Slowman wrote:
i don't follow it as close as you all do, but here are my hopes, tho i'm pretty sure they'll all be dashed:
- notwithstanding their age difference,
i hope jorah mormont and daenerys find eternal happiness. - that
brienne of tarth comes to fancy tormund giantsbane and they end up with a nice castle in the north.
- that somebody figures out how to cure wights, and that karsi (the wight), once cured, ends up with jon. i like them together.
- illy and sam need to end up ruling house tarly, and to be the warden of something.
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jaqen h'ghar, i hope we're not done with him yet.
- perhaps
yara and ellaria will end up together (is yara still alive? i think so), but in the end dickless theon should save the entire day for everybody good, and end up ruling the iron islands.
-- Jorah Mormont's definitely got a big part to play in Dany's story arc, that's for sure. I don't know about eternal happiness, but maybe he gives his life for her at the penultimate moment?
-- Brienne and Jaime's fates are intertwined. Maybe Jaime gives his life for hers when they're fighting the white walkers in the final battle? (If such a battle takes place, that is.) Olenna Tyrell, who took a draught of poison from Jaime Lannister after Highgarden fell to his army, predicted that he'd end up dying (and not naturally, and old and in his bed), and what better way than giving it all up for Brienne? ;-)
-- I'm with you on Jaqen H'ghar. Dude's too cool not to have a role in the upcoming festivities.
-- Yara Greyjoy is still alive. Euron is pictured leading her away after depositing Ellaria and Tyene Sand in front of Cersei. Probably going to do all kinds of evil uncle things to her. And you're right about Theon, as well: he has to go through a little internal hell before he can cast off the Reek persona for good, and he will, at which point he'll do something legendary and heroic -- including killing Euron in mortal combat that will forever erase the stain of his betrayal of the Starks and of Yara, when he jumped off the ship and ran away rather than face Euron at that time and save her.
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