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  1. Not a visual role, but hearing Littlefinger recite the audiobook of Sun Tzu 'The Art of War' is terrifyingly apt. (Getting him to do Machiavelli 'The Prince' would be cliched but delicious.)
  2. Can't say anything Heinlein jumps out at me. Except maybe an echo in Varys' speech about young Aegon's education. There's a flavour of the 'specialisation is for insects' about it. (Also, it parallels Arya's experiences-as-education. She's in the mound of his YA hero(ine) type.) Craster is every creepy backwoods cult leader, with a dash of Sawney Bean.
  3. Tywin is very much a historical Kingmaker figure to me, I never saw a parallel there. But the Alia/Arya thing had half-occurred to me. Yeah, the shady GB breeding programme... 'The Prince that was Promised' is very KH. A Leto/Ghanima 'marriage' is a possible get-out on the J/D front. I cannot get behind the jolly enthusiasm for incest, myself. (It annoys the crap out of me in Heinlein, too.)
  4. The Fenring parallel, yes. That's also a nice Tudor touch, the secret codes for messages in a world without real privacy. Also, the red haired Tully girls. Very Jessica. Paul's role is split between Bran and Dany, generally, but the fifteen year old Robb becoming a leader with Cat's oversight was familiar, too. Mapes - Mirri Maz Duur as a twisted version?
  5. So much Herbert. Facedancers. Teenage messiah figure tames massive critters. Acquiring of dodgy stereotype army of native peoples. (Two of them.) Applied psychotropic substances for said teenage messiah figure. (Two of them) The Undying have a Navigator's Guild feel, the blue lips and general transhuman aura. Not entirely sold on a Maester/mentat equivalency, but Syrio Forel had elements of Duncan Idaho. The Iron Bank as CHOAM. But then, Herbert was deliberately echoing all sorts of influences himself.
  6. 2010 ITV crime series 'Identity' - not only does it have Aidan Gillen as a very maverick detective, but Elyes Gabel (Rakharo) as a junior member of his team. And the Blackfish pops up in one episode as a political terrorist. 2000 'Lorna Doone' - members of villainous Doone clan include AG again, Maester Aemon and Qyburn as Littlefinger's dad. (there's also a 1990 version, which has Ned Stark being villainous in a stupid hat) Frankly, it's probably more of a game to find a UK tv show that doesn't have at least one GoT face in it. 'Six Degrees of Kevan Lannister'.
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