Spoiler: Math Mage

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Mmm, I can see that. On the one hand, watching someone, particularly an observant intelligent reader try to out the pieces together can be quite diverting, and occasionally insightful. The FMA Brotherhood thread is having the time of its life watching the OP try to figure things out. That said, there is much more to a story than merely its plot. Something I find strangely absent in many long reviews of ASOIAF is not noting the third person limited pov, and the restriction of one character per chapter. This defines and informs the rest of the structure of the story, and its usage delineates a fair bit concerning some of the themes. Granted, in fairness, an on going review can't easily encompass certain things like a work's coherence, or the arc of character development, or the focus and such, whereas the plot is always right there within grasp. Well, you can also talk about pacing, but pacing is always the least important part of a work to me.