At the moment, the only living Targaryen is Dany, but she may have both a secret nephew (we’ll get to that one next) and a secret brother (Tyrion). And these riders must have Targaryen blood if they are to truly be able to tame said dragons. One of the most prominent prophecies from the books is that “The Dragon has Three Heads,” meaning that each of Dany’s three dragons must have a rider. Yet once you begin to really think it through, it is more sense than silly. This is one of my personal favorite theories, mostly because it seems to come out of left field. If you scroll past Walter White Walker, Lord of Spoilers, you do so at your own risk. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series (all of it, even chapters from the unreleased books), it also contains rampant speculation and wild theories that may well ruin future episodes and books. What follows contains not just spoilers from George R.R. Their breakdowns of these popular theories with visual aids are exceptional, giving us a great place to start.īefore we begin, here’s your spoiler warning. With that in mind, we’re going to do a little refresher on some of the most interesting and logical Game of Thrones fan theories with the help of the YouTube channel Alt Shift X, who has gained notoriety by providing concise explanations of a wide range of topics. Yes, it may spoil some of what is to come in the books, but are you really going to stop watching? Half the fun will be picking through every in-between moment of the next ten episodes to see if we can learn something important about the ultimate climax and conclusion of Martin’s story. Why? Because season five of Game of Thrones may have a lot to teach us about what is to come in Martin’s story. And right now is the exact time we should be talking about the most interesting of these theories, on the eve of season five’s premiere. This is why fan theories are fun, because of the unknown. There is no modern precedent for what Game of Thrones fans (book reader or otherwise) are about to go through. Even though the Harry Potter book series wasn’t finished by the time the movies started production, it did finish well before the movie franchise ended. Before The Lord of the Rings movies were made, Tolkein’s books were more than finished and the ultimate ending was known. If you think about it, modern audiences have not experienced this kind of uncertainty in their big fantasy stories. Starting with little moments last season and ramping up greatly with the forthcoming fifth season of the show, we’ve begun to enter new territory: the show is going to surpass the books. The show is only amplifying the cruel and unusual fan punishment that the books have mastered. Every time someone on the show mentions Jon Snow’s parentage, George R.R. It has not only brought along a much larger audience, it has held true to mythology that makes Martin’s books so interesting. Weiss and David Benioff, has added another layer to the dynamic. The HBO show, shepherded along by creators D.B. Either Martin is an evil marketing genius whose carefully hand-crafted the most cruelly engaging fantasy narrative of a generation or he’s just a great writer whose dreadful writing pace allowed him to luck into said situation. For the better part of two decades, fans have been placed in this constant cycle of binging on information followed by long droughts of despair. To his credit (and the chagrin of die hards), Martin himself has furthered this situation both by building out a big and complex world and by taking many years to write each book. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books have been inspiring fans to read between the lines and come up with their own wild theories since the first book was published in 1996. It’s an interesting dynamic that I can’t say I’ve seen before. The fact that the story is incomplete is what makes it so compelling and unique. Any massively complex story – especially one that is so incomplete – is going to draw the interest and ire of its fanbase. If there is one thing that makes a big fantasy epic like Game of Thrones fun, it’s the fan theories.
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