We're 4/7ths through the 7th season. Daenerys has had some losses but just took a huge win with her dragons and Dothraki. Bronn just saved Jaime from a dragon but both are sinking into deep water, pulled down by the weight of their armor. Jaime appears to be unconscious. Jon Snow has been making friends with Daenerys but refuses to bend the knee. He's presumably busy mining dragonglass.
I predict that Jaime and Bronn survive by getting their armor off, but are captured. They will have a reunion with their brother/old friend Tyrion. They will both eventually switch sides but not for quite a while yet. They'll stay captive for a while. One of them will escape, probably Bronn.
Tyrion loves his brother, but Jaime loves his sister and is loyal to what's left of the family. Tywin and Cersei have made that loyalty impossible for Tyrion, but Tyrion doesn't want his brother to die. It's a tough one. Jaime dying heroically would resolve everything, but that would wreck the drama of the story, so the writers probably won't do that.
Jon Snow will have an incident soon where one of the dragons takes a shine to him, probably the one named for his biological father. I'm guessing the dragon will invite him to go for a ride but it may play out a different way. He doesn't yet know yet that he's a Targaryen. When he and Bran get together finally, he'll find out, and suddenly all will become clear. The writers are drawing this out for as long as possible.
Nobody seems to be concerned that the one-time Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who is an exceptionally duty-driven person, is now King in the North. Everybody knows that the only way out of the Night's Watch is to die. There are hundreds of Stark bannermen who don't know that Jon Snow did die and was resurrected, yet are nevertheless pledged to what must seem to be a watchman who has violated his vow. Sam Tarley was already on the way to the Citadel when this happened and doesn't know. He sent a raven (which apparently got to Winterfell somehow) to Jon telling him about the dragonglass at Dragonstone, but the Citadel seems pretty isolated. Sam probably doesn't know that Jon died and that his departure is legitimate, albeit unorthodox.
Sam has been assigned to copy a bunch of scrolls that are decaying. I predict that some of them will prove very interesting and one will have some information, forgotten for centuries, that will be crucially important in the fight against the Night King. I think the Archmaester suspected that this might be the case and Sam's punishment will prove in fact to be a huge reward.
I'm guessing nobody else in Winterfell appreciates just how deadly Arya has become, although there are quite a few hints. When asked who had taught her the trick with the dagger, she told Brienne "no one". Brienne took it to mean that she'd just figured it out on her own, but she meant she'd been taught by the faceless men. If Arya (or somebody) is able to kill Cersei, just about all the POV characters remaining have a good reason to get along with each other and are already friends at some level, and can get to the real business of defending the realm against the Night King. I suppose this means that Cersei can't be killed for a while, if only for dramatic purposes.
Gendry is probably out there somewhere. He is already friends with Arya, and her reunion with HotPie a few weeks ago is probably foreshadowing. He realizes he owes his life to Davos, but he'd been penciled in for the Night's Watch. Gendry is a notch more legitimate a holder of the Iron Throne than Cersei (he's the illegitimate son of Robert) so Cersei would probably kill him if she heard about him, but she doesn't know. I'm guessing Sam plays a role. Once Sam gets his Maester's chain, he's destined to return to the Watch; he didn't die like Jon, but he effectively has a wife and child, which is a violation of his oath too.
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