I love your re -reads! Thank you

At this point im finding fault in everything house of the dragon does or will attempt to do to be already dissapointing.. i am so doubtful in their ability to tell a legitimate enjoyable story without contradictions or mimimizations i imagine them as to change aegon's character and his INTELLIGENCE.. THEY ALREADY HAVE SUCCEDED IN THIS AND SAME IN DAEMON, AEMOND, RHAENYRA, ALICENTS, VISERYS INTELLIGENCE AND MOTIVATIONS ARE TWISTED AND MINIMIZED THEIR REASONINGS AREN'T MOVEABLE.. THEY DOUBT AND HAVE BACKWARDS EMOTIONS tell us war is bad or that they are ready for it but in each character they tell us how awful war is or will be but there has only been 1st dragon battle honestly story is backwards and i have no faith in it.. they will change the ending as they have changed the begining, nd middle and things that MAKES SENSE IN BETWEEN hbo just os NOT ADAPTING Fire and Blood..

Damn, it’s a shame Alicent died protecting her son from Meleys. Such a shame. The Life Model Decoy that replaced her is just awful. An obvious plant by TB.

I abandoned his works, not consuming any media that he produces until he release winds of winter

I think this is a situation like the dagger where there really isn't a good answer at least at this point. I really don't see littlefinger hiring jaqen for this. He says you could hire an army of common assassins for half the price. Plus Jeffrey's mind was made up before going to the Sept of Baelor so littlefinger would have been pretty confident in the outcome. Plus I dunno if there's enough time for littlefinger to send an agent to bravos hire jaqen, sail back, and get in the cells in time for that. To me it seems like he was there for something else. It also seems like his plan changed after news of dragons and magic came back into the world otherwise there would be no need for books on dragons, magic, and glass candles. It's a real head scratcher

thing is if winds doesnt come its his legacy of a failed author who couldn't finish his book series HBO does not care if George is writing as long as they keep putting his stories into shows thats all that matters George has been bought

Whatever the reason why Jaquen was in Kings Landing, it wasn't in the north. It was clearly irrelevant north of Harrenhall, since that's when he went separate ways from Arya and Gendry. It was to the west or south

I agree with you on every chapter

Okay, so Edmure basically did in riverrun what jon snow did on the wall. He let the small folk seek protection inside the walls of a castle because he didn't want them to starve and be the target of raging. But because we are introduced to this by catelyn who views her brother as a softhearted fool we don't give him credit for it. The thing with Robb's plan is that it came across as an ad hoc sceam by the blackfish and Robb, like something improvised. They could have informed edmure otherwise. But here is the problem, the actual moment when stannis is going to attack kinglanding wasn't certain. Tyrion took preparation, but there wasn't any certainty when and if stannis is going to attack. Edmure attacking tywin actually insured that robb is not cut off of supplies from riverrun. The news that stannis attaced kinglanding came after or while edmure threw tywin back. It might have been that he succeeded this only because tywin got news about what is happening in Kingslanding and retreated willingly. Maybe he also got news from little finger that the Tyrells are going to back them. Because edmure had a very little amount of men in order to throw a whole army back that effortless. I would say that edmure is not stupid. He cared for his people. Chance and luck went against him.

I’m almost sure Jaquan was there to kill Ned. Either he was planted in the Black cells or he purposely got caught committing a crime to get put in there. As to who hired him I’d say Cersi or Tywin (or Cersi under Tywins orders). The deal Cersi made with Ned is he confesses and gets sent to the Nights Watch. This gets Ned out of the way without causing war in the north. Tywin is one of the few men in Westeros who could afford to hire a Faceless man and he could have had his lackey Pycelle plant Jacquen in the black cells for the Nights Watch to recruit. I think Tywin would have wanted Ned dead on the road to the Wall because once Ned got to the North he would be untouchable. Ned could have claimed he made the deal under duress (which was true) to save his daughters and remain lord of Winterfell and maybe declare northern independence which would be a huge problem for the Crown. And even if Ned went to the Wall he’d probably replace Mormont as lord commander and could still be a problem to the Lannisters. So I think Tywin hired Jacquen to kill Ned and make it look like an accident so it wouldn’t trigger a war like Ned’s execution did.

Imagine the smell

Littlefinger couldn’t let Ned leave Kings Landing alive. If Ned makes it north he can tell Rob Catelyn or anyone that Littlefinger betrayed him. Then that can lead people to uncovering his schemes. Littlefinger couldn’t rely on Joffrey to execute Ned so paying with stolen crown money was his back up plan. I hope GRRM reveals why Jaqen was in the black cells & what his mission was

He was there to kill Tyrek Lannister before he became a horse

Am I the only one who thinks that he just got caught murdering or trying to murder someone and was thrown in the dungeon? Even the faceless men aren’t infallible

I have zero respect for Martin

I suspect that one of the requirements to be a faceless man is to be an skinchanger, the test where they blind Arya is like it's designed to awake his third skinchanger eye, another prove is how Jaken Ha'hagar kill this man in Harrenhal with his own dog. Maybe the magic to change faces can only be performed by a skinchanger, maybe skinchanhing is not exclusive to the first man, in Essos we have proves of the existence of a similar kind of magic: dragon binding

Maby he was in the black sells cos he has been banished from house black and white...he isnt doing things as in the house of black and white...he kills who he wants basicly...in the house of black and white they seem to have really strict rules when to kill...

He actually has a lot of targets that a Faceless Man can target during a War so that Bravos can create a lot of profits.

