Chapter One: The Westeros Paradox
Revelator Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Revelator:

A Conversation with God About Family Before the day that I was born you Came into…
Almost There Slow walk sad eyes Street lights shown bright Main Street…
Alone The darkness in the Earth today A welcome respite in…
B3 Say you don't want it And say you don't need…
Desert Scorpion I wandered the nights alone The darkness called me and…
Devolution Bluetooth grannies, a clutter in my ears Another cold day…
Eridu Forty days and forty nights The darkness and the rain…
Fanfare Another roadside grave A place to check off while passing…
S.U.V's I don't know where you are when you go I don't…

Shh... They Can Hear You Loading up my VPN Jumping into Tor Locking up my…
Sirens Two sisters sitting by the fire Both have eyes on…
Sometimes Sometimes Alone under the world Sometimes The darkness al…
Trigger Warning I called you directly Concerned for your health and your…

You Go I don't know where you are when you go I don't…

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@TizOnly1

4y↑7

I've written some of this on reddit years ago.. but I think it's pretty damn obvious that Time Travelling Bran is one of the (if not just THE) main drivers of the story.

Yeah it's pretty clear that Future Bran awakened Jon's skinchanging.. it seems clear to me that Future Bran was talking to Bran as he fell from the tower.

I'm also of the belief that Greensight isn't even a power. It's just the state of having Future Bran send you visions.

I also wrote about Bloodraven not knowing what the 3 Eyed Crow was... also the fact that Bloodraven is called The Last Greenseer, even though he always knew Bran was coming. It's because Bran isn't a "greenseer", Bran is greensight.. and when Bran enters into the story physically.. he's not coming to be Bloodraven's student. He's coming to be Bloodraven's master.

To me, it seems clear that Bran is the 3EC, and the only 3EC that's ever been in the story.

As it relates to Bran's time travelling more generally- I think Future Bran traveling through time and either speaking to, and/or projecting his consciousness into others' bodies "is" all of history's Brandon Stark's. He's DEFINITELY Bran the Builder, if nothing else (Bran the Builder story makes way more sense when you just allow that our Bran went into the past with future engineering knowledge to build all the structures attributed to him, that men still don't understand structurally in the time of the story.. it also explains his long ass lifespan.. Bran was just dipping in and out over time).. but I also think he's the Shipwright, The Breaker, Brandon Snow.. Knight of the Laughing Tree (either through Brandon.. Lyanna.. or whoever.. it kinda doesn't matter tbh).. I also think Bloodraven's name being Brynden is a knod to this as well. That's also just Bran. He's Bloodraven's Thousand Eyes.

But yeah.. I think Bran is the source of greensight, Dragon Dreams, all that shit.. it's just Bran.

Also think he's prob the Night King too, and we're reading a story about a god trying to balance the entire history of the world.

But GRRM is never gonna finish so who cares

@stefanpieper3757

4y↑12

This happens when Bran and crew first meet Sam:

"I'm a crow, please. Let me out of this."

Bran was suddenly uncertain. "Are you the three-eyed crow?" He can't be the three-eyed crow.

"I don't think so." The fat man rolled his eyes, but there were only two of them. "I'm only Sam. Samwell Tarly."

It can be interpreted as a parallel to the scene where Bran asks Bloodraven if he is the Three-Eyed Crow. In both cases 1. a false connection between being the Three-eyed Crow and being a Member of the Nights Watch is drawn and 2. Bran notices that the person does not have three eyes. The logic goes, if Sam is not the Three-eyed crow, than Bloodraven isn't either.

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@johndcoffee632

4y↑563

"A 125 year old, one-eyed, albino, stuck in a tree, that was actually a dream sending, hive-mind depository of dead, elf-like people... and the whole thing was metaphorically heaven"

Never change Preston

@hopedixon2133

4y↑25

"The Second Sons are terrible sellsword company"

@evanlittle3473

I think you two should frot together

@EricsHobbyWorkshop

4y↑926

This explains why its taking so long for The Winds of Winter to come out…George has been busy writing the earlier novels to telepathically send to his younger self. Didn’t the scene with the wolf pups just come to him out of nowhere?

@BenJover

4y↑91

You're right he said he wrote it pretty fast too.

@leonardoggy

4y↑32

Ha! That's actually a recurring theme in some of Philip K Dick's stories.

@neuralmute

4y↑47

@@leonardoggy So has Philip K Dick's consciousness been time travelling to GRRM's mind to keep him from finishing this series for some unfathomable reason?
THE PLOT THICKENS!

@reisanibal1

4y↑42

So his future self has finally died and he now has to write it all by himself? Makes sense.

