Abandoned Plot Lines in Game of Thrones

How many plotlines were introduced but ultimately abandoned?

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00:00 Intro
00:36 Littlefinger's arc
02:18 The Night's Watch
02:49 White Walker symbols
04:00 Bran is the Night King edit
04:51 Daenerys' fertility
05:41 R+L=J
06:44 Azor Ahai
07:37 Jaime's redemption arc
08:57 Tyrion's evil arc
09:56 The Three-Eyed Raven
11:03 Time loops
11:48 Varys
12:33 The Night King's Mark
13:09 Wildlings south of the Wall
13:54 Arya's identity
14:53 The Faceless Men
15:55 Naughty dragons
16:50 Kinvara
17:27 Lannisters running out of gold
18:20 The Iron Bank
19:11 The Crown's debt
20:14 Illyrio
20:46 Winter is coming
21:56 Euron's quest for Daenerys
22:37 Quaith
23:21 The Warlocks of Qarth
23:37 Craster's sons
24:12 Ironborn culture
25:16 The Tullys
25:47 Dothraki culture
27:12 Only death can pay for life
28:07 Losing a piece of yourself
28:36 Smallfolk
29:40 Houses and strongholds
30:35 Wildling wargs
31:03 Sansa's redemption arc
32:03 Sansa's civil status
32:34 Rickon
32:49 Mereen
33:42 Dorne
34:39 Pod the rod
34:51 Outro

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[CultureVultureMedia]

Out of these, which plot line would you have like to see resolved the most? 🧐

[gloth]

the white walkers spiral symbolizes all the theories and our hopes going down the drain on the last season of the show :)

[AussBosss]

That picture of Littlefinger and Sansa is a masterpiece 😂

[timothyconard]

Meera Reed was also abandoned. She was cast off by Bran in a cold fashion, never to be seen or mentioned again. That left so much to be desired, especially when considering the tremendous amount of work and suffering she put in to see Bran all over the North and beyond.

[Nuhanii]

Season 1 - Winter is coming!
Season 2 - Winter is coming!!
Season 3 - Winter is comingg!!!
Season 4 - Winter is
Season 5 - is
Season 6 - is
Season 7 - issss
Season 8 - Oh it's over mate! Peww, close call eh?

[rahul]

Another abandoned plotline are the Stark wolves. They're setup as very symbolic, and then they kinda just die or not shown anymore.

[codybk]

The one that pissed me off the most was the stuff with The Night King and whitewalkers. For pretty much the entire show they were depicted as these terrifying and near-unstoppable creatures who seemed to be making their way toward King's Landing for some as of yet to be announced reason, but then Arya found them and killed The Night King and that was that. We never discovered what the series' main villain wanted or what his intentions were for everything that he did.

[Twinkie_McCream]

This video horrifically sums up why I can’t rewatch the series… knowing it went nowhere is too painful

[احمدساغریچی]

i feel like my old wounds have opened and salt poured on them, thanks for video

[TierGearEDCReviews]

It’s funny how Jamie and Cersei stood there all dramatic and let the ruble fall on their heads… When all they had to do was take 2 steps to the left and they would have been perfectly fine. Literally every archway held up perfectly. Tyrion was able to walk right up and see them. 😂

[thedude]

I forgot how many plotlines where dropped. damn the potential of this series

[LuisaRosati]

Another plotline abandoned: Arya's direwolf. I know it's not much but I felt bad at their last encounter.

[maxrocketansky]

The entire show was one giant abandoned plot line.

[hibiscus]

I thought the books suggested (well, that was my take on it) that Jon's soul entered his wolf when he died which is how he came back 'whole' after his body was healed. The wolves were the biggest abandoned thing I think

[kleinesboseskatzchen]

The abandoned Jaqen H`ghar-plotline annoys me the most. I think he was a brilliant mysterious and powerful character who could have done much more to lead to a final conclusion

[stereochrist]

That goddamn “Bran is the Night King” edit put me near to tears because a twist that cool would have easily made up for how shit they did the White Walker and Three Eyes Raven plots 😭😭😭😭

[simonf]

Stannis Baratheon is an entire abandoned plot line. He was killed off simply because the writers didn’t know what to do with him past season 5.

[KidFresh]

To me, the Iron Bank was the most egregious abandoned plot line. I envisioned them as some super powerful mafioso type of organization, and wanted to see the Iron Bank in full retribution mode. Cool that the show touched upon the economic underpinnings of running an empire; but sadly, touching upon the subject is as far as that subplot went. 

In a grander scale, I have a theory that "A Song of Fire and Ice" was meant to foreshadow the eventual coming together and conclusive rule of Daenerys Targaryen (fire) and Jon Snow (ice). However, too many people figured out that this was the direction the books/show was going, and so the ending pivoted nonsensically in an effort to (ack) sUbVeRt eXpEcTaTiOnS.

[Somi]

Ah yes Martin the dude who will ask questions about Aragorn tax politics but he will not explain magic in his works xD

[eelepage]

"Hold the door" is still one of the most heart shattering phrases in TV history