I like this: I already expect the Others (White Walkers’ name in the books) and the wights to cross the wall and go much further south than they did in the show. There is no clear Night’s King in the books, at least not in the way shown on GoT - and, in fact, it is beginning to look like Euron Greyjob is accumulating…

The Big Moral Issue: Bran is very cryptic from the point where he gets to the previous 3ER. After crossing the wall back to the ‘south’ he doesn’t say anything that makes too much sense, and creeps people out by making comments about things he could only know if he was seemingly omniscient. While the books will flesh…

It is believed GRRM was adamant that Bran/3ER would become king - he has said a few times that this was one of the few details he wanted to ensure were the same in thecatte show and books, even if the routes taken were much different. Bran does make sense - the show just does a very bad job making it clear why. Ever…

Although GRRM has said a few times that there are 5 core characters that the books are really about: Jon, Arya, Bran, Dany and Tyrion.

Actually, it is something one of the very first Starks in the ‘Age of Heroes’ did, never to be heard from again, in the books so at least there is some reference.

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Actually, I liked this - it brings into focus GRRM’s questioning of ‘good’ vs ‘evil’ and whether anyone is purely one or the other. Cersei deserved everything she god, she deserved worse - yet, she was made human and even villains cry and have emotional pain; if Cersei died that way, that is perfectly human - and the…

One completely random question: did defeating the Night King and the Army of the Undead end winter? It was forecasted to be the longest winter in generations according to the Citadel’s Maesters who likely had some means of understanding the odd seasonal meteorology of Westeros (and Essos - the book strongly suggests…

Yay - someone else seems to recognize that GoT often has succeeded by not giving into reductionist narrative ‘arcs’ that suggest - quite incorrectly, based on everything we know about human psychology - people develop in a nice, linear, progressive, rational and reasoned manner over the course of their life. Yes,…

Or he decided that he swore to fight in that battle, and his sense of justice meant he needed to do so without further meaning it ‘redeemed’ him (wtf is redemption, anyway, beyond a story selectively told) or that he couldn’t still be flawed and find himself worried about his sister’s impending death and thus deciding…

I must have read the eyes comment from Melisandre wrong in The Long Night/Battle of Winterfell - I thought she had suggested that Arya had already killed quite a few brown eyes, green eyes... but never blue; I was confused why people kept latching onto a comment I took as strictly being about making Arya realize she…

Hello Erdrick, meet Human Psychology (Or how everyone learned to stop looking for rationality and reason in all human actions because irrationality and unreasonableness are just as human). I actually wasn’t too bothered by this - Jaime was never going to be ‘redeemed’ - he was always a complex man capable of terrible…

She always had very strong moral convictions and unlike other politicians/nobles she actually seemed concerned about the common people, she hated inequality, hated slavery, hated misogyny. Her motivations were all the right ones - but power and mental illness seemed to take hold; and having magical powers you don’t…

Imperialism =/= monarchism.

Arya learned to kill to defend herself and her family, to defend those she loved and who needed her protection. Her arc was perfect - The Hound was right; the castle was collapsing and no one was leaving alive unless they left immediately. She persisted but he finally stepped in and asked her if she wanted to let…

It did help drive home the point that the plan he, Jon/Aegon, Davos, the Wildlings that seemed interspersed among the Northern Army (and the Northern Army/Vale) all knew the plan was to allow a peaceful surrender with minimal bloodshed. Which all goes to show that Dany’s decision, in her rage and anger, went against…

Perhaps she should have tried using fire on Euron’s ships last week instead of flying around dumbfounded so he could take more shots at her... 

I’ve wondered this too - the final two seasons have easily been the weakest (and it isn’t just because the books have been passed by; much of season 5 and all of 6 was past the books while still being quite good - hell, I’d argue 6 was one of the best seasons) - they tell more than show, they have things develop too…

Greenseers can peer into the future via magic; the warlocks of Qarth drink the purple Shade of the Evening to be given prophetic visions, visions that Dany herself has while in their building... and one she shared with Bran and which came true tonight. The more religious components of the prophecies does seem to be…

What are the odds that Jaime would survive the loot train battle with his golden arm and armor in the deep river? Or the odds that all the main stars with incomplete arcs would survive ‘the Long Night’ which was... really, the length of a typical night? Euron was a bigger issue - he somehow survived (what are the…