The 4th book has the kingsmoot stuff. The timeline is so different though, since Theon is still captive and it isn’t until after it goes against Asha/Yara she realizes she needs Theon to challenge Euron.
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My eyes! MY EYES!!!
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I just thought of a crazy theory. Bran enters the Tower of Joy…discovers the truth…and wargs into the baby to communicate the news to Jon. Either by some kind of mental connection or Jon/Bran tells someone.
Jon: “you’re right. I am a bastard Stark. But not the one you think.” (Jon wanders off…realizes he forgot his keys like he did after being resurrected and comes back)
Of course that’s happening - I’ve been saying it forever. It’s what needs to happen so we can get Cleganebowl.
Yeah, last season some people were discussing how they seemed to skip over most of the Iron Islands story, and some thought they were going to cut it from the show completely. Although I’m glad that they’re finally getting it in, it feels a little shoehorned, since they never bothered to previously establish Euron (or Victarion for that matter, who does seem to be cut from the show). In the books wasn’t it Victarion who pledges to win over Dany with his fleet? And Euron just stays home to rule, right? And obviously Asha and Theon don’t take over his ships. So who knows where this is going.
No, Euron was the one who pledge to get Dany. Remember he had the big dragon horn? Victarion’s speech was “more of what Balon gave you”.
Right, but Victarion is the one who actually goes to Mereen to get her with his fleet.
Euron wants to marry Daenerys, so he sends Victarion to retrieve her, I guess he can’t be arsed to. Victarion goes but decides to marry her and claim the dragons himself.
Yeah, that’s how I remember it. The show is cutting out the middle man. So he’s probably not going to be that important to the plot later, either.
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In the bit after the show, the show runners were suggesting that “Hold the Door” came from GRRM. Something like “we couldn’t believe it when George told us!”
I imagine “Walder” being similar to “Hodor” was deliberate as well, but as a red herring.
Nope. No whooshing.
The other reason people are thinking this is straight from the upcoming book is someone telling GRRM a funny version of the Hold the Door elevator operator theory…and GRRM saying “You have no idea how close you are!”
It’s a somewhat common name in Westeros:
I liked that Benjen’s hands were black as a Coldhands shoutout. Really didn’t like episode 6 though.
I’d still wager that Book Coldhands isn’t Benjen, and this is just a case of combining characters for the TV show.
Pretty cool that Sam is taking Heartsbane. It always seemed like it existed to be his, given that it’s one of the few remaining Valyrian steel blades and just happens to be the ancestral sword of Sam the Slayer’s family…
Now the TV show is sorta where the books are with Jaime. He’s going north with an army-- except he hasn’t been rejected by Cersei and isn’t pissed at her. The Riverlands is where we last saw Jaime bookwise, yes?
Yeah, GRRM has said Coldhands isn’t Benjen. But when this character showed up he definitely had a Coldhands vibe about him. Also with the facial covering, and he even said he started to become wightified but the CotF reversed it.
Brienne took him to see Lady Stoneheart. I believe he was mediating the Blackwood/Bracken squabble at the time?