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Admittedly Stannis does himself little favors by his total refusal to do anything to ingratiate himself to others. But when Varys (of all people) says:

Lord Stannis in particular. His claim is the true one, he is known for his prowess as a battle commander, and he is utterly without mercy. There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

It's a bit wild that the guy who knows everything doesn't know there's more than meets the eye with Stannis. Then there's the famous Catelyn passage:

Stannis pointed his shining sword at his brother. "I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.

Cat doesn't know Stannis, so okay fine. So she and Varys don't know that Stannis is the only highborn ruler we see who consistently asks for advice from people around him even if it's an answer he's not gonna like. And they don't know that Stannis does truly believe he has an obligation to both Robert and the realm to claim the crown as Robert's legal.

Also never forget the reaction of the man who never smiles when he saw Davos again post Blackwater.

His eyes were blue pits lost in deep hollows, and the shape of a skull could be seen beneath his face.

Yet when he saw Davos, a faint smile brushed his lips. "So the sea has returned me my knight of the fish and onions."

AGOT Catelyn I

Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. "And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all."

"Beyond the Wall?" The thought made Catelyn shudder.

Ned saw the dread on her face. "Mance Rayder is nothing for us to fear."

This is an alternative universe I'd have been really interested in seeing happen. Pretend Jon Arryn never gets murdered, Jon still goes to the wall. Could've had Ned, Benjen, Jon (and maybe Robb?) fight against the wildlings at Castle Black. Would've been epic. It sounds like something right out of the legends of the Kings of Winter.

I was re-reading Meera's retelling of the tourney. All the people present (and Tullys who curiously were not), with everything that we know goes down after. It just reminded how wild it is that so many major players were in the same place at once. How often do the Starks even go to tourneys, right?

And it got me thinking: why wouldn't they do a mini series about it instead of the play? That way you could get people seeing it all over the world.

Season 2 is now over. Looking ahead to season 3, where do we think some of the characters will be landing?

We know Mohan is out and Dr. Ellis will replace her on day shift. Will one of our day docs be going to night shift? Or they'll add a new character?

Javadi says she wants to explore emergency psych, so we'll probably see her paired with Caleb a lot which I like. Santos has been wanting to be in the surgical program since season one, maybe in season 3 she finally gets there?

Depending on the length of the timeskip to season 3, could both Mckay and Langdon be looking for attending positions?

I'd love for both Joy and Ogilvie to come back, but I have no idea what happens to them.

In Fire&Blood, I always read Lucerys' name pronounced as Luqerys, because his nickname is Luke. Just like I read Jaecerys' name as Jaesserys because his nickname is Jace.

There are short lore videos on youtube talking about the Dance of the Dragons. Mark Addy (who played Robert Baratheon) does the voice over for the incident at Storm's End and also pronounces it Luqerys, but in the show they always says Lusserys.

So which is the correct one? Again, this is small and doesn't matter, I just want to know what it the right pronunciation.