Game Of Thrones Grown Up Talk. Do Not Enter Unless You Have Finished All The Books

[CarolinaCoolin]

Martin from the beginning lets you know he's playing for keeps. When Ned dies it lets you know this is really world stuff. If you are surrounded by 100 guys who want to kill you, you won't magically live. I've seen few revenge/getting what they deserve situations. But there's alot of story to still unfold

[Bronn]

There are lots of redemption moments throughout the series, so hang in there.

Also, they aren't the "yay good guy A killed bad guy Z" that you're probably expecting. They are more like "good guy A just totally made a great decision that will help him while bad guy Z just got caught up in some poo that is going to hurt him down the road, but party X seems to totally be becoming more relevant to both A and Z."

It's a huge, mean world. You have to remember the line "you win or you die"...

[teeray]

While I agree with you on that, I just really look forward to someone, anyone making it to the destination that they were trying to get to and actually fight. The sides are always so far apart and can never make it to each other. Other than the fight at kings landing at the end of season 2 no one can seem to reach their destination. And to be honest I really didn't care about that fight. It wasn't built up as a big show down in my opinion. I am still a fan and really enjoy it, I just wish for a little more action.

Not sure how it will all play out in the end or if anyone gets their vengeance, but there will be a balancing of power and the Lannisters are not immune to having serious consequences for their actions as we will find out likely next season

[teeray]

BTW I think John Snow is dead as a doornail. I think his death throws the nights watch into disarray and Snows death is what allows the white walkers to penetrate the wall and unleash a wintery hell on Westeros.

I also think the Hound is alive and well and he will be an important character by the end of the books.

[rodeo]

BTW I think John Snow is dead as a doornail. I think his death throws the nights watch into disarray and Snows death is what allows the white walkers to penetrate the wall and unleash a wintery hell on Westeros.

I also think the Hound is alive and well and he will be an important character by the end of the books.

 

Yeah it's made pretty clear that Sandor is the new grave digger at the place he's supposedly buried.

[CarolinaCoolin]

BTW I think John Snow is dead as a doornail. I think his death throws the nights watch into disarray and Snows death is what allows the white walkers to penetrate the wall and unleash a wintery hell on Westeros.

I also think the Hound is alive and well and he will be an important character by the end of the books.

 

jon snow is dead but he is coming back. he has too

[teeray]

jon snow is dead but he is coming back. he has too

Why? The mystery of his mother can be addressed without John Snow being alive. I think he is dead. If he comes back it will be as a white walker.

Some other thoughts. Maester Aemon is right about who Azor Ahai is and the smoke and salt that is referenced in AA's rebirth is not a metaphor but a location

[teeray]

DP

[Bronn]

You don't come back as white walkers... you come back as wights... 

as for the AA comment... are you referencing The Hound?
 

[CarolinaCoolin]

Why? The mystery of his mother can be addressed without John Snow being alive. I think he is dead. If he comes back it will be as a white walker.

Some other thoughts. Maester Aemon is right about who Azor Ahai is and the smoke and salt that is referenced in AA's rebirth is not a metaphor but a location

Grrm said he will find out who is mom is. Hard to figure that out when you are dead. Unless there's gonna be a really lame afterlife scene. He's gotta come back

[teeray]

You don't come back as white walkers... you come back as wights... 

as for the AA comment... are you referencing The Hound?

 

 

No although the Hound is my dark horse candidate.  The mystery surrounding John Snow's parents also makes him my second candidate.

 

But this is what I think

 

The prophecy as Melisandre puts it is "“When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt."

 

I think many readers read "born again" then think reborn, and equate that somehow with death.  So when the prophecy says that Azor Ahai shall be born again, I don't think that it means someone has to die and be reborn.  But in reality, someone only has to be born.  So instead of focusing on deaths, I was thinking about births.

 

That is why i think John Snow and the smoke rising from his wounds and the salt from Bowen Marsh's tears are just a misdirection.  It is just steam from his wounds and tears of sadness.  And also it is a death, not a birth.  But again John Snow is my second candidate so maybe it is the prophecy.

 

The first part of the prophecy "when the red star bleeds and darkness gathers", most people equate this with an event that has yet to come or is in the process of happening.  But perhaps it is an event that has already taken place.  Perhaps the event is a weather related event.  Ancient times used stars to try and predict the weather and some ancient communities also thought weather events were caused by the stars and planets themselves.  And of course "darkness gathering" could easily be construed as a reference to the darkness of a weather event.

 

Now the second part "Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt".  I think this is a place not a metaphor.  And there is one place in particular that fits that description.  Dragonstone. Dragonstone is a volcanic island off of Blackwater Bay.  It has the smoke of it's volcanoes and the salt of the sea.

 

That is why I think the Prince that was Promised isn't a prince but a princess.

 

Daenerys "Stormborn" Targaryen got that nickname because she was born during a great storm and was born on Dragonstone.

 

I think Azor Ahai has already been reborn, she just doesn't realize it yet.

 

Maester Aemon thinks he figured it out.  This is what he said to Sam in AFFC:

 

No one ever looked for a girl..It was a prince that was promised, not a princess. Rhaegar I thought … the smoke was from the fire that devoured Summerhall on the day of his birth, the salt from the tears shed for those who died. He shared my belief when he was young, but later he became persuaded that it was his own son who fulfilled the prophecy, for a comet had been seen above King’s Landing on the night Aegon was conceived, and Rhaegar was certain the bleeding star had to be a comet.

 

What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame.

 

The language misled us all for a thousand years.

 

Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it.

 

 

I think he is right, but RR Martin is pretty clever and it may be too obvious and the reveal not climatic enough.

RR Martin always trying to surprise his readers is why I think the Hound is the dark horse.

 

Also Aemon said before he died that the dragon must have three heads, so I imagine there will be more to this prophecy than we know now.

[teeray]

Grrm said he will find out who is mom is. Hard to figure that out when you are dead. Unless there's gonna be a really lame afterlife scene. He's gotta come back

 

If I recall correctly, RR Martin has only said that his parents will be revealed.  Not that John Snow will ever know who they are.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

azor ahai can't be a woman, that's just dumb

 

the prophecy says nothing about making delicious sammiches

[teeray]

azor ahai can't be a woman, that's just dumb

 

the prophecy says nothing about making delicious sammiches

 

Good point.  Drogon could probably toast that bread perfectly.