The Night King wins, but doesn’t manage to kill all humans in Westeros. Then we have a spinoff series, The Walking Wights, following the travails of the few surviving humans as they try to avoid the zombies, with Jon in the Rick Grimes role and Cersei as Negan.
Winterfell will fall, and ultimately the last battle of the show will take place in King’s Landing
Several of the characters we’ve known through the seasons are revived as whites, when Winterfell falls this will include Ned.
In Kings Landing, The Mad King will be revived as White.
Bran whargs into him in the past and is the one who encouraged him to plant Wildfire all over the capital. In the end, Bran whargs into him the last night he was King and says “Burn them all” just like Hodor - the White version of the Mad King then ignites the wildfire under the city destroying all of King’s landing and the Iron Throne
I think in the end, magic will be destroyed, the walkers will be “cured” and turned back into men, the dragons will die off, and those that remain will try to start fresh, but not before Drogon fashions a new throne.
The last 20 minutes will just be a big group dance with all the cast. The guy who plays Hodor will DJ, Ed Sheeren will sing, and Arya will show off her water dancing skills
Why wait? The dead already have a fifth column in the crypts beneath Winterfell. I guess it’s just a matter of a White Walker getting close enough to raise them.
Ned’s body has been reduced to a box of bones. From what we’ve seen, wights (not whites) need at least some tendons and connective tissue to hold their skeletons together to move around. Disassociated bones can’t reanimate.
It’s pretty cold up there. Now, I’m not saying that Ned’s going to come back fresh as a daisy, but with the constant cold he might not be rotten, but rather dryed out. You could say he’s Ned Jerky, not Ned Boney, and that might make all the difference…
Thanks for the correction on Wights!
No, Ned is just bones. He’s in a box about the size of a large carry-on. And of course he was beheaded, so at least his head is not attached to the rest of his skeleton. At best, this will make it difficult for him to navigate.
I see from poking around that in the books it’s uncertain whether Ned’s bones ever even made it to Winterfell, since Catelyn sent them north at about the same time the Ironborn took the place.
Ahhh, valid point. Ned’s dead baby, Ned’s dead *
That video reminds me that Little Finger is still up there, albeit missing a face (Arya has the cutest hobbies). Now that will be a site to see if he becomes a Wight!
ETA: went to verify the quote and realize the name should be Zed - oh well
Well, if we’re going there:
FADE IN:
INT. - THRONE ROOM
CERSEI surveys the smoldering ruins of the Iron Throne as blood pours down her face from a head wound. She steps over the corpses of her faithful retainers as she approaches the triumphant Night King.
CERSEI:
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
DISSOLVE:
INT. - SHABBY MOTEL ROOM
In the semi-darkness can be seen the figures of a sleeping woman in the bed, and a teen-aged boy reclining on a stained sofa. The woman stirs and sits up, rubbing her eyes.
SARAH CONNOR:
Oh, man. I have got to stop drinking Thunderbird. That was a doozy.
FADE OUT.
THE END.
Well, if you’re going there, the entire series is just one of the many multichaptered hallucinations experienced by Ma-Ma as she plunges to her Slo-Mo death.
Not my prediction (and it’s pretty widespread on the internet) but the Night King bypasses Winterfell and heads straight to King’s Landing. Bran had a vision in season 4 of the red keep throne room in ruins and the shadow of a dragon flying over King’s Landing. The dragon, so the prediction goes, was an ice dragon, and King’s Landing is destroyed. Frankly, I think this is pretty convincing for a number of reasons.
- Cersei needs to die, especially before having her kid, and being mowed down by an ice dragon is sufficiently dramatic for the show.
- Everyone else of interest has conveniently left King’s Landing
- It raises the stakes for the battle of Winterfell which will then come later
Using this as a starting point, my additional predictions are:
- Danaerys and Jon Snow turn on each other after the sacking of King’s Landing, as Danaerys doesn’t see any point to fighting the battle now that she can’t rule over Westeros from the Red Keep. Jon Snow was never in it for the power but he needs her dragons, which he can now control. This also avoids any long term incest issues.
- The Dothraki and the Unsullied desert Westeros, after Danaerys dies, making the odds for the battle of Winterfell super ridiculous and paving the way for a deus ex machina that will make the internet collectively groan for decades.
- The deus ex machina will involve Bran travelling through time to learn how he himself (Bran the Builder) used magic to repel the white walkers and build the wall the first time around.
- Jon Snow will reluctantly rule over a completely decimated Westeros, marking an end to the Baratheon/Lannister usurping of power and wrapping everything up in a nice bow.
In 3 episodes?
Color me doubtful.
5 episodes - and the foreshadowing about the wildfire everywhere under Kings Landing has to play a role. Burning the Sept was part of it, but that’s just one building - apparently this stuff is everywhere. It’s Checkov’s Wildfire!
And the “Burn them All” line has been repeated often enough that it has to be relevant too. I think the Hodor scene was just foreshadowing for how that plays out…
As for the rest, that’s speculation, but I think the wildfire and “Burn them All” will be instrumental to the final battle.
Tragically, it turns out the Mad King was not actually calling maniacally for mass immolation in the final hours of his life. He was indeed warged but Sam was in the room with Bran at the time and complaining about his upset stomach. The Mad King was just slurring the phrase "This heartburn is appalling. "
That could work.
Or maybe Queen Gorgo, standing with Themistocles and getting ready to fight the Persians, thinking ‘those dragons from my dream would come in mighty handy right about now…’
Varys will win the throne at the end. We’ll be reminded that the whole “game of thrones” is essentially a chess match between Little Finger and Varys, with each backing whoever he feels is most capable of elevating them, albeit in completely different ways; Little Finger as aggressor, making secret or strategic alliances, setting up convenient murders, etc. and Varys maintaining a defensive position, using patience, intelligence and surveillance, preparing for the one final counter-attack. Hare, meet tortoise! Little Finger rushed one too many moves.
I don’t see it. Nobody wants a spider on the throne. He couldn’t win it, and he couldn’t keep it if he did.
Nobody wants a eunuch on the throne either.
And I see Littlefinger as being very different than Varys. Varys is a patriot, using his talents to try to put good people on the throne, or at least to keep chaos from descending on Westeros. Littlefinger, on the other hand, used chaos like a weapon, and was only interested in the game and personal power no matter who got hurt. Varys is essentially good, although willing to do hard things when he thinks it necessary, whereas Littlefinger was a villain through and through.
I think the show should end with Bob Newhart waking up in his bed and saying to Emily, “I keep having these crazy dreams. By the way, you should try wearing black leather.”
I don’t think she’s pregnant. She told her wee brother she was, using her abstinence from wine as a prop. After boinking Euron, however, she’s back into the cask.
But I do like the idea of Arya taking her out using Jamie’s face.
I think Sam’s served his purpose, he can join the dead army now.
Same with Sir Friend Zone.