@TheKeyser94

3y↑6

The old George is deciding if he cares more about his story or do stupid fanservices, after all, he killed Jon Snow in the last book, the favourite fuck boy of the A Song of Ice and Fire fan community, even that he hadn't done anything to deserve it, and made the same mistake than his father, Eddard, but because old George and the producers of Games of Thrones feed up the Jon Snow fans with their stupid Fan Theory to promote the show, now the old George is in a dilemma, that I not know that he willing to actually answer, so Winds of Winter is permanently stuck in limbo at the moment.

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@cbob213

4y↑419

Yes! Bloodraven is NOT the 3 eyed Crow. Finally more people are talking about this.
The Weirwood and Crow dream competing for Bran's attention most people miss

@chyawanprash

4y↑65

Yea, and clearly Euron was visited by the 3EC, but there are no weirwoods only the Isles, so it can't possibly be Bloodraven, and also tells us that the 3EC does NOT use the weirwood network.

@cbob213

4y↑56

@@chyawanprash They tell Bran that he will be able to "see beyond the tree's" eventually. So visiting a dream in the Iron Islands isn't a stretch.
Who's to say he was on the Iron Islands when it happened. They do have the Nagas ribs made from Weirwood too.

@chyawanprash

4y↑17

@@cbob213 yeah I did think of that, but still, it wasn't Bloodraven who visited Euron, it was the crow

@cbob213

4y↑2

@@chyawanprash 👍🏻🤘🏻🤙🏻

@TheINSANATY

4y↑18

@@chyawanprash Something is telling me that the 3 Eyed Crow is like a Sauron type figure, a corrupt spirit that seeks a vessel to achieve its goal to dominate Westeros.

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@TheNZKorean

4y↑150

George told D&D that Bran becomes the Three-Eyed Crow, and they just assumed that meant Bran being Bloodraven's successor, when it means so much more

@TheKingOfRooks

4y↑14

You know you might be on to something there

@MsNobody9854

3y↑28

The failure of D&D to appreciate nuance, or their aptitude to ignore it, is to be expected. They completely ruined our chance to have a solid substitute for an official continuation of the story, all while they had the resources to pull it off, or the option to hand the show to someone else.

@turtleanton6539

Yes

@rakino4418

3y↑11

I think its much more likely they just didn't fully understand the situation with multiple competing psychic influencers, where one but not the others is also a time traveller.

"Themes are for 8th grade book reports" after all.

@aharonvarna5992

4y↑289

I didn't kill him your honor it was the time traveling tree wizard inside my head who made me do it.

@greaterFool3765

4y↑35

Worked every time I was in court.

@pikebasss

3y↑3

“Sir this is a Wendy’s”

@nont18411

3y↑2

Something Saul Goodman would say

@cerebralcathedral3247

3y↑7

Game of thrones, (S3, E2.) When Bran dreams of the 3-eyed crow he shoots at it in his dream and Jon and Robb laugh after he misses. Then Ned's voice is heard before the reveal on Jojen, who tell's Bran. "You can't kill it Bran, because the 3-eyed crow is you." That scene now makes sense to me. Thanks.

@chyawanprash

4y↑220

I've always believed that Bloodraven isn't the 3EC because he said he's been visiting Bran since birth, but 3EC only appeared after the fall, but WOW! The idea that 3EC is a future Bran is completely new to me and I LOVE it! Can't wait till part 2!

@theodorejames8285

4y↑37

When Bran asks BR if he is the crow, he misinterprets and talks about once being in the Night’s Watch. I’m pretty convinced that time traveling Bran is the three eyed crow

@alanpennie8013

4y↑7

@@theodorejames8285

Time loops ftw

@leonardoggy

4y↑17

Same. For a time I thought the TEC could be Euron, but I wasn't fully committed to it because I'm of the thought that he's not as "magical" as he says he is, and Aeron is very unreliable as a narrator.
I did think the weird scene with Jon and Bran beyond the Wall was Bran from the future, because like Preston says, Bran exhibits there knowledge that the Bran chapters do not have, but I never connected the dots to Bran being the TEC.

@PuddingAtheist

4y↑6

@@leonardoggy Uhh does it though? I mean I feel like we're all selectively ignoring Bran's next POV chapter in the Winterfell crypts where it says "Here in the chill damp darkness of the tomb his third eye had finally opened. He could reach Summer whenever he wanted, and once he had even touched Ghost and talked to Jon. Though maybe he had only dreamed that." Come on people.

@michaelalan6459

4y↑1

@@PuddingAtheist d'bunk'd

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@nickkoch3467

4y↑281

That Wildcard jab was hilarious

@colinluk5547

Where is it?

