05-21-2019, 02:40 PM
(05-21-2019, 02:21 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Stories... not the story of bran lol
The evil Bran stuff is interesting.
If we assume he can see the future, as implied, then was he merely complicit in Dany's massacre, or did he actually move everyone around like chess pieces to get himself on the Throne?
You want a Master of War and Master of Whispers - don't seem like tools of a peaceful reign, or at least not one that is going to end war. Oh, and you want to get your hands on that dragon.
A couple other possibilities that, if true, kind of detract from the story. One being the future is inevitable, so Bran just sees these things and does his best to prepare for it. The other is that he can see and manipulate the future to his own liking, which makes everyone pawns in his game of SimCity.
We've seen him time travel and affect the past, so that would strongly imply he can tweak things and see how it impacts the future. Not that the show hasn't strongly hinted at fate, or a lack of free will, many times but it diminishes accomplishments when there's a puppet master pulling your strings.
Maybe Bran is simply trying to balance the evil forces of magic in the world. But engineering his way to the throne and sending Jon away, possibly recruiting an unwitting Tyrion as a co-conspirator....doesn't shout "benevolent ruler" to me. Perhaps that's meaningless to Bran, and he's strictly "ends justifies the means" where people are pawns in his larger mission to preserve mankind.
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