I didn't want to put this in the last thread because I don't want to spoil anything. Many of the people in there are still on book one, two, three or four.
Anyone else catch the implication that Cersei and Jamie are actually Aerys kids? Making Tyrion Tywin's only true heir, making Jamie a patricidal kinslayer like Tyrion, and making all of "Robert's" kiddies with Cersei actually just the latest in a long line of incestuous Targaryn bastards?
I think GRR Martin throws a ton of stuff out there just to mess with us but isn't going to resolve it. Ever. Book 20 will be out, everyone we know will be dead, the wars continuing, and none of this will get answered. We'll be hearing about Brienne's bastard child fishing off the Dorne coast with a friendly wight or some such nonsense.
Re: Another Game of Thrones question (from A Dance with Dragons)
The only flaw with the theory that Jaime and Cersei were Aerys children is that Jaime wasn't appointed to be in the Kingsguard. He volunteered for it so that he could be close to Cersei in Kings Landing.