There were a couple of giants with the Army of the Dead when they came through the Wall, so it most likely one of those. However, it thought the giant was missing an eye, and Wun Wun was shot in the eye by Ramsay when he died. I suppose he might have been buried outside Winterfell and was resurrected.
Conversation at our house:
“Uh, Two Towers had the Helm’s Deep battle. It was at Night. It was raining. We understood all of it perfectly well and could see everything happening.”
This was a foggy, smoky, dark mess. Only the last 30-40 minutes worked.
NM read that wrong.
If it helps, to me his face looked exactly like Wun Wun’s, even including the eye wound that originally killed him.
Right, but we saw an anonymous faceless man wearing an Arya face, and Arya isn’t dead, so it’s not strictly necessary to kill someone to wear their face. Though that scene could have just been artistic license, I suppose.
Thanks. I remember the shot. I saw Jaime there, and thought I saw Pod, but wasn’t completely sure about Brienne.
Brienne’s survival was the most surprising to me. I thought she lead the list of Most Likely to Die. I correctly called Jorah, Theon, and Edd last week. I also got the major survivors right except for Beric. The episode was considerably less decimating than I expected.
Yeah it was weird how it look like Jamie Brianne etc. were completely overtaken by the zombies, and then at the end they were all still alive. While all the non-major characters were dead. Too contrived.
Also predictable that the ancestors would animate in the crypt but handled dispassionately. Was expecting to recognize at least one long lost Stark.
I do appreciate that Arya was the one who killed the night king.
Did Theron’s sister die?
Agreed that it was very difficult to keep track of which dragon we were looking at if they weren’t breathing fire. I know some people who had identical twins and they would put a different color bow on each girl’s hair to keep them straight. Would it have been too much to ask to have Rhaegal wear a green bow and Drogon wear a blue bow?
Still holding out hope for Tyrion and Sansa. The only humorous moment in the whole episode was when she told him that he was the best of he4 husbands.
That Jon Snow sure can fight.
Cersei seems pretty tame compared to the NK.
Well I was wrong in last week’s thread when I said that i doubted they’d wrap up the White Walker threat this early in the season. But they did. I gather that the remainder of the season will be the Game of Thrones of the title. And several characters have claims on the throne (Dany, Jon, Cersei, Gendry and others perhaps).
Yara is in Pyke.
Yup. First thing i said when the credits started rolling: “Wait. They won??”
That whole episode was hot garbage.
Speaking of Brienne, Jaime and Pod, and to a lesser Sam, during this episode I found it satisfying that the living didn’t need great fighting skills to effectively fight the dead. It’s not like the dead fight like water dancers.
So every time they showed the three musketeers, I kept thinking that it doesn’t matter that Jaime’s fighting left-handed or that Pod is probably above average at best; all they have to do is defend a mindless bum rush and connect once with their weapon and boom. All that really mattered were basic competency and the will to stand and fight, and on that front both Jaime and Pod were worthy of fighting side by side with Brienne.
There was someone in the darkness who resembled her.
And BTW, the HBO website gives the title as The Long Night.
Arya’s ninja move, dropping the knife to her other hand, then stabbing the Night King, made it all worthwhile.
The only thing I expected but didn’t see was any of the lesser White Walkers get taken out by Valerian steel or dragon glass. I guess they really wanted to go with the lost cause until the last moment.
I liked it.
I think the entire next episode will be how a few hundred living people can dispose of 100,000+ dead, decaying bodies.
But what was her job? She lit the Dothraki swords. To no purpose. She lit the wood in the trenches. To no purpose. She told Berin he filled his purpose. So?
The only salvation might be if she told Arya to get out to the grove. Because otherwise Arya’s going there at that time from the middle of a castle in a battle was the most ridiculously contrived moment in a ridiculously contrived episode.
Not hot garbage, steronz. Cold garbage in the pot, nine days old.
Dragon fire?
This- that moment was everything and made perfect sense. My only complaint was I guessed it about 60 seconds before it happened but it was still very sweet.
I do think Brienne’s story arc is practically done (unless she is going to go off and make baby giants with her pal Tormund, I’m all for that) and she’s the only one that I’m surprised is still alive.
Jon has been a lame duck for too long, time for him to step up. Sansa needs to learn to keep her mouth shut but I am rooting for her marriage to Tyrion to survive.
After 7-1/2 seasons and 69 episodes of build-up, I felt like the defeat of the Night King was rather anticlimatic.
Hot garbage stinks more.
I can’t get over how bad that was after the wonderful episode last week. It was hard to watch because it was so dark and the artifacts from the streaming compression dominated every shot. It was boring from an action perspective. The plot repercussions are terrible. I just don’t know where they go from here, at this point I don’t care who sits on the iron throne.