Actually, I'd say it was too many characters in too long a space. That's what makes it filler. If he'd cut things down by half, it'd be better. And it'd be nice if he had doubled the events happening.
To put it another way, we got too many steps that didn't go far enough.
Now don't get me wrong, I did like what we got, but I also can't say it did much.
I wanna know what happened to Davos, personally. The Manderlys are too fat and jolly to actually kill popular POV characters, right? Right?
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Despite the series' Anyone Can Die reputation, very few main characters have managed to die and stay dead so far. I'll believe Davos is dead when I see it described firsthand.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.I was actually a little disappointed when Theon turned out not to be dead. The cliffhanger is a well-established technique, but drawing the gap between predicament and resolution out into book length is a cheap trick.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.Holy crap, that's a lot of paper.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.I finished A Clash Of Kings recently, and was reminded of why I love this series so much.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!Goddamn that took you a while.
Clash of Kings was actually the book that made me fall in love with the series. I thought A Game of Thrones was okay but nothing brilliant, but Clash really got to me
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

Accomplished as in... plot developments? The wikipedia article lists those off, so I don't need to copy paste them here. If that's nothing happening then its the best and most eventful nothing happening I've ever read.
But accomplish? As a book in the middle of the series it accomplished the only thing it needed to: continuing to tell the story. I'm guess I'm not getting what you mean by accomplishment.
For me, a series book like this failing to accomplish anything would be several hundred pages of characters chasing down Plot Coupons with little to no (or only rote) character development happening. Maybe that's the way some people see AFFC, but I don't look see it that way. I like what's happening with Arya, Cersei, Stoneheart, and Brienne, though with so many characters to cover we don't get as many "steps" in their development before the book ends, is that what you mean? Too many characters in too short a space? 90% of the stuff happening to and being done by these characters felt important to me.
Though I do agree it's not the best book in the series thus far. Hard to beat Storm of Swords and Clash of Kings. And Sam's POV was pretty bleh. We'll have to see what Dance of Dragons covers. It'll still have the problem of many characters vs only so many pages, but I'm not that worried. One chapter or a dozen per character, I know ol' George will deliver.