But what if both Bran and the Night King die? The war is still won but without Bran surviving.
Theon isn’t Reek anymore. And Reek was broken, but not feeble-minded.
I don’t see why. I mean, our world has done pretty well without any three-eyed ravens, and there are books and scrolls everywhere in Westeros. Might’ve put Snopes out of business, though.
I imagine the point of killing Bran is so humanity can’t recover, they still plan on wiping out humanity.
Given that they can’t swim, I wonder how they plan on getting to Essos.
Someone suggested (perhaps jokingly) that the Night King could freeze the oceans. Or are they smart enough to take a ship?
They hauled a dragon out of a lake with an anchor chain. According to the movies I’ve seen, hauling on ropes and chains is 90% of sailoring.
What protects Arya? She just outraged everyone by growing up, the left hook would be killing her a couple hours later before she even gets to show off her new weapon. Recall Tyron’s story of their simple cousin Orson who smashed beetles because he was a simple guy who smashed beetles–My read was Tyrion was making a clumsy effort to equate the simple cousin to life in general. Sometimes random shit just happens despite your best laid plans. There was no question Oberyn could Kill The Mountain. In fact he had, for almost all practical purposes. And then: random shit. Putting Arya away early in the fight due to a pratfall would totally work.
Have the wights been shown to be that capable of fighters? They tend to win more by completely overwhelming with their horde. We haven’t really seen a known character reanimated and able to retain human fighting ability, so that’s a bit of an unknown. And in any case, Jamie has a Valerian Steel sword and access to other dragon-glass weapons which are basically instant death for wights.
All they need is for one White Walker to get there somehow (dragon?) and raise the dead over there.
If it weren’t for Chekov’s Quarterstaff I’d agree with you.
Maybe she gets to use it, it works perfectly, and then she trips over a rock and breaks her neck. 
Funnier? I think it’d be tragic.
Not bad! It could work. But I agree with those who’ve suggested that Jaime and his dear sister have at least one more face-to-face meeting ahead of them, possibly lethal to both.
Fair point.
That’s exactly the point. The White Walkers are analogous to nuclear weapons. The Children created them as a weapon against the First Men. Then the Walkers turned on them, and they had to fight alongside the First Men to defeat them.
Once that war was won, however, the Children died out or were pushed north of the Wall by the First Men.
The Children weren’t the smartest twigs on the tree.
Children. What’re ya gonna do!
Arya is protected because of her years of Faceless Man training and the ability to change faces. The latter is of no use against the Army of the Dead, but only against humans. We’ve really seen her use it only once in a major way, to get revenge on the Freys. (Also to get revenge against Meryn Trant, but that was completely irrelevant to the main plot.) We have to think that this exotic ability has to have some more significance in the plot aside from private revenge. Otherwise we’ve mostly wasted all those boring scenes in the House of Black and White in Braavos. Arya has to survive long enough to use this ability against humans, specifically Cersei.
Cersei is nearly the only one left alive on Arya’s kill list that she still has reason to kill. She’s pretty much reconciled with the Hound. Melisandre and Beric were on the list because of Gendry, but since he survived she doesn’t have much motivation to kill them now, and besides Beric is on their side and Melisandre resurrected Jon. The Mountain is already sort of dead, and Ilyn Payne hasn’t been seen for years.
I agree they don’t have much plot armor, but they do have a little. Sam has done most of his information dump, but could still know some things that might prove useful. The main importance they have is as representatives of the little folk of this world, who have mostly gotten short shrift. (I know Sam is technically a noble, but he’s been rejected by them.)
I have to think that they are involved somewhere in the Starks’ ancestry.
This was floating around on how someone thinks her weapon might work (this is a joke, not a spoiler…unless they happen to be right). 
Speaking of which: if I was running the armory I’d be turning almost all my dragon-glass into battle-axes. Using them as missiles (arrowheads, lance heads) is a waste. The effect they have on wights is total and immediate (IIRC); a phalanx of axe-wielders would just wade through the wight army like a threshing machine. Save the spears for long-range objectives, like the Night King and the dragon.
(Is the dragon a wight-dragon or a white-walker-dragon? I think it’s the latter, because he has blue eyes)
Since the Night King and the White Walkers are magical creatures conjured/summoned by the Children of the Forest to fight the First Men to reclaim Westeros, I think it remains to be seen whether the Walkers have any power beyond Westeros. It might be that the magic that animates them also keeps them confined to the continent.
However, if they rule Westeros, I don’t think the maesters of the Citadel will have any chance of surviving.
The wight that Jon and guys captured and took south was strong and quick, but was cut in half by the Hound with one swing of a sword