Game of Thrones [SPOILERS POSSIBLE]

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My big question with that is if Howland Reed was there, then Reed knew about Jon, knew about the promise Lyanna Stark asked of Ned before she died. Everyone watching the show and reading the books was so enamored with the enigma that was Jon Snow's parents from day 1. How big of a dick is George RR Martin to not only let a character who knows the secret remain alive in the story, but also not make him even a minor recurring character in the story at all? Somehow, somewhere Howland Reed is still alive in this story and he knows everything and always has.

Podcaster dude is a big fan of the books and he says one of his biggest regrets about the TV show is that we never got to meet Howland Reed.

He cites exactly what you've written above along with the same questions.

And a bit of a sidebar - Wasn't Jojen a relative too? The other greenseeing guy besides Bran?

There's a huge story there

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Jojen and Meera are Howland's children.

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Yeah, Jojen was Howland's son and tells his Dad about how his leigelord (Ned) was killed by using his greenseer powers.

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So is Bran going to just plug into a tree somewhere and that's it for him?

Bye Bran, don't forget to take care of that bark in the summer

[Teh One Who Knocks]

So is Bran going to just plug into a tree somewhere and that's it for him?

Bye Bran, don't forget to take care of that bark in the summer

The final scene will show (insert character here) about to take the throne and that's when Bran springs out of his wheelchair and yells "sic semper tyrannis" and slits their throat before they take the throne and turns to face the horrified crowd with a smile and says "I've been faking it tho whole time bitchez!" as he takes his rightful place on the throne.

*fade out*

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The final scene will show (insert character here) about to take the throne and that's when Bran springs out of his wheelchair and yells "sic semper tyrannis" and slits their throat before they take the throne and turns to face the horrified crowd with a smile and says "I've been faking it tho whole time bitchez!" as he takes his rightful place on the throne.

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Bran is Howland Reed

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BY Eric Italiano - Coed.com




Over the course of just 10 years, A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin has gone from being a niche New Jersey fantasy novelist to one of the most recognizable names on the face of the planet. Talk about a come up.

And now that Game of Thrones iconic eight-season run is finally coming to an end on HBO, the attention is being shifted back to Martin, as he famously has not released A Song of Ice and Fire book since 2011’s A Dance with Dragons.

In a recent interview with business magazine FastCompany, Martin revealed an interesting tidbit about a character that he feels has been awarded too much screentime throughout the years.



“It’s hard enough to come up with a good story and good characters and things like that, but in television and film not only does the writer have to come up with that, but then he has to fight for it politically. In some cases, there’s butting heads and clashing egos and there’s debates,” Martin begins.

“You get totally extraneous things like the studio or the network weighing in, and they have some particular thing that has nothing to do with story, but relates to, ‘Well this character has a very high Q Rating so let’s give him a lot more stuff to do even though he’s a rather unimportant character,’” he explains.

While Martin does not identify the character by name, video clips of Ser Bronn of the Blackwater appear during this portion of the interview.

During the years, Bronn has become one of the major fan favorites, as his combination of fighting skills, love for women and money, and sharp tongue has made him almost the Every Man Hero of Westeros.

The final season of HBO’s iconic, Emmy Award-winning fantasy drama Game of Thrones — which first premiered on Sunday, April 17, 2011 — will conclude its eighth and final season on Sunday, May 19, 2019.

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So Bronn became a fan favorite. I'm sure many of Martin's characters gained and lost visibility throughout the TV series.

That's what you get when you attend a couple of lunches with the writers and give them vague plot points once every five years you dick.

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I read that Martin did map out the Hodor origins story with the writers and then you hear rumors about him ignoring large portions of the final seasons saying it's your show now.

I'm not sure how to receive the books if/when they come out.

On the one hand if he just writes about the major plot points from the show, it'll seem like a retread.

On the other hand if he changes everything, there will be this opposition of forces in my mind saying - Hey, the Night King didn't do that or Sansa didn't die there.

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I read that Martin did map out the Hodor origins story with the writers and then you hear rumors about him ignoring large portions of the final seasons saying it's your show now.

I'm not sure how to receive the books if/when they come out.

On the one hand if he just writes about the major plot points from the show, it'll seem like a retread.

On the other hand if he changes everything, there will be this opposition of forces in my mind saying - Hey, the Night King didn't do that or Sansa didn't die there.

Plot twist: In the books (so far), there is no Night King.

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Plot twist: In the books (so far), there is no Night King.

Yeah I'm on my third time through reading them.

And you know that Fatty Slowpants hasn't introduced the Night King because he's a lazy dickweed and didn't come up with a backstory for the white walkers.

Actually I'm a big fan of his writing and I don't reread many books.

Coincidentally I'm right at the part in the first book where everyone has gone to King's Landing, Bran is recovering in bed and awake and Dany has been gifted the dragon eggs after marrying Khal Drogo.

Old Nan is telling Bran some scary stories and uses the term 'white walkers' and then uses the more familiar term 'the Others'. I think Bran says wtf when she calls them white walkers

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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