A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Dr Strangelove]

Why would a fall cause you to become comatose in the first place? Wouldn't that imply severe brain damage? He didn't fall on his head.

He fell backwards from a height that looked to be about 2 stories and landed on his back. Such a fall could easily have resulted in brain contusions. Since his legs don't work but his arms do he apparently also sustained an injury to his spinal cord in the thoracic area.

[Dr Strangelove]

IIRC, they poured broth and whatnot down his throat.

Medically... less than plausible. But, it is a fantasy novel.

Medically less than plausible? I dare you to do that with one of your patients. Just don't tell anyone I told you to do it.

[Ecthy]

Why would there be? Geothermal heating seems sufficient to explain the hot water.

Because it's a fantasy book not a science book.

That said, there's only a small-ish positive reason to assume there is or was one: the visual impressions of the burning ruins of Winterfell as seen through the eyes of Summer the direwolf mention a winged snake, but who knows what that could mean.


(rantasy is also a good word but not the one I was looking for).

[Hauldren Collider]

I've heard other people suggest he is the Nights King, and I'm somewhat inclined to agree, although Benjen is a likely option. I actually think we'll see Benjen Stark in the next book--I'm pretty sure he's the one that left the dragonglass at the Fist of the First Men.

[Guynemer]

Benjen is the obvious choice, but he's partly the obvious choice because, well, there are no other obvious choices that would be as meaningful.

[regexcellent]

Who do you folks think Coldhands is?

Spoiler:

I don't think he's Benjen Stark, I feel like he's older than that.

[Guynemer]

I think he's referring to the fact that the whositwhatits and whatshisname come right out and tell him that, "No, we can not make your legs work again."

[Hauldren Collider]

Wait, you don't subscribe to the

Spoiler:

bran becomes a tree

theory do you? Otherwise

Spoiler:

all it says is that the three eyed crow didn't give him the ability to walk again

.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Was being charitable

[Nikolai]

Not only kind of, it states the answer quite clearly.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It kind of does.

[Hauldren Collider]

Yes, I have, and no, it doesn't.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Have you read Dance with Dragons? That'll answer your question.

[Hauldren Collider]

Does anyone want to put odds on him ever being able to walk again? If you can resurrect people from the dead as zombies or whatever, why couldn't you selectively do so for someone's legs?

[MikeH]

He fell from the top of a castle to the ground, ended up with his head on the ground, but managed to lay his head gently onto the ground without bashing it at all as he did so?