Game of Thrones Season Six **SPOILERS WITHIN**

Oh, and I recall someone suggest the show could be in a Dyson sphere. I doubt it, if it's a true sphere around a star, then the star will be oblate sphere so the equatorial regions will get more radiation than the poles, so you wouldn't get arctic and hot desert conditions close to another without some major elevation changes as, assuming an Earth/Sun distance (150 million km), the distance from a pole to an equator would be around 235.5 million km if my math is correct ((2*pi*r)/4). You'd need a bloody fast horse...

Why does that derail your theory? The Targaryen's are famous for marrying within the clan. Aegon the Conqueror had two wives, both of whom were his sisters. Recall that in the first season of the show, Dany just assumed that one day she'd marry her brother Viserys. Incest ain't no big thing for them, and Dany is still roughly Jon's age...

Yeah her story isn't done. I think she will be back someway in the end.

The prophecy didn't say that in that way.

This is the prophecy:

True. She wed King Robert Baratheon

At this point in the story that can only mean Daenerys Targaryen. Coming with her invasion fleet to destory the Lannisters and take the one thing Cersi truly loves: power.

Joeffrey, Marcella, and Tommen. All blondish. All dead.

Valonqar is Valyrian for little brother.

That means it could be Jaime or Tyrion.

There is also a theory out there that Littlefinger is the one. He comes from the five fingers. The smallest of the five fingers. If you think of the fingers as brothers he would be the little brother. He was also called little brother by Cat Stark even though Littlefinger is a only child.

We know Littlefinger wants the throne. I can see him squirm his way into Kings Landing and convince Cersi to marry him. Then he would choke the life out of her.

I just don't see Jaime or Tyrion doing it. Prophecy's after all aren't always 100% what we think and it's too neat. I can see GRRM throwing everyone for a loop.

No. He's still in the dungeon. Whoever was fourth in line of the Frey household is now in charge.

The Frey's are still allied with the Lannisters so until someone invades and knocks the Frey House out they are still in charge of the Riverlands.

It's obvious that the producers are running fast and loose with the timeline. The stories we're seeing aren't happening concurrently in realtime. I estimate at least 6 weeks passed between Jamie's meal with Walder Frey and Cersi's crowning ceremony, which would've given Arya and Varys plenty of travel time.

I haven't seen a map in a while, but I think there are a series of peninsulas between the southern tip of Dorne and Essos... And not for nothing, the Narrow Sea that separates the continents are called that for a reason.

No, Varys and Arya Did Not Magically Time-Travel on Game of Thrones
A writer on the show explains the timing issues.

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#11 is kind of cool.


Also, during the animated show open, Winterfell was changed to show the Stark sigil on top of one of the little gears/buildings after having the Flayed Man sigil in previous episodes.

I thought it was neat how they transitioned the scenes in this episode.

No link in your post...

Speaking of that, did anyone else notice the light fixtures at The Citadel? It's a part of the "clockwork" map that we see in the opening credits every episode. I wonder if the entire map in the opening credits we see is at The Citadel... That's pretty neat!

I was wondering about that. The various Varys sightings were particularly confusing. He was in Dorne and that had to be significantly after the Cersei-bomb, as they all knew who'd died, etc... Then he's magically back on a ship with Dany at the end. So obviously there is some travel time involved (as opposed to time-travel). Add Arya's journey from Bravos to the Twins, and Jaime's subsequent travel from the Twins to King's Landing. It adds up to some significant time-passage between scenes.

Also, as an aside, I *love* this GIF...

Why they call it "King's Landing"...

There most certainly is.

Yeah, the further they have gotten from where book 5 ended, the more apparent the timing issues have become. It was noticeable a little bit in last season with Stannis Baratheon's story line, but it was ESPECIALLY noticeable with Arya and the Hound's story lines this season. For example: the episode where the Hound joins some random hippy commune, and they're dead by the end of the episode. Such a story line would have normally progressed over like 4 episodes in seasons prior, since it would have had countless chapters in the book. But because book 6 isn't written yet, the producers just powered right through it.

Don't get me wrong: I like this new pacing a lot better! But after 5 seasons of snail pacing, it was weird to get used to.

It's now confirmed for sure that we've got 13-15 episodes left. Count on 13.

I think the last scene with the massive fleet must have happened significantly after the other events in the episode.

