Game of Thrones paying back for season seven on July 16 , and there are plenty of major question fans have had for years that will in all likelihood be answer during its seven - week outpouring . However , there are still some confounding moments that have fled north of the Wall , and we ’re beginning to surmise their explanations might never retrovert .
Again , these are n’t the big mysteries we ’re middling sure will be treat before the conclusion episode , e.g. the real storey of Lyanna Stark ’s abduction by Rhaegar Targaryen , who is Azor Ahai , will we get the Cleganebowl , etc . These are just the I that we think the show is n’t pass to get around to secern us .
1) Why did the White Walkers ignore Sam?
At the remnant of time of year two , Samwell Tarly is engulfed by a swarm of White Walkers and Wight , indicating that wintertime is well on the way to Westeros . It ’s a powerful scene , and it ’s great to see it through the eyes of a character we have it off and love , but there is no evident reason why none of the zombie - similar wight onslaught Sam as he ’s cowering behind a petite John Rock . The White Walker guide the troop even appear to make middle contact with him , and then just moves on , like , “ Dude , you ’re so not deserving my clip . ”
I ’ve see a couple of explanations , though honestly none of them have seemed acceptable . There are those who say the White Walker never actually find out Sam ; instead , it was a photography trick . That might be dead on target , but that mean none of the creature saw him either … and I doubt you could play peep - a - boo with an undead regular army and turn out okay . Others claim the White Walkers desire to leave witnesses to spread word of their arrival , hence why the character Will was able to escape during the open up shot of the series premiere . But give that they ’d assail a huge group of Night ’s Watchmen , at least a few of which must have care to escape , I do n’t recall one gentleman by himself in the middle of an undefendable wintry field would be all that worthful to them .
2) Why has Tyrion never retaliated against Littlefinger for framing him for the attack on Bran?
There are peck of fibre who are play the farseeing biz in Game of Thrones ( Varys and Littlefinger come to brain ) , but Tyrion really is n’t one of them . One of his biggest helplessness has been his restlessness . Yes , he is level-headed and clever , but he ’s also impetuous . You really saw this in his role as Hand of the King — especially in the season two instalment “ What Is bushed May Never Die , ” when he used every appendage of the small council against the others to figure out who was betraying him to Cersei . It was a unforesightful - hand solution that screwed him over in the long run , because it alienated fundamental allies .
That being say , it ’s still regulate that Tyrion is likely wreak the longest game in the history of Westeros when it comes to Littlefinger — so long , in fact , that it does n’t look like it exists . Back in season one , Littlefinger cast Tyrion for Bran ’s slaying attempt , chair Catelyn Stark to kidnap him and put him on trial for his very life , set off the difference between the Starks and the Lannisters . Eventually Tyrion then find out that Littlefinger was behind it , and you ’d think he ’d be pretty pissed to discover out the role Littlefinger played in his near - demise .
And yet , when Tyrion returns to King ’s landing place , it never comes up . He and Littlefinger never even sing about it in their not - so - insidious double - speak . Tyrion just kind of forgets it ever happened . Unless , of course , it ’s all rifle to get to a head presently , in one of the long bunko game in the history of the show . Varys eventually scram revenge on the magician who castrated him — maybe Tyrion has also just been biding his metre .
3) How did Arya survive that stabbing?
In Westeros , a dewy-eyed paper cutting off can be a death time . Both Robert Baratheon and Khal Drogo die after having their bodies puncture , the latter of which yield to an infection . So , in a world where flesh combat injury are black , Arya seemed doomed to exit after being stabbed multiple sentence by the Waif . Her injury seem so severe that many people assumed it was n’t really Arya , that she’dtraded her facefor someone else ’s to keep herself alive .
It rick out , nope , it was Arya who crawled out of the water , bloodied and cavernous , probably exposing her wound to massive infection . And all it guide was a few clumsy stitches and a bit of Braavosi magic to keep her from encounter the Many - Faced God . But it seems a little too convenient , in the viewing of , you know , the realness of Westeros , where cash in one’s chips is pretty easy . After all , if Robb Stark ’s doomed married woman Talisa could n’t survive a multiple stabbing to the belly , it seems unlikely that Arya would ’ve been able to .
4) Did the Warlocks just give up on getting revenge on Dany?
Game of Thrones loves it when Daenerys burns everything to the ground , but that does n’t always solve the trouble . In season two , Dany and her dragons flamebroiled Pyat Pree at the House of the Undying , seemingly ruin the Warlocks through their main proxy . However , that does n’t seem to be the subject . At the beginning of season three , Dany is nearly kill by a young bravo — her dingy lip and magical inclination serving as a clear indication she ’s allied with the warlock . Then , she escapes .
It ’s not clear whether the assassin was a materialization of the warlocks themselves , or someone under their employment . But either way of life , she ’s a sign that the warlocks are still around in some mental ability , and they ’re not end with her yet . On the other hand , they ’re never seen again . The whole assassination try is right smart different in the books , and better explored , but in the show it leave a lot of enquiry that get break up to the winds even quicker than Pyat ’s ashes . Are they still lie in postponement ? Will they attempt to take revenge during Daenerys ’ rape on Westeros — or possibly even after ?
5) How did Melisandre stay young the first time her necklace came off?
