Why Bran Is The Night King In The Books Theory 😢
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- Did you know in the books Bran might be the Night King? This short uses evidence from A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter.
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The show did us dirty by not giving us Jon Snow vs the night king after 7 seasons of hinting at it
Nah, that’s too predictable, the Night King shouldn’t have been killed by a normal person with a sword
@@duhman3649 could you imagine if Samwell Tarly got the kill 😂
@@duhman3649 Too predictable? So, them winning the battle against the others wasn't predictable? I mean Cersei was the big bad, did we honestly think for a moment the battle would be lost? Get real lol. Also, when you hint at something repeatedly, you kind of set yourself up for failure when you don't deliver.
@@duhman3649 Also, Jon's parentage wasn't important because of the throne. It was important because of who he is in prophecy. Even GRRM said it himself and I'm going to listen to the guy who has sold millions of copies of his novels over some random person on the internet. "Just because people have figured something out doesn't mean you change the narrative".
I so agree!
I think it's more likely that Bran would go back to become Bran the Builder. Not only did he build the wall, but he was present in other major events, such as during the construction of Storm's End, during which he is described as being a young boy, who somehow knew exactly how the castle needed to be built.
I've always thought him being Bran the Builder might be too obvious to be true, but the young boy part has me at least partially convinced
What I've always thought to make the most sense also.
As a omniscient time traveler"
it would make sense that he would know the way to create things that nobody else could really replicate after he died
That ignores the fact that Bran is an evil little fucker in the books. He has done sons truly monstrous things already, things even Joffery hasn't done. Going from what he does to Hodor to becoming the night king doesn't seem like a big jump in my eyes tbh
@@patrickcocobassey6810 there is no night king in the books
also nothing i remember Bran doing is worse than what Joffrey
and most has been out of need Joffrey does things out of being twisted AF
No thanks to that
Raising the dead is pretty similar to warging if you ignore the enormous differences
Isn’t it essentially the night king warging human corpses?
@@mards2479
Warging is, more or less, mind control. Mind control doesn't work on a corpse, because they are dead. What the night king does is raising the dead, plus warging. The warging is the least impressive part of it.
It is similar. Somebody is controlling the deads specific movements. For example, when the fire moat goes up around winterfell, the dead pause, and then slowly start smothering a small section of the moat by laying on the fire one by one. Night King or one of his luitenants was controlling them.
@JohnSmith-ti9uq control is just 1 similarity. There are more differences for sure. One on one control vs just raising everything dead in the area. One requires the continuous focus of the controller, the other is just doing wtf ever. One requires a mind to be controlled and the other can reanimate skeletons in a crypt. One is only done in the present and the other at any point other than the future. I'm sure there's others but why bother when I need to crawl under my house to find an ac vent that's spewing out my cool air.
@@mards2479
Reanimating them, and warging them. He is controlling their actions, but in order for them to have actions he has to turn a corpse into a living thing, or at least a moving thing with some rudimentary level of mind to be controlled. Necromancy plus mind control, that's quite a bit larger a feat than mind control alone.
I really thought when the Night King reached Bran he was going to bow and bend the knee for a Game of Thrones twist.
Interesting twist indeed; I on the other hand thought that at the final episode when Bran said "why do you think I came all this way" when being asked to be king, the climb soundtrack(little finger theme) would play, suggesting Bran planned all that had happened to be king and that time when he said "I can never be lord of winterfell" was him scoffing off the lower status of being a lord than being the king.
My bad, "Chaos is a ladder" was the name of the soundtrack, and "The Climb" was the scene's name; Bran has been climbing since the first episode, so I misremembered the title. :))
But before the Night King does, Bran says, “Kneel before your master.”
@KrypptikkSoulslayer and then the Night King says "It's Morbin' time!", and stabs Bran through the heart.
@@user-ly7bf8ld4p and then the night king thought he killed Bryan so after he leaves Bryan resurrects 🤪
Hold the door broke me man…
It broke alot of us, fam.😔
Sadder than Artax.
@jasonpettis4691 Ugh. I felt that. 😢
@jasonpettis4691 oof very close!!
Hodor
There is no Night King in the books, there is a god called the Great Other, who is not a real being. Then there is the Night's King, a former lord commander who took an Other as a wife.
