Fade in to Patrick Duffy lying in bed.

You are correct. The books go even further, showing Rhaegar to have been a studious type before locating Lyanna and absconding with her. He was known for reading before he became a formidable warrior, choosing to focus on improving his physical strength and prowess based on something he read. The books also hint that…

Well, yeah. As someone said, Cersei’s deal is that she thinks she’s two moves ahead of everyone else, but she’s not even on the same game board. She's always been a deadly combination of paranoid and naive. Her only really redeeming quality was that she loved and protected her children (even though one of them was a…

In the books and show, the Baratheon/Westerosi line of thinking was the “Rhaegar kidnapped and raped” Lyanna angle, which Robert spread around because he was in love with Lyanna and was fighting the Targs.

There’s also a theory that Rhaegar and Lyanna were in love and ran away together, and that this was part of why Robert Baratheon was so hellbent on taking every last Targaryen out—because he was in love with Lyanna and her feelings were not reciprocal. In the books, the only person who has anything negative to say…

She did what he killed the Mad King for planning to do. In the process she killed hundreds of innocents, including the wife of their son, which drove their last remaining child to suicide.

So far as I recall, the only other person who knows for a certainty is Howland Reed. Which is why some other fan theory bullshit fell right the fuck apart, much to my glee, with the death of the High Sparrow last night. Some people wanted so badly for that dude to be Howland Reed for reasons I can’t even guess at,…

this gif will be everywhere for a long time

Things often happen at the speed of plot

During the same time, Jaime marched an entire army from Riverrun to the Twins and back to Kings Landing. Jon fought the Battle of Winterfell and was able to bring together the North for the big council meeting, even families who didn’t pledge to fight by him at the battle. Varys sailed from Mereen to Dorne, and back.…

I don’t think he had to tell much of a story. The prevailing thought was that Rhaegar had kidnapped Lyanna, so the logical jump to her being hurt by Rhaegar (or someone acting on Rhagar’s behalf) wasn’t a huge one.

Trying to pry around my dusty head space in regard to the books, but I *think* that the general idea was that Rhaegar kidnapped, raped, and murdered Lyanna and Ned just allowed that story to be the one that became truth, despite it obviously being not at all the case.

Of course, but #sexit is funnier.

You might say she has One Vision.

Ruined, burned down throne room from Dany’s vision is coming true....

Called it!

Prophecies abound!

One thing I think people may have missed: I’m pretty sure Lyanna Mormont’s speech wasn’t a spur of the moment thing. Sansa told her to do it.

No, god people overlook everything. In the fleet wideshot they had Dorne ships with the Sun and the broken spear. It’s obvious that they both join up from Essos at the bottom of Dorne before they move into the rest of Westeros. He wasn’t teleporting. It was on the way.

Why do I see Jaime turning against Cersei as a result of this. Everything that has happened in this show has in many regards been down to her and now it’s caused most if not all of her allies to turn on her and she’s caused the deaths of most of the others (and many of her enemies).