CrypticWeirwood

She wouldn't. That's the point. Hers is a powerful enough house that her children would take her name because she could only marry down.

The show made it seem like Bloodraven just migrated to Bran when the Others took his mortal body. This is super-reminiscent of like how in Gene Wolfe’s Citadel of the Autarch, our protagonist took up all the old autarchs’ collective memories at the previous autarch’s death when Severian [spoiler suppressed]. (Martin really likes Wolfe, BTW.) That's why the autarch was sometimes addressed as Legion, for in him are multitudes, all the living collective memory of those who had held the station before him, with the previous autarch's memories foremost in his mind after he own memories but hardly alone. So too with Bran. That's why Bran is the only one there who has the actual experience to be king. For one thing, Bloodraven has a lot of direct experience ruling Westeros, but for another Bran has access to earlier memories and earlier history beyond just Bloodraven's own memories. Think about Rhaegar and Lyanna and the Tower of Joy. That's why Bran told Tyrion about where he got the wheelchair design from. That wasn't a random throwaway line, not this late in the game. It was to prime Tyron so that when he thought about who should rule, he would think of Bran and why Bran had that experience from days long past.

I always figured that they knew about butterfly fever (Cogman certainly would), and so deliberately set this up as a sort of poison Easter egg for Grey Worm to go to a grisly grave soon after the show's ending. If that's not the case, then please don't tell me because I like it better this way: as Giordano Bruno's said, Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.

I guess now we finally know why Jon was resurrected.

Do you have a link to them doing or saying this?

I did feel for Tyrion. The despair he felt was palpable when he realized that his final betrayal and caused his siblings' death (certainly Jaime's at least), and likely caused his own as well. Your heart went out for him, more than for Jon and Dany. All his scenes were convincing and moving for me.

Some "missing" answers and explanations may have been left out not because of any sort of rush to the finish line, but instead because they wanted to reserve those reveals for either these HBO prequels or for George's unpublished volumes (Winds or Dream) to avoid spoiling any of those too badly. Or both.

That it was George's ending not HBO's was my guess as well, but I can't say why I think that beyond simple hoping. What sorts of things made you think this was the George ending not the company one?

Which of these are you thinking was just a 1? ____ Cinematography ____ Lighting ____ Visual effects, including CGI ____ Production design (unified visual appearance) ____ Opening and closing title sequences ____ Sound editing and mixing ____ Original musical score ____ Costume design ____ Make up and hairstyling ____ Writing ____ Directing ____ Leading actor (Kit Harington) ____ Leading actress (Emilia Clarke) ____ Supporting actor (Peter Dinklage) ____ Supporting actress (Sophie Turner) ____ Ensemble cast (everybody as a team)

Thanks, care to elaborate? If that's too much trouble, you could give individual 1–10 ratings to these: ____ Cinematography ____ Lighting ____ Visual effects, including CGI ____ Production design (unified visual appearance) ____ Opening and closing title sequences ____ Sound editing and mixing ____ Original musical score ____ Costume design ____ Make up and hairstyling ____ Writing ____ Directing ____ Leading actor (Kit Harington) ____ Leading actress (Emilia Clarke) ____ Supporting actor (Peter Dinklage) ____ Supporting actress (Sophie Turner) ____ Ensemble cast (everybody as a team) Those don't necessarily have to “average out” to your final rating.

“You get a crown and you get a crown and you get a crown!” Bran is King of Westeros. Sansa is Queen of the North. Jon is King Beyond the Wall. Only Arya didn't get crowned. A Time for Wolves indeed.

Her vision at the House of the Undying was a true one. She has joined her husband and child.

When their bodies fail them, greenseers go up into the undying weirwoods and become the old gods. They never die. But Bloodraven stuck around for a successor. He watched Ned's birth and Bran's birth. He may have also tried with Euron but failed. Euron turned to the dark side via Shade of the Evening, not the light side of the weirwood paste.

What's the connection between Bran the Breaker and Bran the Broken?

Not Darkstar?