Check out this Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 Explained video! Was this the Night King’s Plan all along?

Instead of doing a typical Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 Breakdown video, I’ve decided to approach the episode from a theory perspective.

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  5. First Book Jon Snow Chapter 52 describes a dream Jon Snow has a dream about the crypt in Winterfell and how in this dream he had seen all of the vaults were opening one by one and out stumbling the dead kings from their cold dark graves . Does this mean that this is a foreshadowing of the Night King raising ALL of the dead as he flies through all the lands on the dragon?

  12. There's a flaw, how did the night king know they were coming and how did he know what they were coming for? And why did he give them the strategically important knowledge about what happens when a white walker is killed? I don't think giving them that would have been worth it for a measly dragon.

  13. that makes sense but they have a problem with setting the plot up. i have never read the books but for what i heard from videos like this there better and more detailed which you don't or can't get from the tv show.

  14. The NK is pulling some serious strings, but for what? To bring down the Wall and end the magic of the Children, imo. At any rate, he wanted the dragons to come North, knew about Dany and Jon (with a dragonglass candle in the books, and greensight in the show), and played that relationship to bring them there. He's a Stark (you know which) and maybe even has some Dragon's blood (it's hinted at in the books). In the show, if he's who we think he is, he's warging Viserion.

  17. So if the Night King planned this all along and laid a trap to capture a dragon, then how would he know a dragon would come to Jon Snow and crew's aid? I doubt he has spies in Jon or Danaerys' camps so it can only mean the NK has greensight, or the NK is…. Bran.

  19. I agree… The Night King was patiently waiting for something and before when Bran was watching with the crows, the Night King broke his magic so he could not see much more. I do too think it was all apart of his plan to get a dragon.

  21. Great video. This could be a stretch, but just took another look at the screenshot of the Wights surrounding everyone on the rock in the middle of the frozen water, and noticed the Wights in single file in the back trailing off (6:33). If we were to see an aerial shot of this, would it maybe show the Wights in the "mysterious spiral pattern" we've seen over the seasons? Thoughts?

  22. The existence of dragons and white walker doesn't change the fact that 5 people were sitting in a frozen lake for several days and didn't die. (the time for the raven to reach dragonstone and daenerys fly back)

  24. If the show emphasized this theory itself then it would've made many people view the episode different it will answer so many loopholes. All they had to do is have a 1 minute scene where one of the guys say something in the realms of "why are they waiting it's like their waiting for something they can kill us any minute. That one piece of dialogue would've reshaped how this episode played out.

  27. D&D are shitty writers. I don't get how people keep on defending them with weird theories !

    A silly intrigue to get rid of a character.

    If this a trap, it means that the night king waited 8000 years and a love affair to get a dragon go beyond the wall ?? What about the other dragons since Aegon ´s conquest, couldn't the night king lure of them ? No dragon, no invasion ? Total non sense.

  28. While i do think it was a trap by the night king.
    The place Bran saw when warging is different to where they got trapped in the lake, the vision island has a ramp on the front edge, the lake rock does not.
    Maybe its just a mistake on their part , but there are different rocks
    Edit:
    I think the trap was laid with the vision given to the hound.
    It was the hound directing them towards the 'mountain shaped like an arrow' or whatever.

  30. Did we need to see the army of the dead retrieving the dragon from beneath the ice
    in my opinion it would have had more impact seeing the knights king in episode 7 riding the dragon and for the viewer to bridge the gap rather than seeing thousands of dead with their gleaming new chains drag the beast from the depths. So as this is game of theories please can you explain where did they get the chains?

  31. Every one saying the dragon is a wight, I believe is incorrect. There's a difference when he raises the dead by his will, like at hardhome, and when he personally touches something. Kind of like when he touched that child back in season 2, I think? Not 100% but that's my thought on that; he did not just want another wight for the army, him personally touching the dragon imbued it with powers of his and allows it to be much more formidable. Bring on the hate.

  32. Thank you. That's exactly what I was noticed. That was all planned. An 8000 years knight king has a huge knowledge more than all masters of citadel. Setting such a clever trap and being prepared for months is just like a day for a normal human being. He has all knowledge to cast such a precise plan and also has an incredible patience to wait for a right time to come. In addition to all facts noted in this video to support this idea see how he even prepared such a long and strong chain in that wasteland.

  34. Interesting, The lake location does appear to be the same place the walkers were viewed by the ravens. It did all work out perfectly well in every way for the night king and having his spears does lend weight to this being a premeditated strike, but how could he know, can the night king warg?

