Thanks to the TV show, Game of Thrones now has a kind of sketchy topic page on Cracked.com. One comment by the author puzzled me - he/she/it claimed that aFfC made her/him/it cry while reading it. My question is: Why?

I ask this because you people are better at all that weepy chick stuff than I, and for the life of me I cannot figure it out, unless I have encountered the first other reader besides myself who thinks Arya's involvement with an evil murder cult is a bad thing to be appalled at, rather than a harbinger of impeding badassery. What other developments are to be upset about, considering none of the PoV characters from GoT are even in the book, except for a couple of wretched grammar-school-age girls, who, let's face it, are the demographic of absolute least interest to the target audience of this genre. Sam & Sansa have sort of happy endings, Victarion's, Jaime's & Arianne's are kind of hopeful and positive and rather moreso than any of them deserve. Is it Cersei getting her just desserts that makes someone cry? The best candidate I can think of is the death of Maester Aemon, a really, really, really old guy, in about as positive a fashion as could be hoped. He lived long enough to get the word that his old family is on the way back to glory, they have their dragons again, and there is some hope in the struggle against evil that is confronting his sworn brothers. And he's been in the books so little, he could hardly be said to have any real impact, aside from one of the innumerable instances of someone demonstrating to Jon Snow that however mean his stepmother might have been, his life is definitely in the uppermost percentiles for the Seven Kingdoms, and that he should drop that emo crap right quick. Most of the other characters in the book are in the story too little to be much invested in them, much less worth crying over. So what are your guesses?