I actually feel like the added Bran/Craster's Keep bit is setting up a delayed arrival of Coldhands. Coldhands shows up, eliminates the traitors and frees Bran and Co. They go on their merry way to their eventual destination, led by Coldhands, which seems like it is going to take the better part of the rest of the…

Nope, I didn't miss your statement about Margaery, and you're right....she has no power. I just don't get how you say that Cersei has no power in the face of Tywin, and yet you imagine that Margaery would at any point?

I wasn't guessing when I said that Cersei will be Queen Regent, I've read the books and I know what's going to happen. The showrunners have made changes to the narrative before, but they won't change this because it bears heavily on the plot from here on out.

The 2014 Emmy's will be based on his work in 2013, but his work last season was great, too.

I totally agree. I was speaking more from Peggy's POV.

True enough. Honestly, I don't think he's a terrible actor, he's just a really lazy actor. Like most big stars, they just keep playing the same character over and over again because that's easier than forcing themselves to have range and take risks.

Jack Reacher was an exception, and was possibly impacted by the Sandy Hook massacre PR backlash. His most recent release, Oblivion, more than doubled its budget. The one before Jack Reacher, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, earned nearly 700 million dollars. Generally, Tom Cruise + action is a pretty safe bet,…

He may be a terrible actor, but his movies generally do well, so one thing doesn't have much to do with the other.

That's what I meant by "I think the text makes a strong enough case through clues that Coldhands is much older than Benjen."

They had that prologue at the beginning of DwD that discussed how Varamyr, a warg, had intended to enter the body of his female companion because his own body was dying, but he failed so he entered the body of one of his wolves. What I think happens is that Jon will warg into Ghost, unconsciously as his body dies, and…

Brienne is still alive as of now in the books. They had not actually hung her yet at the end of her last POV chapter in FfC and she appears alive to Jamie in DwD.

If this makes you feel any better, GRRM has yet to kill a character completely off in their own POV chapter (and Jon was attacked during his POV chapter). Catelyn "died" in her own POV chapter, but she was later resurrected. Everyone else has that died in the narrative either dies in the presence of another person…

I know that's a possibility, and I'm not shooting your theory down, but I am hoping that's not the case.

Good call.

Well, you know what I mean. He's not DEAD dead.

It's not a movie. It's a new TV show on HBO.

Well, if that's the Night's King, then that means Coldhands is not. (I am not one of the people who thinks Coldhands is Benjen — I think the text makes a strong enough case through clues that Coldhands is much older than Benjen.)

He was named after Bran the Builder, and I think Bran is just a common name in the North, especially in the Stark family. So if the Night's King is a Stark, also being a Bran wouldn't be a stretch.

The entire Theon/Reek plot point was introduced to the TV series while they were adapting the first part of book 3. This information is not revealed until book 5. The show has played around with the timeline of things because the TV show cannot, and should not, be a direct adaptation of the book series, because of how…

I think the part Bran plays in the defeat of the Others