@nickkoch3467

4y↑35

@@colinluk5547 don’t have the exact time, but he quickly flashes a pic of a wildcard book as he mentions GRRM wasting his time with series we don’t care about

@nealfirstofhisname

4y↑4

@@colinluk5547 6:00

@21526

4y↑3

What's wrong with wildcards?

@ruvend2581

4y↑20

@@21526 its not asoiaf

@TPutnam

4y↑325

These are the only videos for which I will just drop everything, and listen to it immediately.

Way to go, Preston. This is was the series I wanted to watch.

@matthewbacon717

4y↑4

truth

@adipsous

4y↑3

Yep, that appears on the side there and says 'new', I don't care, I'm late for work. Stuff about the actual books, I mean.

@ukulelebacon8472

@@adipsous truth

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@newgameplus33

4y↑124

Jon is a very special character, considering the other Stark children’s wolf dreams were simply them experiencing what their wolf was doing, while Jon often sees dreams that Ghost is having, its not a Jon dream with Ghost in it

@nononono3421

4y↑29

“An albino,” Theon Greyjoy said with wry amusement. “This one will die even faster than the others.”

Jon Snow gave his father’s ward a long, chilling look. “I think not, Greyjoy,” he said. “This one belongs to me.”

The above could be Bran or Bloodraven speaking about Jon.

@Vossenator

4y↑14

@@nononono3421 It's interesting that Theon says that Ghost would die first when in the show, he's the last direwolf alive.

@Stephen-so9oi

4y↑1

@@Vossenator Jon is the first to die in the show and books. Which his dire wolf represents

@nononono3421

4y↑5

@@Stephen-so9oi Ghost will probably be sacrificed to save Jon, but they will meld together. So "This one belongs to me." would be even more true.

@R0CKDRIG0

4y↑3

@@Vossenator Nymeria is also alive.

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@DimNussens

4y↑144

Merciful Old Gods, I'd just gone through the bulk of your catalog and was sad I was about out of content. Then you come with a glorious bounty. It's a Halloween miracle!

@Mehdz03

4y↑9

Truely is. Praise the gods!

@hextech687

4y↑7

The great punkin has blessed us

@angellover02171

4y↑8

One of us. One of us

@stupidminotaur9735

4y↑4

I've been trying to find a video when he talks about a message George RR Martin sent to fan about howland reed either In 1997 or 1999 will be appearing in the next novel/book . It might have been Jacobs or another YouTuber or both who showed it I've been trying to refind it.

@profoundpronoun4712

4y↑5

I literally just go through his stuff till I reach the end and then start over again…like some kind of crazy person.

@ct9564

4y↑21

I always loved the theory (or at least the clear parallel) that omniscient Bran is the narrorator and were "flying" with him through the minds of all. Hence the warging chapters and the rest of the books having a very tight third person narrative. When a characters emotion is described, it's Bran feeling it.

@christophernaze

4y↑28

It's shocking that a true genius has only 167k subscribers, but it also makes sense. What a gift to those of us here.

@anamartin1839

3y↑9

Brans story is my favorite part of the book series. He was dogged in the show. He has amazing powers and they didn't even show all the great things he could do. I can't wait to read the next book and find out where he is at.

@mateuszkowalczyk8982

4y↑10

One in thousand readers of A Song of Ice and Fire is born a greenseer. You're one of them. Thanks for recording your green dreams. Cheers from Poland

@mirrirasalghul6013

4y↑41

An underrated portion of PJ’s videos are his intro songs. Once again, he nails it

@neuralmute

4y↑4

That GOT/Dr Who mashup was priceless!

@JohnJohnson-jr6hp

4y↑20

"Almost no movement on the ice zombie plot" Indeed Preston, indeed.

@Spitfyre1011

4y↑63

First Brienne, Gender and the Squishers, and now this! Back to back bangers, Preston. Good stuff. This new series has me more excited than ever for your analysis.

@Yajna007

* Gendry *

@Yajna007

Gendry Waters. Edric Storm.

@xNillowsx

4y↑10

The weirwood tree starting as a sapling in Jon's vision - and then growing in front of him before being revealed as "his brothers face" could also be a nod to a grown up future Bran making contact.

@HickoryBill

4y↑45

Can’t wait to talk about George’s post apocalyptic hippie commune time-traveling heroin story! It’s a personal favorite

@SaccharineCHNOS

wait which one is that? I've only read armageddon rag and the vampire one

@HickoryBill

@@SaccharineCHNOS Its called ...For a Single Yesterday. I don't think it's in Dreamsongs, but was definitely in one of the his short story collections called Songs of Stars and Shadows

@drfaisalkamal1275

It was when all did heroine everything was better

@iateabagelonce

4y↑7

Preston, you are one of the reasons why the TWoW wait hasn't destroyed me yet 😭 Thank you for starting in on this series! Time travelling Bran makes rereads of the books totally mindbending

@obviouslyPSM

4y↑21

I literally said this afternoon “huh, could really go for a new Preston theory today”

@danjordan1

4y↑28

The intro is like the opening sequence of an 80s show.
I love it!

