Your theory might be possible, but it sounds like some Doctor Strange thing... everyone dies but hey! We have a magician who will reverse time a la deus ex
Oh, absolutely, it does. It’s very ‘Avengersy’!
And while I may be wrong about when Bran employs his weird past-rewriting abilities, I am confident that we will see these abilities come into play before the series ends.
The reason episode three makes sense to me is that the Night King is incredibly powerful. Sorry, but a far grander foe than Cersei Lannister.
Would it not be anti-climactic to say, defeat the Night King and then go deal with Cersei Lannister? I mean, maybe not. Maybe these people really do manage to survive with enough men to take down Cersei, too…
But the series opens on the white walkers. We’ve barely learned anything about them! And I’d personally much rather see Cersei FINALLY admit that she needs someone’s help. To align herself with the living after seeing the Night King, herself.
There is a strange quote from Ronald Regan that I love (I know, I know):
“Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Within the fandom, I’ve been complimented on my analysis skills as well as shaded for my tinfoil theories (can’t have my cake and eat it too, I guess lol). But I gotta say, while I practice occam’s razor all the time in real life, all the people we expect to die heroically before Jon kills the Night King in episode three is ungodly boring to me and a huge waste of GRRM’s creative genius.
This man’s a sci fi writer, give me some weird shit!
I mean hell, I don’t even want the Night King (or Cersei) to die! My pacifist ass wants the ending of Game of Thrones to be so sickeningly positive in its message, to show that people finding common ground and appreciating their differences can result in a peaceful kingdom.
Look, I know I’m probably wrong and I’ll eat crow in a few weeks, but until then, I’m going to live in my blissful ignorance and optimism! 🤪