On the little comedy but when Edd gets addresses as “lord commander”—is he or isn’t he? His expression at the end only makes sense if he actually is.
I’m fairly sure Jon can’t just say “you are lord commander now” and it’s legally binding, it just doesn’t seem to matter all that much at this point. There’s like 20 of them left.
He should be acting Lord Commander until they hold the next election as soon as practical.
I got the impression that they literally drown their new kings, and count on the drowned god to bring them back to life. The new king woke up, and the priest repeated “what is dead may never die,” which makes a whole lot more sense now.
It’s varyable.
Anyone whose name sounds like Urine shouldn’t go around making dick jokes.
Where’ the “like” button?
While I love FB I know there are many that don’t but occasionally a “like” or “upvote” is applicable to a post.
As old as this forum is… it should have something applicable. A “Cecil” at the least.
Some quick googling seems to indicate that although they do occasionally use merkins in the show, it’s not ubiquitous. Natalia Tena (Osha) for example asked to wear one as wildling bush would not look anything like her own trimmed area and was refused.
It seemed to me that the titular Door was not the one that Wyllis was holding. I think that Blood-Raven was able only to observe the scenes from the past, but Bran became a door between them. I think he was warged into both Hodors because he heard Meera in both places at once, and became a bridge between them.
So, the young Wyllis could lend his strength to the older Hodor, and therefore Bran could warg out again and Hodor stayed.
How far are they from Craster’s Keep? Maybe Gilly’s Sister-Aunts will take them in. I wonder if their blood-ties to the night princes give them any power or protection?
From what I understood they where “drowned” in the sense that they are held under until they are forced to breath in and salt water enters their lungs. Then they drag they out, dump them on the beach and see if they recover or not. People can recover from this with no intervention but in reality this would be a terrible way to choose a king, because even if you spontaneously recover and start breathing, you may have permanent brain damage, or have permanently damaged your lungs from infection, meaning you’d be in no shape for strenuous physical exertion for the rest of your life.
That doesn’t reveal what the words were, though.
White walkers are the guys with blue skin. They’re the ones that create the zombie armies. The zombie armies are just zombie armies - not more white walkers.
The zombies are - somewhat confusingly - called wights.
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The Night’s Watch burned Craster’s Keep after the battle with the mutineers there, and all the women said they’d take their chances somewhere else rather than hang out at that place. Jon Snow was upset that the Lord Commander knew that Craster was making offerings of male babies to the White Walkers in return for them leaving him alone. So no Craster, no offerings, no protection there, anyway.
Given the number of females at Craster’s, and if the birth rate was 50/50 M/F, then that’s quite a few White Walkers just from this one source. Way more than the four at any one time we see, even after Sam, Jon, and Meera each whacked one.
There are at least 12 White Walkers besides the Night’s King in the scene where Craster’s last son gets White Walkered. I know because I just tracked down the episode (4.04 Oathkeeper) and counted them.
ETA: 13 if you count the WW that brought the baby, 14 if you count the baby as a new WW.
Although let’s not overlook the possibility that there is in fact actual supernatural intervention going on here. The ironborne pray to the “drowned god”. No reason to think that god is not just as real as the Lord of Light, the many-faced-god, or various other deities whose followers we’ve seen performing impossible deeds of various sorts.
Yeah, I thought of that while the crowd was cheering him and shouting “Urine! Urine! Urine!”
The episode titles often have multiple references.
In a fantasy world based on medieval England, you probably don’t want to use a word of West African origin.
In any case, these are not Romero-style zombies. You can’t kill them just by destroying their brain. Dismembered pieces like arms will still keep moving around. You have to burn them to destroy them.
Was the expected attack on the Wall and lower Westeros by the White Walkers and their army of wights delayed because they all had to backtrack and get to Bran? Aren’t the Night’s Watch a bit confused about why they aren’t already being attacked?
If Bran had been a bit more vulgar, Hodor could’ve easily been named Hodafuckindor!
The Night King and the Army of the Dead seem to be running all around the area north of the Wall with no rhyme or reason. White Walkers have been as far south as Craster’s Keep, to bring his sons apparently much farther north where the ring of stones is. One was even encountered well south of there by Sam and Gilly. The Army of the Dead attacked Mormont’s expedition at the Fist of the First Men, far north of Craster’s Keep, then, rather than pressing their attack, went way the hell east to attack Hardhome. Now they’ve gone way north again to attack Bran and the Raven.
It looks like they are trying to eliminate all threats north of the Wall before making their assault on the Wall itself, but really they’re doing whatever the plot demands. They’re kind of killing time until it’s close enough to the end of the season for another climactic battle (usually episode 9 ;)).
I was thinking the same. The impending attack on the Wall has been “impending” for a looooong time now.