Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and recently an interview with Kristian Nairn who plays
Hodor has everyone thinking Bran Stark’s story isn’t going to be featured in Season
5.
At all.
I’ll explain what was said in the interview and what he did not say.
It’s a game of telephone where people are repeating what other people interpret.
The original interview says almost nothing about season 5.
It’s just this one bit, and HBO has thus far refused to comment.
So let’s start with the actual interview.
The part that caused everyone to crap their pants went like this, Nairn said and this
is his quote "We have a season off and we have a year's hiatus, solely because I imagine
our storyline is up to the end of the books," he said.
"So, I get my year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world."
What does that mean, it means Hodor definitely is not featured in season 5.
It’s the “we” part that is making everyone think he meant everyone in Bran’s party,
or at least the ones still alive.
Under normal circumstances what you would want to see from the person interviewing him
would be a hold on, let me get this straight.
You, Bran, Meera, The Child of the Forest, The Three Eyed Raven.
They’re not doing any scenes with those characters at all?
But that’s not the case, I’m not a huge fan of celebrity interviews, because they
say a lot of things without saying anything at all, just because HBO will sue them out
of existence if they spoil things.
I can only imagine the angry phone calls Kristian Nairn is getting from their PR department
right now.
Whatever, here’s a couple of things his comment could mean.
Let’s assume no Hodor, since he’s going to be on tour.
Issac Hemstead Wright doesn’t have any other projects he’s working on, so unless we see
him shooting something in the next couple of months in a different part of the world.
He could still shoot some warging or flashback scenes.
Quick spoiler warning for Bran’s character in Book 5.
I’ll leave this spoiler tag up and you can just skip till you don’t see it any more
if you don’t want to know anything...okay, here we go.
So Bran spends time learning about the greensight during Book 5 and learns that he can use the
weirwood trees to I guess you could call it see back in time.
He can’t see forward, but he can see anything in the field of vision of a weirwood for as
long as it’s been alive.
So he could peep on Ned Stark as a boy while he was visiting the godswood in winterfell.
Or he could see the godswood in any of the other castles of westeros as long as the trees
still exist there.
A lot of them have been cut down.
A lot of his time is spent learning how to do this with the three eyed raven.
So why would they even cut him out?
It’s possible, if it’s true he’s not in season 5, that the producers felt like
watching bran sit stationary under that tree and do flashbacks all year, would slow down
the pace of the season.
Okay spoilers over.
Because it’s HBO it’s possible they just want to focus on the biggest action scenes,
there have already been several spoilery scenes filmed.
That I’ll talk about in other videos.
But they involve Cersei, Jaime, The Martells, Tyrion, Ser Jorah and Daenerys.
I guess I just mentioned almost all the main characters.
Lets just say there will be as many oh shit moments as were in season 4.
I’ll talk about them all in future spoilery videos if you guys want.
Remember, they cut Gendry out of Season 4 completely too because he didn’t have any
epic action scenes.
And they all but cut Bran out of Season 4.
So how would they bring him back into the story if they do cut him out?
They’d either condense the flashback moments to a single scene or cut it out entirely and
just reference it in past tense.
Picking up with Bran being a fully actualized greenseer.
Since we haven’t gotten winds of winter yet there are only theories and prophecies
about Bran’s role in the rest of the story.
Clearly he will be working with the Children of the Forest.
In the great conflicts of the past the Children have fought for the balance of nature.
For example, it’s implied they used the hammer of waters to shatter the arm of Dorne
when the first men invaded westeros.
Then during the long night, the children were the ones that discovered the white walkers
were vulnerable to obsidian, making a new truce with the first men and pushing the forces
of the great other back.
Any time large magics get involved and the climate changes, the children re-appear and
work to balance things.
For instance, I mentioned in my religions and gods video.
If dragons overpopulated, the world would start to overheat.
The Children would start to help the white walkers balance the
climate and vis versa if it got too cold again.
I say all this because right now during current events, melisandre supposedly has a vision
implying the three eyed raven serves the great other.
The finale last year kind of contradicts that, because the skeletons can’t enter his cave.
That just supports the idea that the children, who all possess greensight.
Are a third neutral force between the great other and r’hllor.
Bran will be working with them.
So whatever ends up happening, he could wind up fighting against or with his old friends
and family.
The ones that are still alive.
Since the show probably won’t be doing any of these things next season, they might just
bring him back when they’re ready to deal with the white walker army attacking the wall.
I’ll probably do a winds of winter video talking about what’s going on in the north
soon.
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