Damon_Tor

On 5/20/2019 at 5:31 PM, Free Northman Reborn said:

Can we have a definitive thread to discuss the implications of the Show for the future book plot.

Which parts are true and which are nonsense? I have my thoughts. Let's discuss.

So let's start with the Iron Throne.  I don't think Bran becomes King. I cannot see any path to him being elected King by the other Great Lords. There will be a Great Council, but like always politics will win the day, and the faction with the most support will choose the King. Just like Jon's election as Lord Commander back in Book 3. 

 

Eh, an aliens gestalt Intelligence taking over the body of a powerful human telepath and using his a abilities to take over the human race via manipulation is a very GRRM ending. It was not presented well here, because it was neither obvious that the Three Eyed Raven (for clarity, I won't be calling him Bran) was in fact manipulating the events which led to his election (he clearly was, but it wasn't obvious to the average viewer, hence the failure) nor was it unambiguous that the Three Eyed Raven was not Bran (though they did beat us over the head with this one, so I'm not sure why people are confused, but clearly they could have made it more obvious somehow.

On 7/1/2018 at 8:46 AM, Seams said:

And @Damon_Tor recently put forth an interesting possibility that Littlefinger uses prostitutes as operatives to control people through "sex magic".

A note, this topic is more thoroughly discussed in the thread I posted about it earlier.

9 hours ago, Tucu said:

And the bride theme seems to be missing Hizdahr.

Hizdahr didn't give Dany a child, so he isn't relevant to the prophecy. She will certainly ride more than 3 mounts, light more than 3 fires, be betrayed more than 3 times and so on and so forth, but only 3 of each of those things will be significant to the core of the prophecy. Similarly, she will have more than 3 husbands, but Hizdahr doesn't make the cut.