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Yes, he's a horrid old perv, preying on girls young enough to be his grandchildren.

I think Tyrion is the Walter White of this tale, with the same anger, pride, and bitterness. He may be a very bad influence on Daenerys.

I think Stannis like Richard in real life. Tyrion is like Shakespeare’s Richard.

I was sympathetic to Tyrion on my first read of the first three books. Then, it gradually dawned on me that he is appalling. i won’t say I have no sympathy for him, but I don’t have a lot.

I greatly enjoyed reading of Joffrey’s death. He was a horrid little sadist.

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"Psycho" is nothing more than an insult. It means nothing among professionals. He never said that. He did compare her to a child soldier.

Terms like "madness" and "insanity" are bandied around far too readily. There is nothing to suggest that Catelyn suffers from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or major clinical depression. However, Catelyn does get increasingly depressed as her life goes from bad to disastrous. Her husband and (as far as she knows) two sons, and a daughter, have all been murdered. Sansa is a prisoner, and then Robb is murdered in front of her. She finally snaps. At the point that she kills Jinglebell, she is almost certainly insane in the legal sense. But, it's not because mental illness runs in her family. Her psychosis is triggered as a result of all the horrible things that get done to those that she loves.

That’s really just saying you want her to be written out of the story.

The pull of one’s homeland is a powerful one. Even in the modern world, plenty of ethnic groups dream of recovering their lost lands.

Any one in this tale could opt out of the Game and become a Maester or a Septon or Septa, but why should they? It’s not part of the value system of this world. And, where would be the interest in such a story? Jon could forgive and forget the Red Wedding, but why should he? The Martells could forget about Elia and her children, but why should they? Robb could have given fealty to Joffrey but why should he? Ned could have just accepted Joffrey as king, but why should he? Arianne could have settled for being disinherited, but why should she?

I don’t know anyone (other than obvious trolls) who describes her in such terms. She is, like everyone else, a warlord in a quasi-medieval world. She is enlightened for her times, but those are brutal times. Nor can I believe that anyone who’d had half their family massacred, and was subject to a murder attempt, would feel anything other than intense hostility towards those responsible. I’m quite certain I’d feel much the same way if I’d been driven from my native land. No one expects Jon or Arya to forgive those responsible for harming their family and why should they?

Yes, but Dany is meant to be a modern liberal democratic pacifist, in the opinion of her critics.

If she had dysentery, she’d be sending days on her back. It was the poisonous berries that caused the vomiting and diarrhoea. She seems largely recovered by the time she encounters Drogon. I’d attribute the hallucinations to sunstroke. I’d also agree that being ruthless does not equate to being mad.

Yes. As @Ranputs it, "Robb takes the decisions that kings take." I'm quite sure that Roose Bolton's behaviour at Harrenhall was outside his knowledge, but hanging young women, pillaging and burning the West? That was done with his approval, quite openly, by his commanders. I do think that a lot of the criticism that both Daenerys and Arya get stems from the belief that killing is somehow mens' work.

My heart bleeds for overseers the same way it does for the Tickler.

I'm sure it would be a great comfort to the victims of The War of the Five Kings to know that their killers were working within the confines of their society. Criticism of Daenerys' role in Slavers Bay in the books, comes largely from slavers and those who support them; not from the slaves and freedmen. One of the oddities of some parts of the fandom is that killing slave owners and overseers is viewed much more harshly than killing peasants.

The peasants of the Riverlands, Kings Landing, and the Westlands say "hello".

When your overlord says “fight”, you don’t have any choice in the matter. Nor, when he commands you to kill, pillage, burn the smallfolk on the opposing side.

Dany is a pantheist, who appears to believe that all gods have some power. Stannis is an atheist who seeks to use magic for his own ends.

After years of aristocratic warfare, that might come as a relief to a lot of people, as the Tudors and Henri IV did.

Daenerys is not aiming to replace liberal democracy with absolutism.

I knew a woman who used to make it into yoghurt.

Harry’s rating is at -26%, Meghan’s at -39%. Admittedly, that’s a lot better than Prince Andrew at -79%.

Given Harry and Meghan’s intense unpopularity in the UK, I’d say the public reckon they dodged a bullet when the pair left.