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But shouldn't he be actually role-playing his character, not just inserting himself in the game?

You make the viper sad

Should be noted that this is what I come up with upon google imaging "Imperial Noble".. I assume that's what Jello looks like?

I'll just leave this here.

My re-read of A Game of Thrones is over. It was actually quite fun to write out details on paper. Now when they say some lord has died I remember both times he's been mentioned before, and so have at least some connection so he's not just a statistic. GRRM really doesn't seem to want that, though. When Theon Greyjoy names the big Lannister prisoners they got after the battle in woods, only one of them was named before that moment besides ser Jaime, and only as ”Lord Tywin's dead brother's son”.

Some interesting trivia for those interested (Spoilers work oddly now)

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In A Game of Thrones 361 names are mentioned.

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Of those 64 are mentioned before the events of the novel. That leaves 297 characters for the story itself.
During the novel 54 named characters are killed, one direwolf with them (I counted them since they are such a big part of the story). Many die off-stage, I haven't counted how many, nor of the deaths of unnamed characters. There could be more bodies, especially in the case of Stark household most died in King's Landing and the Mountain's ambush, but since GRRM didn't give names for survivors or all the dead ones I don't know if for example Donnis is still alive. I have left those alive for now.
In the end of the novel there are still 243 named characters alive (or not declared dead). I wonder if the number will be bigger or smaller in the end of the second book...
Of the named characters 44 have not yet appeared, their names have just been mentioned.

And for your and my amusement some general predictions for the second season of GOT/the novel A Clash of Kings:

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• The Old Bear Mormont will die during their quest to the North of the Wall, and Jon will have to take the lead. Because that's how it goes if you have a Hero's Journey, and Jon's closest to it. Jon won't die since he's the only one in the Night's Watch who can push that plot forward. Same goes for Daenerys. If they die their plots die.
• In the North we'll see mammoths, giants, headless riders, sabeltooth tigers... or not actually see because that would eat the whole budget. But creepy stuff.
• Tyrion will continue to be a guy playing a fantasy RPG: In the character creation he min-maxed Charisma for Wisdom, and in the first novel knowed how this game is played, thought about throwing dice and talked a DM into giving him a whole tribe to follow him. His story continues by him going to King's Landing and doing everything exactly the other way as Eddard did. He'll fare much better and perhaps find out who send the dagger to kill Bran (I have theories. All of them seem to miss something)
• As I said before, I vote for Renly as a king, but I don't think he's going to sit on that throne. He might have Storm's End and the Reach, and perhaps even Dorne to help, but there's Stannis the Often Mentioned to keep an eye on. Somehow it seems more GRRM-logical to have a character who hasn't been seen yet to show up, kick everyone's butt and sit on the throne.
• Joffrey won't be the king in the end of the season. It's A Game of Thrones, no king will have that chair for more than a season.
• We'll visit the kingdoms we haven't seen yet: The Iron Islands, The Reach and Dorne. Riverrun is given, since the first book ends there. And Dragonstone, if we are to finally meet Stannis the Never Seen.
• Arya won't go all the way to the Wall. There's lots of stuff between, Winterfell, Tywin Lannister's army...
• Sansa will find ways to undermine Joffrey's rule. Hopefully. I'd like that.
• Honor, pride and a parents' love of their children will continue to make wars happen. Oh our child could be found as not the king's son? Let's kill everyone. Oh the Imp could have tried to kill my son? Let's have a war. Tens of thousands of people die but at least my son is avenged.
• Harrenhal will be a cool place. And with Tywin Lannister there it will be 200% cooler (that's science). Shame he's going to die to ”give way to his children” or what excuse authors give to kill those with best actors.
• Rocks fall, everybody dies.
• We'll find out who Varys, Baelish and Pycelle are in league with. Wait, I know this: Varys, Baelish and Pycelle.
• Daenerys's side of the story will have some connections with what goes in Westeros, but not many. She is in the Fire side of the story, Jon is in the Ice side, and they are both outside the main story.
• There will be little stories inside the main narrative, like the last Daenerys chapters were a fairy tale of The Brave Mirri Maz Duur destroying the Big Bad Army by using her wits and the foolishness of their Queen.
• Was that everyone? Wait, Catelyn and Robb. I don't really care about Catelyn, she can do what he likes. Same goes for Robb, but I'm sure that this King in the North business is not going as planned.
• I know who Theon Greyjoy is on my first viewing.
• These will all be completely wrong and I'll laugh at these when the season ends

Yeah, I don't want to spoil you either, nor ruin your fun @Lugija. But I can say "you're right", "you're wrong", and "sorta"...

Although, I can't help myself with this one -

That's one way to put it...

There's one prediction there that I find really amusing, and you will too at the end of the season.

So...my facebook just exploded with links reporting that JJ Abrams is going to direct Episode 7.

Eh, could've been worse.

Wait wut?

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?

That's an easy one: Sisko.

I'll just leave this here, too.

In last night's season premiere of the Starz television series Spartacus, Marcus Crassus was promoted to Imperator.

I thought of Star Wars, and then Jello, and laughed.

So he's now an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer? What was he before? A Venator?

Or am I walking too close to a Star Destroyer classes debate now?

So...Red Dawn: The Video Game?