re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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Pretty girl, that Missandei.

I forgot about Carice van Houten. She's stunning as well.

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Yep, she has the best combination of pretty face and nice body of the cast to me.

Houten as Mel would probably be second for me, she's got that certain something quality.

Oona Chaplin is very attractive as well, not that she's part of the cast anymore.

Clarke and Dormer both have that weird face angles thing going on, more Dormer than Clarke. But it kinda makes them differ in attractiveness greatly depending on how they are being filmed or pictured. Both are obviously still very attractive, but it detracts.

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Ellaria tops them all.

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I think Indira Varma is spot on as Ellaria. Ellaria is described as not being 'beautiful' but 'eye-catching/exotic'.

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Let us discuss our origins no more. Winter is coming.

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These are great:

"Let's Get Married" Valentine

You Make Me Want to Lose My Head

LOL

Hodor

Podrick

Dany

I really like the "I'd frick up a crucial alliance to be with you!" one and "the seed is strong".

Jon Arryn

Have you finished S2 E10 yet?

Not yet but I will sometime today .

Did we overlook an Old Nan story that foretells several deaths?

Here's the story of The Last Hero
"Oh my sweet summer child … What do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north, when the sun hides it face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods.
The Others … Thousands and thousands of years ago, a winter fell that was cold and hard and endless beyond all memory of man. There came a night that lasted a generation, and kings shivered and died in their castles even as the swineherds in their hovels. Women smothered their children rather than see them starve, and cried, and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks.
In that darkness, the Others came for the first time … They were cold things, dead things, that hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins. They swept over holdfasts and cities and kingdoms, felled heroes and armies by the score, riding pale dead horses, and leading hosts of the slain. All the swords of men could not stay their advance, and even maidens and suckling babes, found no pity in them. They hunted the maids through the frozen forests, and fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.
Now these were the days before the Andals came, and long before the women fled across the narrow sea from the cities of the Rhoyne, and the hundred kingdoms of those times were the kingdoms of the First Men, who had taken those lands from the children of the forest. Yet here and there in the fastness of the woods, the children still lived in their wooden cities and hollow hills, and the faces in the trees kept watch. So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog and a dozen companions. For years he searched until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds."

This may foreshadow the deaths of Jojen, Hodor, Osha, Meera, Rickon, the Liddle they met on their way to the Wall, Sam, Gilly, and Gilly's baby.

Well, Bran sought the Three-Eyed Crow & found him among the COTF. Bran took one of the swords from the crypts of Winterfell. He did not travel on a horse but he did travel on an elk. He did not travel with a dog but he did travel with a dire wolf. And he did travel with or encounter directly exactly twelve human companions: Jojen, Hodor, Luwin, Osha, Meera, Rickon, the Liddle that fed them on their way to the Wall, Sam, Gilly, Gilly's baby, Coldhands, and Bloodraven.

Luwin and Coldhands are dead & Bloodraven is dying. Hodor & Meera are trapped in a cave surrounded by wights far beyond the Wall. Jojen might already be paste and if not, he’s still in the same tight spot as Hodor & Meera. Given that Rickon named his dire wolf Shaggy Dog, we should expect him to die in some anticlimactic manner, along with Osha. The Liddle that helped Bran in the mountains could have been the man murdered at Queenscrown or he could be killed among Stannis’s host. Sam & Gilly are in a war zone and how else would you expect Sam’s part in the story to end? He wouldn’t be expected to become a Maester & return to aide Jon at the Wall by the time of Dream, would he? That leaves Gilly’s baby who's at the Wall where Melisandre thinks he is the son of the King Beyond the Wall and she might be in need of a little King's blood about now

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This may foreshadow the deaths of Jojen, Hodor, Osha, Meera, Rickon, the Liddle they met on their way to the Wall, Sam, Gilly, and Gilly's baby.

Well, Bran sought the Three-Eyed Crow & found him among the COTF. Bran took one of the swords from the crypts of Winterfell. He did not travel on a horse but he did travel on an elk. He did not travel with a dog but he did travel with a dire wolf. And he did travel with or encounter directly exactly twelve human companions: Jojen, Hodor, Luwin, Osha, Meera, Rickon, the Liddle that fed them on their way to the Wall, Sam, Gilly, Gilly's baby, Coldhands, and Bloodraven.

Luwin and Coldhands are dead & Bloodraven is dying. Hodor & Meera are trapped in a cave surrounded by wights far beyond the Wall. Jojen might already be paste and if not, he’s still in the same tight spot as Hodor & Meera. Given that Rickon named his dire wolf Shaggy Dog, we should expect him to die in some anticlimactic manner, along with Osha. The Liddle that helped Bran in the mountains could have been the man murdered at Queenscrown or he could be killed among Stannis’s host. Sam & Gilly are in a war zone and how else would you expect Sam’s part in the story to end? He wouldn’t be expected to become a Maester & return to aide Jon at the Wall by the time of Dream, would he? That leaves Gilly’s baby who's at the Wall where Melisandre thinks he is the son of the King Beyond the Wall and she might be in need of a little King's blood about now

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I've read that theory before, I think on the ASOIAF forum. If Rickon and Bran die, I'd imagine Jon would get Winterfell, assuming Robb's will and Stannis would support him getting it (as we've already seen at the end of ASoS). Or perhaps Sansa and her future husband would.

I could picture Martin doing something like that, but what's the point of having Rickon even exist in the story if his story amounts to nothing and he ends up dying in Skagos and not inheriting Winterfell (since we all assume Bran is going to become a tree)?

And I've always thought Sam would be one of the few characters who has the best shot at surviving the series. I'd be sad if he died, and I actually think he's going to play a big role in figuring out how to defeat the Others (perhaps while he's training at the Citadel; he likes reading and will probably come across vital information about them and their origins in TWoW). But, since Euron's invading Oldtown at the moment, no clue. I think he'd take Sam hostage rather than kill him.

Can we get a list of who everybody thinks will survive the series?