There’s a Stark at the gate!
But we bet it wasn’t the Stark you expected.
Except Sansa quickly realized her brother has changed more than she could have possibly imagined.
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“I think it’s a major shock for Sansa,” Bran actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright tells EW.
All the Starks have changed so much.
Arya is like this ninja assassin.
Sansa has been held captive by these tyrannical men and had to become politically cunning herself.
But Bran is now this tree-raven-magic thing."
“It’s like imagining you have all of space and time in your head,” Hempstead-Wright says.
“Bran is existing in thousands of planes of existence at any one time.
Figuring out how to handle Bran’s massive power-up was one of the tricker aspects of crafting season 7.
Introducing a character who might knoweverythingrisks draining suspense from a story that depends on characters having certain limitations.
“Now Bran the Broken is broken in more ways than one.
Or as Hempstead-Wright puts it: “Bran really at this stage isnotthe Three-Eyed Raven.
He can look stuff up but doesn’t have this all-knowing all-seeing capability just yet.”
“I think Bran would make a great Hand of the King,” Hempstead-Wright says.
“you might’t do much better as a Hand than somebody who’s all knowing.
But the Iron Throne might suit him he does have to sit down!”
