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Pity it didn't last.

Actually I am really hoping that in the next book there will be a closure.

Hopefully she and the rest of the Tullys will discover LF's betrayal and realize

the mistakes they did.

About satisfying moments,

FFC Cersei telling Margaery about Loras. I loved Cersei for that. She actually reminded me of Eric Cartman.

Yet by the time Cersei had finished with her tale, tears glistened on the cheeks of the younger queen.

"Redwyne had miners working to drive a tunnel underneath the castle walls, but that was too slow for the Knight of Flowers. No doubt he was thinking of your lord father's people suffering on the Shields. Lord Waters says he ordered the assault not half a day after taking command, after Lord Stannis's castellan refused his offer to settle the siege between them in single combat. Loras was the first one through the breach when the ram broke the castle gates. He rode straight into the dragon's mouth, they say, all in white and swinging his morningstar about his head, slaying left and right."

Megga Tyrell was sobbing openly by then.

"How did he die?" she asked.

"Who killed him?"

"No one man has that honor," said Cersei. "Ser Loras took a quarrel through the thigh and another through the shoulder, but he fought on gallantly, though the blood was streaming from him. Later he suffered a mace blow that broke some ribs. After that . . . but no, I would spare you the worst of it."

"Tell me," said Margaery. "I command it."

Command it? Cersei paused a moment, then decided she would let that pass.

"The defenders fell back to an inner keep once the curtain wall was taken. Loras led the attack there as well. He was doused with boiling oil." Lady Alla turned white as chalk, and ran from the room. "The maesters are doing all they can, Lord Waters assures me, but I fear your brother is too badly burned." Cersei took Margaery in her arms to comfort her. "He saved the realm." When she kissed the little queen upon the cheek, she could taste the salt of her tears.

"Jaime will enter all his deeds in the White Book, and the singers will sing of him for a thousand years." Margaery wrenched free of her embrace, so violently that Cersei almost fell.

"Dying is not dead," she said.

"No, but the maesters say—"

"Dying is not dead!"

"I only want to spare you—"

"I know what you want. Get out."

Now you know how I felt, the night my Joffrey died. She bowed, her face a mask of cool courtesy.

"Sweet daughter. I am so sad for you. I will leave you with your grief."

Tyrion educating Joffrey, protecting Sansa, questioning Boros's notion of chivalry and Bronn providing Boros with useful advice about laundry.

"What is the meaning of this?"

The Imp's voice cracked like a whip, and suddenly Sansa was free. She stumbled to her knees, arms crossed over her chest, her breath ragged.

"Is this your notion of chivalry, Ser Boros?" Tyrion Lannister demanded angrily. His pet sellsword stood with him, and one of his wildlings, the one with the burned eye.

"What sort of knight beats helpless maids?"

"The sort who serves his king, Imp." Ser Boros raised his sword, and Ser Meryn stepped up beside him, his blade scraping clear of its scabbard.

"Careful with those," warned the dwarf's sellsword. "You don't want to get blood all over those pretty white cloaks."

"Someone give the girl something to cover herself with," the Imp said. Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her. Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. The coarse weave was scratchy against her skin, but no velvet had ever felt so fine.

"This girl's to be your queen," the Imp told Joffrey. "Have you no regard for her honor?"

"I'm punishing her."

"For what crime? She did not fight her brother's battle."

"She has the blood of a wolf."

"And you have the wits of a goose."

"You can't talk to me that way. The king can do as he likes."

"Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him?" Ser Boros Blount harrumphed.

"No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard." Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow.

"I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him." The dwarf smiled. "Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?" Ser Boros turned a dark shade of red.

"The queen will hear of this!" "No doubt she will. And why wait? Joffrey, shall we send for your mother? " The king flushed.

"Nothing to say, Your Grace?" his uncle went on. "Good. Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. Wanton brutality is no way to win your people's love . . . or your queen's."

"Fear is better than love, Mother says." Joffrey pointed at Sansa. "She fears me."

The Imp sighed. "Yes, I see. A pity Stannis and Renly aren't twelve-year-old girls as well. Bronn, Timett, bring her."

Lots of Jaime moments, but this will always be my favourite and the main reason why he is my favourite character

"Whose blood? Whose?”

“Rossart’s,” answered Jaime. Those purple eyes grew huge then, and the royal mouth drooped open in shock. He lost control of his bowels, turned, and ran for the Iron Throne. Beneath the empty eyes of the skulls on the walls, Jaime hauled the last dragonking bodily off the steps, squealing like a pig and smelling like a privy. A single slash across his throat was all it took to end it.

And the moment that Dany realized that

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.

And of course this, just for the reaction of the Tully sisters

"Can I make the little man fly now?" Across the garden, Tyrion Lannister got to his feet.

"Not this little man," he said. "This little man is going down in the turnip hoist, thank you very much."

"You presume—" Lysa began.

