This is going to be really difficult. As I’m watching it, I enjoy everything I see. After I watch it, I don’t get why we’re rushing this out over a few seasons. I feel like there is enough story here to spread out onto at least another 2 seasons of quality story telling. And yet at the same time, if we do only have a few episodes left, the pace needs to accelerate rapidly. Spoiler At the beginning of the episode, Bran tells everyone that they don’t have time for this. He senses that they have some tension over these trivial political matters. He is so right. I thought from there they’d go to the Night King descending upon Winterfell soon. But immediately in the next scene they’re back to their insignificant political quarrels. In a way, I love that. That kind of stuff is what I enjoy most about the show. And overall I think that’s kind of the point. They really aren’t ready for the war against the dead. Their ego’s are too invested in the Seven Kingdoms and it’s going to come back to screw them over.
Spoiler Before the season started, this is exactly how I hoped it would play out. Get through with the Night King stuff quickly to focus on the battle for the throne and dissension between Jon and Dany. And in the moment, watching that play out was epic. That whole ending scene was amazing. I was tense and on the edge of my seat the entire time thinking that anyone could die. Arya coming through to suddenly win the battle was a huge shock. In retrospect I have some slight issues with all this. Still so much about the Night King and Three Eyed Raven that we don’t know. They did take care to already layout the idea that if you kill a white walker, you also kill everyone that the white walker raised. So it makes sense that simply killing the Night King would solve everything. But still felt like that payoff didn’t match all the build up to the Night King over the years. Also it did feel like they gave the main characters plot armor. There were moments where it looked like death was inevitable for all of them, yet somehow they magically get away relatively unscathed. Minor gripes though. Immediately after watching the episode, my reaction was that this reinforces GoT as the greatest show ever.
For me as an avid book reader, it did not make any sense whatsoever. "Winter is coming"... yeah, right. This went against everything that was set in motion in 1996.
There's no night king in the books The true war is down south. Cersei will make Claire Underwood look like a rookie...
Spoiler MVP: Arya Stark (that buzzer beater was sick) DPOY: Jorah Mormont ROY: Lyanna Mormont MIP: Theon Greyjoy COY: Melisandre 6MOY: Beric Dondarrion Executive of the Year: Brandon Stark All-NBA Team: Jon Snow, Daenerys Taergeryan, Drogon, Rhaegal and Arya Stark All-Defensive Team: Grey Worm and the Unsullied, Jorah Mormont, Beric Dondarrion and maybe Sandor Clegane All Rookie Team: The Dothraki Shaqtin' A Fool protagonist: Samwell Tarly Scoring Leader: Arya Stark Some comments: - Night King was supposed to be the best player in the world, but he ended up choking when it mattered the most. - Refs missed a lot of calls for both sides, but the game ended up being enteraining - We all thought Drogon or Rhaegal was going to be the league's leading scorer, but Arya put a performance for the ages in the last game scoring an all-time high in the very last game surpassing them for the scoring title. - Melisandre had her ups and downs as coach. Did some terrible decisions down the line that even cost her team games, but when it mattered the mosts she made the right calls. - We always knew Arya was going to be great. She couldn't play that much during her rookie years, but from time to time showed some great potential, and she work incredibly hard honing her game to attain a skill level that's second to none. - Daenerys didn't really play that good in the end, but she was the leader of the team, and everyone knows there would've been no championship without her. The Northern Conference should be done and now it's time for the finals against the Western Conference champs, the defending champions, Cersei and Co. Ok, sorry for this. Ok, no, not sorry.
