert’s “children” were all bastards born of incest, since it appears that he brought his suspicious to Jon Arryn. If it’s based on appearance, that wouldn’t make sense since that would be like accusing Catelyn of cuckolding Ned since all but one of his offspring resemble her.

Would have liked to have been inside the Greatjon’s head when he suggested that...

So he’s of the Hobbes school of thought?

Would Catelyn have been better off in Winterfell? I think not, not with Ramsay Snow running around. I think Robb should have tried harder to get his sisters back. After negotiations went south, he got a bit lazy with trying to get them back. Maybe scour the Riverlands, infiltrate the capital?