"I presume that House Arryn remembers its own words," the Imp said. "As High as Honor."

"You promised I could make him fly," the Lord of the Eyrie screamed at his mother. He began to shake. Lady Lysa's face was flushed with fury.

"The gods have seen fit to proclaim him innocent, child. We have no choice but to free him." She lifted her voice. "Guards. Take my lord of Lannister and his . . . creature here out of my sight. Escort them to the Bloody Gate and set them free. See that they have horses and supplies sufficient to reach the Trident, and make certain all their goods and weapons are returned to them. They shall need them on the high road."

"The high road," Tyrion Lannister said. Lysa allowed herself a faint, satisfied smile. It was another sort of death sentence, Catelyn realized. Tyrion Lannister must know that as well. Yet the dwarf favored Lady Arryn with a mocking bow.

"As you command, my lady," he said. "I believe we know the way."

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Some of them were short-lived, but still..



"Fetch me a block."



"Not as your judge. As your champion."



"The night came alive with the sound of dragons."



"KING IN THE NORTH!"



"Burn the letter."



"The North remembers and the mummer's farce is almost done."



"No."


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And also, I thought that when Brienne defeated the knights in Renly's tourney, it was quite satisfying, especially the part when she defeats Loras.





He wrenched it from Ser Loras's hand, and suddenly the two were grappling mount-to-mount, and an instant later they were falling. As their horses pulled apart, they crashed to the ground with bone-jarring force. Loras Tyrell, on the bottom, took the brunt of the impact. The blue knight pulled a long dirk free and flicked open Tyrell's visor. The roar of the crowd was too loud for Catelyn to hear what Ser Loras said, but she saw the word form on his split, bloody lips. Yield.




Although it is even more satisfying when it is told from Brienne's POV





In the mêlée at Bitterbridge she had sought out her suitors and battered them one by one, Farrow and Ambrose and Bushy, Mark Mullendore and Raymond Nayland and Will the Stork. She had ridden over Harry Sawyer and broken Robin Potter's helm, giving him a nasty scar. And when the last of them had fallen, the Mother had delivered Connington to her. This time Ser Ronnet held a sword and not a rose. Every blow she dealt him was sweeter than a kiss. Loras Tyrell had been the last to face her wroth that day. He'd never courted her, had hardly looked at her at all, but he bore three golden roses on his shield that day, and Brienne hated roses. The sight of them had given her a furious strength.


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Jon executing Slynt, then Stannis' epic nod of approval.

Stannis arriving at the Wall.

Theon getting his name back and escaping Winterfell with Jeyne.

Joffrey's slow, painful death.

Davos being made Hand of the King.

Brienne and Gendry killing Rorge and Biter (although Brienne getting eaten kind of soured the victory of the scene).

The High Septon's "no" to Cersei, then her following arrest.

Theon's entire Winds sample chapter.

Jon escaping the wildlings at Queenscrown and arriving back at Castle Black.

Sam bashing up Dareon.

Gregor dying a slow, agonising death by poison.

Tyrion leaving slavery and joining the Second Sons.

Sansa finally escaping King's Landing.

Jaime burning Cersei's letter.

Despite the series being called dark and unforgiving, there's quite a large number of satisfying, cheer-worthy moments throughout.

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1) Dany birthing Dragons. All her moral indignation, rage, pain, suffering, pride, self righteousness, wrath and strength embodied into three little Dragons that have just entirely tipped the scales in her favour.



2) Dracharys



3) The Westerlands war council meeting where they receive news of the battle of Riverrun, as seen through the dispairing anguish of the Westerland Lords. I chortled through that entire war council meeting! If there had been tears, I would have licked them up! The futility of Lord Brax sinking to the bottom of the River in a desperate attempt to swing the battle was one of the most perversely cathartic moments of the entire series, as was their hopes of saving themselves with peace ruined thanks to Joffrey. Robb made them regret Joffrey's rashness, whereas, without Robbs victory, I doubt Tywin would have cared. Richly satisfying, if sadly, short lived.



4) Davos "Jared of House Frey, I name you liar" the raw truth, flying in the face of common sense and self preservation: EPIC



5) "Ed, fetch me a block"



I wouldn't say I felt any satisfaction at the manner of Joffrey's death due to the Tyrion accusation, nor Cersei's walk of shame, but weirdly, I found Frey pie to be pretty awesome, despite the disgust. Cersei tearing up Roberts' will was also brilliant in an awful, shocking way- so audacious!


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Remember that time when Jon asked Dolorous Edd to retrieve the block to decapitate Janos?

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...sorry, everyone else was doing it.

Were we supposed to pick different moments? Or our favorites?

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Either "Ed, Fetch me a block" or Manderley's "The North Remembers" speech. Those are the 2 in my book.

Yes! Jon's beheading Janos Slynt was maybe THE most satisfying moment for me, so far. Also Manderly's speech: and later: "If he had grown up, he would have been a Frey."

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