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Balon was going to attack the North with or without Theon. He basically gave him a secondary task to keep him busy. I doubt Theon could have convinced Balon to change his plans even if he never turned against Robb.

I'm aware, I'm just saying if Balon wasn't such a stupid, arrogant dick (which even his daughter would eventually have to admit he was), he should have joined his forces with Rob Stark since Theon's plan certainly yielded more reward than his did. Balon's plan was that of stupidity and revenge, not logic.

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Posted by JB Bama

Tuscaloosa, AL

Member since Sep 2008

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Posted on 10/11/12 at 4:19 pm to OMLandshark

There is absolutely zero chance this book is finished by 2014. Come on people ADWD was slated for 2005.

I would say there's a 70% chance he doesn't live to finish the series. The closer he gets to finishing it the less time he's putting into actually writing it. Not to mention with the TV series gaining popularity he's got even more reasons to stretch it out instead of finishing it, and there's no way in hell I would peg someone of Martin's stature to make it to age 75 (he's already 64).

I love the series but lets face facts.. the further into the series we've gotten the more parallels to the Jordanian cycle. Stretching out the series, creating more loose ends rather than closing them, and the guy's 64 he's not writing two more books when the 4th one took him 11 years. He stretched the 4th book into 2 how many will he stretch these last 2 into?

This post was edited on 10/11/12 at 4:21 pm

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