@makenamaehara2815

4y↑24

Doctor who*

@derekwalter4238

4y↑3

🤨 ...are you serious? Lol

@tarvoc746

4y↑4

I wish I could be in your place, discovering Doctor Who again for the first time...

@thomasdoggett9919

4y↑8

Wonderful succinct argument regarding 3 eyed crow. Bloodraven should at least know he was called a crow in the dream. Always the best analysis.

@LeoSkyro

4y↑19

Preston's editing and intros remain unmatched...

@Dshortyviper

4y↑2

I’m going to be honest. I haven’t watched your videos in a long time.. but as soon as I saw that video title I was interested but when I saw you posted it I was invested.

@brookesy348

4y↑6

I laughed as soon as the intro began, well done.

@joshuaphillips4604

4y↑26

Imagine we find out some day that Martin got so jammed up writing because the time travel plot was his plan and he realized how horrible of a plot idea it would be.

@db7213

4y↑10

There's still time for him to drop it. It would be a bit silly of the story to have this pointless false hint, but better a silly and pointless false hint of time travel, than actual time travel.

@ivandankob7112

4y↑7

He was writing his saga for so long that his main twist became a cliche already

@nickm8425

who said its weird?

@hinasakukimi

4y↑2

@@umwha martin is usually very careful with magic in his series. prophecies work well because they're typically ambiguous, tragically ironic, and hard for characters to grasp most of the time. idk if an outright time travelling plot will have the same level of subtlety but that's just a concern of mine. maybe i'm just being cynical!

@gregtaylor8073

4y↑13

Time travel in ASOIAF is going to be like how he wrote Unsound Variations. Also in the show the three eyed crow tells Bran that the "ink is already dry"

@bobbehwitchie

4y↑3

PRESTON!!!! You're a genius. I'm not a strong reader. I've followed your content for years. Your analysis of ASOIAF has let me understand a media I would have never explored. I'm thankful for the work that you do I'm a big fan. Thank you.

@elinyancat

4y↑6

its 4 in the morning in my country but yes, ill watch this

@Jonjzi

3y↑7

If Jon recognizes Bran's face in the tree that probably means he is still a child, which might mean becoming part of the weirwood has caused him to remain a child and prevent him from growing into an adult body.

@ReidADaniels

4y↑21

Oh man Preston you're the best. This subject is something I've been waiting for for years. One day hopefully I can call in if you keep doing live casts. Cheers!

@jimmartin2548

4y↑53

Your intros are always amazing! Can’t wait to see where you go with this series and what conclusions you come to!

@blizzfreak245

4y↑34

Preston's intros just keep getting better and better. I love them :D

@vpapako

4y↑5

My favourite is still the intro from the purple wedding

@MasterPoppers

4y↑1

@@vpapako It is truly peak comedy.

@davidbodor1762

4y↑15

18:30 - It does if the old timeline DOESN'T cease to exist. If the old timeline exists then there would be a timeline where time traveler X just disappeared and where the same person exists twice.

@stavrosraptopoulos7015

4y↑9

Yeah, I don't know why he jumps to the conclusion that the old timeline ceases to exist. It's like he hasn't even watched Steins;Gate.

@johnboyer236

4y↑2

They even state that it Dragonball Z. The old timeline still exist. Not sure why he assumes it goes extinct.

@SamsonUno

4y↑21

The One-eyed Tree Man planned it all !!!

@damienledfurd

4y↑12

To the Branmobile!

@matthewbacon717

4y↑6

Preston, you've really outdone yourself with this intro. Fantastic.

@iksarguards

4y↑6

Felt like I entered a timeline where Preston made Back to the Future theory videos on youtube. A better timeline, honestly.

@brennanbarnes7628

4y↑21

Loving it Preston and looking forward to part 2. I'm SO glad a Youtuber of your stature is tackling something that has bugged me personally since first reading the series. There are four scenes/events in the series that have just jumped out at me for whatever reason as something just escaping me but feeling off somehow and you cover two of them in the video, Jon's dream of the tree talking to him & Bloodraven's confusion to Bran's question about him being the Three Eyed Crow. As much as I loathe how sloppy time travel makes any story I'm anxious to hear your take on Bran's journey through time. Good luck with the move, zaijian!