That's why it says "theory".
@@ninshu412the theory doesn't work. The Others weren't made by the Children in the books.
@@jjohnson6968Exactly. Others are not some stupid "weapon of Children of Forest" - they more like their own civilization
@@jjohnson6968As far as we know... We don't have an explanation about their origin yet
@@franingegnieri1831 In The World of Fire and Ice it's established that they are a separate race from the First Men & the Children of the Forest. They are antagonistic to both men and children.
The Tower of Joy scene always confuses me because no clear reason was given why the Three-Eyed-Raven was showing Bran this, when he didn’t intend for him to see what was inside after the battle. It was clearly done because they wanted to set up for the R+L=J reveal later but they never built up to it properly.
The way how it should have been done was to have Bran speak of that event and wish to visit it but the Three-Eyed-Raven refuses, reasoning that it wasn’t part of the training. But Bran secretly visits and before he sees what’s inside the Tower, the Three-Eyed-Raven stops him.
I thought it was a bit off but let it go. I think there's only a single flashback instead of visions. Only Cercei visiting the fortune teller is a flashback. The Mad King's final days, Winterfell, and Night Kings formation was in visions. I might be misremembering.
@@CJonesApple
I'm pretty sure you're right. Funny that their only flashback was to a fan favorite theory/prophecy that the show ended up ignoring entirely
The tower of Joy scene happens in the first book but with less details. If they had it happen in season one it would've been a major spoiler
@@RecklyssThat was a dream Ned was having, I think they could have done it as Ned hearing voices or a dream sequence.
@Recklyss i think it would have been possible
Ned is sleeping after his fight. The camera zooms in on his head. We get the whole preamble to the fight. Then just as they start to draw their swords we start to hear "ned" and then the fight goes by in flashes with the last scene being ned and howland standing amidst the corpses. We never hear lyanna before ned wakes up.
Of course the whole thing would have to be shown later, but the setup could be s1
Cant wait for season 8 to come out and see Jon fighting the Night King...
@@yujirohanmaisbestdad'mah qween"
I'm from the future, man.... Season 8 sucks 🎉
aw man. they're taking so long with releasing season 8, i wonder what's up..... 🤭
@@glasscier they wont realise it because Gorge didnt finished his last two books yet
You are too innocent 😅😊
Rumor is Bran also time traveled into Jaime Lanister and pushed himself out of the window.
😂
No way😂
He actually traveled into Jaime way before then and started the relationship with Cersei
Wtf😂
In the DwD, Bran’s time travelling was more of a visions of the past through Weirwood eyes. He wasn’t really able to interact with Ned or anyone else. Ned kinda heard a whisper but it wasn’t an interaction per se
True. But it kinda was an interaction, because later we see Bran have the exact same communication with Theon through that same weirwood.
@@JulioVonGhoulio Can you share the Chapter number in DwD? I don't recall this to happen in the past
@@alanmt8819 The Prince of Winterfell chapter, about halfway through the book: "'Theon,' a voice seemed to whisper. His head snapped up. 'Who said that?' All he could see were the trees and the fog that covered them. The voice had been as faint as rustling leaves, as cold as hate. A god’s voice, or a ghost’s."
Thats what I was thinking. The weirwood network. He sees all time through the faces in the weirwoods. Thats why he keeps going to winterfells godswood and sees Ned, then Theon....
Didn't he interact with Jon through a weirwood in a clash of kings?
“Raising the dead and warging is kind of similar”. Please elaborate…
Gold Medal Reach. Bro dislocated his shoulder. He needs to catch this dislike.
I took it to mean that Bran wargs into animals and controls them. Just like all the undead dropped when the Night King fell. Night King raising the dead = warging on steroids.
Taking control of a body is what's similar.
At this rate, I guess we'll never know for sure smh
Nope
Mise well have a.i Write it
Martin left too many possibilities open to ever wrap it up.
Which is kinda annoying.
A lot of mystery left by the end would be pretty sweet though. Sometimes the less we know the better
@@PageIsYourGodnope. By the end of the story no loose straps must be left.
@@sadettinarslan5324 Eh. Major story yes, side story stuff, let my imagination run wild.
I disagree, he’s just lost the ability to realize his plots. Happens to a lot of writers as they age.