Maybe he wanted to take out Sir Pounce

So now we are not only never getting an ending to ASoIaF, but we’re also never getting a conclusion to Dunk & Egg. Gotta love it.

I don’t think that Blood and Fire or Dunk novellas will cause much of a delay for Dream of Spring. First he has to actually finish Winds, and if Winds can make the story progress that it needs to make then Dream should be an easier book to write as everyone will be locked into a specific path towards the end game - if he doesn’t move the story far enough in Winds then Dream may not ever come regardless of Blood and Fire or Dunk novellas. Blood and Fire is a history book that does not constain all of the carefully constructed prose and foreshadowing and character development etc - it’s something he turns out quickly and easily. Dunk and Egg novellas are more like the real novels in the quality of the writing but they are much shorter. More importantly the novellas focus on a much much much smaller cast of characters then Ice and Fire so it is easier to write (though not as easy as blood and fire). Assuming Winds does get finished sometime within the next 24 months or less, I see him immediately churning out Blood and Fire while doing media blitz for Winds. Then I see him hammering through the She Wolves of Winterfell. Then after that I would bet he starts Dream but alternates between Dream and Dunk novellas - using Dunk novellas to help clear his mind and decompress whenever progress on Dream begins to stall. This may result in another dunk novella or two releasing after She Wolves but no more than 3 total before Dream as Dream would still be the main goal after Blood and Fire and She Wolves. That’s just my guess though and it depends on Winds coming out soon and actually setting things up for the end game - if it isn’t out with the next 24 months or if it doesn’t have characters in place for the end game then I do not believe this series will ever be finished.

He’s been busy fighting the rise of fascism, give him a break

I'll take him seriously when he says no more working on TV shows, doing cons or eating all the food at the buffet before finishing Winds of Winter.

Ah, so no novellas then? Sad...

Considering that I wasn't the biggest fan of Dany's story in AGOT, Tyrion on the wall is the one for me.

Considering that I wasn't the biggest fan of Dany's story in AGOT, Tyrion on the wall is the one for me.

How you gonna milk the first three mins like that

About Ned and never thinking about Ashara. In black cells Ned thinks about Cat: "The thought of Cat was as painful as a bed of nettles. He wondered where she was, what she was doing. He wondered whether he would ever see her again." Plus every time Jon's mother or Ashara is mentioned, Ned gets angry. What if Eddard was so ashamed of what he had to do (separate her from her child) that he can't even stomach thinking about her, because it's just too painful.

My favorite chapter of ADWD is the prologue. It became that on my first reread. The prologue perfectly sets the tone for the whole book and it really struck me on a re-read that the very beginning of the book is (in my opinion, im convinced of this) foreshadowing Jons final chapter at the end of the book. Also the end of the prologue with the wight was just like a cherry on top of the whole thing.

we are never getting another novella...

GRRM really should have given his chapters titles rather than just numbers. Only people who read the books multiple times or regularly will be able to tell what happened in what chapter.

No-one should trust what George R.R. Martin says at this point.

Winds by 2028 letsgo!

Aerys had to be at summerhall imo. Having the most uncomfortable sexual awakening as his family bured alive. Dunc probly left him but he got out anyways

I’m so starved for new ASOIAF I don’t care what he releases first anymore, just give me something 😭

Catelyn III is a great pick

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Dang so now we’re never getting Winds AND the Dunk and Egg novelas??

No he was not manipulated by the masters, if he was he would had not died like that ,the masters would had put him at good use And he was not building a alliance against Aerys ,again if he was he would had not die like that , really Robb had reacted better when his father was locked than Rickard

What novellas? Who gives af? We want winds, nothing else.

You really gonna stream when I'm sleeping. Shame on you

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AGOT: Eddard XIV ACOK: Daenerys IV ASOS: Catelyn VII(HM for Jaime VI) AFFC: Brienne VI ADWD: Theon(really tough to pick amongst Jon XIII, Bran III, Cersei II, etc.) TWOW(so far): The Forsaken

My theory is that since the Dance, the Starks have always looked for an opportunity to throw off the Targaryen yoke and become Kings in the North again, and this was Rickard's ultimate goal. I like to think of Rickard as the Stark equivalent of Tywin Lannister: ambitious, playing the long game, and using his children as pawns. He wasn't "manipulated" by his maester, instead he allied with the Citadel because they share an important enemy: the Targaryens. Rickard realized Aerys was an impopular and weak king, and this was his chance to finally achieve his family's ambitions. So he made sure to ally himself with the lords Aerys would need to crush a possible rebellion: the Tullys, the Arryns and the Baratheons. With three of the seven kingdoms allied with Rickard, Aerys would be hard pressed to find houses willing to march to the frigid North with him. That's also why he didn't try to ally himself with the Targaryens by proposing a Rhaegar/Lyanna marriage, because for his plans to work a conflict with the Targaryens was inevitable, marriage alliance or not. Why he didn't propose a Ned/Cersei marriage to Tywin (as far as we know) is less clear, but perhaps he figured that Tywin was both the smartest and most powerful ally of Aerys at that time, and therefore couldn't be trusted to support him against Aerys. And the funny thing is that although Rickard's own schemes didn't work out, the alliances he created would allow his grandson to declare himself King in the North with allies in the South.

I always wondered if Rickard knew the Mad King was crazy which is why he made these alliances

Top 5 worst Starks: 1) Lyanna, 2) Catelyn 3) Rickard 4) Sansa 5) Brandon

AGoT: Daenerys X ACoK: Daenerys house of the undying ASoS: tyrions last chapter Affc: Sansa’s last chapter or her first one ADwD: Daenerys last chapter or Jon’s last chapter