Edit: Good job beating me to this, Chris
Today's loose end is a good one: what role will Howland Reed play in Season 8?
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/ ... a-jon-bran
This piece lays out a nice summary of what we know about Meera and Jojen's father, but, honestly, I wonder if we'll ever see him on the show. Bran and Sam have laid out the facts of Jon's parentage and lineage as best they can, and while, sure, Howland could confirm it on another level, why would he need to? Would the people that would need convincing in order to recognize Jon as royalty--the leaders and lords of houses outside of the North--be likely to believe a frogeater who hid in the swamps during the War of the Five Kings? Or, to put it another way: would they have any reason to put more stock in his words than the words of an oath-breaking man of the Night's Watch (Sam the Pussy Slayer) and a mushroom-tripping cripple? If he does appear, I don't think he's going to serve as something like a grand revelation that allows Jon to gain legitimacy, but as something smaller but still important--a connection to the Ned/Robert generation that gets thinner and thinner every day.
