[Spoilers] Why is Bran not in season 5? Seemed as a great opportunity to see his training process. Season 6 didnt have enough of that. from gameofthrones As we patiently wait to catch a glimpse of every single Game of Thrones character this season, don't hold your breath for the second Stark boy. Bran is not in Game of Thrones Season 5, and the reason for it is really simple — the show has reached the end of his story. HBO hasn't forgotten about him, and he hasn't been killed off, so there's no need for alarm. There's just nothing more for him to do... right now. (Just keep in mind that no Bran means no Hodor, which is really the biggest travesty.) Season 4 ended with Bran, Hodor, and Meera finally reaching the three-eyed raven. Jojen had just been killed by a wight (the scary zombie-like creatures who do the bidding of the White Walkers) so, needless to say, the group is pretty upset about it. As if they need more emotional turmoil, the three-eyed raven they meet is not in fact a three-eyed raven. The three-eyed raven turns out to be an old man fused to a tree who has been "watching" them this whole time. Bran cuts right to the chase with this old man, and asks him if he'll help him walk again. Instead of walking, the old man tells Bran that he will fly. We're just not going to see any flying during Season 5, unfortunately. GoT tries to stay in step with the books from A Song of Ice and Fire as best it can. Currently, with Season 5, the action is mostly pulled from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, which are Books 4 and 5 respectively. Now, Bran wasn't even in a Feast for Crows (there were actually a lot of characters absent from this book, like Jon Snow, Dany, and Tyrion, but that's a whole different story). For Season 4, they covered Bran's entire storyline for A Dance With Dragons. Honestly, not a whole lot even happened to him during A Dance with Dragons. It was easy for GoT to sort of "speed" through his story, and he reached the three-eyed raven by the end of the season, while everyone else is still slowly working through what happens to them. GoT executive producer David Benioff defended their decision to leave Bran out of Season 5 completely. While talking to Entertainment Weekly, Benioff said, “The fact is, even though we’re making changes to the books and adapting as necessary, we’re trying to keep the various storylines the same as the books and trying to keep them roughly [chronologically] parallel. And last year we caught up to the end of Bran’s storyline. So if we pushed him forward this season, then he’s way ahead of where the other characters are.” "So rather than being stuck in a cave for a year, we figured it would be interesting to leave him out for a little bit, so when you see him again…” then Benioff trailed off, because he didn't want divulge any more GoT secrets. So even though Season 5 is Bran-less, we've at least got a thousand other characters to keep us occupied for the time being. Image: Helen Sloan/HBO; Giphy
When Game of Thrones returns to HBO for Season 6 later this year, fans will obviously be clamoring to find out what the hell is going on with Jon Snow, and whether he’s actually still alive or not. Thankfully, we’ll also get to finally catch back up with Bran Stark, who was completely absent from the show during Season 5. And it turns out there was a pretty good reason why the creators decided to leave him out: his arc would have been way too boring for viewers to slog through. When we last saw Bran in Season 4, he had just come into contact with the personified Three-Eyed Raven, who would be the one to help Bran with his psychic Sight abilities. That training is precisely what David Benioff and Dan Weiss wanted to avoid showing, and Bran portrayer Isaac Hempstead-Wright totally agrees.
Any time you’ve got psychic powers happening in a movie or TV show, it’s somewhat tough to make it look exciting if it doesn’t involve super awesome visions or destructive forms of telekinesis. (See: the subdued Star Wars: The Force Awakens scenes where Kylo Ren uses the Force on people.) So keeping Bran inside the cave for his training all season probably wouldn’t have done much to get audiences as excited as they got for Daenerys’ dragons, the White Walker massacre and all things Stannis. That’s the kind of thing that’s suitable for a minute-long Rocky-style training montage. So when we do get reintroduced to Bran in Season 6, he will be taller, older and way more advanced in his Sightly ways, and the actor also shared with EW how his new talents will allow him to control some of his past/future visions and piece all the clues together in figuring out his place in the Great War. Max Von Sydow taking over the role of the Three-Eyed Raven obviously helped, since everyone can learn something from that magnificent actor, even if it’s fictional prophecies. Admittedly, Bran was never one of my favorite parts of Game of Thrones over those first four seasons, but Hempstead-Wright says that his scenes in the upcoming season are the best he’s ever been a part of. Even a stodgy old two-eyed crow like me can get excited about that. We would need our own special form of The Sight to know exactly when Game of Thrones will be returning to HBO, but we know the already lauded season premiere is coming in April, as the premieres usually do. To find out when all of your other favorite shows are premiering and returning, check out our midseason schedule.
For the first time in Game of Thrones history, a major character will spend a season on the bench. But the HBO hit’s showrunners have good reasons for the decision. A couple months ago actor Kristian Nairn (Hodor) let it slip to a reporter that he and Thrones co-star Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark) had the upcoming season off. Writer and executive producer David Benioff, who is the showrunner on the acclaimed fantasy series along with Dan Weiss, tells EW exclusively that there are a couple key reasons for the move, and both are about crafting a strong season that fits within the show’s seven-year narrative plan. “Ideally that wouldn’t have gotten out and it’s unfortunate it did,” Benioff said. “The fact is, even though we’re making changes to the books and adapting as necessary, we’re trying to keep the various storylines the same as the books and trying to keep them roughly [chronologically] parallel. And last year we caught up to the end of Bran’s storyline [in George R.R. Martin’s most recent A Song of Ice and Fire novel, A Dance with Dragons]. So if we pushed him forward this season, then he’s way ahead of where the other characters are.” In the season four finale, Bran, Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick) and Hodor found a cave containing the wizard-like Three-Eyed Raven. We’re left with the assumption that the Three-Eyed Raven will teach Bran more about how to use his fledgling warg power, and possibly other talents as well. Thrones could have added narrative padding to bridge Bran until the next season — like showrunners did for Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), whose character spent a large stretch in the books away from the action. But Bran’s immediate future didn’t seem to provide as compelling material. “It made sense to stop where we did,” Benioff said. “He’s now entering a training period which is going to take quite some time, much of which isn’t particularly cinematic. So rather than being stuck in a cave for a year, we figured it would be interesting to leave him out for a little bit, so when you see him again…” Benioff didn’t want to reveal much more beyond that. Not to mention, Thrones still has so many other storylines to juggle — Dany in Meereen, Cersei in King’s Landing, Arya in Essos, Jon Snow at The Wall, Brienne on the road, Sansa at The Eyrie, and Theon at the Dreadfort. Plus, this year Thrones adding a new thread in the Westeros country of Dorne. In Martin’s fourth book, A Feast for Crows, the author had to bench half of his major characters for an entire novel in order to contain his swelling narrative. So by comparison, sidelining only one character in the TV adaptation is a minimally disruptive move.
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