Marada78

I think that the showrunners are going for this "implementation" of the Azor Ahai profecy: Jon is Azor Ahai, Dany Nissa Nissa, Drogon is lightbringer. Dany will get pregnant hence will not be able to ride Drogon any more. At that time both Viserion and Rhaegal will be goners. Also at a certain point they will find that the NK is immune to both obsidian and valyrian steel and dragon breath might be the only way to kill him. So Jon will try and succeed in riding Drogon. Dany will also die of childbirth to completely fulfill her destiny as Nissa Nissa. Jon then will kill the NK using Drogon in a sort of "Kamikaze" action which will be pretty much the end of all three.

All this Season is fan service. GRRM gave them the point of arrival and they decided to get there by fanfic. About this episode is 6/10 because I am rating the level of fan service and with Gendry return and Jon petting Drogon it was ok.

Why GRRM put so much contact points between Brynder Rivers and Jon Snow? Have all the similarities no meaning at all? Some samples: Both Brynden and Jon are part valyrian part first man bastards (ok for Jon in the book is still unconfirmed, yet likely). Both served in black and raised to Lord Commander position (and it is very likely that Jon will later leave the position like Brynden did) Jon Direwolf Ghost is an albino with red eyes just like Brynden, but there is even more looking at the first chapter of GoT His eyes opened while the others are blind may represent Brynden greenseer powers, while Jon Snow notably "Knows Nothing". Actually looking back, leaving aside the first two bullets that may hold no meaning at all, the third bullet may lead to a completely different question: Was really Ghost meant for Jon or was it actually meant for Bran? More generally what are your interpretations of the bold part in the quote?

I don't know if this is a small question but: could "a song of Ice and Fire" be also the title of an existing book in the World that GRRM created? I get this idea basically from this quotes: So, Rhaegar was a bookworm..than he found a book that changed his life. Later he mentions "a song of ice and fire" but from other conversation it seems it is not literally a song. It's easy to come to the conclusion that "a song of ice and fire" is atually the title of the book found by Rhaegar when he was a boy. Just to clarify: I am not thinking GRRM is reusing the idea of "the neverending story" or similars, but still while we think the saga is named after Jon parentage or WW/Dragon conflict, it may simply be name after an existing book in the Old town library Then of course this book could have be written by Bran/3eyeraven and put there for Rhaegar to read, and maybe this book is really the ASOIAF saga we know, and maybe at a certain point of time Bran will remove is face and under there is GRRM and...ok sorry sorry ignore this later part

They are becoming separate not only in media or details but in the main storyline also. Soon they will be completely different stories considering that they are probably already scripting season 7 and TWOW is nowhere near to publication. And PROBABLY the show finale will influence GRRM when writing the last book. That is IF the last book will ever come into light.