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The fact that this topic continues to float to the top of this forum is only reinforcing my belief that we live in clown-world. Very useful, actually. It's like a rogues-list of people that I know I can ignore.

I do not know what that means, but I'd love to hear how you related Pearl Harbor to....anything you just said. Just because I enjoy watching people dig holes. Honestly want to know, if only so I can figure out who's e-tool you're using, because man, that thing digs better than anything I've run across.

Ah ok, I understand. You have a Stannis hang-up and you weren't able to separate that from me answering the actual question of the thread....sorest loser. As for reversing context and inventing non-existent situations to justify your opinion....like I said in the last post..... Side note....you are aware that none of this is real and it all comes from the mind of one man....right? Right?

Points to anybody who can interpret what the above post means? I assume, from prior experience, that it's some kind of non-sensical "dunk" against the patriarchy, or whatever new imagined nonsense that is in vogue among idiots, but I am, thankfully, non-fluent in retard.

Cersie, 100% no contest. She had a pubescent crush on Rhaegar and was denied due to politics. She spent the entire rest of her life destroying every single person she came into contact with because she didn't get to marry the prince she fell in love with before she even understood the concept of love. She thinks about it constantly. She compares everyone to the Prince her daddy promised her, and because her entire conception of him was based on pre-teen fantasy, nobody can ever compare. She only settled for her own brother because she sees him as a male mirror of herself and she only loves herself. Even her eventual mental denigration of her father is based on the fact that he didn't secure the fairy-land marriage that she has in her head.

The logic here is stretchier than a 58 year old prostitute.

Hmm, no, I don't think she is. I think it's more along the lines of two sides to a coin. Dany has certain strengths.....I'm of the opinion that there's good evidence that bonding with a dragon alters the personality of the rider...personalities mingle (I think there's good evidence for this based on prior Targs changes in behavior once bonded...seems like its a two-way-street in terms of taming). Dany started out helpless and totally subservient and that immediately went away as soon as she had Drogon. Similar changes in personality exist, if you look for them, within Fire and Blood. If I had to guess, I think the whole point is that Dany is good at what John Snow is bad at. Dany, once she bonded with drogon, became a lot more decisive, and a lot more "fire and blood." Jon Snow, on the other hand, has been trying his damndest to manage the Watch, and he's failed....they killed him. Assuming that he comes back with a much stronger bond to his wolf, Ghost, I think, apart from being more brutal, he's probably also going to focus more on "the pack" IE: He's going to be a magnet and win people to his cause. Wolf traits. Dany is good at "fire and blood" and Jon is probably going to become good at building a pack.

Not everything Littlefinger says is a lie...and he specifically talks about taking advantage of things. I'm 50/50 on whether it had been his at some point, but even if it hadn't, we've still got motive, means and opportunity for Joff. Given than the only other people who had motive (Jaime and Cersie) pretty clearly did not do it (while Cersie suspects it was in fact Joff), I think it's pretty much settled, honestly. It is for me, anyways.

Well, I think it's confirmed as Joff, but I have another theory about why Joff did it. Joff is a psychopath, and it's likely that he knew that blade had belonged to his uncle Tyrion in the past. Tyrion had just repeatedly slapped him and shamed him and forced him to go pay his respects to Bran and his mother.....so Joff decided to kill the kid out of spite and used a dagger that might be traceable back to his uncle. We've got means (he had access to the dagger through the royal armory and probably filched it at some point in the past) and motive (spite against Bran who, from his psychopath view, was responsible for Tyrion shaming him). As far as opportunity goes....lots of shady people follow the King's procession around and the payment could have been as simple as getting to keep the knife.

Sorry, should have added quotes. The "heart" of heart tree probably refers to blood. Since hearts are pretty heavily associated with that.

I think there's a good chance the term is an old surviving one from the time of the First Men or the invasion of the Andals. People and Children of the forest perform blood sacrifice to them and their sap is blood red. The heart of heart tree probably refers to blood.

Y'all are apparently not reading the same novels as I am.

I don't think we read the same series......

Man, you guys are dark. Thinkin' Arya is just gonna go postal on everyone. Maybe play some Sudoku or something.

I'm pretty sure it's nightshade, not morphine. Nightshade does the things that Robin's "medication" does, and it does build up in the system over time. GRRM renamed most medicines and diseases (except poppy, apparently) but this particular one behaves exactly like nightshade As for whether Sansa is intentionally trying to poison him, I do not think so. I think Baelish is for sure, and he's going to blame the whole thing on the maester. Sansa will feel terrible.