I'm on my third watch-through in anticipation of the finale season. I haven't read any of the books, but I'm 100% okay with getting book spoilers in response here.
I've come to accept that the weather in this universe is wonky. On my first (casual) watch-through, I was sort of under the impression that winter only came once every few decades, and that each winter is equally grim, dangerous, difficult, etc. I thought there hadn't been a winter since the last time the white walkers were a threat.
But this time, I paid attention when Tyrion says he's lived through 8 or 9 winters, and the winter of his birth lasted 3 years. So now I know winter comes pretty often, relative to my initial thoughts on it.
So my questions is - Why is this winter significant?
It's been 9 years since the last winter, it's been a long summer, but what makes this winter different from all the previous ones? Does the return of the white walkers have anything to do with the return of winter? Ned is always warning, with creepy foreshadowing, that winter is coming, but winter comes all the time. So I assume he isn't really warning his children about the weather. Is he referring to all of the mess of the previous few generations finally coming to war? Does the coming war have anything to do with winter coming back, or with the white walkers rising again?
PS. I know mythology isn't the correct word, but I guess what I'm looking for is all the details from the books and from the universe that might help me piece these ideas together.
Submitted December 29, 2018 at 12:51PM by Marti_Shanon http://bit.ly/2EUJGwC
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