All those fuckers do is pillage

Even after the red wedding?

Like I get it if they don't like Stannis because he believes in a different God, but Jon and Sansa were the siblings of their late king. I thought the North remembers?

Richard Brake is top and Vladimir Furdik is bottom. I think both actors did a good job, though the top felt more otherworldly and unknowable. Furdik also played the First Man who was turned into the Night King by the Children of the Forest. Little bastards and their magic.

I don't get it. He said to capture him alive. Then, he proceeds to 1v1 him, in what looked like he was trying to kill him.

From Fire and Blood The Wedding of Jaehaerys and Alysanne

Lord Rogar was not so easily cowed. Blunt and to the point, he asked only if the marriage had been consummated. "Tell me true, Your Grace. Was there a bedding? Did you claim her maidenhead? "No," the king replied. "She is too young." At that Lord Rogar smiled. "Good. You are not wed." He turned to the knights who had accompanied him from King's Landing. "Separate these children, gently if you please. Escort the princess to Sea Dragon Tower and keep her there. His Grace shall accompany us back to the Red Keep." But as his men moved forward, the seven knights of Jaehaerys's Kingsguard stepped up and drew their swords. "Come no closer," warned Ser Gyles Morrigen. "Any man who lays a hand upon our king and queen shall die today." Lord Rogar was dismayed. "Sheath your steel and move aside," he commanded. "Have you forgotten? I am the King's Hand." "Aye," old Sour Sam answered. "but we're the Kingsguard, not the Hand's guard, and it's the lad who sits the chair, not you." Rogar Baratheon bristled at Ser Samgood's words, and answered, "You are seven. I have half a hundred swords behind me. A word from me and they will cut you to pieces." "They might kill us," replied young Pate the Woodcock, brandishing his spear, "but you will be the first to die, m'lord, you have my word upon that."

While he got his ass handed to him at Winterfell. What if he actually pulled through and won. He wouldn’t have an army as most of them would be dead. And he still has to face the Lannisters, Tyrell’s, and potentially the river lands. And even THEN he still doesn’t have a navy so all the Lannisters would need to do it blockade kings landing until he gives up. The only possibility of him even standing a chance would be to get another loan from the bank and buy more soldiers.

How did this ever become so controversial when it's so obviously correct?

If Dayne switched with Barristian how does that scenario go with Ned and his crew, and if Dayne switched with Jamie does he kill the mad king?

Gerald Hightower and Oswald Went, are still present

The white walkers were up in the far north just minding their own business and year after year men kept encroaching further and further into their territory.

Think about it, the wall was built ostensibly for defence from the perspective of humans, but the facts around that and the real truth of the previous war remain murky. From the white walkers perspective that was a base, an armoured redoubt to launch further offensives into their territory., which the Night's Watch continued to do relentlessly, year after year.

From the walker's perspective there's no reason at all for humans to settle the far north, they can't farm, they can't raise cattle. The only reason for them to be up there is for a genocidal mission of extermination. The wall was built from coast to coast, leaving the walkers with nowhere to flee to. They were being encircled and set up for complete annihilation.

The white walkers even extended their good will time after time, to which humans only ever responded with violence. Craster left his own male children in the forest to die of exposure, and the white walkers (the true humanitarians of Westeros) rescued those children, and used their magic to give them an extended lifespan. The first time we get a really good look at a walker is when one is trying to rescue a baby from Gilly, and the psychopathic lunatic Samwell Tarly approaches the walker, sword in hand, with the intention of murdering the kind missionary. Does the walker kill him? No, it simply disarms him and throws him aside, it could have used deadly force, but it responded in the most restrained manner imaginable, and then proceeded to continue on its mission to save the child. Moments later the killer Tarly plunged a dagger into the kind walker's back, a truly cowardly act, showing the sheer depths of depravity and dishonour to which men would sink. Samwell never missed a opportunity to brag about the murder to everyone and anyone he met either, a truly sick and twisted individual. This is literally the first contact humans had with walkers in the GoT "modern" era that's known about, and clearly what cemented in the walkers the immediacy of the human threat, after this they had no choice but to respond.

Until white walkers were attacked, all we ever seen them do is rescue abandoned children. How can any remotely moral person think the walkers were the bad guys here?

Yeah I mean he did kill blackfyres but you never know

The Red Temple in Volantis keeps slaves, which they tattoos for easier identification. Their numbers, including children, are trained to be slave soldiers, priests and even temple prostitutes. The R'hllorites actively seek "innocent" people to sacrifice, which leads to child sacrifices being the most desirable.

Does the "Lord of Light" seem to be the Lord of the Seven Hells, or is it just me?

I don't remember them interacting at all in the past. Also, the scene where Gendry basically speedruns all the way to the wall is hilarious. Ain't no way he arrived on time.

So I’m at work on break and just got up to Jon’s last chapter. I knew what was coming but didn’t know if it would be his last chapter so I almost welled up at work lmao. George I can’t believe you have kept him at this state for almost 16 years. I mean man what a character he really is my favorite and they better do a good job with him in the future (if Martin actually does do it).