>>24663952
This.
>>24664143
>had some embryonic version of what became the YG plot line floating around
He seems to do this alot, the Stoneheart plot for instance. I think an early version was Cat dying somehow to the Others; then he brought it back with Beric instead resurrecting Cat, then he slapped that plot hap hazardly onto Brienne's bubbling forest journey. Stoneheart is very bare thin in terms of development but George objected the most about the show dropping it, meanwhile he didn't give a fuck about Aegon being dropped. I think he's attached to that plotline because of how old it is.
>Still, even independently of that. What was even the point of marrying Dany to Drogo from Illyrio’s POV?
Dany in aGoT was basically ready to go, then he basically roadblocked her for the entirety of aCoK. Viewing it book to book makes me realize he doesn't fucking plan out shit as meticulously as everyone gives him credit.