The sheer volume of theories is more due to the fact that it’s just been so long since the last book.
Bran is actually ned from a alternate realm where he hatched from a duck egg theory
Was somewhat expecting Bran to become a new night king after he was marked
Naw, the mark was just undead herpes.
Well that's not what White Walkers are in the books. They weren't made, they're a different race of beings from the Lands of Always Winter.
To be fair we really don't know anything about the white walkers from the book, they've only been seen once or twice and heard of throughout... like cotter pikes letter about dead things at hardhome. With Martin's writing style and his slowness to finish the books I don't think we'll ever get an answer to where the book walkers came from
In the first drafts they were call "the Neverborn", if they were never born that means they were created... They were probably made by the Children in the war against the First Men.
And who tf told you that in any confirmed fashion lol? You people with your banal headcannons
It was not like that in books bran Greenseer ability just for unlock the weird wood memory/Not time travel. The White walker in book have their own language, War formation & Culture.
Unlike White Walker in the show depicted as Ice mindless creature.
Here’s at the instance of Ned hearing Bran through the WereWood, through time, as he’s already dead in “real time”. So, yes, Bran can time travel. But I don’t agree with the videos theory about him being the Night King.
“Lord Eddard Stark sat upon a rock beside the deep black pool in the godswood, the pale roots of the heart tree twisting around him like an old man's gnarled arms. The greatsword Ice lay across Lord Eddard's lap, and he was cleaning the blade with an oilcloth.
"Winterfell," Bran whispered.
His father looked up. "Who's there?" he asked, turning . . . “(Bran III, ADwD 34)
“Father," Bran's voice was a whisper in the wind, a rustle in the leaves. "Father, it's me. It's Bran. Brandon."
Eddard Stark lifted his head and looked long at the weirwood, frowning, but he did not speak. He cannot see me, Bran realized, despairing. He wanted to reach out and touch him, but all he could do was watch and listen. I am in the tree. I am inside the heart tree, looking out of its red eyes, but the weirwood cannot talk, so I can't.
Eddard Stark resumed his prayer. Bran felt his eyes fill with tears. But were they his own tears, or the weirwood? If I cry, will the tree begin to weep? (Bran III, ADwD 34)
Leaf tells Bran to Not To Call His Father Back From The Dead. Why? For fear he would alter events through his interference. You don’t tell someone not to do it if it’s impossible in the first place. There are also many other instances of Bran viewing Time through the WereWood.
I’m the same Chapter BloodRaven explains it to Bran exactly.
"Those were shadows of days past that you saw, Bran. You were looking through the eyes of the heart tree in your godswood. Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak. And the weirwood … a thousand human years are a moment to a weirwood, and through such gates you and I may gaze into the past.”
"Once you have mastered your gifts, you may look where you will and see what the trees have seen, be it yesterday or last year or a thousand ages past." -Bran III, ADwD
@@shannondavis3686 okok. I forget about that 😂. but other part in this Video was wrong.
@@shannondavis3686You just confirmed it that it was more of an observing for Bran than an actual interaction. Rustle in the leaves 🍂 Bran cannot interact or influence anyone in the past , let alone be sacrificed and become leader of Others
@@alanmt8819 of course, had you actually read and comprehended my comment, you would know he can and did. As proven by interrupting Ned’s prayers. He doesn’t physically travel because he’s traveling through his mind and the trees.. and later through ravens and every other animal with the spirit of the children long dead inside them. And had you read my comment t you would see I specifically said I don’t agree with the video theory. But good try at obfuscation.
@@alanmt8819Even Jon sees Bran’s face in the trees as early as Clash. Pretty sure Preston Jacob’s covered this pretty definitively
And he became the king of westoros , damn he has a long resume 😅
Jon Snow is more likely to become the new Night King, as his name is a variation of 'Jack Frost'. The last Night King perished a while ago. There's similar descriptions of the book Others and the Kingsguard, implying the Others are a kingsguard looking for their new king.
It is mentioned in fire and blood that a few kingsguard ended up being sent to the wall, like lucamore the lusty or maegor targaryens kingsguard. Maybe there were like 5 more kingsguard whom ended up on the wall and they all became others.
