I hope people eat crow for saying the civilians was safe in the crypts lol. People was also wrong about the NK flying south. Cool idea, but we were never getting it. People was also wrong about major characters dying. Of those that died I would only consider 2 of them major.
Theory.
You kill the Night King, you become the next Night King.
That would be a shocking ending.
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That library scene with Arya though!
Like something out of Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid.
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Killing the Night King was straight out of Assassin's Creed.
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Anyways:
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Yeah...not sure how I feel about it. The episode did its main job which was make us go "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit" even though we knew it was coming. Arya's horror sequence in the middle definitely helped break up the pace and add tense. But man, the shaky cam was just too much, too much snow and ash and shit and I could barely see it when the fighting was thickest. In any case...Arya doing the deed doesn't do it for me. There was nothing at all revealed of consequence. We know nothing more about the Night King, there's no intrigue to them left, Bran didn't do a damn thing or warg into anything or have any kind of vision, and somehow she's the one to kill him? Her character has jumped the shark in terms of being a badass.
I might feel differently going forward and I am glad we can go back to more character-based conflict, but dispensing of the Night King like that felt cheap to me.
ARYAAAAAAAA!
A girl is truly badass.
Lyanna was the only fatality I wasn't predicting... but she killed a giant with her last breath. The last two Mormonts died song-worthy deaths.
I honestly thought it would take more than one episode to defeat the NK. Now at least two episodes to take care of Cersei, where the battles will hopefully take place with the lights on. But now Cersei has the upper hand. The Dothraki are wiped out, the Unsullied have taken heavy losses, and the survivors are hurt and exhausted. Hopefully Jon's dragon is still alive. Cersei has the Golden Company, the Lannister army, and most of the Iron Fleet, and now that the dead are eliminated they have no reason not to fight at full morale.
The stakes are obviously lower now. If the bad guys win the Seven Kingdoms get yet another tyrant, but the Worlderos keeps on spinning.
But, at the same time people praise GoT for subverting certain tropes at times, so given that context, the ending of this episode does sort of go with the GoT theme.
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