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I have no idea, but that doesn't seem like something we should assume...

Yeah I'd agree loose the 'the.' Are we allowed to use worldbook art on the wiki? The page for Caraxes has a picture from there and I thought that was a no no.

Right, "waking giants from/in the earth" seems to be a way of describing an earthquake. So presumably the horn is supposed to cause an earthquake that would bring down the Wall. Edit: the idea that this horn somehow caused the actual giants to wake up and climb out of the ground is a little silly. Especially since the giants are said to have existed in Westeros long before Joramun or even the Wall.

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Horn_of_winter I think we can be reasonably sure the giants mentioned are metaphorical, not actual giants. I wanted to get others opinions.

I agree sometimes finding the reference can be a chore, I've been there. But again the problem is that my page numbers might not match up with yours. Having a page number that is not correct for your edition would make it even more confusing. Just giving the chapter may not be very precise, but at least we know it's accurate for everybody. It probably did sit empty for twenty years. It was burned again during the Dance and after the war nobody really had the money to repair it for a while. Looks like Rhaenys already fixed the Stafford's wife thing.

The only thing I can think is that maybe the page numbers are inconsistent across different editions of the books?

Yeah that looks good to me, thanks.

There's should be a disambiguation page for Morosh. I'm not sure how to make one.

Presumably Lord Commander Rivers went ranging one day and just never came back. So Aemon probably thinks he's dead.

Isn't it far more likely the expensive effects shot had something to do with the angry dragons glimpsed in the preview for next week?

I was never rooting for a Val and Jon romance until now.

They freeze shut the tunnel when they abandon a castle, like Jon wanted to do at Castle Black.

I don't understand why at this point in the show's incredibly successful lifespan they can't bump it to 12 episodes a season.

I thought the episode was pretty great. Sam and Jon's talk about the wording of their oath was right off message boards like this. My only real complaint is Slynt being a total coward. Can't we have greyer characters? The dude can't just be a cunt he has to be a useless coward too?

Why's that? I know the woman who plays Cersei tweeted a heart made up of stones during filming, which many took as unofficial confirmation.

I think I saw another "Varys talks to someone in front of the throne" scene in the previews for next week. I miss him too.

The burning of Winterfell should have been way bigger.

Yeah probably, but as I mentioned before he was (or really should be, though he showed know sign of it last time we saw him) heading north by ship anyway, so stopping at Braavos makes some sense. Especially if the producers want to establish the city in viewers minds for when Arya heads that way later. On another topic, Lysa mentioned that she allowed Pyter to return to Kings Landing to get Sansa. I guess that explains why they filmed things at the Vale last season, but does it actually make any sense? He must have sailed to the Vale only to immediately go back? If Lysa was so eager to marry Pyter why didn't she just do it when he first got there?

Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that he was definitely not in season one episode seven, and that they thought he missed one episode each season.

It was actually a different guy than the one bugging Cersei, but yeah that was gist of it. I guess they figure this way they give Stannis something to do, maybe the figured there would be more drama in him having to convince them. Also they may want to introduce Braavos so people aren't like "huh?" when Arya heads there.

I just checked and he wasn't. It was heavily implied a few episodes back when Davos mentioned the Iron Bank and got that lightbulb over his head facial expression.

Even if they did have a representative in Westeros on the show, they're still at this point trying to collect from the Lannisters/King Tommen. They have no reason to go to Stannis yet, so he's going to them. It's sorta on the way north to The Wall, and it allows them to kill time while The Wall plotline catches up. I mean really it seemed like Stannis was ready to head to The Wall at the end of last season, so they had to delay him somehow.

On the roof of the Sky castle that's on the way up, I believe. Sansa's Shoe should be there, along with Lysa's body in the book continuity.

I won't attempt to defend the show's use of nudity and rape, but I really don't think Martin included incidents of rape in the books because he thought it was entertaining. As terrible as it is, it happens. Especially in the time period that inspired the world of the books and especially during wartime. To not include it would have been like whitewashing (fictional) history.

I think it's more likely he planed to escape the chaos at Crasters with Bran, then interrogate him about Rickon's whereabouts before killing him and hanging on to his head. The deal with Roose was that he gets a holdfast if he kills both surviving Stark boys, and he had no other leads on where Rickon might be. Edit: the real question is, how did he plan to get back across The Wall...