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A bit predictable, don't you think?

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What locked it for me is actually the way Sean Bean played some scenes in the show, amusingly enough. The scene where he tells Jon "you are a Stark of Winterfell, you might not have my name but you have my blood" and not "you are my son." There was someone else he referred to as a Stark of Winterfell. "She belongs here," he said.

Also the scene where he's talking to Robert, and Robert can't recall the mother's name and says he never got to meet her, and Ned says he never will.

Robert wants all the Targaryens dead. No way Ned would tell him about Jon.

Ned is so hopelessly honorable that it gets him killed and starts a war. No way would he be unfaithful to his wife.

Rhaegar was not the kind of man to kidnap and ****. Aerys, maybe. But not Rhaegar.

I've got more theories about how it all will end based on this idea, but I won't go on. Suffice it to say that I think I now get the real meaning of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

Only around the edges, and in the part just before the edges. And the parts between there and the middle. And kind of in the middle area a bit as well...

Seriously, that's EXACTLY the plot of Red Dawn. And not in a "oh everything has been done before" kind of way, but in a "Yes, Last Man Standing really is Fistful of Dollars which really is Yojimbo" kind of way.

I don't think it's unlikely at all. It's what I've been thinking for a while now. It's the only answer that makes sense to me.

No I don't think so. I never read any of that stuff. Read the rest of the thread after the post you quoted...

Quite so. In fact, Buffy's strike need not be all that well placed, or targeted at a vital nerve cluster or pressure point. Really just anywhere in the general face area would probably do it.

When I was in college some of the gamers I hung out with would have a weekly "who would win" night - it was basically like a debate club where each debater was assigned a side they had to argue, and they had a week to research and develop their argument.

Yeah, I hung out with HUGE nerds. And it was great.

Yeah that sounds familiar. I'm sure that's what I was thinking of. There is a What If..? that examines what would have happened if Storm and some of the other X-Men characters had stayed in Asgard after all that happened, which I read, but I don't know if I ever actually read the original story it was based on.

While Widow is being patient and waiting for that one clean shot, Buffy is getting some magical help from Willow to protect her from sniper fire...

"Time to plan" favors Buffy a lot more than it does Black Widow, too.

Again, the question is about who would win in a fight. Not in a scenario that you set up to favor one opponent over another.

Edit: And as Cap'n Foamy pointed out, if we're going to say Black Widow can get the jump as a sniper, we have to also allow the possibility that Buffy gets the jump with a shoulder mounted rocket launcher.

Heh, when I was first writing my previous post in which I said "star characters" I had originally said "Peter Dinklage" but I changed it because I didn't want to give the implicit spolier that Tyrion survives that long. But I guess the cat's out of the bag!

Related observation, I love how GRRM writes because it can be considered a spoiler that major a character DOESN'T die before we get to the next book (or season).

The question isn't "who might win if they get lucky enough?" - because the answer to that is "anybody."

The question is "who would win?" which implies "who is the most likely to win?" And the answer to that is Buffy, for reasons already given.

Buffy ain't exactly a rookie.

That's my point - they will have to combine Feast and Dance to run concurrently, rather than do season 5 as Feast, season 6 as Dance.

That's true of course, but they have to balance that with boring the viewers with a lot of new characters and storylines that aren't directly related to the main characters already.

They might have Feast and Dance spread over two season (still they would certainly combine them, they aren't going to give some of the star characters a whole season off and then ask the audience to go back in time the following year) but I can't see them going any more than two at most. So one season or two, GRRM still has to get cranking on the remaining books.

Yep, I don't see the ratings dropping on this until season 5, unless they make some big mistakes along the way. Season 5 could likely be slow or frustrating if not handled very, very well. I imagine there will be some major cuts, because I don't think they're going to want to drag out Feast and Dance over more than one season. I see (most of) those two books being combined into season 5 and, hopefully season 6 will pick up with Winds of Winter.

That's the logical place to leave it.

Purple Hasten? 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Yeah it happens. I wasn't trying to imply any kind of opinion on the situation, just clarifying that it was not, in fact, included in the previous patch.

My philosophy is usually "if at first you don't succeed, **** it." but I'm glad the devs don't share that philosophy in this case.

It was SUPPOSED to be in the last patch but it didn't work. This patch was the second attempt to fix it.