Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3035448-20160824024303/@comment-3035448-20160825000421

The Northerners lack the manpower to deal with the Walkers, so they'll have holdout in their castles and settlements. The White Walkers may decide to simply bypass these holdouts to march southward, which has even more warm bodies to swell their ranks of undead. That would be one way of making Jaime finally realize that the Night's Watch play just as important a role as the Kingsguard (See The Kingsguard (Histories & Lore)), if not more so. At some point, I pray that Jaime will answer for his many crimes - crippling Bran, killing Alton and Torrhen, etc. - and that it will ultimately be Jon whom he answers to. But rather than execute Jaime, I like to think that Jon will offer Jaime a chance to redeem himself by giving him the option of joining the Night's Watch, if there is one when all of this is over. That would be ironic considering how Jaime mocked Jon for joining the Watch at the beginning of the series.