Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Which raises more questions. Why doesn't he warg into cersi and get her to throw herself out the window ala Tommen?
Not that he'd do that, as he seems to be like Professor Manhattan who doesn't care about much, but iirc, is there some rule that one can only warg into animals and people of low intellect?
Originally posted by Surtur
Oh and can someone explain whySpoiler:
Melisandre died? The only reason I could guess is that she used up her life force when she used magic to create that fire.
because her only reason for living as long as she did was to defeat the night king. seeing no other purpose in her life and probably wanting to finally die, she walked off into the snow. it's a callback to old viking tradition when elderly warriors felt too ashamed for still being alive, and walked/rode off into the woods in the dead of winter to die from exposure. but it was silly that she dropped so quickly, was like she got hit with the 5 point palm exploding heart technique
Isn't she like an old hag or something? And that necklace thing keeps her looking youthful?
An enjoyable yet farcical episode, was really hoping for a 1 on 1 with Jon Snow and the Night King after Jon Snow was chasing him down, then the Night King wimped out and raised a load of dead to shield him. An awesome sword fight between the 2 of them is what that episode needed.
Originally posted by tkitna
Pretty sure the Dragon died.
The answer is in the Episode 4 preview. Around the 0:21-0:22 mark
Thought there was something wrong with the TV, you couldn't make out anything.
Boy, the writers are in denial.
Jon Snow is too obvious, so lets go with Arya. Nothing super cliche about that.
If it was me, I'd have written Samwell getting the kill. He killed the first White Walker, only fitting he gets the last.
I think this has been said before but if D&D really wanted to subvert tropes, why even have the Night King specifically be present at Winterfell at all? Instead have him B-line it to King's Landing and decimate the Pirate and no-Elephant army?
Arya dealing the final blow in itself isn't really the problem but rather how she virtually materializes out of thin air after being saved. Meanwhile John is stuck squaring up against a zombie dragon.
I'd go so far as to say that there should've have been any reason for the cast keeping Winterfell after the Night King started raising the dead again...aside from really dumb conveniences.
I take back what I said last weekend. Arya must have jumped over the shark to kill the Night King. Between this and Littlefinger's death, GOT has COMPLETELY dropped the ball on it's climatic ending. All of GRRM's tense writing has gone to absolute shit. All of the series' Jon Snow build up means nothing now. The show LITERALLY begins with a white walker attack, and the main theme of the show has arguably been that the human affairs are worthless because the white walker invasion is the real most dangerous threat of the series. Now the Night King got killed because Arya has Nightcrawler's teleportation powers, and the final battle of the show will be Cersei and Euron fighting over the Iron Throne that the show has spent it's whole runtime telling us was meaningless. To me, this is Dexter-levels of ruining a show's finale.
Got caught up. And aside from poor image quality with the action scenes in the dark it was glorious.
So, what was going to happen exactly if the Night King had turned Bran? I'm really curious about that. I wish they had at least hinted at it.. I guess he would have just gained some sort of warging sight?
Originally posted by cdtm
So how close is this following the book?If the Night King and Littlefinger is still around, I may have to start reading.
Not closely at all. Where the last book leaves off is where Varys has Kevan Lannister and Grand Maester Pycelle killed. In the show is was Qyburn IIRC. Daenerys has also just been taken away from Meereen by her dragon and is now alone in the wastes and Jon Snow has just been shivved up by the Night's watch. That's why the writing has been shit for the last couple of years, they've gone beyond the books so they have to depend on the talent of their writers and GRRM's post-it notes.
Content producers cannot satisfy everybody actually; opinion will vary (always).
This battle taking place during the night added to the tension and POOR VISIBILITY contributed to complications for the living - well done. I loved the whole Resident Evil vibe.
And yes, Arya Stark taking down the Night King was a better twist in contrast to the typical and predictable John Snow being the Azor Ahai bullshit.
Keep in mind that Winterfell was constructed after the events of the Long Night and it was designed to not only draw attention of the Night King but also provided a fighting chance to the living. And Arya being the Faceless Man was a perfect surprise within - a place which she understood inside-out and could maneuver her way around.
Too much critic spoil the fun.