@BenJover

4y↑1

What are the other 2 things?

@BillyBasd

4y↑1

Yes please, what are the other two?

@brennanbarnes7628

4y↑6

@@BenJover the other two are Qhorin's cryptic warning to 'Tell them the trees have eyes again' warning and when Tyrion, Connington et all are teleported on the river to pass the Bridge of Dreams twice. The first scene is just weird, Mormont has already acknowledged that the Others had existed and that he already knew about Craster's sacrifices to crueler gods, it almost seems like Qhorin's worried about the Children of the Forrest, not the Others. That second scene...I mean come on, it's one of the most blatent instances of mystical powers in the entire story and before Tyrion's allowed to really focus on what the hell just happened they're attacked and it just never crosses his mind again...

@BenJover

4y↑1

@@brennanbarnes7628 Those are good ones. The only thing I can think of the tyrion thing is he was just mistaken or tricked

@brennanbarnes7628

4y↑4

@@BenJover that is possible, it just stopped me dead when I first read the passage, then re-read it again and again. I think more than anything I've been perplexed that there's all this discourse in the fandom about the various times magic has appeared (or seemed to) in the story but that instance gets very little attention, to me it's Chekov's Bridge and we just haven't gotten the payoff.

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@jamespurdie1519

4y↑100

Are you going to to into how Brans message to his father changed effected his life? Eddard was praying for Jon and Rob to grow up as brothers, then the God's speak to him saying "its me Brandon." Aka his older dead brother, and maybe the father of Jon. I always thought it was this message from Bran that caused Eddard to become more religious and possibly lead to him naming Bran, Bran.

@cbob213

4y↑20

It's impossible for Brandon Stark to be Jon's Father. He was dead a year before Jon was conceived (or there abouts.)
I think Ashara Dayne is Jon's mother

@TheNZKorean

4y↑27

@@cbob213 B + A = J was explored in Preston's Tower of Joy series already. He may have changed his mind about it since then, but he certainly looked at the timeline and did not dismiss the idea, (In this scenario, Ned lied about Jon's age)

@lastEvergreen

4y↑6

Brandon and Ashara were in the same place just before his death. In Kingslanding post the Harrenhal tourney and Rhaegar taking Lyanna to Dorne.

@pikkdogs

4y↑12

So, you think Bran named himself. Another grandfather paradox, but still funny.

@pakimonsas

4y↑6

Guys, but R + L = J is already confirmed.

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@Matdif

4y↑31

The internet kind of screwed GRRM over. He started this series when there wasn't a hivemind of readers connected by the internet taking his books apart. Still time travel Bran is basically constrained by plot or not constrained at all.

@db7213

4y↑7

It was a known fact that time travel is a bad idea already when GRRM started writing this story.

@Halbared

4y↑1

These chats go back to usenet.

@jsprodonoff

4y↑8

I was going to comment about how I was early, but the intro started and I had to put my hand over my heart to just let the Doctor Who theme sink in... That was a spiritual experience

@rand0mati0n

4y↑17

You can tell how good Preston is when you realise you treat pretty much all his theories as fact almost straight away

@johndaly5268

4y↑1

Thanks for still making real asoiaf content in these hard times

@m.g.9468

4y↑5

When I saw that video in my recommended list, I yelled out in excitement (I usually do not do that). When I saw the first two seconds I smiled (and I am a German). I continue watching the rest now. But I just wanted to share how much joy this video has brought me so far :) :) :)

@stefanpieper3757

4y↑1

What do the first two seconds have to do with you being German? I'm German, and I dont see the connection.

@Halbared

4y↑2

@@stefanpieper3757 Because of the smile, and you're all Teutonic stoics? ;)

@m.g.9468

4y↑1

@@stefanpieper3757 I was jokingly referring to the stereotypes that germans never smile ;)

@christianadams211

4y↑3

i always felt like the crow and the tree dreams didnt match. I did think it was Bloodraven and the children; but now it makes more since Bloodraven and Bran's consciousness are sending dreams to bran! Love your content glad to see a new series!

@TheMadmanjoules

4y↑6

I always thought Euron was the three eyed crow. With his whole speech to Victarion about leaping from towers and flying. Also his nickname crows eyes like he opened his third eye his crows eye.

@ExtraVictory

4y↑50

All I can say. Is please drop whatever you're doing with your life to create more of this content that I want. As a consumer of your content I feel very entitled to ask you for this and will be super offended if you do anything else with your time except make more of this. Thanks

@angellover02171

4y↑11

Right? Drop the baby, drop the wife and just make ASoIaF content.

