This article contains spoilers through the final instalment of the sixth season of Game of Thrones . you could obtain moreGame of Thronesanalysis , theory , and meditation here .
If you ’ve spent the last two month analyzingGame of Thrones ' Season 6 finaleas if it were the Zapruder photographic film , praying you ’ll catch a concealed twin in the background knowledge ofJon Snow ’s Tower of Joy giving birth sceneto justify the eight months you spend post " MEERA IS TARGARYEN " on Reddit , we sense you . So does the cast ofGame of Thrones , who walk this Earth unchurch with having information about Season 7 storyline . Thankfully for buff , the ensemble ca n’t always have got back , as evidenced by Maisie Williams ' wildfire - corresponding response to the raw set of book .
To review : time of year 6 let in the revelation that Melisandre wasan elderly woman de - aged by a magical talisman , major changesto the war narrative diagram by George R.R. Martin in the book , the possibility thatBran can clip - traveland ripple the material of time using " greensight,“Daenerys come forth from fireand dominating the Dothraki , the origin of the White Walkers , THE end OF FRICKIN ' HODOR , the return ofBenjen Stark , the return ofThe Hound , the complete and thoroughgoing supremacy of animation byLyanna Mormont , the last of Ramsay Bolton , and Cersei ’s newreign of terror , not to cite the least surprising mega - surprise ever , theresurrection of Jon Snow .
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Kit Harington seems to think that Season 7 will finally see the White Walkers lay waste to the Westeros we know and jazz . In a recent interview withThe Hollywood Reporter , theJon Snow actor stressed that , while he had n’t read the scripts yet , he has a gut feeling that the next batch ofGame of Thronesepisodes will be " bleak , " and that Jon may never see a felicitous finish .
" I think it ’s going to get very black before it get better , " he say in the interview . " I recollect what we might see this time of year is those White Walkers and that Army of the Dead really fall into military force . So that ’s going to be exciting to see . I do n’t know what it mean . I call up with the whole ' winter is finally here ' stage business , it means everyone is going to have a really unsound clip . "
Holy balls . CreatorsD.B. Weiss and David Benioff lately bring out a few of their plans for next time of year , including a direction on Cersei ’s genial content for being a rule and how the Walkers may bungle the warfare for the throne . The span specifically called out the Night King ( emphasizing the undead loss leader was n’t the " swelled bad " of the serial ) and said that the Wall , which does have magical powers , wo n’t function precisely as it does in the books . sports fan have long hypothesize that the mysterious Horn of Joramun , instal by Martin in the novels , could one day blare and collapse the flash-frozen barricade . A reaction like Williams ' only fuel the fiery speculation – what else could be THAT heavy ?
Maybe it ’s a trio of dragons burning King ’s landing place to the priming coat . perhaps it ’s Sansa Stark waging warfare on Cersei from the other direction . peradventure Jon Snow dies again . perhaps Williams is reacting to Arya ’s own path , which tapered off with the blackwash of Walder Frey in the closing curtain . Or mayhap it ’s Khal Drogo as an undead Dothraki ballbuster , quick to help his faggot in the takeover of Westeros . Crazy ? Jason Momoa is currently hanging around stage set drinking Guinness with Weiss and Benioff , so you severalise me .
WithGame of Thronesoff George R.R. Martin ’s rails , anything can happen , though for now , all sign point to state of war . According to Watchers on the Wall , the series iscrewing upfor an army , including a " worldwide " character described as a " senior military officer , " and a " Warrior , " touted as a " a baffling - looking bruiser with the attack skills of a Inferno bull , " who ’ll have a “ considerable ” amount of dialogue .
Weiss and Benioff calledGame of Thrones ' sixth seasonthe twelvemonth of " rebirth,“a theme see literally and figuratively throughout the 10 episode . Could there be room for more rejoinder in Season 7 ? If Williams is reacting to a major twist , it could be one long teased by Martin himself . In February , the authortoldIGN that his next instalment will offer a " major twist " that involves a number of known character , admit one person who ’s dead on the TV serial but awake in the books . This could look up to any number of drained - on - the - show , animated - in - the - books character , of course of study . Mance Rayder ? Catelyn Stark ? Stannis Baratheon ? Weiss and Benioff are both indebted and free of Martin ’s school text as they " adapt " the show , but hey , if the author had a really , really , really adept idea …
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Williams intelligibly picked up a thing or two from Arya ’s bravo training – she ’s slip questioning poison into the wells and now we ’re all going brainsick . Well done , Maisie . Braavos . Now back to analyzing those Tower of Joy frames .
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