Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Season 1 foreshadowing to the Final Season Endgame Part 5


Potential Spoilers Below

These are Season 1 scenes that I believe will have a foreshadowing to the Final season

1.       Melisandre tells us Varys dies.  But will he die a hero?


·       However he dies I now believe it will be serving the realm.  He will be put in a position where he could do like he always does and stay hidden in the shadows but this time his love for the realm will not allow him to do so.  I believe he will be killed by dragon fire and by his friend.


·       My initial thought on his death was he would be still killed by dragon fire but by this person



2.    Is it blasphemous to pray to yourself?  The drumbeat keeps getting louder to me as to who Bran is.  Once the reveal is shown and you re-watch the series it will be as plain as day.


·       This keeps coming up in season 1 as it will turn out to be the most important piece of the puzzle that is A Song of Ice and Fire.  The following is repeated time after time within the Wheel of Time books and describes perfectly the process that Bran has undergone:

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Bran Stark is born and grows up on stories and magically goes back into time; this hasn’t happened yet and won’t be shown until near the end of the series.  He passes along the stories that happen in his lifetime of the present as things that occurred in the past.  This to me will give those in the here and now hope that the White Walkers can be defeated.  At this point however Bran has no idea how to do this.  Bran builds the Wall and then Winterfell.  He then builds the crypts of Winterfell around him to look over his family when the time comes.  Those stories that he tells become legend and then fades to myth.  When we get around to when Bran is born; the age that gave the past its birth those myths are long forgotten (we see this in how the White Walker were thought of as snarks and grumpkins).  In the Wheel of time they mention the wind that rose; in the books it is described as being in different places.  They also tell you the wind was not a beginning.  This to me lets you know that Bran isn’t confined to just the Winterfell weirwood but across the face of their planet.  In the TV show and the books, they describe Bran when he tries to talk to people while within a weirwood tree as a wind or a rustling of the leaves.  I truly believe that Bran represents the old gods within the series.  Did he also create the new gods?  A question not asked is since things within this story repeat itself will the Wheel be broken as Daenerys once said she will do?
  


·    A side note is why is Bran so emotionless now that he is the three-eyed crow?  I think this again has to do with the Wheel of Time.  It has to do with the feeling of embracing saidin had on Rand al’Thor

Plucking the horn-hilted dagger from the air with one hand, Rand let go of the Source. Even with the taint twisting his belly, the taint that eventually destroyed men who channeled, letting go was difficult. With saidin in him, he saw more clearly, heard more sharply. It was a paradox he did not understand, but when he was floating in that seemingly endless Void, somehow buffered against bodily feeling and emotions, every sense was magnified; without it he felt only half-alive.



When I get time, I will go through the rest of Season 1 to see how I believe they will relate to the final season.  But as always, I think everything about this show relates back to the Wheel of Time and the following concept:


Laura Wilson:
What about this notion of time as a wheel? Is that your idea?

Robert Jordan:
No. It's not mine. It is from Hindu mythology that time is a wheel. But actually, most eastern cultures believed that time was circular. The Greeks gave us the great gift of believing that time was linear. And that's a great gift because if time is circular, if everything repeats in cycles, then change is impossible. No matter what you do, it's always going to come back to what is here. But if time is linear, then change is possible. But I wanted the circularity because I wanted, again, to go into the changes by distance. So, the myths and legends and a few of the stories that these people tell, well, some of them are based on our own current events, on the present. What they are doing is based on our myths and legends. So they are the source of our myths and legends, and we are the source of theirs.


Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

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