What we know about ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 based on last season’s explosive finale.
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Winter is here.
We can’t wait to see where the show will take us. Here’s what we can expect to see next season. Get a coat because it’s only getting colder, friends.
The King in the North, but not the Queen in the North? That’s the questions one Miss Sansa Stark may be asking herself after her brother (er, cousin but more on that below) is declared King by the Northmen (and, bless her, little Lyanna Mormont) . Jon may have made a fuss about how Sansa was the Lady of Winterfell and got to sleep in the biggest room in the castle, but he didn’t exactly turn down this power, and this respect he’s been craving his entire life as a bastard, when offered. Sansa smiled along during the moment, but darkened a little after Littlefinger (always manipulating, always in pursuit of more and more power) shot her a look.
In the behind-the-scenes clips that aired after the episode, Kit Harington and Sophie Turner both acknowledged this tension. Jon “hasn’ t actually learnt his lesson… he’s asking (Sansa) to trust him, but he’s not listening and watching and observing her. I think that could be a real problem for him, ” Harington said. Sophie Turner added, “He’s named King in the North and she kind of gets no credit for it. It’s not that she’s looking for praise or anything. She did it because she wants revenge and also because she wants her home back. Jon is so naive. So Sansa is just a little bit agitated is all.”
It seems all is not rosy in Winterfell, despite the fact that the direwolf banners have returned.
Speaking of ambiguous looks, let’s talk about the one Jaime was sporting as he entered the Red Keep’s throne room only to find his last child dead and his sister and lover sitting on the Iron Throne. That is the look of a man who doesn’t recognize someone he loves, who regrets choices he’s made and who doesn’t know where to go from here. As powerful as Cersei became in her King’s Landing coup, she is going to need more allies than just Qyburn and his little birds. Her hold over the throne is tenuous at best, considering she grabbed it through fear. Jaime is a powerful ally that she probably counted on having, but she may not have him.
Arya wasted no time after returning to Westeros before beginning to cross some names off her infamous list, with the skills she gained from her time with the Faceless Men. Walder Frey was a good start, but which name is next? And where on the list will she stop? Arya might be filling in for Lady Stoneheart (aka the resurrected mad Catelyn Stark) , who in the books goes on a vengeance tour seeking everyone involved with the Red Wedding. Accidental casualties of that crusade are Brienne and Pod, who Stoneheart, in her mad vengeful mind, mistakes for Lannister traitors. Arya didn’t have a great interaction with Brienne in the first place, and, assuming she and Pod have not paddled too far up the river, they are both in the Riverlands at the end of the season.
But if Arya isn’t going the Stoneheart route, who’s left to take her North (maybe all the way to Winterfell) or to King’s Landing?
A time-travel power is not a narrative one just throws out there and then abandons. Bran fulfilled his duty of confirming that Jon is the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna (which readers have known for years) , but he’s not done. He’s the Three-Eyed Raven now, as he pointed out to Meera, and that means he hangs out in the past a lot, we guess. Sometimes he just watches, but sometimes he ruins the mental health of poor young stable boys. One fan theory posits that Bran’s trips to the past might be the cause of Aerys’ madness (is Bran the source of all those whispers the Mad King used to hear) , and even if that isn’t true, Bran certainly has a bigger role to play.
When Benjen dropped off Bran and Meera near the Wall, he confirmed something you may have expected about that ancient and foreboding structure. It’s not just its height that keeps the White Walkers from crossing, but magic as well. That’s good news for the brothers that Jon left when he and Sansa went to take back Winterfell. But bad news if a certain all-powerful horn from the books shows up at any time. The Horn of Winter supposedly has the power to bring the Wall down, and in the books Mance Rayder claimed to have found it buried beneath a glacier beyond the wall. Considering how willing the show was to bring things crashing down in King’s Landing this season, we could see the horn in the show’s future.
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