@allthe1

4y↑12

He's got a secret deal with grrm to finish the books post mortem. We should print out Preston t-shirts or something

@ssa3101

@@allthe1 really?

@plainbrad

4y↑10

The opening of this was awesome and I hope the whole series opens this way. Thank you fro bringing up Bloodraven not knowing what the Three-Eyed Crow is and that Bloodraven is most likely the Tree in visions. I think Bran (or as you seem to be saying Young Bran) is the winged Wolf Jojen sees.

@bram_412

4y↑4

"Thanks for watching, and we'll see you last time."

@chaimdijk

4y↑3

The only YouTube channel for which I have my notifications turned on on my phone. Thank you so much for your work!

@alexandergangaware429

4y↑76

Bloodraven is definitely not the Three-Eyed Crow, though this idea of time-traveling Bran is new to me and fascinating. I've long put the exact identity of the 3EC in the mystery box, leaning toward "Immortal Soul of the Bloodstone Emperor Azor Ahai Living Eternally through the Weirwood Web," or "Great Other," or maybe both, but please do continue and soon

@TheAstroWitchLux

4y↑4

It was either that, or they said it was Euron.

@cbob213

4y↑11

@@TheAstroWitchLux They didn't say it was Euron. They said Euron may have been visited by the Great Other, and that he could be becoming / is the 3EC's instrument.

@leonardoggy

4y↑5

This one is one I've been leaning more into, after revisiting the histories. With how many comets and meteorites are mentioned in ASOIAF, I wouldn't dismiss the idea of an alien entity in the world of "Earthos" whose life is incompatible with the life of the native inhabitants of the planet.

@cbob213

4y↑5

@@leonardoggy Planetos

@neuralmute

4y↑1

@@leonardoggy The good old IT origin story, huh?
I can't say that I don't like that theory.

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@Likeitornot91

4y↑6

Oh how I love seeing a new series by Preston. Fantastic intro I can't wait to see where this one goes!

@lavidaescorta3220

4y↑2

Man, it has been two weeks! We need the next episode! Going through withdrawals here!

@toptenstyles

4y↑3

I’ve been waiting for YOU to cover this topic! So amped for part 2. Thank you, Preston.

@mueezadam8438

8w↑1

I am once again rewatching the Preston Jacobs’ Timetravelling Brann playlist.

@snowflyer9737

4w↑1

Yeah, I think it is his best series. I like the intro a lot too.

@lorenzobarolo9937

4y↑3

I wish I could time travel back to the time when I still hadn't watch your videos, so every time would be the first and I'd be surprised once again

@SunDogGod

4y↑1

Before even watching it I’m giving it a like just for the intro

@kingstonj

4y↑15

I played with my longsword in front of a weirwood tree while I watched this

@pallerdog

4y↑6

Let's just appreciate the fact that Varamyr Sixskins didn't stop after he learned how to warg into 4 animals.

@mrgaudy1954

4y↑3

Dirty

@acomputer121

4y↑48

There is also the chance that the entity which reaches out to Ghost isn't bran, but is someone / something else pretending to be Bran. A little more far fetched, but not impossible given the lies we see already on the 3EC front.

@AGuyWithAChannel

4y↑4

That’s fair, but I think it’s meant to be a Faux Jeyne Poole Deception.
With the real JeyPoDeception, we have a supposed POV (Arya) in a place doing things we know that POV isn’t doing. Thus,, there’s more going on...
Here, we seemingly have the same thing. Bran isn’t here, and he’s doing something else.
But if he can time travel, that changes things: he’s not here now, but he will be here now - later

@wyattgwyon9484

4y↑43

Anyone made a 'Time Traveling Bran' intro 10 hour version yet? Somebody get on that.

@MsLouisez

4y↑1

Love the Dr Who intro Preston!!

@anonguy2429

4y↑4

Peston the goat with a 30 min upload. Legend

@cbob213

4y↑1

You mean 21 minutes?

@jumpoffroof

Peston

@stefanpieper3757

Wow, you were drunk when you wrote this :D

@cbob213

@@stefanpieper3757 Somethings going on lol

@misterfitzgerald

4y↑1

Good stuff. It always brings to my mind the Robert Jordan line, "thought is the arrow of time." And perhaps Catelyn could have warmed up to Jon if Bran hadn't interrupted Ned's prayer.

@Halbared

4y↑8

Thanks for moving into this topic. I read something about this on ASOIF a while back and thought it was bunkum. I do tend to agree with you on the Children being (from human point of view) the 'real baddies' and most likely the drivers of a lot of strife with the only outcome from this being hardship for most humans. It seems like an unwinnable apocalyptic loss for mankind. But the Three-eyed Crow being Bran and not a puppet Bloodraven gives me hope that the ending won't be a colossal, nihilistic heart-shredding event of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers ('78) proportions.

