Happy Birthday, Birthday Bowers! :D
Now for the bad news. I'm pretty sure, not 100% at this point, but I'm pretty sure that A Clash of Kings is part of some elaborate prank. Flayl, it seems you were right. Which means the situation is far worse. Tyrion's whole "let's find out who's balls I need to bust" scheme wasn't accidentally written poorly. It seems that it was INTENTIONALLY, yes friends,
intentionally written in such a way that it confused and annoyed me.
Someone, anyone, please, someone tell me why, how, when a story is told from a FIRST PERSON perspective closely following very specific characters and reading their inner thoughts, that they can execute a deceitful plan
without letting the reader know about it? So that you think the writer is an idiot and mixed up a pair of characters, but it turns out they were intentionally lieing to other characters in the story WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHAT THE **** IS GOING ON TO THE READER!
So, not only am I dismayed at how terribly this plan of Tyrion's is presented, but the plan itself is terrible! It only works if one of the three parties tattles on Tyrion to the Queen, the one exception being if Varys and Petyr rat him out. Any other situation, it does not work. If the Maester guy and Petyr both go to the queen with their info, even her dull wits would realize something is amiss when two different direct sources tell her that Tyrion plans to send her daughter to two different places. It likewise wont work if the Maester and Varys go to her with one saying the daughter is to go to the Dornish and the other saying the son going there. And if all three let the cat out of the bag, Tyrion's plan fails even harder!
Congratulations, Tyrion. You got lucky. And all the way up until now you were one of the few characters I liked. Now it's down to Jon Snow and Daenerys. And I'm half way through the book and Daenerys is only just now getting her second chapter. Don't know what I'd do without all those Bran chapters.
