Fool in the North

I strongly suspect White Walkers never had any intention to pass the Wall. It's theirs and they're only pushing people south.
Jon Snow is your typical fool jumping to conclusions without checking facts or even trying to get more information.
The "Great War" is the one he'll start, very much like the previous "Great War" of history, also known as the First World War, was started only because everyone was afraid of everyone else.

I wouldn't blame anyone for taking the threat seriously. I don't see Jon Snow hoping for the best, though. He is dead set for the worst he "knows" is coming and will not consider alternatives. He never gave any sign he thought of any, nor did anyone else around him. I won't be surprised if he is the one starting hostilities.

By the way, this absolute unanimity of everyone involved about the White Walker threat I see as a strong hint that they will be proven wrong.
Everyone who witnessed it jumped to the same conclusion and met no contradiction. It looks a lot like a writer's trick to better surprise viewers.

I am strongly convinced Daenerys will fail and I expect Jon to die again. I suspect he was brought back for one purpose and will be discarded afterwards.
But even if this doesn't happen, I can very much see GRRM concluding his story in a way which does not involve a military victory. Remember Jojen in S3E10: "The Night's Watch can't stop them. The Kings of Westeros and all their armies can't stop them."

The anti-war atmosphere is way too strong in the whole story and I believe Jojen's words were explicit foreshadowing. We have seen visions come true, as opposed to prophecies. He was telling us that none of what Jon Snow is presently doing will make any difference. He was telling us that the whole "Great War" hype used to make people watch Season 7 is just another misdirection.
The implication always was that Bran would be the decisive person. Surely he's not there just to download fan pleasing stuff like the Tower of Joy video. I don't know if he'll stab the Night King in the back with a chicken bone from Drogon's dung or sign a peace treaty with him. I think GRRM is capable of any of both.

It would be a surprising treatment for a pet character. You'd think the author would give it more depth than just being granted "free stuff". He has actually said there is some of him in Tyrion and Sam while admitting he had to promise not to kill Arya, his wife's favourite character, before the last book.

The connection to Sam makes me pretty sure the fat coward will find out how to cook dragon meat before the end of the story. I'd bet GRRM would love nothing more. I wonder what characteristics of Tyrion he is most afflicted with…



That's a funny little game, by the way. Which Game of Thrones characters do you have most in you?
(I won't answer that one, though)

I'd be very surprised if Daenerys were given what she wants. The glorification of entitlement by bloodline is not something I expect the author to have in mind and she has shown no intention to step down from her Targaryen legacy, not even to mention how politically unwise it would be. Varys explicitly mentioned her "right family name" when he tried to convince Tyrion in S5E01. This is not where this story is headed, not with this writer.

GRRM likes history and has written loads of Targaryen background, fine. Most of it went to show that while the unification of the kingdoms under one rule stopped wars between them, succession squabbles replaced them with just as much bloodshed. The Targaryen history he wrote, for all entertaining it is, essentially negates the advantage the conquest claims to have brought. It is just another argument against the legacy of unrestrained power.

I do not believe he will have that sort of principle win the game, especially not with the return of dragons. I could be wrong and he could show an idealistic, enlightened despot learning to rule wisely together with a funny dwarf and a dry-humoured eunuch or he could show just how such an attempt fails. I hope it won't even come to that. Be sure I'll be shitting all over his plate if he does.

The reason I don't believe in Daenerys' success in the books is that Tyrion is turning into a villain and Varys has his own agenda there. Aegon will have to fail and no wise funny dwarf will be there to help the lizard bitch but a resentful, bitter man hell bent on vengeance.

No, whichever way you turn it, the lizard bitch must die.
I even have my own special wish on how:

Eek! Why not have them adopt Lil'Sam instead?