Going Over Bran III, A Game of Thrones

Rereading A Game of Thrones. Here's me going over Bran III, AGoT

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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on the fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. A Game of Thrones is one of the most successful television series to ever made and continues to captivate audiences all over the world. The series is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and interweaves several plot lines with a large ensemble cast. The first narrative arc follows a civil war among several noble houses for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers the attempts to reclaim the throne by the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty; the third chronicles the rising threat of the impending winter and the legendary creatures and fierce peoples of the North.
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[spykdG]

This has got to be one of my favorite chapters in the entire series. It was very introspective and eye opening for me (pun intended). My favorite line in it has to be when Bran says "I can't fly." and the crow asks him "How do you know? Have you ever tried?". I get the impression that the main theme of that chapter is the limits that we put on ourselves, which is truly fascinating to me. Whenever I find myself thinking about things in a closed-minded way and whenever I think that I can't do something, I try to think about this chapter and I ask myself "Have I even tried?"

[makimasbrat]

When I first read this as a teen I had to go off my bunk bad and pace around my small apartment at night. I just had feeling "ok this is it". I was so impressed, especially with the final line.

[reddest-x]

I always assumed the curtain of light = the northern lights

[humzakhalid]

12:33 forget "that" u dont need "it" as in the memory the crow wants him to not focus on the traumatic bit it wants him to focus on what thats lead him to...the crow pecks away the memory he forgets it after the crow pecks at him

[hugolouessard]

At 12:45 the "it" Bran does not need is, I'd say, what made him fall, it represents the reason or the person that made him fall. Instead the crow wants him to focus on now, and flying therefore awakening his magic abilities.

As for the 1000 dreamers, I've always interpreted that as being the potential greenseers whose powers have never awoken, like Euron maybe, and many others before and after.

For the heart of winter, I think it's a real place in which the others live, far to the north, a magical place. And the curtain, I'm not sure at all, could be a limit beyond which no mortal can pass.

[slidden]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO GO TO BED THIS IS PERFECT TIMING

[justthat]

this chapter being rated at a third grade reading level and still sounding like it does is crazy
George is built different

[HelciusCabral]

I like to think that Summer's name was a bootstrap paradox thing. He doesn't say "his name *will be* Summer", he says matter-of-factly, as his name had always been Summer, like he got that knowledge from the future.

[andremigueldecastro]

Hearing PJ talking about the Fisher King takes me back to my uni days, and the hours my supervisor and I spent discussing Parzival. I doubt it would be your thing, Preston, but I would love for you to read it. Chivalric romances and Minnesang are the shit.

Anyway, thanks for doing this, man. The readings, the fanfic, the tinfoil theories... thanks. We appreciate it.

[jswagaudio]

Missing the live stream tonight!!! Hope you and your family are doing great preston!

[WheresPoochie]

3:57 - I think you mean Altered States, though Altered Beast is an awesome game

[jaxjones]

@12:45 - “It” could just be the memory of him being thrown from the tower.

[Strengthinevidence]

26:28 one of my favorite lines from the entire series

[ompholoslunarhalo]

On my last read through I puzzled over the apparent mountain reference even thought he wasn’t in the Robert’s entourage, and kind of wondered if maybe Ilyn Payne was supposed to fill the role the Mountain ended up representing at this stage of George’s writing.

[_addison]

12:40 I think he means he doesn’t need to stew on the past, the vengeance and anger we see in many of the other stories, but look to future and what he will become

[jgr]

"I'm trying. [...] Say, you got any corn?" is a genius use of comedy.

[reddest-x]

It seems to me from this chapter that the 3EC WOULD know it appeared as a crow, and Bloodraven doesn't seem to know that. Never been big on 3EC=/=BR before but now I need to think on it more.

[garethwilliams]

Playing on the Fisherking idea, would it be a GRRM thing to have Bran at the end of his journey fully accept his physical injuries by giving up the skin changing and using his power to heal/close the magical wounds of the world, allowing for the return of normal seasons.

[sumexz]

Preston is the only thing that gets me through this painful life

[mondayz]

The Curtain of Light is the Aurora Borealis