The Other's are more like priests to the Great Other in the same way Melisandre and others like Thoros of Myr are priests to their red god R'hlor.
I feel like the parallels between him and the Night King and the whole King in the north -thing were just foreshadowing his future life living behind the wall. The wildlings already love him so it's very plausible he becomes their new leader aka King in the north.
Bran’s ability is more like astral projection than true time travel as his physical form remains in the present.
Bran views the past events at Weirwood trees, not time travel.
But Bran doesnt phydically move through time.
Think of it like quantum entanglement. Two particles don’t need to physically be near each other in order to interact.
Except the night king touched his spirit when he traveled out of body, and young Ned heard him call. So he can physically affect and be affected by the places/times he goes. In other words, wrong!!!
Shhh don’t speak sense to them.
@@marcallen2348there’s no such thing as the Night’s King.
@codymorley480 Doesn't matter he could still be heard by Ned
"That's not how time travel works!" - Tony Stark
Bran didn't time travel wtf. He had a vision and thought his dad saw him speaking to him in the tree. I just got done with the audiobooks and I don't even remember a night king being a thing?
Dude. This was a show only theory, there is no Night King in the books
Well. It's hinted at, though. Because someone or something seems to be behind the white walkers.
@@WouldbeSageIn no way is a night kind hinted at, the CotF could very well be behind it
@vaibhavgaur5268 see, I thought the show hinted at this theory with the flashbacks, and maybe that was the plan before whatever the fuck happened happened.
As for ASoIaF, the white walkers appear to be organized and systemically attacking weak targets like Heatthhome (sp?) And testing The Wall's defenses. There is 100% a general directing the horde.
@@WouldbeSage No, not necessarily a general, that's what I mean my friend. There is an intelligence, a consciousness, which could very well be the weird wood organisms themselves
They do mention "the Night's King" in the books he just hasn't been revealed
That would have been a much better ending than the one that was written for the show.
That speaks volumes of Benioff and Weiss's stupidity if their ending is worse than the objectively worst ASOIAF theory of all time.
Bran warging into the Mad King (to stop the Night King) is a much better theory.
Yeah in that fight when Arya fought the night King.
She should have lost!
Becomes a wight herself.
It then becomes obvious that is John's destiny.
What happened to when you really like a character.
They die.😢
The fact the NK even touched her and she's alive is a literal plot hole lol. My man turns babies into white walkers just by touching them.
@@ninshu412 Clumsy writing I suppose.
What still surprises me is. How did they get that far?!
That we watched it happen.
I get the impression.
It seemed better on paper or sounded better in their heads.
But in visual representation it was disappointing.
Which of course doesn't go without saying for the last season.
@@tonyvillarreal1812 Very true. Also, that's a great point lol. They really just threw some random ass, rushed written ending to us and expected us to not see the decrease in storytelling quality.
@@ninshu412, while I agree with the sentiment, I would point out that we have never seen the Night King have any effect on a living girl. And we have never seen a female Other yet. It seems like there's a reason they only take the baby boys, besides Craster's own lustful desires to keep the girls for his own pleasure. I'm guessing D&D thought that Arya being touched by the Night King was somehow plot proofed because of this nuance.
@@roycewalters That's true. Crastor wanting to keep the women and give the boys who could grow up and challenge him. It's more of a why didn't the NK just kill Arya? He could have easily broken her neck or even just threw her across the godswood lol.
"Why do you think I came all this way?"
It's funny how they basically was trying to set it up in the show from all the parallels and jump cuts from Bran to The Night King.
But eventually screwed it up.
Bran is actually the three eyed raven who is worging into every person in all of Westros.
This man just said raising the dead is like wargging… and we just let it slide
But Ricky ,,, mama said there is no night king in the book
Jon wouldn't be fighting his brother, Bran would be his cousin.
Bra they was raised as brothers it’s his brother
I believe the reverse theory in the series: The Night King pretended to die but is really Bran.
As much as it would have been a more sad way for the story to go, this would have been a way more entertaining way to handle the great war
I really hate this theory, but who knows with GRRM? Hell who knows if we will ever get answers because The Winds of Winter seems to be a novel we will never get to read ever and A Dream of Spring you can forget about it
You will read it, after the estate settles his property from the will. A morbidly obese 75 year old with no work ethic will not compete the book, but people will piece something together to sell.
