The third "Holy Shit" moment in Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones season 6, when we saw the dramatic "Hold the Door" episode in which it was revealed that Hodor's disability had been caused by Bran Stark in some time travelling accident, producers Dooffus and Dweebil said that it was one of three "Holy Shit" moments that were told to them by GRRM when he was telling them how he planned to end his series. The first "holy Shit" moment was Shireen being sacrificed (I still think it will happen differently in the books, but she will burn); the second was "Hold the Door". The third, they said would come right at the end. 

With three episodes left in the iconic fantasy series, I have one main prediction as to how the story will go from here. I may be wrong, and if I am, I will come up with another prediction! But I have several possibilities, but the main one that I'm sticking to is this

Dany will execute a Stark for treason with fire.

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The whole season, dramatically, has been all about Sansa Vs. Dany.

I believe that the tension between Sansa and Dany will grow and Sansa will continue to be a stone in her heel.

• I think the North will bend the knee to Dany after the last episode, perhaps begrudgingly, but maybe enthusiastically.
• Sansa will resent that. Sansa will also be categorically against sending Northern forces south to fight Cersei. She is scared shitless of Cersei’s ruthlessness.

Some thoughts on Sansa:

Sansa has been shaped by Cersei and Littlefinger (and,maybe we can factor in horrific physical/sexual/psychological abuse by Ramsay and Joffrey) and she really can only see things politically and acts politically, almost reflexively. You see the difference of her performance in the crypt compared with her performance in King’s Landing.

In King’s Landing, she gave hope to the women and children by singing a hymn with them. In Winterfell, in much the same position, she did nothing except say “the bravest thing to do is look the truth in the face.” This was similar to Cersei’s attitude in Season 2 Episode 9, only Cersei took it a step further and was going to commit suicide and poison her son, too, Hitler-bunker style. Sansa has love and humanity, unlike Cersei, but still, in the coldly political world she lives in where “reality must be stared in the face”, there is no room for hope; there are only gradients of power that one uses to protect yourself. You live or you die.

• So Sansa will be manipulating political tension with the goal of achieving Northern Independence and she will want to drive a wedge between Jon and Dany.
• The confrontation with our Heroes and Cersei will happen. Perhaps it will be a big deal.
• There will be Cleganebowl. I predict that either both Cleganes will die or Sandor will die, because the show just likes to fuck with us that way. Or maybe they'll throw us a bone and Sandor will slay FrankenGregor, his brother.
• Perhaps Cersei will kill a dragon, maybe even both dragons.
• It's possible that the dragons will ignite wildfyre hidden in King's Landing, blowing it sky high.
• Maybe the Golden Company will declare for Dany;  in the books, o course they are Blackfyre loyalists, exiles from Westeros. The Blackfyre history has been idly mentioned in the show, but it’s not a shaper of the plot as it is in the books. So perhaps they will just be “Targaryen loyalists in the show.” This is my spitball: they will ultimately declare for Dany. That ain’t the “Holy Shit” moment, though, because who really cares about the Golden Company when it comes to casual fans? Nobody, that’s who! Hell, I don’t even care that much about them.
• I really don’t know exactly how it’s going to play out but Cersei.Will.Lose and eventually she is going to die, probably at Jaime’s hands.
• In the ongoing tension created by a string-pulling Sansa, Jon will stay loyal to Dany at first, because
• a) he doesn’t want to be king
• b) he swore an oath, and that will mean something to him
• c) they have bonded in many ways
• d) she is one fine piece of fireproof booty.
• But he’s basically just a heroic puppet: as I have said in other posts if you set Jon on the Hero’s Path he is congenitally unable to not walk down it. And his entire story arc is ultimately about him choosing to break oaths because he thinks it’s the right thing to do.
  Sansa, at least, already knows this about him and has used it to manipulate him before (into fighting the Battle of the Bastards, after which she pulled the strings to crown him king.) This is important.
• Meanwhile there will be tension growing between the Jon and Dany, as well, and this is why:
• Dany, after losing Jorah Mormont, will become more paranoid as she will literally have no advisor who knows anything that she really trusts; she also may feel that she really loved Jorah but never realized it; the only other man she has said she did trust was Jon. And now that he’s a rival she will naturally become distrustful, irrationally, perhaps, but it makes sense in her universe in which rivals inevitably try to kill her.
  
