A Bong of Ice and Fire

The Others can consult the flames?!?!? :o Whoa! They're more dangerous than I thought!

For those criticizing Stannis's actions - please! This IS Stannis in all his red passion, stripped bare of everything except his all-encompassing desire to be King, which is his RIGHT. "Ours is the Fury", indeed! He stayed back and watched his fleet get blown to green hell. Then instead of shrinking in horror and defeat, he took his fate in his own hands and went to TAKE what is HIS. It's now perfectly clear why Tywin, Tyrion, Cersei, and Varys truly feared this man. We hadn't seen that before. I FELT every moment of Stannis's mad charge and his reluctance to leave alive. Wow. Just wow. George RR Martin presented us with the essences of who these characters really are in this episode. Truly the best cinema-TV-film experience I've ever had. The rest of the writers try on their episodes, but really they are hacks in comparison. There is only one GRRM. And he made me understand that there is only 1 Stannis, truly.

Ummmm... He pretty much DID sell his soul to a foreign, creepy God to win the Iron Throne. Everybody thinks Stannis is some super honorable noble guy, but he's actually quite pragmatic and will willing to do whatever it takes to win.

Don't get too excited about GRRM's other books. They're decent, but nothing special.