![]() What's clear is that Littlefinger is orchestrating this to weaken the Starks and take power on his own. It all has to do with the letter that Littlefinger planted for Arya to find in the last episode. The Stark sisters are at each other's throats. And we got to see the fire swords in action, which mostly were used for some first aid, turning an undead bear into a flaming undead bear, and as a grill lighter to burn Thoros's body.īut, with the important stuff out of the way, let's touch on another plot line that is in total disarray. ![]() Although it was totally fan service, it was mildly fun to see Tormund tell The Hound he wants to make babies with Brienne. There were a few hiking conversations in the first 20 minutes which really didn't go anywhere and mostly worked as filler (seriously, Gendry brings up that these dudes betrayed him and left him to die and their only response is suck it up?). And there's no better political marriage than Dany and Jon right now. This show has already established that Dany-and everyone else in Westeros-is fine with marriages for political means. But this is also a mildly aggravating scene, because it makes no sense why these characters would be hesitant to hook up. So, everyone lives except for Thoros, which is only really a bummer for Beric Dondarrion who is now on his last life, and Jon makes it back and he ends up on a boat with Dany, where they have a tender, mildly sexual moment and he says he'll bend the knee to her. Writer 1: Good call, but we'll leave it kind of ambiguous in case we need him for a cheat again. Writer 2: Well, we could just have Benjen die right there and not worry about it? So, he rides up and saves Jon, but what do we do with Benjen after that? Writer 2: Oh, yeah I guess that would work-is he still alive? I can't remember. Writer 1: What if Uncle Benjen just shows up again to save Jon? So, what do they do? Here's how I imagine the conversation in the writer's room went: Unfortunately, even after they had killed the dragon, the writers still had Jon Snow stuck north of the Wall alone after sacrificing himself. But, it's also a twist that fans have been speculating about for years. Like the cutting down of Ned in Season One, now we know that no man, woman or beast is safe on Game of Thrones. (I've read online it was the one named after Viserys, who was her shithead brother, so that's cool.)Īnd this was a necessary death, because now we know the real White Walker threat. ![]() We don't technically know which one died, but I'd wager it was the worst of the three dragons. So, in the end, one of the dragons died-hit with some sort of doomsday White Walker lance. It feels hobbled together like some sort of lazy fan fiction, complete with the feel good moments and nonsensical characterization. ![]() They simply abandoned all logic, and cut corners to get Dany and her dragons up there. I would imagine that, in his road map to the conclusion of this saga, Martin had one big plot point labeled "The Dragon Dies And Becomes a Zombie White Walker Dragon." Except, the writers, who had stranded everyone down south, needed a way to make this plot point happen in only seven episodes. This simply feels like a write-around excuse to get Dany and her dragons up north. No one is going to believe they were just chilling on that rock for two weeks shooting the shit without food or water and taunting the Army of the Dead. Those things need to happen in parallel time, because the viewer is invested in the ticking-clock plight of the characters. You can't write off the time that both the raven and Daenerys traveled, when you have the clock ticking on a group of men freezing in the middle of a lake. A lot has been written about timeline problems on Game of Thrones, but none of them have been worse than this episode.
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