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What is Varys up to? The show makes it look like he suggested the Sansa/Loras match. Wouldn't a Tyrell-Stark alliance work against his plans? If the Tyrells are allied with the Lannisters and the Starks, then wouldn't that make it harder for Aegon to conquer? Unless he knows that the Lannisters will find out about the Tyrell plans and marry Sansa to Tyrion instead, which would somehow benefit Aegon. That is some next level shit right there if true. Edit: Nevermind, there's already a thread on this in this forum.

The best part was when Jaime was fighting in the mud and he dropped his sword. Then he went to pick it up with his stump and was like, "Fuck, I don't have a hand."

I don't see the Purple Wedding fitting in the final episode. When would the reactions to the Red Wedding take place? On the 15th course of Dornish Fire Peppers?

She really is great.

Training all her life with Ser Goodwin is just a plot contrivance in order to deflect from the illogical. She still would likely get crushed by an average swordsman if it was real life. Actually, Arya is my second favorite character; and I'm even less of an authority on whether Arya's internal monologue is realistic since I'm not even a girl. Arya is unrealistic because there is no way that Arya would have survived for that long on her own during a bloody war. It's a plot contrivance that's written well. Anyways, I don't think realism is important. Realism exists at the expense of plot.

So what's more realistic: Ros being able to read or Brienne being one of the best warriors in the world?

I don't know if I agree. Book Theon definitely remorses over his decision to betray the Starks. He even says to himself that he wishes he died fighting with Robb at the Red Wedding. And there definitely more in the crypt scene as well.

And she's been with Littlefinger for over a year. Not enough time to learn how to read?

Brienne is akin to having a real life woman be able to beat up Anderson Silva in a fight. Not gonna happen. The best woman MMA fighter, Ronda Rousey, wouldn't be able to beat a single male professional MMA fighter. And what's so unrealistic about prostitutes being able to read and write? There are bound to be high class whores, just like there are in real life. There were many in history. Arya is a tomboy; and, tomboys are real. But that doesn't make her character realistic. There are definitely arguments to be made against Ros. But realism isn't one of them. I don't think the level of realism when measured against the real world is an important criterion in the books; and thus, it shouldn't be an important criterion in the tv show either. As long as they are realistic when it pertains to the world that GRRM created, then it's fine. And in a world with characters like Lyanna, the Wolf Maidens of Winterfell and the Sand Snakes, Arya is fine. But so is Ros. She can exist because there are other smart women in her world.

Her character is way more realistic than Brienne or Arya. Where's the hate for them? And who cares if she wasn't in the books? There were a lot of whores in the books that aren't in the show, like Chataya, Alayaya, etc. She serves a purpose.