@stefanpieper3757

It's also entirely possible that it's a third person pretending to be Future Bran. Namely the Great Other. Why? Cause the Eyed-Crow also visited Euron, and Euron is working for the Great Other, Preston himself thinks so.

@Halbared

4y↑1

@@stefanpieper3757 It's possible. My own thoughts are that no disembodied 'Gods'spirits' actually exist in ASOIAF. It's all physical beings with abilities. The floating lump that housed the undying, what was that?

@OmkarKavitkar-ig2wk

1y↑2

This is the best series of you Preston

@snowflyer9737

Agreed

@TizOnly1

4y↑7

@adamcurrier505

3y↑1

what is your reddit handle? wanting to look up your your old posts because I subscribe to your way of interpreting Bran's storyline!

@evancappello9288

4y↑1

Holy crap, what a video. I’ve been waiting for a series about this. Love your approach! Cannot wait for the next one!

@PepperoniMage

4y↑3

Amazing work as always mate, while I've done my best to explore George's other works (mostly thanks to your 1000 worlds series) I don't recall experiencing the upcoming materials & am super excited to hear more of the mad stuff GRRM has written!

@TheWormsHole

4y↑1

I've wondered if R'hollor is the psychic scream from a burning weirwood.

@stefanpieper3757

4y↑12

@hopedixon2133

4y↑1

Especially since Bloodraven should be either the Two-Eyed Crow or the Thousand and Two-Eyed Crow...just saying

@turtleanton6539

@@hopedixon2133 yes

@wonderpope

4y↑1

This book series will never get finished...but I keep enjoying these PJ videos :D

@cbob213

3y↑3

It’s just occurred to me that what Bran tells himself is word for word what Bloodraven tells him after he comes back from his dream / time travel.

"Father" Bran's voice was a whisper in the wind, a rustle in the leaves.

Bloodraven: "He heard a whisper on the wind, a rustling amongst the leaves.”

I’ve never caught that before.

@mrevilducky

4y↑1

My most awaited Preston Jacobs video

@Mehdz03

4y↑3

My body is ready PRESTON. Give it to me

@toptenstyles

4y↑2

Release bran 2! I’m needing more Preston commentary

@damienledfurd

4y↑9

GRRM PLANNED IT ALL

@pallerdog

4y↑2

I have my doubts...

@mitchellhouser1572

4y↑2

Wonderful video as always, Preston!

@theavocado6061

4y↑3

Last time I was this early to a PJ video, Game of Thrones was still good.

@wisdommanari6701

4y↑2

Omg the wildcard shade

@TagardMC

4y↑6

Preston, I figured out the secret ending to Back To The Future a couple of years ago. New Doc knew this grandfather paradox in the 30 year meantime preparing to be shot by the Lybians in 85. This time he needed to pretend to naturally befriend Rich Marty and send him back in time and Protagonist Marty and the audience see this from Lone Pine Mall hill. But that time machine I theorized was built by Doc to detonate as soon as he went into the woods in 1955 so Rich Marty dies in a car crash outside of town and the timeline our Marty has made in this branch stays stable.

@thesleeperhasawakened4916

4y↑1

The back to the futur's time travilling is still stupid, if you changed the life of your parents to a certain degree, the possibility of you being conceived is near impossible. what if the day you where concivied your parents where not in the mood for sex. or your dad jerked off that day or even if that was not the case, you being the dominant sperm or even exist as a sperm is highly unlikly.

@TagardMC

4y↑2

@@thesleeperhasawakened4916 take it up with the Bob's. I'm just working with what they gave us in the movie.

@thesleeperhasawakened4916

4y↑1

@@TagardMC I think they didn't really over thinked it, i mean they made even more sloppier mistakes in the sequels, like old Biff going back to the same future even though he changed it by giving him self the magazine.

@TagardMC

4y↑1

@@thesleeperhasawakened4916 old biff dies and dissolves next to a dumpster after he gets back. There's apparently a slightly longer version showing it or it was a storyboard and it was cut for being too dark.

@thesleeperhasawakened4916

4y↑1

@@TagardMC Still sounds like a plot convenience to give the protagonists their time machine back. he shoud've return into a future where he is rich and Doc and Marty should have been stuck in the other timeline or not exist at all , it's a paradox.

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@steveandortudge

4y↑1

Incredible depth of thought. Looking forward as always to what you'll have next

@Cocothecat2023

4y↑13

Looper was another of these stories. They had a scheme to eliminate the looper at a younger age by the older self. It still doesn’t make sense though

@BurningMad

4y↑1

Does a single time travel story ever written make sense?

