"My THEORY for GoT, Season 7!" Topic

Omg! Seven gods, seven heavens, seven books, seventh season!
Oh not really…
If that meant anything, why would the 6 preceding seasons have 10 episodes?
Meh….

Anyway, I think that season 7 will settle most dynastic disputes, only to have them all proven silly because the White Walkers will burst through.

Supposedly, 17 main actors have been spotted in the bars in Seville Spain, with a few left out. Bran, for one, whose actor is too young for bars.
So, they sort things out, and in the first 46 minutes of the last episode kill off a lot of major actors with large salaries.
SOMEONE will sit the Iron Throne, legitimately!
Cersei will die, of course. Does it matter who kills her? Naaaah. There are at least 3 who qualify as some sort of "little brother". Jaime? Sure. Why not. Because Tyrion will be a Targaryean. Riding a dragon!

But it won't really matter who wins this petty dynastic squabble, because somehow Bran will burst the restraints keeping the White Walkers north of the Wall. Easy prediction, but it won't be the Wall that falls. It'll be the Crypts at Winterfell that will be the portal. Hah!

Half of the 17 will die. Brom and Brienne will be among them. Heroically. Euron? Sure. Who cares?
Sansa and Littlefinger. Treasonously.

In the last 13 minutes, the White Walkers burst through. The Night's King will slay Dany's dragon and resurrect him. Is she dead? Fade to black as Knight's King resurrects her dragon.

Sam finds something in an old book.
Arya kills a bunch of people who deserve it.
Edd promises to make the Watch great again and is elected 999th Lord Commander.
Daario finds solace in wine and bimbos.
There is gratuitous nudity.
Violence is decried.
George will still not have finished Book 6, but will have a great time at Historicon where he will introduce his new rules for mass battles in Westeros. The Perrys will make the figures.

9 out of 10 book prophecies will be thrown under the bus because they do not fit the narrative of the TV series.

Don't care – Just as long as it does not end like the TV show Lost!

Can I pre-order the figures? And what is half of 17? Or is that a slight against Tyrion? ;-)

I only want to know… would be there great battles or not?… (including sea ones)…

And… who would be Kaleese partner (in bed and throne)…?

Amicalement
Armand

And then Dolores kills the man in black and….oh, sorry, wrong series. I'm bad at this predicting stuff but I have to figure that Littlefinger will fit in somewhere. He can't join Cersei, she knows that he helped Sansa escape, or she will when she hears about what's been happening in the North. If he tries to join Dany, well, she has Varys and Tyrion both of whom hate and deeply mistrust him. He's already made his plans known to Sansa but as she told Jon, "only a fool would trust Littlefinger".

Now Jon undoubtedly heads south and meets Dany and evidently kicks the heck out of Theon, maybe he kills him. But does he marry her? Jon, Sansa, and the North hate the Lannisters, I don't think she needs a marriage tie to seal an alliance. And there are hints in the books that Varys knows that Jon is a Targaryen, he tells Illyrio that Eddard Stark has "the book, the bastard…." so Illyrio may tell Jon and Dany. Maybe though Jon marries Dany, Sansa becomes Queen in the North and at the end of the season Littlefinger sticks a knife in her ribs and joins up with Euron. Euron meanwhile has had a flirtation with Cersei but either kills her himself or watches as Arya kills her. Euron is a younger brother himself and Arya, so often mistaken for a boy may be again.

So we have Bran crossing the Wall which will allow the White Walkers and the Night King to do so as well. The Brotherhood without Banners but with Sandor Clegane heads North, sorry folks, no Clegane bowl. The Mountain will find that "what is dead cannot die" but it can be quickfried to a crackly crunch.

The season ends with Sansa, Cersei, The Mountain, Theon, Euron, Littlefinger and Jaime dead. Dany sits on the Iron Throne but the Night King and his forces are sweeping south Sam finds some ancient book and races to find Jon. Will he get there in time? We won't know until 2018.

I don't know about Varys knowing the truth about Jon.
"The book and the bastard" refer to Gendry, not Jon. They show that "the blood runs true" regarding Baratheon hair color.
But you have me intrigued. Any other clues?

Arya was convinced that "The Bastard" referred to Jon, everyone assumes it's Gendry who I am convinced is a red herring. Varys and Illyrio are working towards a restoration of the Targaryens not the Baratheons and while all the usual suspects, Littlefinger, Cersei, Eddard, Stannis and the rest may have thought that what Jon Arryn found was proof that Joffrey and Tommen had no right to the throne what if what Illyrio and Varys had planned went deeper? Varys and Illyrio, in their discussion in the dungeons mention that Eddard has almost all the pieces but that it is too soon. Illyrio tells Varys that he must delay Eddard. Now everyone knows that Robert had bastards, he had plenty of them. But Varys and Illyrio don't say that Ned has a bastard or some of the bastards they say that he has "the" bastard. That really only hit me when I was bored at lunch the other day and was re-reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle.

And there are questions about Gendry himself. True, he is one of Robert's Bastards, one of many. Now if Jon Arryn or Ned had managed to convince Robert that Joffrey and Tommen and Myrcella weren't his kids he would have probably had Jaime and Cersei executed (probably not even Tywin could have stopped it) and at the very least Joffrey and Tommen would have probably spent the rest of their short lives either in a dungeon or on the Wall. Now that leaves Gendry and whoever (I forget his name) the other one at Dragonstone (IIRC) as illegitimate heirs. But Renly is campaigning for Robert to marry Maergery who is certainly young enough and presumably able to produce legitimate heirs with noble blood on both sides and unquestionably legitimate. But the last thing that Varys and Illyrio want is a stable period and an extension of the Baratheon line. I think that Jon Snow is sort of an ace in the hole for them. I think though that they are afraid that Ned will drop Jon Snow into the mix.

That would be Edric Storm. Gendry got his role rolled into his for the tv version.

All this does bring into question just what Illyrio and Varys have been planning. in the books it's really messy, they have Viserys and Dany (and possibly Dany's Baby until he dies) and Fake Aegon and they may or may not know that Jon is out there as well as possibly Tyrion. That's a lot of "Last Dragons" And it begs the question of why on Earth would you groom and support a fake heir when you also have the real ones? I mean it's worse that the False Dimitrys that plagued Boris Godunov. Now in the TV series it's cleaner, first they're backing Viserys, then they switch to Dany and they may have Jon Snow as a hole card but no one is currently (in the show, the fans are though) Tyrion as a Targ. It's why I like the show better, it's a cleaner narrative.

BTW I am not happy that it seems that the entire cast is in Spain this season. With only Seven episodes one would expect that means that most of the action will take place there and that means Dorne and I hate Dorne. I hate it in the books and I hate it in the show. I hope that, whatever else they do, Cersei and Euron massacre the Sand Snakes.

I agree about Dorne.
That whole Arianna Martel and Oakheart (?) arc was just Martin going "la la la I have no deadlines and can skew off on as many tangents as I want!"
Then HBO comes along.