I still think that Bran will be the key to all of this - he will be the most powerful greenseer and will have the power to 'speak' to people throughout history.
He will start doing some crazy shit, like telling people through the tree's in times during history and it will change things so radically that he will go back as himself again and not say them just so that things don't become so fucked up.
But then, there will be one thing he goes to the tree and says - "don't be the kings hand" to Ned before he goes down to the Red Keep with King Robert, and it will avoid this whole shambles, and everything else will fall in line, the wars of the world will stop and everyone will live happily ever after.
Okay - well that's just a bunch of BS and will never happen, but hey - I just don't see the point of Bran. He's there, he's a greenseer now, but there is NO POINT TO HIM, he can't do shit. He can only watch through the trees, what can he do now? Is he actually able to physically do anything other than observe?
Arya won't die, and people who are saying she's "betraying her training to the faceless men" I don't think she is, everyone who gets their training has their own agenda, however their training teaches them to put aside their own cares and their own beliefs and learn to lie without showing it - lie without telling the lie on their face, so she is being taught how to lie and tell them that she is "no one" any more, thus when they ask her if she is a leal servant of the many faced god she will say "yes" and she will be lying, but she will be trained in the art of lying and even though she doesn't mean it, she will have lied correctly.
THAT is the power of the many faced god, and although everyone who serves him puts aside who they really are with a lie, they still remain who they are on the inside... that's how I see it anyway, and that's the truth of really becoming a servant of the many faced god. Knowing that you are who you are, and believing that fully so that you can lie about it deliberately.
I'm still really keen to find out about Jon. Jon has always been said to look exactly like Ned, so those theories that he's Roberts bastard with a Targ is pretty abstract and while the evidence and clues are solid, it just sounds crazy... could it be Ned and a Targ? I sorta doubt it...
Overall, I'm really just keen to see what happens next, with Jon gone, there is going to be complete ANARCHY on the wall, there are more wildlings on this side of the wall than rangers now, and the others are coming, but I'm glad that they weren't going to go to seal bay and try and save all those other people...
What I don't understand is why Jon doesn't trust the wall - the Others can't pass by the wall, it keeps them out magically - he doesn't need to block the tunnels because they can't pass through so why the worry about them? Perhaps the Wights are the worry... and I suppose the thousands of dead wildlings that will become wights are the real worry upon the coming of winter (which is upon us now right?).
I really don't know what's going to happen though... none of us do, we can all speculate.
I'm really shocked that people didn't pick up on the fact that Arya poisoned a coin and put it in the dude's wallet so that when the other guy bit it he died of a heart attack, like that was so clear I just can't believe people didn't realise it.
I also can't wait to see if Davos finds Rickon. I wonder if we'll end up seeing any Rickon perspective chapters.
I was also surprised that George didn't give us any perspective of Sansa, just to catch us up as to what is happening in the Vale, just one itty bitty chapter to see what Littlefinger is up to, but alas we're all left to wondering.
I think we all know Stannis is still alive, and Ramsay only captured Mance. I don't think Mance would have given up the info though, the spearwives would have - he's bound to Melisandre, but she would have known everything because of the ruby on his wrist, so I'm surprised she didn't warn Jon. Overall I feel that Mel is just a complete failure in every way, everything she says and does is WRONG, she might be the most powerful at seeing the flames, but everything she see's and concludes from her visions is WRONG. Perhaps the fact that all she can see in her flames is Jon is something important, perhaps he was Azor Ahai and she let him die, and now the world is doomed... that'd be cool - no happy ending.
Arya the stealth assassin to the rescue, killing every Other and Wight single handedly and incest marrying Rickon. If Rickon is raised on the island of cannibals, he's gonna be one hard mother fucker.
Who is Bael?
