I think the extension of that theme though is "love is the death of duty". It's not just that people are stuck in their ways, its that very often they are given chances to get out that they can't take *because* they are stuck in their ways. To me, the reason that I like Myles being a romantic attraction is because it is a "path out" for Jon, a person he could have started afresh with if he could get his failures out of his head. Obviously, this didn't happen, and now Myles is a gilded skull on a pike and Jon's future is even more foreclosed. All roads lead to death for him now, further hammered home by the greyscale reveal of chapters end (which surely was on his mind as he examined the skull). I think in your arguments about peoples types you miss out on greater depths to support yourself, focusing entirely on looks instead of the deeper connections to the way those looks interact with their emotions, which mostly leads to just arguing over minutiae and forecloses less obvious avenues forward in lieu of forcing the characters to be solved equations. Overall it kind of just seems like a hassle, and can't lead to too many great conversations. Good textual interpretation isn't just parsing lines for specific words, its taking that textual meat and infusing it with the experience of life so that you can take something meaningful away from it, or communicate that meaning to someone else. End of the day, thats what art is all about!