5 Valid Questions Any Normal Person Would Have Asked Bran on Game of Thrones

Until Bran shows up, the Three-Eyed Raven is a mythical figure to everyone aside from maybe the Wildlings. Having him show up in the flesh would be a bit like your long-lost uncle trying to convince you he's been away training to be the next Santa Claus, à la Tim Allen. You would have questions about what exactly his existence means for humanity and also, you know, what his actual powers were. Old Nan probably mentions the Three-Eyed Raven in her bedtime stories to the Stark kids, but on the whole, there aren't many people in the Seven Kingdoms who think those stories are about an actual person.

That's why it's extra weird to see people like Sansa just accept Bran's claim at face value based on him describing her very traumatic wedding night. Sorry, little bro, you making things awkward isn't going to distract me from asking what the heck an actual Three-Eyed Raven does, how you got the job, or what it means in practice. Like, most importantly, what do you do? Why does humanity need a single person to serve as its collective memory when we have historians and folklore? I know things are pretty dire, but these are fairly basic questions that I expect people to ask a mythical figure who appears in front of them in real life.

The most basic question I expect Sansa, Arya, and Jon to ask the Three-Eyed Raven is if he's still Bran or if Bran is dead. Because the strange, emotionless boy in front of them is very clearly not the adventurous, kind little brother they once knew. They've all been through stuff, but none of the other Stark children are behaving like robots. For that reason alone, they should be questioning this all-powerful being about what became of their brother. Is any part of him still Bran? Because the greatest tragedy for them is that they're looking at their brother, but he's not there at all.

If you're fighting a war, being able to see the future would come in handy. And if I knew for a fact that someone on my team could see the past and the present, then my next question is going to be, "Can you see the future?" Maybe there's some ancient law preventing him from intervening, but even so, it never hurts to ask. Knowledge is power, am I right?

Forget this "acting as bait" business. You can see things happening throughout time and warg into animals and at least one human. Is there not something more useful you could do to help us win the war? I mean, could you warg into the ice dragon and turn him against the Night King? Can you confirm that killing the Night King will indeed make his entire army collapse? How about something simple like warging into Nymeria and having her lead her pack of direwolves into battle? Seriously, anything aside from sitting quietly in the Godswood while an army of the dead swarms Winterfell would be great.

What? You're telling me if you had access to someone who knew everything that has ever happened, you wouldn't throw a couple of random questions his way just because. It's not every day you meet an all-knowing being in the flesh, and if he's not going to tell you anything useful, then the least he could do is tell you entertaining useless information until the Night King and his army arrive to murder everyone.

I know if Bran had all the answers it would be way too easy for our guys to win this war, but that doesn't change the fact that there are a whole lot of perfectly reasonable questions that need to be asked when you reunite with a relative who believes he's a Three-Eyed Raven. War or no war, Jon and company really need to check their priorities.