tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post8333846294842749643..comments2024-03-27T01:48:48.936-07:00Comments on They're All Fictional: Game of Thrones: PredictionsRavhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-45008336038442698282019-05-21T03:00:48.519-07:002019-05-21T03:00:48.519-07:00TWO YEARS LATER...
How did I do?
Lyanna Mormont:...TWO YEARS LATER...<br /><br />How did I do?<br /><br />Lyanna Mormont: yikes, totally wrong. At least she went out like a boss.<br /><br />Podrick Payne: Made it, though not for any particularly compelling reason.<br /><br />Bronn: Still maintain he should have gone out fighting the dragon, but I guess the writers loved him too much.<br /><br />Edd: Nailed it.<br /><br />Gilly: Nailed it.<br /><br />Grey Worm: Totally stunned that he survived this.<br /><br />Yara: Nailed it, glad she's in charge of the Ironborn.<br /><br />Melisandre: Wrong about the mercenaries, but went out just as she prophesied.<br /><br />Gendry: Well, he made it, but certainly not as the blacksmith of Winterfell!<br /><br />Samwell: Nailed it.<br /><br />Beric: Nailed it.<br /><br />Varys: NAILED IT.<br /><br />Missandei: Yikes. So so wrong. <br /><br />Jorah: Had an inkling he'd go out defending his Queen/Beloved, and would he have had it any other way?<br /><br />Tormund: He made it, for which I'm glad.<br /><br />Davos: Made it, thank goodness.<br /><br />Brienne: Glad she made it, though it was difficult for me to guess where she'd end up. This works for me though. (And so happy she didn't get pregnant).<br /><br />Bran: Yeah, whatever.<br /><br />Arya: NAILED IT.<br /><br />Sansa: NAILED IT.<br /><br />Cersei: Was totally wrong about who/what killed her, though we all should have guessed when D&D left out the valonqar part of the prophecy that they weren't going there.<br /><br />Jaime: Totally wrong. He got shafted, and I didn't even like the guy!<br /><br />Tyrion: The absolute epitome of failing upwards. <br /><br />Jon and Daenerys: Well, it's obvious that I could feel a twist was coming, but one turning into a genocidal tyrant and the other her murderer her certainly never crossed my mind. That was rough.<br /><br />But hey, I did guess that Jon would end up in the North with Ghost!Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-82750736250594584052019-05-21T02:57:44.626-07:002019-05-21T02:57:44.626-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-38678291131225524422017-09-18T18:49:19.604-07:002017-09-18T18:49:19.604-07:00Yeah, Arya is a tricky one to figure out, for the ...Yeah, Arya is a tricky one to figure out, for the reasons you stated. It feels like she should kill someone important (who isn't just Littlefinger) after all that training she did, and yet she's not narratively embroiled in the White Walkers/Army of the Dead plot. The Night King is clearly Jon's enemy to defeat (unless they throw in something totally unexpected, which is certainly not out of the question in this show) so I wonder if perhaps what remains for Arya is to reclaim what's left of her childhood? Or perhaps she's already too far gone (aside from being good at killing, she clearly enjoys it as well). <br /><br />And yeah, I have no worries about Sansa at all, which delights me partly because she's one of my favourites, and partly because it'll infuriate the haters. When/if she ends up as Queen of the North, I'll be chuckling just as hard as I did when Guinevere made it out of "Merlin" alive. Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-81628303887260936232017-09-18T18:45:04.894-07:002017-09-18T18:45:04.894-07:00I dunno ... there's a difference between dying...I dunno ... there's a difference between dying at the hands of your own men in a dark back alley and going out in a blaze of glory while saving the world. I guess I'm basing this prediction partly on what the book says about Beric's multiple resurrections: that he's less of himself every time he comes back. Granted, the show has been wholly uninterested in this aspect of resurrection when it comes to Jon, but I still can't shake the feeling he's on borrowed time. Everyone is destined to die at one point or another - his has just been delayed by God/fate/narrative necessity so that he can fulfil his purpose. (And killing off the rightful heir to the throne would be the ultimate fantasy subversion).<br /><br />But then I'm not staking money on any of these predictions - only George Martin knows for certain.Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-43338420485783716632017-09-18T07:15:35.636-07:002017-09-18T07:15:35.636-07:00It would be a fairly eccentric decision to kill of...It would be a fairly eccentric decision to kill off Jon as the climax of season 5, make 'is he dead or not' the centerpiece of the publicity for season 6 and then bring him back, only to kill him off again... especially if they were to re-dead him in the final season. The same trick doesn't work twice. (See also Sherlock's refusal to stop using Moriarty five years after they killed the character off, which really robbed the show of a lot of impact.)Christopher Wickhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04464508124308672707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-77988240430420104082017-09-18T06:46:33.579-07:002017-09-18T06:46:33.579-07:00I loved reading all these! Nice and comprehensive,...I loved reading all these! Nice and comprehensive, too. I suspect you are a tad optimistic - I think all your reasoning is absolutely sound but this is still Game of Thrones, and even though the deaths have been fairly light lately, I tend to think they will want to go out maintaining their reputation. Apart from the obviously dead (Cersei, Melisandre), I suspect a few more of the "cannon fodder" characters at the start of your list will go - at least five or six, if not more.<br /><br />I would be very surprised if all three remaining Starks made it out alive - although as you say, whether Bran is really alive is an open question. I tend to think either Bran will die for real (the Dead being defeated and his purpose fulfilled), or he will regain something of himself and Arya will die instead. For Arya it seems the most logical death would be going down while also taking out someone on her list, but the surviving figures on her list are either, as you point out, reserved for others (Cersei, the Mountain) or people who are essentially "good guys" at this point and whose death we as the audience would not see as worth it (the Hound, Melisandre, Beric). (Sansa, of course, is not dying. There is no character whose survival I am more sure of.)<br /><br />Thanks for posting this!Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02047145278279336626noreply@blogger.com