There's plenty of black and white in the series. Especially black. What makes you think otherwise?

So after finishing season 2 on TV, I read them all really quickly, so I can't specify a favourite book, but I enjoyed all of them! Despite getting a bit confused....

As for the theories I think the "R+L=J" is true, I definitely like to think that there is 1 honourable man in Westeros...

I also thoroughly believe that Young Griff is real

I feel my memory is too poor to remember all the fine details, I will probably have to re-read them all before he releases the next book (that, and keep watching the tv series)

My favorite novel is ACOK. I really love the climax of the war of the five kings and think it should have lasted longer, just like Ned's ordeals in King's Landing. As GOT stood I almost got the feeling of a tragic shakesperean feudal lord lost in a renaissance court and making mistake after mistake just for the sake of having him dying by the end.

Anyways ASOIAF is a very funny series because it stands at the top of the counter-wave of LOTR-styled fantasy who want the rid the genre of it's usual tropes, courtesy of decades of authors ripping off Tolkien, and a perceived idealism who honestly doesn't exist (like Aragorn not being accepted as king firsthand and Frodo succumbing to the ring before the end).

As consequence a lot of people have learned to expect the absolute, most gritty things ever from ASOIAF now when it's clear to be the author didn't intend the series to look like that, when seen as a whole (maybe only the first part who extends to the red wedding only, the original GOT when the series was a trilogy).

I mean... Jon's parentage, the whole Azor Azhai stuff, Dany's dreams about Jon... the series was hinting at a standard epic ending where they are united as lovers and defeat the evil beyond the wall. I can see Jon forging his epic lightbringer (man look at the name of that) on Dany's heart and such, like the legend. I really do. And maybe a true Aegon at the throne after being introduced in the by-then second book, ADWD. Now who knows what GRRM might pull because of these expectancies...

P.S. For those who do not know the last book originally was called "A Time for Wolves". Do you have any doubt a Stark reunion was going to happen, alongside most of what I mentioned above?

I'm pretty sure he's a Blackfyre. It's consistent with everything we know: the Golden Company's sole purpose was to overthrow the Targaryens and impose a Blackfyre on th Iron Throne, Varys (Aegon's supporter) was doing as much as he could to undermine the Targaryens when they were still on the throne (and doing a good job of stoking the fires Robert was hellbent on creating), and while the male line of the Blackfyres died out, they were oddly specific in omitting any mention of the female line.

There's also that passage in Crows about how the Blackfyre's emblem was washed away after the end of their rebellion, and when it was found decades later it had turned red with rust (and thus looked like the Targaryen's emblem). In a series so filled with symbolism, I find that passage persuasive.

I phrased that pretty poorly. What I meant was that no character or family in the series is purely black or purely white, just different shades of gray. Although, now that I think about it, Joffrey and Ramsay kind of poke a hole in that assumption.

I am not sure he really matters, he is surely about to die...

Also, who is left in the north to fight, they just seem to die constantly

Some shades of grey are light or dark enough though, just as much as in other series. It becomes really hard to generate reader empathy and grip them to the story otherwise. Most POVs are essentially good characters, for instance; I think the difference relies on it being a cynical rather than idealistic instance by sheer necessity for most people in the series.

Yeah, I'd argue that some characters are pretty much all of one or the other. Ramsay is the obvious example of black, but there's not much redeeming Gregor or the slavers in Essos either. I also have a hard time seeing much good in Caster or Walder Frey. Conversely, I'd argue that Ned and Jon in particular are pretty "white": their failings come in the area of competence (Ned) or inexperience (Jon) rather than moral failings. Brienne and especially Sam fall under this spectrum too, in my opinion.

Stannis was last seen at the wall if you prefer. He is currently in some unspecified place in the North until you read the initial sample chapter from The Winds of Winter. Is it worth amending that?

Viserys, Drogo and Rhaego reincarnated as their respective dragons. It is known.