#bridge4

and I remember TED Talk about addiction I saw and how they explained that the major reason people get addicted is the lack of social connections and how accepting and reconnecting those people helps the most

This is an incredible analysis backing up the argument that yes, what we saw on screen might’ve actually been the dragons’ mating flight. I will skip over all of the supporting canon evidence and share a quick transcript of the end:

Now that Jon has bonded with Rhaegal, Drogon and Rhaegal may fall in love. Because a piece of Dany is in Drogon, and a piece of Jon is now in Rhaegal. It may have happened as soon as Jon bonded Rhaegal. If that's true, then that awesome flight that we saw wasn't a waste of CGI like I've seen some people say - it was beautiful and it was important. We may have just witnessed a mating flight. Because no one in the story knows how dragons mate. In all the books so far, that line about Tessarion and Seasmoke having a mating flight - that's the closest we get to an answer.

In a lot of other fantasy stories with dragons, that's how dragons mate. They don't hop on the good foot and do the bad thing. They have mating flights. It's magical. They mate by doing a mating dance in the air.

Don't be surprised if Drogon lays a clutch of eggs this season.

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Warning: A partially informed fan comes up with semi-crack theories

Ya heard it here first!

Theon is the Prince Who Was Promised

What can I say, I’m caught up on the “born again amidst salt and smoke” line (Iron Islands, anyone?). It would also be an interesting twist on Theon’s arc, which has been partially to do with him not feeling like he was ever treated like the prince he was/could have been. People complain about him sticking around for so long and committing such heinous things in the earlier seasons, but Theon reminds me a lot of Jamie: people who have done terrible things in the name of family but whose true desires have everything to do with their identity, how they are seen and known. It would be tragic, poetic, unexpected for Theon to be the Prince Who Was Promised. (Because the R + L = J theory is already enough of a twist for a certain character, methinks, and they were way too heavy-handed with Dany and the whole “this can be translated as ‘the princess who was promised’”). “Who would be Theon’s Nyssa Nyssa? Perhaps Yara, but we don’t even know how much of the legend is literal. And it’s not like Melisandre hasn’t been wrong before. It’d also be hecka ironic for a person of the Drowned God faith to be christened, so to speak, by a fire god. (Unless--crack theory intensifies--they’ve been the same god all this time).

Speaking of the gods...

R’hllor Connected W/ Dragons And/or Children of the Forest

Part of me thinks R’hllor has something to do with a dragon--like, some ancient dragon or whatever. Maybe he’s chillin like Smaug in some cave. Maybe the whole world is just iris of R’hllor’s eye (eh, like that Old Nan story from the 2nd episode). I mean, there’s even a weird (ok, maybe super hazy) connection with some of the Targaryen names: Rhaegar, R’hllor, etc. And wouldn’t it tie everything in, in a weird cosmic way? R’hllor has some connection with the Children of the Forest, which would explain why their symbols are so similar to the Targaryen sigil--they both represent dragons (or, knowing GRRM, the tentacles of some Cthulnic monster that vaguely resembles a dragon). 

Still speaking of the gods...

R’hollor is evil and the Azor Ahai is Bad News

I mean, it would upend the traditional fantasy narrative, just like GRRM ordered.

Game of Thrones Was About Love This Whole Time

I take no credit for this theory; it all goes to Bridge4 (who does excellent, excellent deconstructions over on his YouTube channel. Bonus: his happiness will make you happy).

Less a theory than an observation, but it’ s worth checking out Bridge’s video. But I don’t think we should expect GOT to be brutal for brutality’s sake (and if it goes that direction in the show, I believe the books will have GRRM’S far more human though equally ruthless touch). 

Here’s that video:

My favorite thing about this video was this comment: