I know they have very few episodes left in which to cover a ton of stuff... but last night felt like fan fic in places. Not only are people teleporting around the continent now, but the various plot threads are coagulating as we slam whole plot lines together.
I will say seeing the Tarlys get roasted was satisfying, yet somewhat stupid. As Tyrion points out they already switched allegiance like 4 times already. First to back Robert Baratheon in the Mad King Rebellion, then to back Renly Baratheon followed, presumably, by a brief backing of Stannis and then switching over to Joffrey. Sure most of that was implicit with their fealty to House Tyrell, but sheesh why choose NOW to develop an attitude.
Given that we now know Bran spent years north of the wall, thanks to the testimony of Sam, the speed of the untiring undead army is now even more remarkably slow.
The Tarlys never backed Robert. After the rebellion they bent the knee and were pardoned. Then when he died they backed Renly and never Stannis.. WHen Renly died they made peace with Tywin. Olenna has a scene earlier in the series where she talked about how Renly would have been a good king and Stannis never would have, but sintead they got Joffrey.
I agree the pace is fucked but its really GRRMs fault. They had to stall for content in the mid seasons and when he never could deliver more they just had to power through and wrap that shit up. They cant afford the amount of episodes it will take to finish.
We have been complaining about the white walkers not moving for over a year. Do you not think there might be an explanation other than just them walking slow?
Something they are waiting on from further north. Some certain days into winter so they can sustain life long enough?
The first thing is they needed to wait for winter. They are able to survive in the far north. So even if they are able to get past the magic of the wall, they needed to let winter set in first.
So Gilly basically confirmed that Jon is not a bastard at all? Seems she was reading about a secret wedding between Rhaegar and Lyanna. Not that it matters? Does anyone give a fuck about succession at this point when everyone is after everyone?!
This will come back I bet. They will return to the north, and the wall, maybe stopping at Winterfel first. Sam will introduce her to the Starks and in her naivity will be all like "Oh your name is Stark, like the lady Lyanna I read about that was married to "ragar". Puzzled looks, Sam has her show them the book, and then the Autist formerly known as Bran will be like "Yeah I saw that Jon is really a Targ and not a bastard because of the marriage". This will happen at the end of the season, final scene. AS a puzzled group realizes Jon is the true heir, fade to black and white text on the screen.....
LOST.
But seriously, they will bring this bacl as a plot point as some mentioned to create conflict between Dany and Jon since he would be the true Heir. But by that time he will have banged Dany and in a show of female empowerment will demand all records be burned and no one to speak of it again. He will not lay claim to the throne and instead say something gay like "I dont care who my parents were, I am not a Targ, I am not a Stark, I am a SNOW. I am King in Da Norf but I bend my knee to the true Queen". He marries her, becomes Lord Regent or whatever the non royal family Kings name would be, and allows Sansa to be Queen in da Norf.
