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Notes:
(1) Dolorous Edd: "I just want to say to whoever is voting for me that I would certainly make an awful Lord Commander. But so would all these others."
- I think Edd secretly enjoys getting votes, despite pretensions. Why else imply he's just as fit for command as all the others?
(2) Tywin to Tyrion: "You� you are no� no son of mine."
- Insult or confession?
(3) "Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold."

A few things:
(1) It's an irony that savior characters can't save themselves. Tyrion saves Kings Landing, Jon saves the Wall, Jorah saves Dany and Dontos saves Sansa. All are repaid for their efforts with at least imprisonment.
(2) Despite the incest, obviously, I'm sort of bummed that Jaime and Cersei aren't a thing anymore. They've actually had the most loving, "normal" relationship of all the couples still living.

A few things:
(1) Hearing Roy Dotrice very enthusiastically moan and scream lady sex sounds and dialogue is a horror I wish never to experience again!
(2) The irony of Sansa Stark is that all she ever wanted was to marry a gallant knight. Which would be likely, were she of any lesser birth. But as heir to Winterfell, she's been betrothed to a psycho sadist, a fat cripple, a disfigured dwarf, and a lackwit mama's boy.

Notes:
(1) Littlefinger: "Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose... Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game."
"What� what game?"
"The only game. The game of thrones."
(2) The Purple Wedding left me shocked! Seventy-seven course meal and no food lists!
(3) Jaime and Cersei's sept sex scene is a lot less rapey in the books than in the show... actually, not rapey at all.

Thoughts:
(1) Davos learning to read only proves that it's never too late for higher education... higher than zero in this case, but still.
(2) "The Rat Cook had cooked the son of the Andal king in a big pie with onions, carrots, mushrooms, lots of pepper and salt, a rasher of bacon, and a dark red Dornish wine."
- Again with the food lists!
(3) Talking doors? This is getting very Harry Potter, the Fat Lady and such.

Notes:
(1) Tywin: "I can see the king is tired. Please see him safely back to his bedchamber. Pycelle, perhaps some gentle potion to help His Grace sleep restfully?"
- In other words, Joffrey's cranky and needs a nap and some warm milk.
(2) Patchface prophesy: "Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish."
- Kingsmoot! Wait, do krakens count as fish? Alternatively, the Blackfish could kill or usurp Edmure, I guess.

I just finished the Red Wedding chapter, and I must say as hit and miss as Dotrice's narration's been, the reading of it was simply brilliant. It's hard to compare to when I read it in the books because I'd gone in blind then, and had to take a long break afterwards to recover and compose myself. Knowing the outcome obviously took away the shock and surprise of it all, but this was a riveting experience all the same.

Prophesies:
(1) “A wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief... drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells.�
- Grey Wind, Rains of Castamere, Red Wedding and Jinglebell the fool.
(2) “A maid at a feast, with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.�
- Purple Wedding!
(3) “That maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.�
- ??????

Thoughts:
(1) The sigil of house Jordayne of the Tor is a golden quill on green checks. A shout-out to Tor books, which publishes Martin's "Wild Cards" series, among others.
(2) The Martels speak with Scottish accents, which is strange as they're obviously an analogue of the Muslim Spain. The Tullys also have Scottish accents, which would make sense if the Riverlands and Dorne shared a border or had ANY similarities!

Two things:
(1) Vargo Hoat: "Thee’th not to be touched... Thee hath to be a maid, you foolth! Thee’th worth a bag of thapphireth!"
- Hoat's a hoot! Or rather, hooth!
- Jaime saving Brienne from gang rape is step one in this enemies to lovers besties trope.
(2) Jaime: "A good thing for you I’m such a liar. An honorable man would have told the truth about the Sapphire Isle."
- As I always say, lying saves lives.