  35. this still doesnt make sense because how does the night knight know dragons exist/ are even in westeros? its one thing to assume he lured jon north to kill him but then pivoted once he realized a dragon is more valuable than jon..
    in any case the argument is very weak because the writing has been weak. all the super awesome moments this season (and they were awesome) just weren't as rewarding because it seems shortcuts were taken to get there.

  37. I disagree about the reasons you think that Sansa sent brienne away. In my opinion, it seemed like the show writers we're trying super hard to make it obvious that Sansa was about to have Arya executed. When little finger was telling Sansa that brienne is sworn to protect BOTH Stark girls, it seemed like Sansa thought "okay, so if I do some shit to Arya, brienne will step in to protect her" so that's why she sent her away so that she could have her executed. But then there was deleted scene where Sansa went to Bran and said basically "yo I'm gonna execute Arya, you got any info that could help me out?" And Bran was like "fa sho" which led to Arya and Sansa finally reconciling because REMEMBER, they had to have had an off screen interaction in order for Sansa to give Arya back the catspaw dagger. I think that's what the writers we're trying to imply, but it wasn't executed very well, making the plot seem clunky and nonsensical.

  38. *MATE EVEN BLIND FREDDY COULD SEE THAT THE NIGHT KING HAD THIS ONE SET UP RIGHT FROM THE START…. WAAAAAAAAY TOO MANY THINGS FALL PERFECTLY INTO PLACE FOR NK FOR IT JUST TO BE COINCIDENCE AND PURE DUMB LUCK

  41. It sucks that it will probably NEVER be revealed if this is true or not because d&d are going to rush season 8 to the max. This is a sick theory though, and it puts silence to everyone asking "how did the wights have chains?" Maybe they took them from hard home because the night king KNEW that they would need them. "Why didn't the night king just kill all of them on the spot with those spears instead of waiting for them to be saved?" Because he needed a dragon to take down the wall. Dragons are magic. It would make sense that an undead dragon can take down the wall so easily. The wall isn't just ice and stone, magic spells are forged into it. This was the night kings plan all along. The night king has the sight, just as bran does. He's just way more experienced and better at using his power then bran is. I hope d&d attempt to go in depth with this concept, it would be awesome.

  43. This wasn't a trap.
    A trap implies you set the bait, prepare your tools, and when the prey arrives to claim your bait, you kill it.

    This wasn't a trap, I don't know how people keep thinking that it is. Bear with me and you'll hopefully understand by the end.

    The biggest issue here is that the NK had no role to play, no part at all in any of the events that lead to the dragons being north. He didn't do anything that directly or indirectly causes the protagonists to venture north in an unlikely and quite suicidal mission to fetch a wight. He placed no bait, at any point. We see this because many things that happen, could very easily NOT happen for random uncontrollable reasons, meaning Dany wouldn't have gone north.

    – If they decided against the idea due the immense risk, the NK had no means of altering their decision, no dragons.
    – If the bear had killed Gendry or Jon – who told Gendry to run back – there would have been no message to the wall. Again, the NK had no influence over this. No dragons.
    – If Gendry had tripped and fallen, broken or twisted his ankle, he'd not have made it to the wall. No dragons
    – If Tyrion had convinced Dany no to go, there would have been no dragons.

    Even if he somehow knew all of this would happen, exactly the way it did, down to the choice of which dragon he knew he would hit – which would make him omniscient and thus invincible – he still never actively affected the choices or events that lead to the party going north. He still didn't lure or trap them.

    What we see here is the NK getting lucky because Dany is arrogant and thinks the dragons are unstoppable. The NK is indeed, likely, a greenseer and like Bran, knows many things. There is no doubt he knew dragons had come to Westeros, we see no hint of surprize, after all, when they attack. He simply gets a spear and moves into action.
    And as he is a calculated planner, he was simply prepared in case this sort of thing happened. He had several spears and knew to try and kill them fast before he lost his army.

    The chains remain a mystery and are likely the result of the screenwriters wanting to play this scene out in a specific cinematic way, and the chains were required, so they were present.

    Personally, I think we all might be giving them too much credit for smart writing. I mean, the writing in many areas is pretty bad so there's no reason to believe this part of the story is suddenly so well thought out.

    The fact that the NK uses the undead dragon to burn the wall makes me believe he likely had no plan to get past it otherwise. Which in itself, is quite silly since if this episode hadn't happened, he'd be drinked iced tea with his buddies chatting about good Ol Craster and how he gave them his babies.

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