SeanF

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.

We certainly dodged a bullet there. Edward was a shit of the first order.

Or Joffrey.

Meghan and Harry have certainly given us an insight into the problems faced by titled multi-millionaires in the modern world. Prince Harry even has his own entry in the Urban Dictionary: "To be born with almost infinite wealth, fame, and fortune, then expecting people to believe that you're a victim of the system."

Sad, but true. There are other books to read, but I would like to see a conclusion to this series, other than the poor fanfiction that the two D’s gave us.

Long before that, she attacked dear, sweet Joffrey.

It’s the paradox of democracy. What do you do when bad arguments win?

Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, did himself no favours when he was eventually allowed on Question Time.

There are probably lightwells and ventilation shafts. The underground cities of Anatolia seem to have been quite comfortable.

If Stannis burns Shireen, it could only be because the Others have breached the Wall, and the future of humanity is at stake. One change that had huge consequences, was shifting Tyrion from being a villain to a (alleged) hero.

In all seriousness, I expect SR will be overdosed with sweet sleep. This will not be because Sansa deliberately kills him, but LF will try to frighten her, and guilt-trip her into believing she is an accomplice.

I like the comparison to Gibraltar. I guess the dwarven strongholds in LOTR are similar.

The same criticism can be made of Jon and Dany. They both resort to half-measures, when they should have gone in balls deep. Dany should have struck the slavers down so hard and far that they can never threaten the freedmen again. Jon should have just accepted from the start that NW neutrality is a dead letter and backed Stannis completely. In fact, he ought to have taken Stannis’ offer of Winterfell and Val.

I think it’s possible that Arya’s story ends very badly, with her becoming a professional assassin and torturer, completely detached from her work. But, I would still pity her, if that was so.

The tokar is a garment similar to the toga virilis. Once a Roman upper class boy assumed the toga virilis, he legally became a man. Among other things, he became liable to execution. A boy could not lawfully be executed.

Daenerys’ fault at Astapor was not installing a garrison to support the ruling council. It was not turning the Unsullied on the elite or liberating 54,000 people (thousands of them, children).