We're not mad because our stupid theories didn't come true. We're mad because what we got was worse than any of our stupid theories.

Right, what a great example that has absolutely nothing to do with Bran and how his 3ER abilities were shown.

It’s an analogy.

Maybe if you’re trying to explain how subtle they were with it, give an actual example.

Despite you being rude and confrontational to a stranger on the internet because they don’t agree with you about a TV show, I’ll provide a few that come to mind.

-Before Bran became the 3ER he had visions of the future. Most notably, he saw wildfire ignited under KL. He saw a dragon flying over KL. Did he lose this ability after becoming the 3ER or did he improve it? Regardless, we know he saw at least some future. Futures that came to past.

-We know he can manipulate the past (Ned). We know he can manipulate the past to interfere with present events (Hodor).

-“I’m waiting for an old friend.”

-He acquired the dagger that killed the NK

-He didn’t warg until the wights breached the Godswood. Which he then stayed warged until the NK arrived.

-His talk with Tyrion we did not get to see

-The shots of his warging into the ravens didn’t show what he was doing. However, the show made it a point to show the shot. Why? You can say he was just watching the NK, but we didn’t see any shots of ravens the rest of the episode. Also, from that point on, up until the NK was dismounted, his eyes 100% looked milky and not neon blue. You cannot disprove that Bran warged into the NK to push the battle forward and prevent a standoff that the living would inevitably lose. You cannot disprove that Bran then warged into Viserion to place him between Jon and the Godswood to prevent him from blowing Arya’s chance. No, I can’t prove it either. But the evidence given allows for that theory to be possible. Nothing from the show disproves or proves it.

-“Why do you think I came all this way?” Elluding to either 1) he saw it or 2) using logic and wisdom concluded that’s what would happen and that he would accept. You, the viewer gets to fill in the blanks. We know the end result.

-To Jon, “You were exactly where you were meant to be.”

I believe the writers wanted people to analyze and come up with theories. They left subtle hints that Bran had more of an impact than just chilling in a chair forever doing nothing as many are arguing. And this gamble is already working. Now people are going back and looking for clues. Some that have come up are:

-Bran is the first main character we meet.

-When Ned executes the deserter, and says “King of the Andals and First Men” the camera cuts to Bran with Jon standing a few feet behind him.

-The person that tried to kill Bran is named “Kingslayer”

While these may be grasping on straws, the effect of people analyzing Bran is exactly what the writers wanted. They didn’t want to spoonfeed all the events and reasons Bran became King.

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