In the time of year six premiere , “ The Red Woman , ” we get down the scandalous reveal that Melisandre is on the Q.T. an old char ( possibly up to 400 years old ) who ’s using magic to keep herself untried . The thaumaturgy looks to be in her necklace , as her real body appears the here and now she takes it off . However , this is n’t the first time she ’s taken the necklace off — she bathed without it in a time of year four installment .
There are some theories that have circulated about this , even though none of them have been confirmed , and they all come down to that bathing scene in “ Mockingbird . ” During the aspect , we get lingering shots of the potion that Melisandre is pouring into the bath , indicate that the magic may not be in the necklace itself , but rather that the necklace is her metaphorical “ armor ” keeping everything together .
The scenery also feature Selyse Baratheon , who wait visibly uncomfortable as Melisandre bathes and imply that the Red Woman does n’t have to pretend in front of her , as she ’s a “ true believer . ” This could be because she ’s conflicted about Melisandre ’s affair with her husband , but it could be because she sees the woman ’s real form as an honest-to-god beldam .
6) Why didn’t the Night’s Watch mutineers try to burn Jon Snow’s body?
Alliser Thorne might have been a shaft , but he was a cuss sidekick of the Night ’s Watch , and he live better than almost anyone in Westeros that wintertime was coming . pit , he was the one Lord Commander Mormont sent to King ’s Landing ( build up with a wight ’s mitt ) to win over Joffrey that the White Walkers were coming and the Night ’s Watch require aid .
After Thorne and the other mutineers murdered Jon Snow , they simply left his body out in the snow to bleed out , giving Davos the opportunity to pull him to safety until Melisandre could arrive . They did n’t put him on a pyre to sunburn , which is the standard procedure for a death in the Night ’s Watch . Sure , they would n’t want to give Snow an “ respectable death , ” tell the words about how his watch has end , but Thorne is well cognizant that wights have been see south of the Wall . It does n’t seem like he would require to risk Jon Snow coming back as a wight .
And if they had burned the body , he would ’ve been spare the resurrection that head to their licking — unless Jon Snow ’s Targaryen blood means he too does n’t cauterize , like Daenerys . But no one in the Night ’s sentinel should know that , including Jon Snow … for now .
7) Where is Arya’s Dire Wolf Nymeria?
There are only two of the Dire Wolves adopted by the Starks that are presently animated : Jon Snow ’s Ghost , and Arya ’s Nymeria , the latter of which only survived when Arya fly the coop her off after the woman chaser attack Joffrey for being a jerky , and Cersei take its death . Sansa ’s Lady paid the toll instead , alas .
return the important roles all the Dire Wolves have had in the chronicle , and how symbolically linked they are to their Stark tiddler , it experience lamentably unsatisfying to have a liberal Dire Wolf running around for all these year . Has the show been saving her return for a fundamental moment , which is presumably come soon now that Arya is back in Westeros ? Does her absence mirror Arya ’s , who seems to have whole lost her way as a Stark ? Or , in one of Game of Thrones ’ patent mix of the magical and mundane , is Nymeria just gone for full because all those eld spent apart severed the link between the two , and we ’ll never see her again ?
8) What was the opening credits astrolabe doing in the Citadel?
One of season six ’s most knotty moments was when Samwell entered the Cidatel of Oldtown , which is basically Maester University , and detect non other than the crazy astrolabe that has spun over the function of Westeros in the show ’s chess opening credits .
The potential find that what we see as a show is in fact a history recorded by the Maesters adds a very bizarre view to the series . If Sam is writing the story down , we can safely take up he ’s writing for truth . But a later historiographer could be taking striking permission , have wrong entropy , or may even be a bad good speller . In poor , it ’s potential the show no longer has a reliable narrator , which is very unsettling . On the other bridge player , it could also just be an Easter egg by the show ’s creators designed to bollocks up sports fan ’ minds ( commission reach ) .
Whatever the understanding , it exists primarily as a mystery for viewers to obsess over , and any answer would take that world power aside from it . So I suspect the show will not be providing us with one , and leave us to wonder about it for the rest of the serial , if not our lives .
9) What makes Podrick a Sex God?
One of the biggest closed book of the serial was n’t Jon Snow ’s descent , nor is it who ’s going to sit on the Iron Throne … it ’s why the hell Podrick is the swell fan in the history of Westeros . He went to a brothel once , just once , and ostensibly he was so good at bedding ladies that they would n’t accept his money . This has never been explain — even the actor who plays himhas no cluewhat makes Podrick such an first-class son toy . What ’s more , the show has never search it past that one episode in time of year three . You ’d think if Podrick had the greatest dick in Westeros , and the Master of Whispers be intimate about it , the dame would be flocking from all over the Seven Kingdoms to take a turn of events on it .
10) Why the hell did that one episode ended with a punk song?
This is more of a personal gripe than anything else , but I still have no idea why the time of year three installment “ Walk of Punishment ” terminate with a rock cover of “ The Bear and the Maiden Fair ” by the Hold Steady . It was the only clock time the show ever did something like this , and it was such a major trip-up . The episode ends with Jaime losing his hand , arguably the one case that countersink his entire story in apparent movement . It was sinewy , tense , and tragical .
To follow it with a tilt song by a real - world band just completely ruin the tone . I ’m not surprised the show has n’t tried something like it again , and I desire they never do .
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