The Latest 'Game of Thrones' Debunks a Ton of Internet Theories

This clause contains pillager for " No One , " the 8th episode of the 6th season ofGame of Thrones . Proceed with caution . You might also need to readour full recapof the instalment or see all ofourGame of Thronesstories .

The 165 hours between eachGame of Thronesepisode are just as entertaining as the hour we get each calendar week , if not more . Each week , D.B. Weiss and David Benioff plant seeds that blossom into Reddit threads , Facebook yarn boards , and fresh fish for our own state of nature " what if ? " discussions . And the show indulges its conspiracists : razz the " Tower of Joy " reveal , the groundwork for the tenacious - standingR + L = Jtheory , is mete immorality .

In " No One , " the eighth sequence ofThronesSeason 6 , Weiss and Benioff quit toying with the dot - connecting obsessive . There were no openhanded spin or part deaths , but it was revelatory all the same , the dramatic version of ripping a bandage off shrouded injury . OnGame of Thrones , what’snotgoing to happen is as important as what is . Here ’s what we can last put to rest ( and how it changes the game ):

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Cleganebowl hype takes a pause

An anticipated showdown between the Mountain and the Hound , expected to take place during Cersei ’s " tribulation by scrap " against the High Sparrow , is all but dead . This calendar week , the born - again Tommen recede the practice on the cornerstone that it really does n’t prove anything . all right , fair . But we , like most of the internet , dream of watch Gregor and Sandor Clegane belt in each other ’s skull in what would beThrones ' most hulking battle .

It ’s possible we ’ll see"Cleganebowl"transplanted to another area . Sandor is now in cahoots with the Brotherhood and apparently on a path to the Great War against the White Walkers . But considering the overarching threats in that scenario , the Clegane brothers would most likely be ally before foe .

So long, Lady Stoneheart

speak of the Brotherhood , an appearance by Beric Dondarrion suggests that Lady Stoneheart , a resurrected , bloodythirsty edition of Catelyn Stark intermittently seen in George R.R. Martin ’s books , wo n’t be making it to television . Like Jon Snow , Beric is one of the fewThronescharacters with the ability to come back to sprightliness , thanks to some love from the Lord of Light . This is established on the show – return the prison term Sandor bested Beric in a duel many moons ago – and come up again this instalment when the Hound deal his vengeance onLem Lemoncloakand chum .

But Beric being alive atthispoint in the storey is a departure from the source material ; inA Feast for Crows , Brienne discovers that the Robin Hood - comparable figure sacrificed his life to bring Catelyn back to life . If he ’s still around , that means Catelyn ( who becomes known as Lady Stoneheart after her Christ’s Resurrection ) is n’t . WhenThroneshammers home that Catelyn Stark is numb , dead , dead in the conversation between Jaime and Edmure Tully , it ’s also suggesting this theory is also utter , beat , stagnant .

Arya is not the star of her ownFight Club

The cyberspace pull for the Faceless Men plot line to be more than it was . Arya becoming " Arya Bourne " was n’t enough ; the gallery of mask were an armory of Chekhov ’s guns , sitting , waiting to be deform for maximum surprisal . Throughout Season 6 , theorists have wondered if the whole Faceless Men constitution was too well to be true . Maybe Aryawas caught in her own nous . possibly Jaqen and the Waif were constructions of her tattered mind . Maybe every picture where she fight to exist her sightlessness was just her falling deeply and deep into a psychotic patch . NOPE . It was all real , and now Arya ’s manoeuvre back to Westeros . But good thinking , net .

Syrio Forel is not that guy behind the Waif

A favourite fleck of hypothesis fodder : Arya ’s Season 1 mentor , the maestro Braavosi swordfighter name Syrio Forel , return to message control board everywhere when a curly - haired piece come along behind the Waif in a recent promo pic . tops incorrect – so incorrect , that maybe it ’s time to put " Syrio Forel return " to remain ( even though we technically never see him die ) ? How many characters canThronesreallybring back ?

One rumor that is true, however…

" No One " was n’t a entire bust for imaginativeThronesviewers . What was Qyburn consult to when he told Cersei an " erstwhile rumour you told me about " was " something more " ? Of course we have a hypothesis .

Think back a few episode to the flashback Bran had as he fly the weirwood Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , with the Three - Eyed Raven ’s cognition half - downloaded into his mind . The Stark wunderkindhad a visionof Jaime mangle the Mad King , along with glimpses of an perdition of unripe wildfire engulf King ’s landing place .

Westeros history narrate us the latter never really happened . The insane King tell his underlings to bring every gallon of wildfire they could get their hand on , so that he could reenact an mad plan to self - immolate and transform into a dragon , but Jaime put an end to that before it even start out . But what if that wildfire is still there ? And what if that ’s what Qyburn and his fiddling birds retrieve out ? And what if , to avert the High Sparrow ’s judgment at her upcoming trial , Cersei burns it all down ?