and theorizes that many of them don't have a lot of experience with the epic fantasy genre.
I don't know - how many epic fantasies kill off that many main characters at once less than halfway through the series? Because I was pretty floored by it in the book.
Jess, that's pretty much what I said. I may have followed it up with some comments about how he always complains that stories don't have enough plot twists, or how everyone lives. I think it's just that, if Pete were writing an epic fantasy, the main character death count would be as high as GRRM's.
Well, perhaps they need to familiarize themselves with the craxy world of actual medieval dinner parties.
Oh, god, Jon Stewart's unrepentant Red Wedding spoiler on last night's Daily Show was really well delivered. I clapped my hands in delight.
If Game of Thrones Ep 9 took place entirely on facebook.
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Okay, first there's this pretty decent buzzfeed: [link]
But the best is one of the comments on that page
"Red Wedding - still a better love story than Twilight"
WTF is the source of those "Tywin Lannister doing a striptease" gifs?