Mithras

She doesn't have the authority to command Jon though. If he says no to her (and considering that he is even more distrustful of her in this draft compared to the published version, he will say no to her), then she will stay back. Besides, this was a proper vision and if the red woman in the vision was herself, Mel would know it and tell it. Like the grey girl on a dying horse, GRRM might have planned Mel as the misdirection in this case.

I think Val will take Jon's body to Queensgate.

Well, they might have come across the tracks of the great elk they were riding and followed them. Initially they were the hunters but they ended up being prey.

The mutineers from Crasters.

At this moment, Jon was thinking of leading a ranging party to deal with the mutineers at Crasters and at the same time, find out what happened to the rest of wildlings scattered to the Haunted Forest after Stannis defeated Mance. This woman is obviously not Mel. But who else might she be? I think I know the answer. > Grandmother, found the scarlet silk from Asshai, dead >> her daughter, old wisewoman, dead >>> her daughter, healed Mance and patched up his cloak with scarlet silk, unknown status I think the woman all in red is either the one who healed Mance or an unrevealed daughter of her (i.e. >>>>). I am leaning towards the unrevealed daughter being the one. But I don’t think we will see her in TWoW. I believe GRRM introduced a replacement for her in ADwD and she is none other than Morna White Mask, who is a warrior witch wearing a weirwood mask. The daughter of the old wisewoman healed Mance from a fatal wound before he bled to death. The last we saw Jon, he was bleeding to death just like Mance after getting shredded by the shadowcat. This connection is not a coincidence IMO. Morna White Mask will somehow be instrumental in Jon’s healing/resurrection (whichever case you believe).

Arya would return to Winterfell after Ned's death and from there they would go north of the Wall with her mother after losing Winterfell.

Not true. That 1993 outline included the first 13 chapters that were almost identical to the published version.

Osha should be dead in this draft. GRRM said that he decided to expand Osha's role in the books after being impressed by Natalia Tena's performance in the show. And Rickon turned into a feral child.

Varys and Illyrio should have a totally different agenda back when GRRM wrote AGoT but we don't have enough clues to figure out what. As mentioned above, based on the Qarth episode, a fake Aegon seemed to have been in the plans before anything Blackfyre existed. Maybe it was a descendant of Aerion Brightflame. But we don't have anything else on that front. I have a fringe theory that while restoring this or that Targaryen pretender was in Illyrio's plans, Varys had a secret agenda even Illyrio was oblivious to. I believe that the original Varys in AGoT was a sorcerer in league with the Others. He was trying to create destability in the Realm while looking for the perfect vessel for the "Night King" to claim when the time was right.

"New" material at last From an earlier draft of the Jon chapter dating to 2003-2004 AFfC manuscripts. Full thread at the bottom. 1. I always disliked the idea of the Wall blocking skinchanging but the above quote contains very solid evidence. Ghost could sense Summer beyond the Wall only when he poked his nose through the bars. In these drafts, Ghost wanted to range beyond the Wall so bad that I think Jon's refusal to seal the gates contrary to Marsh's suggestion was rooted in this feeling. 2. The "ones who wore the shapes of men but smelled only of cold" are the Others.

There was no Golden Company or anything Blackfyre until after AGoT, ACoK and the Hedge Knight was published.

Will? In her last chapter she was having hallucinations and talking to grass

"Kicking the can down the road" is what GRRM did with AFfC and ADwD. He simply avoided facing the hard problems related to having the plot advance and converge.

This is how HBO is thinking of "fixing" GoT's ending. It wasn't Dany who burned King's Landing, it was Drogon

And so is GoT but the double standard in the fandom is hilarious.

This Episode so far was the most brazen, undeniable example of ruining the existing material and preferring stupid spectacles over logic/storytelling, something for which the book-purist fandom (which by the way mostly shills for Hot D because they are led to believe that this show is a GRRM-approved faithful adaptation) hated the last seasons of GoT and blamed it all on D&D. Well, they are not here and we are still getting the same stuff. Perhaps it is time to start figuring out the responsibility of Sapochnik or even HBO governors in the GoT's final seasons. In Season 2 or 3 of Hot D, I can see the fandom saying that D&D did nothing wrong.

That dragon-dais starefest was dumber than Jon screaming at unViserion but here we are.

The writers seem to have misunderstood what "Kingmaker" stands for in the book

9th episode so far and we have had more than 9 different characters which the writers want us to believe to be Alicent

The idea of Targaryen/Valyrian blood supremacy is a bad jape. I have this special blood that ... pretty much half of Westeros and all of Essos populations have.

That is Condal's idea of writing strong female characters.

Wasn't this episode supposed to be where we see piles of dragon shit?

Women are so 20th century. We live in the age of gays now. You can't kill your gay characters, especially if they are black. How the show handled Rhea and Laena would have caused a feminist outrage (and deservedly so) if we still lived in the 20th century.

Blood purists are on suicide watch edit: ... as are the sworn enemies of polygamy

D&D missed a golden opportunity to foreshadow Tommen's suicide. They should have written a sex scene for Jaime&Cersei in the first season at the same room in which Jaime would finish from the same spot.