Some observations now that I’m caught up with every book of the A Song of Ice And Fire series that Game Of Thrones has shot episodes for:
- Tyrion is consistently great
- If you were to describe Daenerys’ entire arc to someone who has no emotional investment in the series they’d probably think you were talking about a particularly awful Nightwish music video
- Nobody decent in this series is ever allowed to be happy apparently. It is illegal
- I want someone to run an analysis of every page in the series thus far and create a pie chart showing how many of those pages talk about pee, poop or farts because let me tell you it is a sizeable percentage
- It’s cool how each book has a different central feel to it - A Storm of Swords has a ton of action, A Clash of Kings feels like a very shrewd chess game and A Game of Thrones is like a periodical starring Ned Stark as the world’s worst detective
- Like that one passage in which Littlefinger straight-up tells Ned “hey dude trusting me will end really bad for you I’m not even kidding” and then Ned proceeds to… trust him
- I didn’t realize what all the stuffamaguff with Thoros was seeding in A Storm of Swords and I was reading it on a flight from Frankfurt to Toronto and when I got to the epilogue of the book I yelped and startled a baby
- “Hot Pie looked like Hot Pie” is a weird-ass sentence that makes little to no sense outside of context but in context is literally the best six words George R. R. Martin will probably ever write
- It’s interesting how Sansa’s arc sees her placing her trust in something that breaks her and in spite of her frenzied attempts to escape it, she is trapped in a world of emotional torment because that’s precisely what will befall anyone dumb enough to read these books
