What was especially dumb was why Jon didn't light the fire trench since he was just chilling next to Bran on his dragon during that whole sequence.
I have no problem with her doing it.
I lay in bed with my wife watching it. First I yelled at the TV because...
1. Why are you riding the Dorthraki at them. Jesus fucking wine drinking Christ, they have the knowledge that anyone who falls joins the Night King. Who the fuck thought this was gonna be a positive as they were riding towards the AotD? Show of hands?
2. Why didn't the dragons back them up or something. Only the Living were surprised at the Dorthraki quick butt fucking
I then yelled at the TV...
1. Why aren't you shooting arrows at the AotD as they stand lifeless in front of the fire trench?
2. Why Jon are you sitting on a Dragon on a wall doing nothing while the AotD stand lifeless in front of the trench. For a guy who couldn't stop saying "We don't have time" he sure picked a hell of a time to find some fucking time.
I yelled some more
1. How is the Night King a better Dragon rider than Dany?
2. How did the Living not see the corpses in the Crypt coming to life, WHEN YOU HAVE THE FUCKING KNOWLEDGE THAT THE NIGHT KING CAN RAISE THE FOOKING DEAD?
The answer to all these questions, and many more is.... Because the Plot requires it!
It was so frustrating to watch a group of people discuss the threat for over a season, gather information from places including Bran, and forget all of it between episodes 2 & 3.
They are best in charging in and riding + jumping on there enemy's. It makes no sense to keep them standing still and waiting for them to get swamped. I just assumed they wanted to push through the death to flank them from behind and get a shot at there leaders. It also makes sense if you understand how they fight which we saw multiple times. hell even hitler did this to destroy huge army's.
Then there are other factors, AA nightking that can snipe there dragons. Which means they need to keep distance for now. And AA generals that they probably with this attack wanted to take out first or create chaos to the point they can join the battlefield. It's also a good option to weed out the nightking and his dragon in order to flank him while they still have the advantage of 2 dragons. It's basically a war on two fronts.
Hell the nightking does the exactly the same two seconds later and has the upper hand simple for the fact as he now knows where the dragons are which gives him the tactical advantage but still is outnumbered and has to trick them / be careful. The storm however changed the battlefield in favor of the night king.
Honestly the fight on the battlefield made total sense and was actually very well done.
About John waiting on his dragon was probably waiting for the nightking to attack him. Better stay put then get distracted and ambushed ( which already happened before he learned from that, and something that ended the nightking as result ). He probably also had to watch out for the night king generals with AA which limits his movement.
Nightking control over the dragon being better seemed only natural to me. He can command anything that is dead in directly. Dany needs to give simple commands and the dragon probably does most of the things himself as result.
What makes you assume he could raise deaths from such distance? Also where do they hide then? on the battlefield? Also if the night king would be close at that point he could ressurect them, he would already be in the palace and everybody would have been overrunned + already added towards his army. It doesn't matter at that point anymore. Pretty much exactly what you saw in this episode. Made total sense.
The night king and his undead where a threat and they formed a massive army to counter it with magic and dragons. What more do you aspect to kill the nightking? 20k more soldiers that just turn into zombies anyway?
They set up this massive clash with weapons etc. Now was the time and that's the end of it. Now it's focusing on the fight for the throne again which was something the series was based on. As its called games of thrones.
How would you kill the nightking off then? last episode? which would be this episode just at lannister territory? With night king having 2 dragons massive army etc.
The nightking would have swarmed the entire lands with undeads and honestly it was game over at that point anyway for westeros. they had to counter him there and that's what they did. Thats also why they tried to get cercei to join them and not to fight them at the castle. Otherwise they would have laid waste towards it directly in the last season.
It was clear winterfall was going to be overrunned, it was clear nightking would swarm them no matter what. However he made a mistake and that costed him his life.
Like bran says multiple times, people have there reason to exist. Everybody plays there part. Dany played hers, arya, even bran did his part and john also.
100% on all of those. Everyone acts retarded.
Bran doesn't give them any intel on the situation or provide any clever twists through his own actions. All he does is sit there and glare, setting up Arya Ninja Leap.
He can see in the future, he knew what was going to happen. There was no point for him to change things. The nightking needed to be there and things needed to play out this way. Obviously he just sits there and watches the show and makes simple statements to not inter fear with future outcomes. He only jumps in when its needed that's his role he's a watcher.
And about the dagger stab. it's clear the sword / dagger was a big one. She could easily stab him in the heart there anyway upwards. But honestly its just as we call it here "ant fucking" trying hardest to be upset about something that practically isn't a issue.
Honestly it just feels like people here are trying there hardest to make up reasons to not like it because the big bad nightking got checkmate. Pretty much a thing that happens all day long in the series with everybody.
Kenpachii
