Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-86.181.99.232-20160817015330/@comment-5308269-20160819233659

86.153.203.248 wrote: Just to clarify, when originally posting these questions, I did not beleive that the Wall would hold indefinitely against the Night's King. I did think that Bran would at least weaken the strategic ability of the Wall. I did have questions about Benjen. Thanks GOT Dawn and Fenrir51 for the feedback, din't realise it would get very heated! Great, though! GOT Dawn: I cannot definitely recall whether or not Flower's body was carried in with Jon or not? If so I think this would link to theory of Stark blood providing entrance or invitation? I will have to look that over. Fenrir51: If indeed he [the Night's King] is who he is, I know that Game of Thrones identifies him thus, though the books provide clear evidence that he and the true Night's King are certainly different, I agree he must have the power/ ability of greensight, but do you not think if his thousand-years experience and build-up of foresight was truely as powerful as you suggest that he would not have been able to foresee Bran's escape? I know that, if so, this would fit in with a 'master-plan', but is this what you suggested when you said that that is why the dead chased them out of the cave?

Does anyone think that that the original whitewalker (in Game of Thrones) is a Stark? Or, bear with me - he is much older and there are theories, a future Bran Stark? He has the abilities, there are the stories from Old Nan and this would give him the power to pass the Wall if the Stark blood does have these theorised abilities. The White Walkers had disappeared for thousands of years before their actions in the present. To have been gone for so long a time, one might suspect that they were dormant for some 8000 years. Seeing as this Night King of TV-canon is not the Night's King of Old Nan's tales, who was the 13th Lord Commander, but rather the first of the White Walkers, I would think that being in a dormant-state for 8 millenia would have impeded his ability to forsee the future to an extent. It's clear from Bran's flashes of images that pertained to the future is more difficult to achieve with much reliable accuracy than reviewing events which have already transpired (such as the Tower of Joy scene). It would be naive to assume that the Night King's strategy for world conquest was flawless, even due to his long life. He knew that Bran was important, but saw the more mature Three-eyed Raven as too important to leave his demise in the hands of some undead servitor. Even his White Walker lieutenants stood side-to-side at the entrance before their master entered the chamber to dispatch the 3ER for good. The fact that Bran and Meera had to flee the wights, who chased them deep into the forest, contradicts the notion that the Night King's marking of Bran is partof some strategy to help his undead horde to penetrate the Wall. Which in any case they proved to be able as early as the First Season.