WrathOfTinyKittens

Welcome. I'll keep an eye out for you, as we share our given name, so I must be sure that you do not besmirch it :) The fl00b cometh! Err, I mean, welcome! Checked out some of your art, pretty well done (though honestly not totally my style) - and I always have to respect artistic talent due to my complete lack thereof. Can't help you re: HBO, but if that question can be answered anywhere it'll be here, especially given the number of Aussies on the board. I'm sure some of them wouldn't mind pointing you in the right direction. I'm sure you have already checked out Hulu (I'm not sure if they carry HBO programming), or you might see if it's possible to stream from the HBO site with a subscription even if you can't get it via cable/sat. Edit: A quick search of the boards found this thread, which might help answer some of your questions. Also this.

Welcome, LadyLoo! A word of advice - be careful when reading in, well, pretty much any of the fora, as there tend to be random ASOIAF spoilers that bob to the surface from time to time. Anyway, welcome again! ETA: Read some of the Goodkind threads. Some excellent material in there. We're up to thread # 48 now over in the Literature forum.

While your speculation is interesting, this is a problem. Benjen didn't go out on his ranging until after returning from Winterfell with Jon in the early parts of AGoT. Bran fell and was crippled before Jon and Benjen left Winterfell. So, the 3EC would have had to take an interest in Benjen before he left the Wall. I'm not sure of the timeline of how Benjen's ranging compares with Bran waking up, but I believe that Benjen was lost before Jon received that news on the Wall. But since presumably the 3EC was talking to Bran the whole time he was in a coma, there's no way this would sync up properly.