I thought Brienne was going to see the Tully uncle Blackfish or something like that? |
Coldhands, for sure. This is a good (if unusual considering his much earlier appearance in the books) place to bring him in. |
1. The direwolves are expensive to animate, which is why they have such a reduced presence on the show vs. in the books, where they are all till alive except for Gray Wind (Robb's dead) and Lady (Sansa is sort of the most "lost" Stark without her). I'm sure the show runners are killing them off because they haven't built the same bond between the Starks and direwolves as in the book, and the expense is too much to keep them around. It sucks. 2. Bran was destined to do what happened, so there's no use in getting mad about it. After all, Hodor is Hodor and not Wyllis. So it was inevitable that he would have to "hold the door" and things would end up this way. 3. Were you expecting Bran to see Benjen? Because I sort of was. Poor Benjen, he's just been totally forgotten forever, huh? 4. Summer dying was way less gut wrenching to me than all the babies who have been killed. It's so horrible I have to fast forward through those parts. |
| I'm a little confused about the Hodor thing. I get that Bran is warging into Hodor at the door. But why is that affecting teenage Wylis? |
| A good explanation for the Hodor thing that I read on Reddit: Well from what I believe happened, Bran needed a conduit to get to Hodor in present day. Using Wylis caused Wylis to see through Hodor's eyes, and seeing Hodor's final moments. The warging caused a seizure that locked Wylis' mind onto that moment, so that last order from Meera was in his mind all his life and the only thing he could say. The seizure affected his speech so "hold the door" eventually became Hodor. |
| Okay, I guess. That still doesn't make sense to me since Bran has warged into Hodor before without needing a conduit from the past. I guess they just needed an excuse to do the "Hodor" reveal. |
Maybe because he was in the past right at that moment? |
Yes I think it's because he can't go out of the visions at will yet. Bran doesn't seem that powerful. He knew something was wrong but couldn't get back to present day and he tried to go through Wylis in the past to get to current day Hodor. |
Worse than that, I can't handle her getting taken back to Ramsay or Cersei. |
Sansa talked Brienne into it. I see it as a really unrealistic story that Brienne would have gotten on board with this plan. It's not good that Sansa is unprotected. |
I think they're trying to get Brienne back to her storyline in the books, which did not include her traveling to Castle Black. Last the book readers knew, she was in the Riverlands. |
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Does Bran have to planted like a seed and let roots grow over him before he can see the past again? Will he become a tree with a face? Are all the Children dead now, did some live elsewhere, do they respawn with Bran?
Did you notice that none of the WW appear to be women? I find it interesting since it seems to be a world of women rulers, if not in name, but by function. |
You're probably right. After all, based purely on the tv storyline, there's no reason to send Brienne down there and not Pog (? am I getting his name right? Brienne's former companion before running into Sansa) |
| LOL pp here. I posted earlier about Summer, not realizing that was the name of the wolf, not the main Forest person. This show has too many damn characters! But seriously, do the Children of the Forest have some sort of immortality or restore-abilities? |
| Does Bran need the Children to "plant" him or can he do that on his own? If he needs Children, and they're all dead, can this wheel (what did Tyrion call it?) finally stop? |