Danny's going for her "Ruling" badge. It's a shame none of her advisors have much experience there.

This also brings up for me how Danny has barely any control over the dragons. So she is having a leadership struggle over the dragons and her "empire."

And the cities of Slaver's Bay are easier to control than dragons.

Dany is not aware that she is a Level 4 Sovereign, so she thinks taking on a Level 12 dungeon is a Good Plan.

I do love that Dany is just determined to see it through, no matter what. The girl has ovaries of steel.

Debet,

you have completely cracked my shit up.

I don't have HBO so I can't see this season of GOTs but that hasn't stopped me from spoiling myself by reading this thread.

I have a question about the Hound. I just mainlined my Season 3 DVDs and still don't know why the Hound was outside of Kings' Landing so that he could be captured by the Brotherhood?

He fled during the Battle of Blackwater. He's afraid of fire.

I have a Littlefinger question that I am hoping book readers can answer.

So, if Littlefinger is playing the long game here, what are we to believe is his ultimate aim? The power shifts he has contributed to/engineered could destabilize and cause more problems than he is prepared to address.

And is his wandering accent all part of the diabolical plan?

I'm not sure we know what his long-term goal is. And even if he says what it is at some point, he's probably lying. There are a few things I can think of that might be what he's ultimately trying to do, but they're all pure speculation and involve a ton of stuff (including several characters) that the show isn't going to get to for a while. (Also, I think I need to reread the fifth book, since, in having discussions about the books with other people who read them, I realize that I was getting way too bogged down in the several hundred plotlines they had by that point, and I really only remember about half of what happened.)