The Paddock

About LF and Sansa. His plans are pretty clear at the point you're at. The question for me is to accomplish what? Power and respect? Or is he working with someone else? I don't know anything you don't at this point, but my prediction is Sansa eventually offs him somehow. She's been hardened by her time with Queen bitch, and the Lords of the Vale aren't exactly delighted to see him there. I personally believe she kills Baelish and uses the Vale to try and take up where Robb left off and crush the lions. Although, her "husband" has already helped with that.

Where is Stannis and the Blackfish so far? I don't want to say anything about the latter because I can't remember if it's in ASOS or AFFC.

I've been wondering about which side is good and which is evil in regards to the light lord and the others. I've already decided that the others can't be all bad because they represent ice and ice is the Starks. Of course the lord of lights people make a good case for their side being good as well. Just don't know yet.

When Lysa was pushing Sansa to the air door I thought that was where Sansa was finally going to snap and take out all the grief out on Lysa and throw her out the air door. I totally agree that she is going to become hard. She is a Stark after all. Robert is Littlefingers. Lysa poisoning Jon Arryn was a surprise to me.

Stanis is at the wall and Jon just got Commander and is on his way to tell Stanis. The Blakfish is still held up somewhere fighting. I'm not sure on that but I think I saw something about that. One of the only holdouts.

I really enjoyed the Stannis and Jon chapters. They are pretty similar and Jon is one guy Stannis actually respects and likes. I know some people aren't Stannis fans, but I like him.

I didn't care for it either. AFFC was probably my least favorite book.

Just to make her more bad ass.

As for the books being split up. The 5th is basically all Jon, Tyrion, and Dany. Some Bran.

A crazy idea. What if Tyrion isn't a Lannister? Here's my thinking. Regicide is the one crime that everyone hates. As in no one would help someone guilty of that. There's no way Tyrion could return while he's guilty of that. So, I started thinking the only way he could get around it is if he wasn't a Lannister or if it got pinned on someone else. Then I thought of a few questions. Remember when the Red Viper was telling Tyrion the story of how he and his sister saw him as a baby? How there were tales about him being a monster with a tail and such? Like a dragon? What made Tywin so angry that he supported the rebellion and ordered all the Targaryans killed? Perhaps a Targaryan impregnating his wife? There were stories about the Targaryans trying different methods to make a dragon. Perhaps it was tried on Tyrions mother and he was the result. They say his mother died in child birth. Did she? Perhaps she was killed to keep her silence. Tywin was found with a whore when he died. Tyrion is a Targaryan!!! Just an idea. 3 Heads of the dragon. Dany, Jon Snow, and Tyrion? Remember how close Snow and Tyrion became?

2 more to add to my death wish list. That insufferable coughing bastard and Cersei's new friend. The hot chick. I forget her name but she annoys me.

The new Hand is the coughing guy but I forgety his name.

If he puts that little girl through all she's been through only to kill her I'll never read another of his books lol

Apparently he promised his wife he wouldn't. If he does I think it might be at the hands of Jon, as an accident. Or it may be she kills him. I don't know at this point, but I have my suspicions.

Didn't you say you read that TWOW was supposed to be out next year? Just curious as to where you read that.

For the Tywin stuff, that all depends on what perspective you're looking at. For any Stark, Targ, Stannis, other Lannister foes it couldn't have been better. Tywin was bringing peace & stability back to the realm. As Tyrion knows, Cersei is about as mad as Mad Aerys.

So do you all think Varys wanted Tyrion to finish Tywin. The Master of Whispers surely knew about Shae.

There are a lot of things I want to discuss with you all that I can't for fear of spoiling something lol.

It seems to me the death of her son and father is what has pushed Cersei into the realm of insanity. That and the pressures of actually ruling. I think before all that she wasn't as insane as she was just pure mean. But yeah, the death of Tywin certainly makes the Lannisters vulnerable. And they're fighting amongst themselves now which is good. Jaime minus the sword hand helps as well.

Mums the word on Varys so far. Not a peep. So it's kind of hard to judge what he's set up and all. I can tell one of the things you really want to talk about is Varys. This is like the 2nd or 3rd time you've brought him up lol I'll be done soon enough. I'm devouring these books. So far Varys is a complete mystery. A minor player to be honest. There's a book or 2 where he is hardly even mentioned. I know he's not a minor player. I'm just saying so far. I have a feeling I'll be reading a lot about Varys in the next book and a half.

Yeah, Littlefinger has a sick desire for his Catelyn's daughter. With her wolf dying so early in the series one has to wonder if she's the most vulnerable Stark. Besides Rickon she's had the least influence on the story, yet she is a POV character. This leads me to believe Martin has something important in store for her.

This is why I believe she will be Littlefinger's downfall. I think his lust will get the best of him and either in that moment or right after she will kill him.

Have you read the part where Strong Belwas fights the guy outside the city yet?