I’ve always thought the mad king yelling “burn them all” was actually Bran warging into him, and the mad king was actually seeing visions of white walkers, thus yelling “burn them all” … I’m high, did that make sense?
That’s been a theory as well
I like the fandom one where bran wargs into dani to destroy kings landing, and jon to kill dani - all to become ruler. (At least it explains the train-wreck of an ending..And quite a twist!)
Did you know… four years after the disaster occurred, people are still upset the bran-night king connection was never fan-serviced?
isn't the Night King not in the books?
The white walkers are not sentient or anything in the books, they don’t have a king or anything, they’re more like corrupted magic running amok.
Wrong. We barely know anything about them and it all points out to them being another race/civilisation.
The white walkers in the books…are actually more elven in appearance and known only as “the others” they also have personality some are laughing before killing members of the nights watch lol
@16:52 that combo was clean as hell 😂 couldn’t even focus on the vid
This story is much better than that girl coming out of nowhere to be the hero
The Night's King was a Stark and the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He was also the brother of the Lord of Winterfell and King in the North. This is the story of an endless cycle of events. This has all happened before and is all happening again. Just in slightly different ways. So perhaps in the books and in Kit Harrington's new show we'll see this "brother vs. brother" confrontation again.
The Show Messed up those Books in a Big Way!!!
Transporting your consciousness into another being...
Resurrecting the dead with superhuman durability...
Yeah, those are very similar.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing not even close to the same
Bram is responsible for Aerys madness*
True
Ya, Bwam is wesponsible for everything
Sorry, that's evewything
Night King be like, "oh noo, you got me. Syke!
I need to read these books!
I posted this exact theory on reddit years ago, even down to Jon killing Bran. It was downvoted to oblivion, but I stand by it. It’s a damn good theory when you factor in GRRM’s previous works. Bravo for spreading the word!
Have Bran warg into the Night King to stop him temporarily while Jon gets the killing blow.
Certainly a lot more interesting story than that of 'Bran the Broken'.
Bran ending up as king, is actually quite realistic. The Game is not over at the end of the series just because the series ended.
It the important great houses, who choose the king. Who would a great house from Dorne or the Vale or the Reach want as ruler, especially as the great danger of the long night has past? After the horrific wars, fought by overconfident, powerhungry warrior kings in the very recent past? Somebody, who is likely quite weak, without an powerful army and as far away from them as possible ...
I like this theory and even better he’s also Bran the Builder… kind of like the movie Predestination.. where he’s stuck on a time loop as multiple characters throughout history
That would've been an emotional epic battle if done right.
That's a pile of bullshit, mixing book theories with show theories that never came to pass.
That would explain why the night king want to catch Bran: to stop him from travelling back and transforming into him, boom time paradox.
nah the raven said he would never walk again
I was hoping like hell that it would be Arya that took down Frankenmountain. In my preferred head cannon, I was hoping to see the Hound and Gregor clash, with the Hound either killed or grievously wounded, just as Arya arrives. Of course, she goes monkeysh!t, and begins fighting the massive creature, eventually knocking Gregor's helmet off. To her horror, we find that Joffrey did indeed make good on his threat, for as Frankenmountain slowly turns to face Arya, we find that Kyburn has placed Robb's severed head atop Gregor's body.
meh
Wow, seeing a brother and a sister snogging really tweaks a kid out apparently.
John Brandishing a flaming dawn sword in a 30 min battle would have been epic
It should have been Bran as the Nightking, Jon has to sacrifice Daenerys to give longclaw the strength of dragonfire or dragonglass so he can defeat Bran...thus giving us a truly gut-wrenching bitter-sweet ending.
It would also explain how Jon so easily walks away from the idea of being King even though he's the rightful king...
These theories are getting crazier and crazier
I think just about any fan made plot to continue in the next books would be better than how the show dealt with it, but... I'm betting on we will never find out! 😂
The show took how Bran seeing past events and turned it into something else entirely. He could see through the faces carved on the trees. He does ‘interact’ with his father by basically making the leaves rustle and it gets Ned’s attention, but that was pretty much it. There was a reason why the weirwood trees had faces and when the wildlings came south had started carving faces into the trees. Now I understand that’s not cinematically as interesting as him just standing there viewing everything, but for me it was far more interesting and made sense with all things about the world and the old gods we’ve been taught up to that point.
