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An episode without Tyrion makes Squeeky sad, just sad. 

Well, yes and no. Because he's the author, GRRM can write a legitimate death for whomever he wants.
That said, the dude has openly and repeatedly admitted that he killed Robb and Catelyn because so many people expected them to avenge Ned. As soon as he saw that he started crafting their gory demise just to stun people.
The funny thing about Rob and Cat is that I don't think Ned would have wanted them to do any of the King in the North business.
I'm also looking forward to the Wall-centric episode. It's my favorite plot in the books at the moment.
Something I've noticed that's really cute: readers framing big spoilers as "theories."![]()
The funny thing about Rob and Cat is that I don't think Ned would have wanted them to do any of the King in the North business.
I dunno...I think saying Game of Thrones is nihilistic is pretty accurate. I'm not saying it's torture porn or that being a morally reprehensible person is a good thing. But, the overall theme or message of GoT does seem nihilistic to me.
That's right, I remember hearing that they were doing a Spooks/MI5 movie.Jon Snow will be showing terrorists he knows nothing in the Spooks/MI5 spin off movie he has been shooting recently
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Well, yes and no. Because he's the author, GRRM can write a legitimate death for whomever he wants.
That said, the dude has openly and repeatedly admitted that he killed Robb and Catelyn because so many people expected them to avenge Ned. As soon as he saw that he started crafting their gory demise just to stun people.
That's right, I remember hearing that they were doing a Spooks/MI5 movie.
I'm still kind of pissed off at what the tv series ended up doing to the Richard Armitage's "Lucas North" character, thoughA good portion of series/season 9 no longer exists in my mind *lol*
Exactly, GRRM could easily kill off most of the characters, there are too many anyway. I have the feeling that at the end of the series, either Arya, Sansa or Tyrion will be the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, maybe the one that had suffered the most for the symbolism of it.
I would say it is. My general viewpoint on life tends to be pretty nihilistic and I think that may be one of the main reasons I am drawn to Game of Thrones.
nihilism: a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless; a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility
Any of various philosophical positions that deny that there are objective foundations for human value systems. In 19th-century Russia the term was applied to a philosophy of skepticism that opposed all forms of aestheticism and advocated utilitarianism and scientific rationalism; it was popularized through the figure of Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862). Rejecting the social sciences, classical philosophical systems, and the established social order, nihilism rejected the authority of the state, the church, and the family. It gradually became associated with political terror and degenerated into a philosophy of violence.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nihilism
I dunno...I think saying Game of Thrones is nihilistic is pretty accurate. I'm not saying it's torture porn or that being a morally reprehensible person is a good thing. But, the overall theme or message of GoT does seem nihilistic to me.