(Spoilers Extended) Overused themes… when re-using one theme too much is too much, in your view?

Don’t understand me wrong… at this point, whatever George decides to give us… I will gladly have it all and ask for more.

But… in all honesty, the whole ASOIAF is a masterfully repeated story all over again.

For once, I couldn’t help but to notice how many times an older sister is deprived of her inheritance right by a younger brother or another down the inheritance line male relative. In fact, of the top of my head, from the Amethyst Empress onwards we have at least Rhaena, Rhaenys, Rhaenyra, Daena and so forth… Feminist might even noticed how Daenys the Dreamer and Visenya might themselves be diminished by historians ready to reward their father and respectively brother for their achievements. Closer to the current timeline, according to Westerosi law and custom, Cersei, Catelyn and Sansa are examples of older sisters excluded from inheritance because there is the younger little brother to inherit it all.

Another theme that gives me as much joy as it grieves me is the secret love child. If we take only the royal family, we have Rhaenyra and Cersei - canon queens who bore children to men who are not their legal consorts, and Rhaenys and Naerys - queens canonically suspected to cheat on their lawful huby-brothers. Four cases in three hundred years - and that without taking into consideration the implied adultery of at least three others. Or Sara Snow. Or the brave Duncan the Tall alleged hanky pankies with half of the noble stock of the realm. Jon Snow really doesn’t know anything, does he?