Phenomenal acting on this. Every person owned they’re part. I’d give the whole cast oscars
What a great theory. I’ve never heard that before.
That has been my theory for a “Snow” series. Jon vs. Night King Bran.
Bran doesn't physically travel through time. He is able to see past events recorded in the memories of the weirdwood trees.
I was expecting Bran to stand up from his chair, when approached by the Night King. And it was all a future cast, leading Bran to inform that they must all evacuate Winterfell (unwinnable). And then they have almost a 3-way showdown at King’s Landing.
I feel like John will become the knight king and the last knight king was also named John snow and could of been a Stark. Watched a vid on that recently but forget the evidence. One was ygritt being surprised when John said his name. Maybe the wildlings haven’t forgotten his name
I hate that the producers rushed it instead of milking the story and adding more to the plotline. There was so many questions left unanswered
How is warging and raising the dead similar, if I remember right, warging involves possessing a being that's still alive, how's that similar to raising the dead?
,,ser, this is McDonalds drive thru"
Was confused at first had to watch the short twice 😂
There was nothing more disappointing that seeing Jon and the night king square up, then go their separate ways
Unfortunately we will probably never get the books that would have shown us how it is all meant to wrap up .
Hell, at this point I'll take a 5-ish page handwritten outline on looseleaf from GRRM over nothing.
Brad from the future like spiderman with 8 legs against the white walker with Dr strange 😊
I never watched the final season of Game of Thrones, and have avoided hearing the ending.
-I always thought that the Night King looked like Bran's actor? I don't know how deliberate that was.
This was what I expected honestly
This needs to be the sequel to game of thrones, Jon comes back because Brandon Stark is the Night King on the inside. The defeat at Winterhold was a chess move to take Kings landing. It’s also so poetic, as Brandon was shoved out a tower by Jamie lanister and Brandon climbed to the top of the political tower and took Cersea and Jamie out, he even says to Jamie, you are exactly where you should be.
So the night king could also resurrect dani or Dani is brought back by who ever or where ever her dragon took her, then Jon and Dani reconcile and team up with the rest of westeroes to fight for all of the kingdoms that have now become undead strongholds. It would be so epic!
If that was Bran, who used his powers to become to Night King, either intentionally or incidentally... Then it stands to reason that the Night King would hunt him down and kill him, in order to make sure that he never figured that out and tried to use his growing powers to then stop him as well.
I really hope George continues to write his own story and steer away from the garbage that was S8
Yass! I've been saying this for years. But, with Bran as all Brans in the past. He, as the Night King, can only die by the hands of Jon because of his parentage. Bran knows he is the one who has caused everything, and wants to finally die by Jon, so the Tealm can live without magic and prosper. Jon is the Prince that was promised and is the only one who can kill his brother, very heart tugging. I think this would've been a better conflict for him than killing Dany.
Any ending would have been better than what they gave us
Yeah that would’ve been awesome
Easiest plot twist and most satisfying conclusion you could have come up with and D&D still fumbled that somehow
Remember thinking for sure that this was the case in season seven
Bran dressed exactly like the night king in his first travels!!
It wouldn't be killing his little brother, it would be him killing his cousin as Ned was not his father, but his uncle.
This is what I always thought it would be.
Night King does not exist in the books...at least, not how he is presented in the show.
Any and all of these theories are better than what was in season 8
"Why brain is" you then follow up with "WHAT IF".
Always thought this would be how the show went since the night king looks so much like bran
I want to watch this so bad, but I'm reading a storm of swords rn and don't want to spoil anything for myself because brans storyline has gotten pretty cool
HOLD THE DOOR!! HOLD THE DOOR… spasms knowing season 8 funk ups.
Now that would be rather cool. Not that there is a Night King. Just the Great Other. But Bran becoming the Big Bad after Jaime nearly kills him, thinking he’s not a bad guy… that could be cool.
Night king rolls up on a wheel chair just isn’t going to intimidate anyone.
The show should done just one full episode of bran having a bunch of visions of the past with no context at all. Kind of how George writes the visions in the books. They very mysterious and kind of vague.