ASOIAF / Game of Thrones (SPOILERS INSIDE)

[Raavak]

I'm thinking a Pyrrhic victory with lots of heroes dead, but Jon eventually gets 1 on 1 with the Night King and kills him causing the army of the dead to crumble.

Dunno whats going to happen with Westros after since Jon's parentage being disclosed would put him in line over Dany to rule the Seven Kingdoms.

But then there is Cersei and her mercenary army. Though Jamie has abandoned her to ride with Jon ("Don't ever betray me again," Cersei had warned. Well, he did). Tyrian already with Dany. The Lannisters are divided. Maybe Varys shows this to the Iron Bank and has them call in her debt. And then of course, Arya might get to Cersei first.

[paulgiamatti]

I haven't read ASOIAF, but I've been pondering Season 8 a lot more lately - the first snow of the season could have something to do with it.

Jaime only has one place to go, but it's obvious Dany is going to be extremely apprehensive about another Lannister joining the party - specifically, the Lannister that suicidally charged her and Drogon on horseback brandishing a spear in the Battle of the Goldroad. And, of course, Tyrion is going to have to stick up for him and convince Dany to take him on board. I can totally imagine that conversation. "He's not all bad. I'm alive because of him. He helped us set up the meeting with Cersei. Give him a chance!" Dany will be scowling the whole time. Tyrion will eventually convince her because, even though he's much smarter than Jaime, he simply doesn't possess the same military mind as made evident by his embarrassing defeat at Highgarden. Granted, Jaime isn't the wisest military commander in Westeros either - Cersei is clearly the brains of the two, but nevertheless Jaime will be in a unique position as the only person capable of understanding her brutal, underhanded style of warfare and therefore capable of counteracting her.

And, also of course, Jaime's prince charming will be coming along too - you know who I'm talking about. He definitely won't be happy about leaving King's Landing, his place of gainful employment, only to join the cockless brigade. And as we know, Bronn is the only living man to put even so much as a scratch on one of Dany's dragons, which heightens Dany & co.'s prospects for defeating zombie Viserion, assuming they can build a similar contraption or somehow hijack one of Cersei's. I suspect Dany will lose another dragon to Viserion and the White Walkers, but manage to burn the corpse before conversion and refuse to risk the life of her last which of course will be Drogon. This will raise the urgency of finding another means for defeating Viserion, which may in the end require the collaboration of a Drogon-mounted Dany, in conjunction with a well-aimed Dragonglass projectile courtesy of Ser Bronn. I wonder how many days of CGI rendering a shattering undead dragon in midflight would run them.

This would also open up some space to see a return of Bran's humanity, since he went all contemplative, emotionless Three Eyed Raven and everything. How will he react when he comes face to face with the man who crippled him from the waist down, seeing him allied with his team? How will he react when he taps into Cerebro and realizes it was him, or did that already happen?

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bronn is the only living man to put even so much as a scratch on one of Dany's dragons

Correction - this ignores when the Sons of the Harpy did some damage to an adolescent Drogon back in Season 5, but you get the point. It holds water for the fully grown dragons.