^^ So true, the build-up was huge in the final episode of last season, I expected this whole season to be about the White Walkers. Maybe it's written differently in the books, but it doesn't make any sense the way they did it for the TV series. Not even one word about them, it's like everyone completely forgot about this threat. The scenes with the ravens bringing news about the White Walkers to all the leaders and the Red Lady's, Stannis', etc reactions made me think there'd be a united defense against them. No one should even think about the Throne right now.
Yeah, I thought the season ended with the fire God folks committing to the battle on the wall, and here we are again with them trying to win a war...
It's because this is the second half of book 3 still...... time wise almost no time has passed since last season
The white walker HQ/Fortress of Solitude must be near Crasters Keep for them to transform the babies. Maybe Mance's army crossed paths with the white walker army? Otherwise, Mance and the wildling army must be on a slow march. Jon Snow left their camp, climbed the wall, got shot with arrows, recovered from said arrow injuries, rode out to Crasters to kill the traitors, and still no Mance.
If you can remember how anyone has acted when the idea of what's beyond the wall, people think the wight walkers are mythological and that the threat of wildlings is just an over exaggerated claim
Quit spoiling it for the rest of us! You've got your own thread dedicated to this kind of "foreshadowing"!!!! Spoiler j/k
Haha I thought about that. The show doesn't seem to have a concept of time and distance for sure. The baby that was carried to the Knight's King in the freezing weather on a horse that was moving very slowly...all of Jon Snow's time at Castle Black AFTER the scaling of the wall, marching south a little, escape, etc...then another ranging to the keep to kill the evil brothers and then presumably back... He left Mance's camp on a Monday. Now it's Wednesday. Har har!
Remember that Mance is not just moving an army. He's moving all of his people - women, children, goats. This is not an army march.
This. Nobody in Westeros has ever seen one (not until the Night's Watch at the end of Season 2), they've only heard stories that have now become legends and fairy tales. If they did exist, then their last known appearance was something like 8,000 years ago. It'd kind of be like somebody telling you that we're in danger of being invaded by dinosaurs, or Godzilla. You wouldn't take them seriously. Remember that the very first thing that happens on the show is members of the Night's Watch encountering wights. One escapes and flees south of the wall where he's captured by Stark men. He's brought to Ned and pleads his case, but Ned doesn't believe him and chops off his head for deserting the Night's Watch.
Good post, although the guy didn't really "plead his case" to Ned, he just more or less rambled on. He was delirious.
At least dragons have a more recent history (less than 200 years since the last one died) and their bones exist as evidence. The last Targaryen king had some in the throne room. They were later moved but we saw Arya with them in Season 1. And petrified dragon eggs still exist as we saw in the wedding present to Dany. Not enough time has passed where people doubt that dragons ever existed.
Yeah the people in Westeros don't "believe" in dragons, they know they existed. They still talk about being conquered by armies that used them. Dragons in Westeros are more like Dodo birds to us.
what about dinosaurs, could they have been mistaken for dragons? If I'm living in westeros and came across the bones of Trex, I'd go insane.
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