Cliffs: lol GoT.

I don't think Dany not attacking King's Landing with dragons is the worst part of this season, she would likely (rightfully) be viewed by the populace as the mad king's heir and get a ton of resistance for her Make Westeros Great Again plan. Splitting up their forces is still loltastic of course.

The last episode was totally unforgivable with the time travelling though. Super ****ing sloppy writing. I was slightly invested up until now (though increasingly less with each episode), but now I couldn't give a **** who dies going forwards. Immortal super swimmer and occasional strongman (watch him haul waterlogged fur cloaks from the bottom of a freezing lake! watch him wrestle white walkers underwater with his bare hands!) Jon Snow is also a complete joke by now.

Last thing: why didn't Dany just go ape**** on the head honcho white walkers with her three dragons? Easy fly-by with fire to kill them all, end of story, whoops.

If Bran is really the night king or Cersei makes some crazy kind of pact/alliance with the Night King, this could be really cool and good. If Dany and Jon team up to kill the white walkers/night king and then burn cersei but Jon dies after impregnating Dany and that's GRRM's definition of a "bittersweet ending" I'd be disappointed. It's definitely heading toward "Dany and her family reign for 1000 years and everything is peaceful b/c feminism", but I still have some faith in GRRM to give us an interesting and unforseen twist.

Article on Bran=Night King theory
http://nerdist.com/bran-night-king-g...hrones-theory/


From the linked reddit thread cliffs: "When the three-eyed raven says "You will never walk again, but you will fly" he means through time, and not only warging a dragon like many fans believe. There was a reason Jojen Reed (who also had the greensight and knew even more things about it than Bran) did not become the three-eyed raven himself. The reason is that Bran is even more powerful than both Jojen and the three-eyed raven (Brynden Rivers) in the way that he has both greensight and the ability to warg. With this combination Bran is even able to affect the past by warging into Wyllis, and eventually making him become Hodor, which proves "the ink is dry". He also gains his fathers attention outside the tower of joy, and even gets touched by the Night king in one of his greensights. Bran believes he is eventually (with more knowledge) going to be able to rewrite history and that's why he decides to go back and stop the Night king several times, but fails every time, ending up fulfilling the timeline-circle and taking the identity of the Night king himself."


"Bran’s ability to influence the past certainly feels like a major issue that will come into play again, but would this story really end with everything being a timeloop? The Three-eyed Raven did say the “ink is dry” on the past despite the past not being as concrete as we think, so that comment would fit this theory, but it would also feel like a letdown since it means no one had any freewill in the story"