GAME OF THRONES Star Isaac Hempstead Wright Initially Thought Bran's Conclusion Was A Prank

@DnA - were is ashton me thinks we have been punkd.

@CaptCoulson - BUT there was a leak many weeks back and every week they were hitting so yeah I mean it was free money.

@CaptCoulson - The leaks for the last two episodes were 100% spot on. You could have the leaks open in front of you and follow along with the episode.

@Victorg1983 - oh but hang on... granted I'm so not a gambling man (only ever been to AC once in my life, though I did win about $100 my first time ever playing 21 - ha!) so don't know how the nuances of gambling laws work. Having this in mind, I would've thought maybe then there couldn't be "official" wagering going on thru Vegas, if it was about information that was already out to the public, so to speak.
But obviously there's something I'm missing, since it did happen.

@CaptCoulson - I think the democracry line was really only there for laughs

@nibs - Obviously with the modern advancement of our technology and media, the method by which national elections are done today is leagues faster than in the distant past. But at the very least we did have wider telephone usage by the early 20th century. Spreading information over long distances wasn't restricted to using birds (total aside, but this is actually one of the many ways that in the Harry Potter universe the modern Muggle world is actually better and more efficient than wizards' life). Also we at least as a cohesive country knew this was the framework for leadership from the very start, even if more primitive technology at the beginning made it slower.
That is something I've been meaning to look up for a long time however, just for curiosity to see how long a presidential election took to fully complete back around, say, 1900.

@MalseMarcel - As of about a week ago, my best guess was for Bran, but sort of via a different route. In the wake of last week's episode, I was thinking that Dany was going to kill Jon (thought the other way round might've been too obvious, but I'm not sure I have much problem with that indeed being what happened) from being still in crazy mode and seeing him as purely a threat, and then Arya would kill Dany. Not even thru pretending to be someone else, maybe just as herself.

But then so going by the same lineage rules, at least if I understand them right, there'd officially be no more Targaryens, but since Jon was half Targaryen & half Stark, that would move the line into the Stark family. And with Bran being the eldest surviving male Stark, it came down to him. And that since he can't have children, they'd sort of have it both ways. That he'd be the last King under the old rules, then when his time was past, or maybe just when he gets to be like 100 (can he survive for hundreds if not thousands of years as the new 3ER?), THEN they'd move to more a small council election.

btw, sorry if this has already been well covered, I was busy doing something totally non-Thrones for much of yesterday, but when Edmure stood up to do his little speech that Sansa put the kybosh on, did people think that he was about to put forth HIMSELF? Am I naive in thinking that wasn't the case? I didn't get that sense, just that he thought he was at least worthy of giving some big meaningful preamble to the process, but not that he was about to suggest himself.

(as to your other reply, I realize it was mostly there for almost a meta-level joke, but what can I say, I really love Samwell Tarly and don't like seeing people openly laugh at him on screen lol)