If it had been anyone but the Mountain that was supposed to have dashed Aegon against a wall, I’d wonder if there was a possibility that Aegon was still alive and hidden away (and maybe a character we know already*). But Gregor doesn’t have the cunning to have subverted Tywin’s order, and is definitely too deficient in that respect to have gone all in to a conspiracy to hide the true Targaryen heir. Sandor, maybe, for whatever reason. But not Gregor.
*Sam Tarly?
There are theories that baby Aegon was smuggled out and substituted with another child. I don’t buy them, but they’re there.
Imagine asking for a replacement baby.
Not in a million years. Sam is obviously his mother’s son, and Lord Randyll would never have accepted someone else’s child as his heir.
I have shit attention span and suck at books like this but love it anyway… what makes Jon “ice” if he’s the kid of a Tully and Targaryen? If he’s not a Stark, why ice? Bah, I miss everything!
Tully?
Lyana Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen.
Yeah. I should not post after having a few glasses of wine. NEVERMINDDDD… haha. Thanks 
Another case of “shit I can edit but not delete my damn post…”
Proposed drinking game, every time Hodor says “Hodor.”
That, or every time we see boobs.
I’d like to be able to view the whole hour awake, tyvm!!
I’d be snockered before the first quarter hour was up.
I suspect they wouldn’t ask, but take.
I dunno, ever see what women will agree to for their babies to get into commercials?
Like many of you I’m a huge fan of the first 3 books, kinda meh about the 4th. Is there a good website with chapter summaries of it so I can remind myself what happened in preparation for book 5 without rereading the whole thing?
thanks
I’m currently re-reading Storm of Swords, the best book in the series in my opinion.
I’ve been wondering why Tyrion poured the wine onto the floor after Joff died. At that point people thought he’d just choked on his pie, didn’t they? Did he immediately assume that Joff had been murdered and that Sansa had done it?
So, Cersei claims she had a child die. Are we assuming that’s a lie to comfort Cat, or is that a change?
I’m guessing it’s a change, to illustrate the point when Ned discovers the truth of her remaining 3 children’s parentage. She mentioned that baby looking like Robert and being dark-haired. Seems like it might be bludgeoning the viewers a bit much; some more astute non-readers on TWOP have already picked up on that particular plot point!
The Daenerys arc is going better than I thought it might after the somewhat rapey wedding night. I was worried that if it weren’t handled properly, her eventual love for her husband would start to look like Stockholm Syndrome. This portrayal fixes something from the book that I always thought was a bit unrealistic–why would Drogo be all gentle-like on the wedding night and then only show up to do it Dothraki-style while she wept during the first few months of their marriage? Instead, Drogo is always Drogo until she takes the initiative to fix what she doesn’t like. This is somewhat in line with what happened with the book, but I think it shows off her leadership qualities better this way. Instead of working to get Drogo back to wedding-night Drogo, she’s actively working to change her husband into what she wants.
I seem to remember that she aborted Robert’s child. I could be remembering wrong.
Oh, also, I think the symbolism with Daenerys and fire is a bit heavy-handed.
Yes. She mentions somewhere in the series that Robert got her pregnant just once, and that she had an abortion.
I’ve been assuming that the candles around the eggs are foreshadowing for when they hatch.
That, and the “too hot” tub in the first episode, and tonight’s story about dragons coming from a moon that got too close to the sun and burned up.