Kimmel’s production people really did put a lot of effort into that. Loved the acting, too.
Perfect ending joke!
True, but he’d come in handy now, as an actual living witness to the facts of Jon’s parentage. If they need to prove that in some way other than Jon surviving fire or such.
That skit didn’t so much as make a pass at a hint of a reference to GoT…I’m sure that most viewers were like me in expecting a connection to be made. But: no.
Harington certainly looked completely different in that wig (and with no facial hair). Not sure I would have realized it was him. Decent American accent, too.
I’d like to see a siege of Winterfell where all the medieval defensive measures work fantastically well, perfectly even, because the dead don’t try to defend themselves from it. Until the bodies start piling up high enough to just climb over the walls…
A normal siege is back away from the castle defenses, using long range siege to eventually knock down walls. Thousands of men swarming the walls with ladders tends to be avoided for obvious reasons (see the invasion of Paris from the show Vikings for an example) but the dead wouldn’t care.
I enjoy towering and walling up in RTS games against the computer and then watching the mindless computer units walk exactly down the killing path I’ve set up for them and getting relentlessly mown down. That’s the kind of castle siege I wanna see. Doesn’t have to be the final or even a decisive battle.
The only problem is that I don’t see any real weapons for the humans besides fire. Even if dragonglass kills wights (do we know if it does?) they don’t have enough to manufacture ranged ammunition; only melee weapons. You defend castles with ranged weapons, not melee, so that leaves only fire, yes? It’s not like the dead would care if you poured boiling oil on them.
Too bad there aren’t truckloads of wildfire to ship up north. That could come in really handy.
When they brought the wight to King’s Landing to display, they explained that they could be killed with fire and dragonglass. Fire they demonstrated with the detached arm. The dragonglass demonstration was with the main body of the corpse.
I think they made a particular point of it because it hadn’t happened to a wight in battle.
Reading up on dragonglass, I see that three people have actually killed a White Walker: Sam, Meera (using dragonglass in the Cave of the Three-eyed Raven), and Jon Snow. Jon has killed two, both with Valyrian steel: one at Hardhome, and one during the Wight Hunt.
I heard a very vague clue on a chat show, but am putting it in a spoiler box in case you don’t want to read it.
Kit Harington was on The Graham Norton Show on 12 April, which aired here in the US on 19 April. He mentioned that he took home, as a souvenir, a statue of his character that was made for the show. I have no idea what that means, whether it’s a hint that he becomes king. It does seem to be a hint that things calm down enough in Westeros that people take the time to make statues of people.
He might be just referring to the statue they made of him for one of the promos they released weeks ago. It had him, Sansa, and Arya walking through the Winterfell crypts past the statues of Lyanna and Ned and so on, and coming at the end to statues of themselves standing in a row. So it might not be a real scene at all, just advertising stuff.
