re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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from the retarded sounding names

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Drove me insane. I never knew who the frick was doing or saying what. To this day I couldn't tell you what the hell Dany's husband's name is.

"With their kung-fu and their silly chang-chang-chong talk! We can't understand you! Go back to yer country!"

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The whole think reeked of Martin not knowing what to do with Dany so he just took a shite on some blank pages and called it the Mereenese knot.

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Oh, this is most certainly the case. He knew he wanted Tyrion, Vic, and crew to get to Dany before she headed west but he was completely clueless what to do with her in the meantime and how to make it work, and it showed. Mereen is a big pile of shitastic writing outside of the Selmy chapters.

He used the whole "let's make a character act completely different so I can try and make the story do what I want" tactic with Dany in that book, and it was terrible.