Tyrion to all commanders pre-battle:

"if the enemy approaches Bran

he must warg into a dragon

(1-800-DIAL-A-CAB)

to come pick him up

(which better explains why Drogon

would mindlessly leave Mommy behind

--- "damn you, Bran!" ---

after she parked and fell off

in the No Parking zone

full of crawling climbing

army-ant-like Dead)

and all guards must buy time

for Bran to escape

to Dragonstone

(located just past King's Landing,

hang a left)

thus forcing Cersei's armies

to pull up their pants and join the war,

said armies now sandwiched

between Bran and the White Walkers

and

perhaps too

in the here-and-now Battle of Winterfell

the Dead may be drawn away

from our possibly beleaguered armies

to chase after Bran ...

anyhoo, that's my plan"

​

to reach Dragonstone island

Westeros narrows to a corridor

from Winterfell to The Neck

to The Twins

then broadens to Harrenhal

to King's Landing

through which the Dead must march

since their dragon is crippled

and can only hop along on land,

Night King looks to seize ships at harbor

with which to invade Dragonstone

​

the Dead bypass The Eyrie entirely,

there is a brief Battle of The Twins

then Battle of Harrenhal

both only lightly defended

and their fortified walls overcome

by launching groups of Dead over

with captured Winterfell catapults

(since the Dead seem too clumsy

to make their own

and trebuchets were left behind

since too unwieldy to push)

but

resulting in a very large acquisition

of civilians into the Dead Army

​

meanwhile

ravens are sent to the Ironborn

so Winterfell survivors can march west

to board Yara's ships

and regroup far south near The Citadel

where old maesters FINALLY believe

the Wall has fallen

and the Dead exist

so they dig through

ancient records of the White Walker defeat

by The First Men

which unfortunately required the help of

the now seemingly extinct

Children of the Forest

--- "damn you, Bran!" ---

so

a raven to Bran gets him to search

for any remaining Children of the Forest

anywhere in the world

and he manages to see

a very very distant Red Woman

who has a mildly lyrical

unfamiliar soft-spoken accent

mingling among what looks like

plant-like children

​

(Westeros is a lot of British,

so instead of going far east

and running into Mongol Khans,

how about we run into French?

after all,

in our Real World

plenty of 2nd century Marcus Aurelius

Roman coins have been found

in Vietnam

--- former French Indochina ---

during Roman direct sea trade with China

to bypass the expensive middleman Parthia

which later led to explorers heading west

to find a shortcut to China

but bumping instead into the Americas,

plus

thousands of captured Roman soldiers

from the Battle of Carrhae

disappeared from Western historical records

but were sent east by the Parthian empire

across what later became known as

the arid regions of modern Afghanistan

with a small number of Romans

recorded in Eastern history books

as serving Chinese armies

against the Huns

but

of course

this world of Westeros and Essos

is probably flat

and held up by giant elephants

which means

Arya's ship of explorers

is doooooooooooooooomed)

​

Winterfell ravens alert Cersei

of incoming Dead

but she mocks the North

for their heavy losses

at "the Battle of Lose-terfell,

bwah hahahahaha"

(boooo)

yup, after all that

and she's still got a cork up her

hemorrhoid-potted

bum

​

Euron's ships

are arrogantly overconfident

carelessly anchored far too close to shore

just to improve the range

of their fire ballistas onto land

(their big dragon-killing crossbow bolts

in original season 8

now firing flaming green

exploding-wildfire-tipped spears)

so

the Dead hold onto nets

to launch in groups

from catapults

during a surprise night attack

with most Dead missing their marks

and splashing into the water

but the nets have floats

(bellows-inflated human

and animal bladders)

so Euron's men are terrified in the darkness

by the sudden appearance

of groups of Dead

crashing onto their decks

and also climbing up from the water

with claw hammers and pickaxes

and managing to kill the men

despite many Dead losing limbs

upon impact against multiple obstacles

or being split into still wriggling pieces

(nothing like getting punched by a lone fist),

Euron's fairly intact dead men

are reanimated

and by dawn

the Night King is able to focus

on turning the ships toward Dragonstone,

however

Drogon and Rhaegal set fire

to all boarded ships

just short of landfall on Dragonstone

(which is my reboot of the season 8 scene

of Euron's ships being set alight in daytime

by the solitary Drogon)

