Long post incoming.
Let’s talk about Bran becoming King for a second...
The concept, I’m fine with. In the first book, the first POV chapter is his. They show Ned teaching him some harsh responsibilities for being a Lord when he executes the NW deserter. He’s the one kinda responsible for all the Stark kids adopting the direwolves. They show him being trained to fight, when he sparred against Tommen. He discovered Jaime and Cersei in the Tower. Him getting pushed set into motion a chain of events that led to the War of the 5 Kings. He has visions and majority of the supernatural stuff revolves around him. He becomes the child of some kind of destiny
You can make a legit case for him actually being the main character.
But after 8 seasons, do you feel like the show earned that? They made him take a whole season off because they knew the way they were moving his story along was kinda trash because they left a lot of book context out.
The show (tries to) builds his character as the anti NK. He becomes this 3 eyed raven. And he’s not really Bran anymore. He has a higher purpose as it pertains to the Others/White Walkers.
But, they kill the NK basically without his help. He gave Arya the dagger, sure... but there was other Valyrian steel already there. Whatever. Claims that Jon NEEDS to know about his parentage (did he really?) as if that would be important in this ultimate battle vs the NK.
So boom... army of the dead comes down to winter fall and we get the spectacular battle episode. He sits and waits in the Gods Wood as bait. (Ok... this has to be symbolic or something, right? Nah... didn’t mean shit) when shit hits the fan, this nigga just wargs out to do... what exactly? They never tell us.
Anyway, Arya hits the NK with the Valyrian steel banger and kills him. So what was his (3 eyed a raven) actual purpose or relationship as it pertained to the NK? He was a target why? Did it matter?
Aight... War is over. He spent the better part of the last 2 seasons telling us he wasn’t Bran anymore. And that he doesn’t want anything. And he lives in the past. (Pssh... whatever that means) so they hide him again for 2 episodes.
Fast forward to this council. He’s there for no explainable reason. The man in chains who’s fate they were supposed to be deciding, all of a sudden is in control of the proceedings and dictates the fate of the 7 kingdoms going forward? Why?!
Whatever... there’s at least 5 people there who KNOW FOR A FACT that Jon is the rightful heir, and no one mentions it? I know, I know...
“I don’t want it!”*Jon Snow voice*
But still...
Guy in chains: “I nominate the omniscient crippled, half a vegetable nigga...”
8 fully functional adults without a single brain cell devoted to critical thinking: “Bet.”
Bran-notBranIdon’twantanythinganymore Stark: “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrppppp!!!! That’s why I’m here nigga. It’s what I’ve always wanted.
What?!!
It dawned on no one... That they guy who knew everything planted that “Jon is the true heir” seed, knowing full well the schism it would create between Jon and Dany, causing Dany to go “mad” and slaughter thousands of innocent civilians and Jon, in turn, to murder her and get his bastard ass banished all the way the fuck outta here back to the wall to make way FOR HIMSELF TO BE KING?!!!!!
Just roll with it.
Now look... if that be the case. If the 3 eyed raven been playing everybody on some Machiavellian Illuminati shit... woke up the WWs, seized on the oppurtunity of war and discord in the 7 kingdoms, to lure Bran north of the wall to possess his body for his powerful, preternatural green sight ability, to maneuver himself into position to be the perpetual ruler of westeros, by way of never having to worry about succession because he can continuously possess the bodies of young men who are born with the greensight...
THAT WOULDA BEEN FUCKIN DOPE AS HELL.
But I feel like that deserved a bit of fleshing out.
And if it’s not the case and we just take it at face value, and Tyrion just picked Bran on a humbug... it’s fucking stupid.
