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Anyway I never said they were crazy theories - I simply said "elaborate and complex" theories.
My only point, which I guess you missed, was that HR=HS is a pretty complex and elaborate theory which also isn't really supported by anything in the books OR the show. It's completely out of leftfield.
Whereas R+L=J is supported by a ton of stuff in the books AND has been alluded to many many times in the show as well (so much foreshadowing that show only watchers have surmised it).....and now we even have the exterior TOJ scene shown - it has importance otherwise it would have been left out of the show completely.
There is zero, nothing, nada alluding to HR and the HS being the same person. And it fails any test of logic.
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I 100% agree with you. I just think it's important to distinguish theories like LSH and Jon Snow warging, which are textually supported theories (or reality as you say) from theories like Arya's fight club, which was basically a guess at how people wanted the story to go down not really based on any textual or film evidence. I am only taking issue in lumping those three together as the same thing.
The HS=HR and the Arya fight club should be lumped together as "loony theories," in my opinion.
I gotcha. Although I thought Arya fight club had a small chance of being true it was less likely than it being just as presented at face value (despite the issues of surviving those stabbing wounds so easily) . And I think HR=HS is really really unlikely.
My only intention was to point out that in cases where they could have gone with some wild explanation,
the show writers have shown thus far to be pretty straight forward - thereby Occam's Razor seems to apply a lot more than not. They've even made certain things more simple than in the books (no LSH for example, there have been ample opportunities and they have not done it).
We have had plenty of plot twists if you will, but primarily they were just actions driven by characters manipulations (red wedding plot, joffrey's death, jon's death, even myrcella and the sand snakes revenge) and not of the supernatural variety. And even the few supernatural things (jon resurrected, and dany walking out of fire, creation of the WW's by the CotF) are presented in almost the most simplistic way. It's rarely as complex as people imagine. Even Hodor which was a great surprise to all was nothing more than something he was told in a warging/time travel thing that became his name.
We haven't had any characters who were really other characters other than Jaqen at times and the waif a few times. But thats what the faceless men do. It wasn't some grand conspiracy where they were really someone else all along....they were just as presented to us but have the ability to change their faces for specific purposes.
Anyway long story short....until proven otherwise I think the simplest explanations will generally be true. They've got enough material and enough plot and battles to show they don't need to be making up convoluted plot devices.
