Very insightful post. I have not heard about his ill health before.
Tell me, what leads you to believe as you do?
There's many representations of the death of her idealistic views. Dontos is just one of the dumber ones. I'm fine him being in or out, but I don't think he adds anything.Dontos is important because it represents the "death" of Sansa's idealistic views of nobility/knights/etc and helps allign her more with LF.
Patchface will rule.I wonder how GRRM is going to end this series. Seeing all these storylines surely, some come to an early end but still, he created a massive monster and how is he going to slay it? Who will end up on the iron throne? With so many possibilities and fans of any of thm, wich fans will he severely piss off in the end?
Will dany become queen? Jon? Stannis? Tyrion? Or will tyrion be right and will sansa survive them all? Or will littlefinger see it all burn to rule the ashes? That is like 10% of the possibillities. Who do you guys think will end up ruler of the 7 kingdoms in the end? Will there even be 7 kingdoms?
Brandon Sanderson presents: G.R.R. Martin's Winds of Winter.I don't know how this is going to be wrapped up...
What about the scene where he kills his cousin in order to create a distraction to escape from Rob's camp? Pretty monster-y thing to do I'd sayI don't think Jaime is a monster, really. Yeah he pushed Bran out of a window and he stabbed a king in the back. The first was to protect his family (he, Cersei and Joffrey would have been beheaded, probably would have ruined the Lannisters), the latter was for the good of the kingdom. I'm sure he feels some level of respect toward Brienne given that she's an accomplished knight and she bested him in combat.
Martin has already said he will be the only one to finish the books and he will not allow anyone else to do it.Brandon Sanderson presents: G.R.R. Martin's Winds of Winter.
Dedicated to: G.R.R. Martin
I don't consider Jaime to be a monster. He has never really pretended to be anything else other then a cold blooded killer. He says it himself when he tells Catelyn "there are no men like me, only me" He has always struck me as the kind of guy that understood that in order to play the game at the level he is at you have to be completely ruthless.What about the scene where he kills his cousin in order to create a distraction to escape from Rob's camp? Pretty monster-y thing to do I'd say
Wasn't one of the books in the maester training grounds all about how to kill dragons and wasn't it grabbed by someone?If Dany lives long enough for her dragons to be grown, how can she be defeated? Aegon conquered the seven kingdoms with dragons and a pitifully small army.
There is a lot that could happen though: the Wall is breached and the Others spill into the North; the Maesters have a plan to kill the dragons; basically anything that could trump dragons might happen, foiling the theory.
With only 2 books to go and half of one book sure to be dedicated to Dany's wandering and finding her way back to Westeros, I don't know how this is going to be wrapped up...