WEHT "The Prince That Was Promised"?
You know, the one who was born amidst salt and smoke, and who would save humanity from The Others?
Because it wasn't any of the usual suspects or their dragons who actually saved humanity.
I'm guessing the book ending is going to be different and will make more use of prophecy and lore than the show did.
shareWho cares about the books at this point?
shareCertainly not George RR Martin, that's for sure.
shareI do. The show is leaving a lot of the story unanswered. For starters, who was the Night King,and why was he so fixated on Bran? GRRM is an infinitely better storyteller than D&D, and I want to read his ending to this particular story.
shareThey showed who the night king was several seasons ago and in the previous episode Bran said why he was after him.
shareHonestly, they can't just leave the Night King vs. Bran storyline like this! Here everyone's been speculating about psychic confrontations and warging into dragons and who knows-what-all... and it came down to a staring match and a surprise twist. Bran had all those guys guarding him in the Godswood… and he didn't seem to do a damn thing while he was there.
So why is he in the story at all, if his Powers aren't any use when they're needed most?
There's no way they'd leave it at that, right? RIGHT? Would be one of the biggest letdowns of all time!
shareWTF was he doing all that time, while everyone else was fighting and dying and he had his warg-face on? He wasn't warging into the Night King's dragon like everyone hoped he would, he wasn't confronting the NK on a psychic level... so what WAS he doing?
THEY CAN'T LEAVE IT AT THAT.
There's still 3 episodes left
shareOkay, what is the explanation as to who the night king is and why he is so interested in Bran over all the other living? The show depicts the creation of the first whitewalker, but if the show is staying consistent with the books, that isn't the Night King (who is actually a Stark Winterfell named Bran that comes along many years later). Is that Bran the present Bran that goes back in time to observe and gets stuck? Clearly the show isn't going to tell us. Now, it could be (and probably is) D&D not knowing what to do now that they have run out of source material and are changing (or erasing) lore to bring the show to a hasty end.
shareThe one who got killed tonight is the same one the Children made, the first one.
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