The story of Lightbringer has been told in the show though it was way back in season 2. However I admit I might be considering it to more important than it is probably as the result of me watching so many theory videos between seasons.
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Yeah, it's something that's mentioned in passing as part of Melisandre's statue burning theatrics in the season 2 premier and (so far as I can recall) never mentioned again. As I said, if it were going to play an important role then they would have done a lot more legwork for it to actually mean something to the audience.
And again, just because the story of Lightbringer and Azor Ahai is a story/prophecy that exists within the world of GOT doesn't mean it's actually a thing that will actually happen. Part of Melisandre's hubris is that she's acting on these prophecies with what can only be described as a terminal case of confirmation bias. She see's what she wants to see because her faith blinds her to all else. Which is why when reality suddenly refuses to cooperate, it all falls apart around her.
I think a lot of fan theories are brilliantly researched, convincingly argued and then - turn out to have no basis in reality. I read a really good one on Reddit about why the Umbers were just fooling Ramsay in returning Rickon. And we know how that turned out...
Well, there is no actual reality for a fan theory to be based on anyway. No matter how logical something seems, there's no proof the writers agree until they put it in the show (at which point, it's no longer a theory).
^ Well yeah, fair point; "turn out to be miles away from where the story is going" is perhaps fairer.
Directors announced for season 8:
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/26/game-thrones-season-8-directors/
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/26/game-thrones-season-8-directors/
Good selection. Even though we already knew it wasn't going to happen (per the man himself last year), I still held out for the slightest hope for Jack Bender to return. Ah well.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge for several years now - ever since Kit Harrington's scenes with the Wildlings.
They couldn't get a raven.
Difficult to catch, the speed they go at.
This is very strange. All kinds of people and news outlets are acting like this is big news, when I swear this has been an ongoing thing for years. Just like when it was revealed that Julia Child was an officer for the OSS back in WWII - I remember my mom telling me about this very thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Then it was "revealed" again after she died and I thought "So what? I thought everyone's known that for years!" 
The news is that they're engaged, not that they were involved.This is very strange. All kinds of people and news outlets are acting like this is big news, when I swear this has been an ongoing thing for years. Just like when it was revealed that Julia Child was an officer for the OSS back in WWII - I remember my mom telling me about this very thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Then it was "revealed" again after she died and I thought "So what? I thought everyone's known that for years!"
This is very strange. All kinds of people and news outlets are acting like this is big news, when I swear this has been an ongoing thing for years. Just like when it was revealed that Julia Child was an officer for the OSS back in WWII - I remember my mom telling me about this very thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Then it was "revealed" again after she died and I thought "So what? I thought everyone's known that for years!"
I remember something similar with The DaVinci Code. I remember reading about the whole Knight's Templar and Mary Magdalene giving birth to Jesus son back in the seventies.
Yes, the writers of that book unsuccessfully tried to sue Dan Brown: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2006/apr/07/pressandpublishing.danbrown
There have been theories about such things going back centuries. When covering the various religious conflicts of medieval and renaissance Europe, I recall a history professor quite enthusiastically telling the story of a cult (in France or Spain, I want to say) who claimed they were the descendants of Jesus and were promptly wiped out by one of the early inquisitions.
The Merovingian Kings of France believed themselves to be of the Christ bloodline, IIRC.
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