Yesterday, we got our first look at awkward teenage Simba from The Lion King, er, Bran Stark in season six of Game of Thrones. In the year and a half since we’ve seen Hodor’s back buddy, he’s been chilling in a cave, which is why he wasn’t in season five. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss informed actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright that they wanted to blow by the boring training scenes, “and they’re exactly right,” he told EW. “I would have just been sitting in a cave going, ‘Oh, I can nearly do it now.’ ”
Now we can get to the good stuff in season six.
“Previously Bran’s seen tiny glimpses of future or past but never has he been very much in control in the situation,” he says. “Now we’re given looks into very important events in the past, present, and future of this world and Bran is beginning to piece them together like a detective, almost as if he’s watching the show. Equally, he’s now discovering how crucial he could be in the Great War. It’s quite Inception-y.” (Via EW)
You can’t spell “BRAMMMMMMMMMM” without “Bran” (almost). Game of Thrones rarely employs flashbacks, but Bran becoming a time-traveling detective (and a certain character returning from the dead, sort of) sounds like a good excuse to use them. And a decent suggestion for True Detective season three. Rust Cohle travels back to 2014, before season two premiered.
(Via Entertainment Weekly)
