Here’s a thought: dragons do not need to fly low and do ground attacks where they might get ice speared. They can fly high-level bombing raids by clutching pails of wildfire and then releasing it to bomb the dead. Maybe that will be Cersei’s big contribution. She’ll hand over all the wildfire they have left under King’s landing, and it will change the war or something.
So to deter that, the wights need fighter planes to attack the bombers. Luckily they have an undead dragon… so we will probably get some dragon aerial combat in the future.
Lots of ways to do that. For example, the army of the dead could have been much smaller at the start, and it could have taken the Night’s king a long time to resurrect as many as he needed. Or, they could have established that there was a much larger population of wildlings remaining north of the wall, and we could have seen periodic battles between wildlings and the dead, and after each one we see the dead wildlings rise up and join the army of the dead.
So, they could simpky have been ranging around behind the wall growing in strength and number, and the big reveal this season could have been a change in pattern, where suddenly they all start heading directly for the wall. The main army could have started marching while a thousand miles north of the wall, or not started marching towards the wall until a couple of episodes ago.
As far as we know, Ghost is still in good health and remains at Winterfell, although we haven’t seen him for some time. He’s the only direwolf still alive and with his master.
Yeah, I forgot about this until just now, but earlier in the season when Euron said something about his love for the most beautiful woman in the world, and they cut to Cersei glaring at nothing in particular, I thought, “Geez, too bad Westeros is a pre-optometry society.”
That seems to ignore the fact that the Wall is 300 miles long and they don’t know where the White Walkers will attack. Which is really been the point of the story of the Wall. In it’s heyday it was fully staffed and could probably have easily repealed the White Walkers.
I don’t remember exactly which episode it was in, but didn’t Sansa recently make a snide reference to being expected to just sit around and wait for Jon to return “like Ghost”? I guess an occasional namecheck so we don’t forget about him.
In the behind-the-scenes feature for the episode with Arya’s wolf, they mentioned that the special effects people hate doing the wolf scenes now that they’re huge and it’s also expensive, so that’s the real reason we don’t see him much these days.
I have an idea for the best Game of Thrones sequel ever: we need a show where The Hound, Tormund Giantsbane, Arya Stark and Brienne of Tarth go on the road fighting evil. Podrick can go along for more comedy relief.
Yup. The waif-as-Arya thing would have been a superb twist if it had been revealed at an earlier stage. If they were to do it now, it would be horribly inconsistent with the genuine personal touches that we’ve glimpsed from psycho-Arya. No chance this theory is true now.
I don’t even care so much about the distances thing. What made this episode disappointing for me was the tired "last minute save " thing. I was sick of it when Bronn saved Jaime. And now this episode did it no less than three times at the end: Tormumd is almost dead…saved by The Hound! Everyone is almost dead… saved by Dany! Jon Snow is almost dead…saved by Benjen!
I mean, come on, what kind of lame writing is that for this show? Is the White King going to be destroyed b/c Ser Pounce jumps at him and he falls backwards onto Valerian steel b/c turns out he’s terrified of cats like Imhotep from The Mummy?
I did like the parallel between Jon trying to end his war with one suicidal charge and Jaime’s similar charge a few episodes ago. Too bad they both were miraculously saved at the last instant. At least one of them should have died. Perhaps they’re setting up similar situations in the future where one of them actually succeeds.