   This distrust of Snow and really everyone, will deepen, especially if Tyrion decides to turn on her, which I think he will for poorly written reasons that we will probably scoff at, but we will ultimately handwave it away because it is not the central drama. She may kill Tyrion or have him killed. She may also kill Sam.
• When Dany starts doing the things that even the Night King and ten billion animated corpses couldn’t do, i.e., kill principal characters, the audience is going to start turning onDany. 
• Sansa, the only politically savvy player in Westeros who hasn’t fucked her brother, in a bid for for Northern Independence, will manipulate things to grind Dany’s gears until something big happens to snap them.
  
  Again, this season is ultimately about Sansa vs Dany. Mark my words, Sansa will be Littlefingering behind the scenes in such a way that this kind of thing will happen. (Well, mark my words I say: I could be wrong. I’m just making what I think would be a good story according to what they’ve given us so far.)
• Dany will then roast a Stark. She won’t be “The Mad Queen” per se. But the show will play up her villainy because of the Starks’ popularity and because the show is frankly too hamfisted to communicate the two-antagonists pitted against each other thing: but the crucial thing is, Daenerys, in her world, will feel like she has no choice and she will be bereft of counsellors she trusts.
  
  It might be Sansa she roasts: she might take Sansa by surprise like Sansa took Littlefinger by surprise. Or It might beArya, which will be be much more horrid for the audience, particularly after she has just literally saved humanity from the Night King. It could also be Bran.
  
   Either way, it will be the third holy shit moment.
  
  But I believe it pretty much has to be a Stark at any rate in order to set Jon on the Hero Path which he is congenitally incapable of not walking down. That is and has always been Jon’s one flaw and it’s the most reliable way to set him into motion.

Again, the season’s political ‘game’ is ultimately about Sansa vs Dany. Not Jon vs. Dany. Jon is just a slack-jawed heroic puppet.

• At that point, after Dany roasts a Stark (Arya? Sansa?) Jon will go apeshit. He will feel the only way forward is to declare himself king; the Golden Company might jump to his side (doesn’t matter too much); he will get on Rhaegal (if Rhaegal is still alive) and do the equivalent of riding straight at Dany on Drogon (if Drogon is still alive) and the two will battle and probably kill each other.

And there. That’s the third moment: Dany roasting a Stark.

It would be cool and tragic and I don’t think it’s particularly shocking seeing as how it’s been set up so clearly by the writers; it’s been predicted for years, particularly on the Meereenese Blot blog from 2012, which GRRM mentioned as “getting” what he was doing in regards to Dany’s storyline in Dance With Dragons. But I think the casual fan will be shocked as shit.

It has the GRRM-type logic, where things are set in motion and people, acting in character, naturally, move the plot by reacting to whatever’s been set into motion.

I think the only part of me that doesn’t want this is the part of me that wants the “Holy Shit” moment to be unexpected. And this won’t be unexpected for me. I mean, that’s why I like this story. Because it surprises in ways that seem clear only in retrospect.

Anyway, in the end, Sansa (I predict) will be the last one standing. She will get her Northern Independence. She will be Queen of the North…perhaps of all Westeros? But it will have come at a terrible cost and much of what she loved will be gone and it will be a bitter, bitter victory for her.

Some other theories:

1. Bran is the Night King. I like the idea of Bran having to go for some reason, and JOn or Jaime killing him. But anything like this, and I first read about it in the Ragnorak theory, written circa 2013, will be in the books and I doubt in the show. The show has always downplayed magical elements.
2. Dany gets an abortion, as an unborn fetus is a necessary ingredient to hatching a new dragon (my theory); which is so horrible to Jon Snow that he turns against her. I think if anybody gets an abortion it will be Cersei. But I don’t know. This theory is not entirely unplausible but I just don’t like it. It doesn’t feel like GRRM to me; if anything, it’s much grimmer and “alt-right.” 
3. This "abortion" could happen with Cersei, as she is pregnant, which will motivate Jaime to kill her.

Anyway, that's what I got. Maybe the show next week will crap all over this theory, and if it does, I'll come up with another one!