Serioulsly? It snowed like all of the last ep of last season and the beginning of this one then shyt cleared up. No one has mentioned 'oh nice weather we're having, thanks Melisandre'. Actually she was all down on herself the beginning of this season cause she felt like a fraud. But her magic worked?
"Seen how they operate for 6 seasons?"We've seen them less than 10 times in the entire series.
We know jack shyt about them aside from a handful of battle scenes, and the fact that they carry babies back to a ritualized area to convert them. We know they had some sort of pact with Craster, it's not a stretch that they will want another pact of some sort.
They aren't mindless zombies. HBO created an entire language just for them (the same dude who created the Dothraki language confirmed this). They want something, we don't know what it is, but it's possible it isn't a mustache twirling, "try to take over the world" pinky and the brain plot. Their motivations are one of the biggest mysteries of the series, Geroge has said this isn't evil monsters vs righteous humans, he tries to be more subversive than that.
I don't need everyone's plot to wrap up with the White Walkers. In fact, I hope the majority of the character arcs have nothing to do with them. Cersei's arc better not have shyt to do with White Walkers. Arya's arc better not have shyt to do with White Walkers. Let the fantasy shyt happen in one region and let the political shyt happen in another, and let the two parallel, compliment each other in a juxtaposition, like it has all series.
i bet by the end of this whole story we see it was better to become a white walker than whatever craster would have raised boys to be - or better than just dying in the snow north of the wall
The very next ep after she was sacrificed..
Much as I admire Tolkien, and I do admire Tolkien — he’s been a huge influence on me, and his Lord of the Rings is the mountain that leans over every other fantasy written since and shaped all of modern fantasy — there are things about it, the whole concept of the Dark Lord, and good guys battling bad guys, Good versus Evil, while brilliantly handled in Tolkien, in the hands of many Tolkien successors, it has become kind of a cartoon. We don’t need any more Dark Lords, we don’t need any more, ‘Here are the good guys, they’re in white, there are the bad guys, they’re in black. And also, they’re really ugly, the bad guys.
Wow, OK I must have missed it. But seriously that's stupid, is this a planet revolving around a sun or what? WTF is this shyt?! So technically she could just keep winter at bay forever? I guess the White Walkers aren't coming?
or maybe those boys could've just grown up in a situation that isn't a) undead invaders who've slaughtered 99% of people they've come across or b) inhuman scumbags who deal with group a to create incestuous harems
George's answer to this question is "it's magic."
Not enough Kings blood
And that's why GRRM centers a great deal around houses and their internal politics while Tolkien treats that as secondary. That quote in particular is centered around Jamie Lannister, King Slayer, and how a certain sequence in the books is told from his perspective in order to provide a much more detailed view on how the 'oath breaker' is more honest than the vast majority of the cast.
