Yes, the wights were being dismantled quite easily.
As for plot developments in episode 6 that were called in last episode’s thread: the death of Thoros was also predicted (in addition to the death of a dragon/gain of a dragon for the Night King).
Someone mentioned the possibility of Cersei being killed next episode. That would be extremely surprising, as it would change the war-on-two-fronts facing Daenerys to a war on one front. (No one who might take Cersei’s place in King’s Landing is as satisfying a villain as Cersei, or as likely to present a real threat to Jon and Daenerys.) IF Cersei were to die next episode, though, I’d certainly have to take back my claim that the show’s overall plot is predictable!
Maybe Bran the Builder left the chains laying around. Or the chains didn’t really need to be that big but regular ship chains weren’t cinematic enough. Which is why the main characters aren’t wearing hoods, hats, and helmets when they should be. That last gets discussed on the costume videos.
I haven’t seen the whole episode, just clips and reviews. But if the lake had a covering of ice, the ice would act as insulation once it got thick enough. If it didn’t have an ice cover, it may have needed a thermal hot spot on the bottom. In Antarctica, there are both kinds of lakes, and also a few lakes that are both covered in ice and warmed at the bottom.
Thermal or not, if the cover ice is thin enough to allow sunlight through, there will be algae growing. I had a limnology professor who had more than a few Antarctic lake stories.
I’m still enjoying the show. I went back to look at some scenes in seasons 1-3 a few weeks back and was surprised by how “rough” some scenes were. The actors, costuming, and “look” have really settled into a groove since the early days.
Arya and Sansa–
Like you, ths Sansa and Brienne scene was when I was certain that Sansa knew exactly what was going on and just giving LF enough room to incriminate himself. Sansa is getting the Brienne and Pod variables out of the way for the coming storm.
Arya knows LF is a creepy plotter–Sansa personally told her to watch out for him. But she also sees Sansa hanging out with him all the time and bouncing ideas off of him, and begins to suspect that they are plotting together to take over the north, and the found raven message just feeds this line of thought. Sansa can’t get with Arya and explain yet because she needs Arya to drive LF to think that Arya is the problem, and that Sansa is still his meal ticket, and can still be manipulated.
Now LF thinks Arya is the problem and the opportunity, and has revealed his intentions to Sansa–but Sansa and Bran are his real problems, and I think he is going to find that out really soon. Sansa needs the Knights of the Vale, or, at the very least, that the Vale not be in open opposition to Winterfell, her, or Jon when she drops the hammer on him, so she needs some politically acceptable reasons to kill him, and needs the support of her banner-men, especially Lady Mormont (who is almost as scary as Arya).
So they take out the Night King and its game over for team walker. Does that mean one well aimed, dragonglass tipped arrow and they could have ended the whole thing then and there?
TV and film characters don’t wear hats, helmets, or masks that obscure their comely features or their dramatic hairdos. That’s pretty much a near universal rule. It’s not going to change, so one might as well accept it.
No way Cersei bites it before the very end of next season.
Why do people equate Dany’s statement about “breaking the circle” with anything even remotely resembling democracy? There has been little if any evidence that she even knows what the word means, much less that she is in favor of the idea.
If the Night King is the lynchpin, then I see him going down in the next-to-last episode of next season. Probably as the result of a Heroic Sacrifice by Our Heroes. That’s the bittersweet - the war is won, but none of our favorites survive it. The epilog shows Ronald Moore and GRRM walking down a street in New York City, where a newsstand shows a headline about a new dinosaur find.
One problem is the WW have no humanity or personality. They’re a generic evil horde. They don’t even talk. I thought Jon might be turned into a new NK so he could really be the king of the North, but probably not anymore.
Fans talk about Dany like she’s supposed to be a good guy, but she seems more like a hypocritical megalomaniac. She’s only thinking of some of these obvious issues now that her subordinates are giving her pushback. This romance with Jon is random, wooden, and unconvincing. If the writers did a better job on that front there could be a possibility to flesh out her character and her plans. I can’t blame the show runners too much, though. They signed up to translate books into TV, not to clean up the mess GRRM left behind.
Dany could have burned him right then and there, but everyone was too busy emoting for the camera.
In the last episode of season 6, Walter Frey, Margerey, and Tommen die. Season 5 it was Jon Snow. Season 4, Tywin. There’s a pretty good pattern of someone major dying or a big plot event happening. If it’s not Cersei dying, I don’t see another event of that significance.
Someone also made a prediction that Dany would be traditionally subservient to her male oppressor Jon. Oops
I found the episode lots of fun and also totally preposterous even within the fantasy rules. Seems like that’s what they’re going for, cranking it up to 11 by the end.
At the ice battle I thought the one they bagged was another WW. I thought somebody even suggested killing him to take out more undead like the first one did.
I don’t know why you put in a spoiler tag, but Littlefinger dying isn’t really a significant event at this point. It is possible that he meets his end too, but that isn’t nearly big enough of a bang to match the ending of the last few seasons.
I disagree, he has been one of the main antagonists since season 1 and one of the people most responsible for all the bad things that have happened. His death would be a bigger deal than Frey, Tomnen and Margaery combined.
Well, since everybody says the spoiler tag isn’t necessary…
Littlefinger getting his would serve the purposes of the series quite nicely. He’s due, he’s slimy, and he’s been underestimating Arya and Sansa. I think the three big bangs of the last episode this season will be Arya slitting Littlefinger’s throat while Sansa watches, the Wall going down, and Dany and Jon boning like there’s no tomorrow. All of these have been telegraphed all season, and I have lost all faith in the show runners knowing what “subtlety” means.
Missed the edit window: I also wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Jon’s Super-Duper-Resurrected Targaryen sperm knocked Dany up. Think of the pathos when either of them has to make The Heroic Sacrifice knowing there’s a proto-sprog involved, and the heir to the Targaryen line at that! Dany ends up kamakazing into the Night King and Zombie Viserion in the penultimate episode, leaving Jon to rule a destroyed Westeros, all his friends dead, the throne tasting of ashes.
