As the series heads into its final three episodes, Jon Snow is going to have a lot on his hands. Not only does he have to convince the Wildlings at Hardhome that he didn’t kill Mance Rayder, he also has to face a mutinous Night’s Watch when he gets back. Talk about out of the fire…
But how does he convince the Wildlings to join him? Well, he probably doesn’t.
By the look of it, the Wildlings are compelled to put their concerns aside for the same reason Jon’s sparse band of followers were at the Wall: because Winter Is Coming.
While that’s meant little apart from a few wight cameos so far, that is about to change in Episode 8, as the mysterious undead attack Hardhome (presumably leading to the shot in the trailer that showed Wildlings taking to the water urgently).
The Evidence:
The IMDB cast list has both a Wight (Barrie Mann) and a White Walker (Ross Mullan) listed, which is definitely a big hint that they’re going to attack. And it makes sense that such an extreme stimulus would convince the WIldlings to forgive the death of their leader.
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The Theon/Reek plot has been running for too long, whether you care to admit it or not, and he’s now been through all of the stages of torture possible. Now that he’s at rock-bottom, the only conceivable way for Reek to go is up.
So can we expect him to grow a set and stand up to his tormentor? Probably not, since he’s just got Sansa’s only potential ally at Winterfell skinned alive, but Sansa might have the emotional power to make his guilt more powerful than his fear.
The Evidence:
Come on, it has to happen. Episode nine’s brief synopsis states that Sansa confronts an old friend, which suggests she’s going to ask Reek why he lacks the testicular fortitude to stand up to Ramsay.
He might just show her it’s more a penile issue, but if the show is indeed heading the same sort of way as the books, the artist formerly known as Theon really has to stand up to his master to help Sansa escape.
And given that his father is listed in the IMDB cast for episode ten, it looks like he might be ferrying Sansa to the Iron Islands.
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Imagine a world where Arya’s Revenge list actually meant something. In the show, pretty much everyone who was on it has either been killed or written out of the show for other reasons, apart from Cersei, who seems intent on destroying herself and Ser Meryn Trant, the nasty Lannister pitbull.
Yes, she’s come a long way, but her arc was always going to be defined by her striking people off the list, and painfully little has been done so far.
But now, five seasons later, she’s about to get her first proper score by hopefully cutting out Trant’s dirty black heart and feeding it to him. That would be nicely poetic.
The Evidence:
Again, part of it is down to the set leaks that showed both Ser Meryn Trant and Arya in the same Braavosian courtyard near the Iron Bank. She was definitely in full assassin mode (complete with a new outfit), and it’s about bloody time she actually got to kill someone.