@davidwilson6577

4y↑2

@@BurningMad Futurama and

Spoilers

No, really.

One piece.

@davidwilson6577

4y↑1

As long as there is no retrograde time travel, it works just fine.

@davidwilson6577

4y↑1

Actually I think that means The Time Machine comes out alright as well.

@nickm8425

4y↑1

Dark

@msbrightside2603

I thought this video would never come. You are hinting at it for what feels like 100 years. Thank you for finally doing it :)

@paulhickey9413

4y↑10

Great stuff! I wonder if we’ll also see a time-traveling Dany as a parallel. Having both the three-eyed crow dreams and the dragon dreams from book one turn out to be sent by the dreamers in the final book would be neat structurally.

@LeoSkyro

4y↑13

Dany shitting so hard she travels through space and time

@flowerdrag0n

4y↑1

omg.. a "dream" of spring.. maybe spring is always caused by the dreamers?? the time traveling wizards in an apocalyptic future??

@elitemook4234

2y↑1

18:31 who says the old timeline stops existing? The whole point of the branching timeline idea is that both exist.

@AJDavis-ti2ee

4y↑5

Hey Preston. I love all your stuff dude! Please keep the ASoIaF content coming. It's the only thing getting me through this never ending pandemic world we live in!
Almost every other GoT channel I subscribe to has either given up completely or slowed down immensely on the theory content. It's a bummer! You're definitely the hardest working and most creative content provider on YouTube in the ASoIaF sphere. Your fans really appreciate it!

@qoheleth5868

4y↑1

Great stuff, as usual. Thank you. I look forward to the next installment.

@chellybub

4y↑3

Legit. I had always wondered about this but I always thought I was over thinking things. But it does make sense on a lot of levels. To be fair, when characters appear as metaphors in visions/dreams the eyes are often an important element. Think of Euron in the Damphair's vision, or even Bloodraven. There's a consistency with their eyes, which means if Bran is the only 3 eyed character and seems to clearly have the ability to communicate through time and space, well then it makes sense that he's the three eyed crow. But maybe I'm wrong about that, I'm working from memory here. Can't wait for part 2 to see what else you have to say :)

@HoraDelHumo

4y↑8

I love the big budget intros 👌🏽

@lifefindsaway7875

4y↑2

And I really love the jarring cut to a basic PowerPoint presentation with Preston’s voiceover. I can’t explain it

@Halbared

4y↑1

I hope it just gets released in cinema and not streaming so he can make his budget back.

@domhuckle

Thanks for your continued analysis Preston - it's the only thing keeping me from rage-quitting this whole series

@alialmuhanna4938

4y↑5

To comment on "hold the door", this was a possession of the mind of Walder (Hodor's real name in the books). Imagine looking out your own eyes at your own hands & feet and silently scream as you try and control yourself, but you can't because someone invaded your mind and took over your body.

In other words, as Hodor was holding the door, he was practically murdered by Bran.

@mixkid3362

4y↑2

Damn, Preston went all out with this intro since how indulgent the Brienne intros were

@jsizemore1449

4y↑13

Hey Preston i remember you talking about some character's losing time like Jon ,Theon, and Sam(at Castors keep).
Do you think those are Bran seizures of characters at important moments?

@aarnikoivisto5415

4y↑5

This is an interesting one! And it would fit pretty nicely. I've always thought it weird that characters loose time like that. Doesn't really happen like that in real life. In real life you just loose the track.

@PuddingAtheist

4y↑1

COME! COME TO ME MY FLOCK! FOR IT IS ME, CASTOR!

@_Glorie_

4y↑2

Side Note, But i found PJ's explanation of losing time sooo spooky. That video genuingly made me imagine those parts of the books (especially the Craster's Keeps ones) as straight up possession scenes from a scary movie.
I absolutely love that video.

@leonardoggy

4y↑2

Great episode, Preston! I'm happy you're delving into this. I've put a lot of thought on it over the years, but I never really connected the dots to TEC=future Bran. I thought they were separate entities. But your take makes a lot more sense! Looking forward for the rest of the analysis!

@Clothy22

4y↑4

The one dislike is from Chad Summerchild

@allthe1

Well Chad called it before Preston. Remember the dognet?

@idiotsmonthly3969

4y↑1

I love how elaborate these video intros are getting. Keep up the good work, Preston!

Or should I say 好的视频制作创作高个子

@celebalert5616

4y↑3

I'm certain that the already extremely complicated ASOIAF plot will benefit greatly from the addition of time travel.

@turtleanton6539

Lol 🤣😂😂 but I think it always was there

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