The new season starts this Sunday. I’m looking forward to it, but I’ve slacked of on reading the blogs like “Winter is Coming” because they get into spoiler territory if there are leaks around now. Our old thread from last year has expired, so this is for discussion of the new season.
Note that you can use spoiler codes as follows. Remove the spaces from the code below:
Very excited about the new season; just watched my recordings of Season 6 to get in the spirit. I can watch that last season finale over and over and never get tired.
I heard that the show deliberately shot fake scenes when they knew photographers were around just to throw off spoilers.
Is everything new? I think the only storyline they may not have caught up with is Sam’s. I remember him going home and claiming the family ancestral sword but I don’t remember anything else. Had he started with the Maester school? Had he met Mar-guy? (can’t remember his name) or Arellas/Sarella? What about Jacquen H’gar and the Pigboy?
Daenerys, and she will in fine old Targaryen tradition marry her relative Jon Snow, thus the two best people will reign in harmony forever, having wiped the earth of the bad Lannisters. (Jaime, the good guy, will die in a doomed attempt to save his nasty sister/lover, Cersei, probably at the hand of the woman who loves him, Brienne of Tarth, who will become the first female member of the Queen’s Guard and mourn him forever.) Tyrion will become the Queen’s Hand, of course, and Sam the Grand Maester. Sansa and her wily consort, Little Finger, may be distracted by the necessity of dealing with the North, including Ironborn (let’s hope Yara wins out there.) and exacting revenge on the odious Freys. I have no doubt that Little Finger is playing for the Throne of Swords, but I have the feeling that Sansa will be a responsible Stark and opt for Winterfell. Or maybe not: after all she does have living brothers, although she doesn’t know it. I don’t think Arya wants a throne. The Boltons are done, as are the Tyrells, who will be happy with revenge on the Lannisters if Dany can provide them with it, as will Illaria Sand and whomever is left to rule Dorne.
Dany and Jon and the dragons will together defeat the forces of Winter, which will earn everyone’s loyalty. For a while. Alternately, Dany and Jon and the dragons could gloriously flame out in driving back the forces of Winter, in which case the throne will go to Little Finger and/or Sansa. Or Tyrion.
Oh, and Gendry will get House Baratheon, and Davos Seaforth will become the lord of Stannis Baratheon’s territory. Or he will become Gendry’s Hand, inasmuch as a lord can have one.
wow @Consolation you’ve given this a lot of thought!!
H and I started re-watching the series from the beginning a couple months ago, we’re up to “Battle of the Bastards” for tonight! So we’ll be in perfect position for Sunday…
Like Consolation’s scenarios.
I like to think Brienne and the wilding red haired guy get together.
I think Bran will save a principle character by being able to call out to them in warning as young Ned Stark was able to hear him when Bran saw the past. Somehow the future has been intertwined with the past since Hodor got his name from future events.
Arya will have a new list of names of those to kill, only this time she’ll do more for family political reasons. She’s learned a lot as the “girl with no name”. She makes the perfect spy.
My original theory required heavy involvement from Shireen Baratheon, but that’s now out the window, so I suggest:
Tyrion will discover that Tywin Lannister was telling the truth when he said that Tyrion was not his son. Tyrion’s actual father is the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, who had the hots for his mother. Dany will become Queen of Westeros, after a struggle in which Jaime kills Cersei to prevent her from killing Sam in cold blood and then takes his own life. Why Sam? Because his role – and his knowledge – are crucial. Back in the North, after learning about the true nature of White Walkers from Sam (who figured it out in the library), Jon will allow himself to be “killed” in the same way as Benjen, making him a White Walker but allowing him to retain his customary irritating (but human) personality. He will become the leader of the White Walkers (thanks largely to some intervention by Bran, who will die in the process) and arrange a truce with the people of the Seven Kingdoms. But of course this won’t happen until after a lot of bloody battles full of dragons and zombies and tragic deaths, including those of Missandei, Davos, Lady Mormont, and anyone else that we sort of liked. Because Dany cannot have children, she will legitimize Tyrion so that he will be her heir as well as her Hand. Sansa will realize that being married to Tyrion isn’t such a bad idea after all and will agree to a true marriage with him, which will likely produce the next king or queen after Dany (given that Tyrion is much older than Dany and she will likely outlive him). Sansa will take on an important role in the government of the Seven Kingdoms, with Tyrion’s enthusiastic support. By default, Arya will become the ruling Lady of Winterfell, something no one will question given the huge size of the direwolf Nymeria, who will reunite with her at some point next season and never leave her side except to kill Little Finger at the first available opportunity and in the bloodiest way possible.
Alternately, Dany and Jon and the dragons could gloriously flame out in driving back the forces of Winter, in which case the throne will go to Little Finger and/or Sansa. Or Tyrion.