​

King's Landing survives by turning

into a prolonged seige

thanks to arrangements by Jamie

using ravens from The Citadel

and advised by Tyrion and the maesters

to use

the successful limited-supply

wheeled

wildfire ballistas/scorpions

and zigzagging wildfire pits

enhanced by puddles of water

to redirect Dead traffic into kill zones,

all from forward operating bases

outside the walled city

(although scattered enough to be

often overrun as ammunition runs out)

manned by the dwindling numbers of

Golden Company

​

The Second Sons land on Dragonstone

while Rhaegal arrives ridden by

Jon, Tyrion, Jamie, and Missandei

to convince Cersei to let

The Second Sons move most of their units

into King`s Landing

while their Essos ships move north

to mount an evacuation of The Eyrie,

Cersei opens the harbor-side doors

then

after the arrival from Oldtown

of Winterfell`s surviving armies

along with small rebuilt Dornish

and Highgarden army units

plus a giant train behind them

of Highgarden food and supplies

and The Citadel's hastily manufactured

huge hoard of wildfire,

the bulk of the fire-depleted Dead wights

mysteriously retreat back north and east

​

three Red Women arrive on Dragonstone

with more Essos resupply ships

and

one Red Woman

aboard a small elegant mystery ship

speaking a completely unknown language,

the other three Red Women translate for her

as she tells Bran of far-reaching

ancient unbreakable oaths and alliances

regarding Children of the Forest

in Far East Essos

where Danaerys' three dragon eggs

came from

and more grown and baby dragons

far beyond the Saffron Straits

along with ice-breaking leviathans

among The Thousand Islands

and in Leviathan Sound

​

this march

and attempted attack on Dragonstone

makes the Night King seem like a desperate

and silly person

for pushing ahead knowing

Bran could just fly away again

even further south

or even east to Daenerys' empire

but

the Night King is patiently gambling

that Bran will stay put on Dragonstone

to fiercely defend Westeros

and with the Night King's Dark Magic army

in no need of food

and unaffected by the passage of time,

the Night King is willing to pull back

and rebuild his army

by finishing off the entire North

then spreading his conquest east to Eyrie

until all of northern and central Westeros

is dead

before proceeding to chase after Bran

from Dragonstone

to the remainder of Westeros

or ...

perhaps quietly ignoring Bran

as the Dead cross to Braavos

using an ice bridge

then to all corners of the world,

a rather dark and unforeseeable future

("clouded the Dark Side is")

​

winter is coming to all corners anyway

with

later on

the forming of

(albeit a relatively thin and

only a-couple-of -vulnerable-miles wide)

a northern ice bridge to Essos

from the newly conquered

Gulltown in Eyrie

using Night King's control

of widespread snowstorms,

so

killing Bran the Three Eyed Crow's

all-seeing memories was not a great priority

but more like a cherry on top

of his World of the Dead sundae,

Night King might scoop up

all the ice cream first

before coming back for the cherry

​

final scene of season 8 reboot

shows environmentally unspoiled lands

far far northeast of Dothraki lands

with men spear fishing for swordfish

from the backs of naturally heavily armored

ice breaking

seagoing leviathans

and

even further east

in the so-called Shadowlands of Essos

thousands of miles east of Asshai,

in the grassy green hills

and magical woodlands,

a Red Woman that Bran had seen

wanders among

greenish

petite maidens

(with VERY lyrical

unfamiliar soft-spoken accents)

playing with several baby dragons

as grown dragons fly overhead

--- could be helpful in future?

oui-oui

​​

honk

if you think the soft accent in the link below

could easily control baby dragons

​

i'm watching it -- er, listening to it --

set to continuous loop

strictly for research.

RESEARCH.

to help with,

umm,

exposition for a season 9

yes

exposition

that's the word ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6omsDyFNlk