Not only because Varys is on board, but there are Tyrell and Martell banners on some of the ships. It might have taken a while to formalize the alliances and get everyone together. It's not even clear where they are sailing from. It probably doesn't make sense for Dorne and Martell to sail to Mereen and then back to Westeros again. Maybe the fleet docked at Dorne and then picked up more ships from there.

That makes sense. A season to resolve the Game of Thrones, and a miniseries to focus on the fight against the undead. There isn't much more than that left to the story.

That means two shorter seasons. That will be an agonizing wait. I doubt HBO will let them have one larger 13-15 episode season.

No, whatever the final number of episodes turns out to be, they'll be split between two seasons.

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It's totally wrong to split 13 episodes into two seasons. That's just stringing people along and not much better than TWD's idiotic cliffhanger. Shame!

I just hope that once GoT is all done, someone with enough clout has the brain to work a prequel, either mini-series or feature film, of Robert's Rebellion.

Hell, there's enough mythology and mystery in ASOIAF that they could do several spin-off series after the fact:

• The Tales of Dunc & Egg,
• another based on the voyages of {insert "famous" pirate/sea captain here} as he sales around Westeros, Essos, etc... exploring that world,
• one based on earlier history of Planetos (the Children of the Forest vs the First Men, rise of Valyria, exodus of the Rhoynar, etc...)

How did Arya get a new face to deceive Frey with? Like did she take some faces with her? I'm unclear on the process.

Yeah... I think the process is supposed to remain mysterious to us, but it seems to me that Arya had a lot of training in preparing bodies at the house of Black and White and harvesting faces. From the look in her eyes after she killed Frey, I'm 100% sure the producers want us to feel a good deal of concern for Arya. It's just a theory, but I believe Arya killed someone in Westeros and took their face in order to get close to Frey. It felt good to see Frey die at the hands of Arya, but at the same time, she seems to have crossed a line.

No one has mentioned it yet, but what do you think about Bran being at the Wall? Benjen told him he couldn't pass the Wall due to some magic that stops the undead from passing it... But then I remembered the cave the 3 eyed raven was in was also protected by magic until Bran was touched by the Night King. I am extremely concerned about Bran going south of the Wall and the Night King being able to bring it down. This kind of explains why the White Walkers have been so active north of the Wall but still considered a myth in the southern realms. Just a hunch, but we'll see next year I hope.

Bran ruins it for everybody.

Well yeah the Wall has to go. The whole point of the story isn't what's happening in Kings Landing but what will happen when the Others and their undead army cross into the Seven Kingdoms.

I hope the Others don't just come through the tunnels in the wall but literally knock that thing down. That would be spectacular. The wall has stood for 8000 years so give it a good death.

I don't think Arya killed anyone. After what's happened to her I can't see her killing anyone whose an innocent.

As for the face thing. I don't think they wear actual people's faces as much as they wear an illusion much in the same way that Melisandre's whole body is an illusion. The faces in the "vault" are probably there so they Faceless Men have something to look at to prepare themselves for their mission.

Arya probably had this face memorized. This face stood out in the Frey dinner scene as compared to the other servers who were lily white. Arya's disguise easily looked like it could have come from Essos.

That makes sense. There's just that scene before Arya went blind and Jacqen Hagar poisoned himself and died... Then Arya pulled several faces off of him until she saw her own. Then there's the scene when Jacqen was harvesting a face and all the talk of Arya "taking a face..." I don't know what to think of all that except the processes of the Faceless Men remain a mystery.

Perhaps to be truly No One, you have to have a strong sense of self-identity as an anchor, so you don't lose who you are in all the faces? Maybe that was what he was trying to teach her with her pulling all those faces off? If you have no anchor, maybe you could pull your own face off, and then what would you be?

It would explain why he said she was now truly No One, he knew she'd accepted herself as Arya Stark and could never lose herself, and so was now a Faceless.

Most likely Daenerys picked up Varys from Sunspear on her way to King's Landing. The fleet is fairly close to its target in the last scene. It was easy to miss the Martell and Tyrell banners on ships.

Daenerys managed to galvanize half the world to fight for her. I guess that's what it'll take to defeat the Others.

Depends on how the production will be handled. If it's still the same per episode budget then yeah, it sucks. On the other hand, if they're spending the same time and money they do for a whole season on less episodes then we are going to get some epic stuff.

And given they are going to be fighting the dead I think the budget has to go way up. That's a lot of CGI.