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@Andy @Anonymous User
This has been all over Twitter but didn't pay much attention as I thought that (for some reason) they only come back if killed by a white walker!! But that may mean I'm getting my TWD mixed up with my GoT!!
So he can get any dead person up and running no matter how long they have been dead? Game changer!!!!!!! 
@Lindzi wrote:So he can get any dead person up and running no matter how long they have been dead? Game changer!!!!!!!
@Lindzi @Anonymous User
Well it’s all a bit unclear but it seems it could be the case. We certainly know he doesn’t need to be physically in contact with the dead to raise them, as demonstrated chillingly at the Massacre of Hardhome, let’s enjoy one more time
So presumably if he’s somewhere near he could just do his mumbo-jumbo and raise the dead. The white walkers can also raise the dead, so maybe it just needs one of those to sneak in past the ranks and enter the crypt to start the ball rolling. And of course if that happened you’d only need to kill the one white walker to save the residents, which might be an easier task for Samwell or the little girl to save the day!
As to whether the long-dead can be raised, I don’t think we know for sure but some of the wights are definitely long past their sell by date, for instance I don’t think this little chap has been fed in a long time ....
I’m actually hoping the theory is right now, as it would make for shockingly good TV to see the residents fighting for their lives in the crypts while the ‘heroes’ fight on the battlefield. Does this mean it would be easy to get to Bran, by using the new wights from the crypt? And where is Arya in all this? It looked like she was heading for the battlefield, so how does she end up running for her life through the crypts?
And have you been reading the theories that Bran could in fact be the Night King, in some kind of weird three-eyed-raven timey-wimey ‘I can travel through time and space and put myself into anybody else’s shoes’ type way? I can’t get my head round it all, but at least unlike TWD we don’t have to wait another 5 seasons to find out!!!
OMG it’s so exciting right???!!!!
@Anonymous User @Lindzi Oooo yes, Jason and the Argonauts with the superb special effects from legend Ray Harryhausen - now let’s compare just how similar those soldiers are to some of the resurrected wights
I think we can safely assume the Night King can resurrect old-dead as well as new-dead!
Now here’s an interesting thought I had today - in the books (which I am still slogging my way through one chapter a month for the last five years) Catelyn Stark actually came back from the dead as a slightly-evil version of herself. Now admittedly it was Lord Beric and his fire voodoo that brought her back in the books, not the Night King, and also admittedly I’ve no idea what’s happened to her body in the TV show and whether it is anywhere near the Crypts .... BUT let’s think about that trailer with Arya running for her life in the crypts, scared witless .... and now let’s imagine she’s running from the resurrected somewhat rotted body of her mother, brought back to life by White Walkers!!!!!!!!!!
HURRY UP MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
