Yes, the more I think about the episode the more it looks like they just didn’t stick the landing. This basically wraps up the Night King storyline, but since so many of the prophecies revolved around the coming Long Night (and not which petty usurper would end up on the Iron Throne), we’re left with the following…

Agreed.

“Weiss and Benioff are master storytellers”

Not sure this holds for stories they write that aren’t based on pre-existing material. They’re okay. 

You nailed it. There were WAAAAAAAY too many unexplained moments, where characters survived because something something. The plot armor was almost tangible.

Another Benioff and Weiss "masterpiece." Once again writing the big moment first and then working backwards with nothing but "bad ass battle....but in the dark." F those racist hacks. #noconfederate

Seriously. 7 seasons of “Winter is Coming” buildup and dreading the seemingly undefeatable threat of the walkers, and then oh shit they have a dragon now too and have breached The Wall, and all the while all they had to do was take out this one dude and boom all the many thousands of them drop dead at once, danger to…

I appreciate what they were going for, but I think it would have been even more striking if it were well moonlit and everything was silhouetted against the snow.

Shit. Have 2 lines about a full moon, and you got diffuse blue light almost good enough to read by in the northern parts of the world.

I grew up in Michigan,…

It’s not just the tv. I’ve got a 4k set, but my DSL line won’t handle a 4k live stream.

...and no, I am not going to pay whatever that costs to AT&T. Typically, well shot 1080 looks amazing, but this lighting was just too much.

Ahh-wah-AHHHHHHHH! 

I don’t think it was full on awful but for every moment of grace there was a moment of “what the fuck is happening” and a moment of “dragons vaguely flying around a blue background.”

I have to agree with you. In the moment while watching it, I was engaged. But now after letting it sink in, it feels extremely anti-climactic. The White Walkers have been the big bogeyman for eight years. And if you include the books then it’s over twenty years. This formidable evil. And it’s basically just Arya…

Also the crypt is made of drywall apparently and a skeleton is good at being a zombie apparently. I’d find it hard to believe there are that many corpses in that crypt that were meaty enough to fight.

Arya killing the night king was really obvious with the blue eyes scene. The moment they said that it was 100% certain she would kill all the blue eye’d zombies by offing the load bearing boss. The deaths were very predictable and the plot armor extremely predictable.

The progress of the battle was also baffling. It looked like there were one or two wights making it to the top of the battlements, then suddenly they were everywhere, then suddenly a small number of them were sneaking around inside a library quietly, but really it was fifty of them right behind the door, not being…

True, we only met the Night King in Hardhome—but he commands the white walkers/wights/whatever, who we met in the first 10 minutes of the show. The Army of the Dead has been the looming enemy that could destroy all humans. Poof, they’re gone, on to Cersei.

I think Arya was able to stab the Night King in a small thermal exhaust port, right below his main port.

Totally in regards to the Night King as a character. A good villain has a clear, understandable motivation. And in Bran, they set up an appropriate foil that could have shown us what the dude really wanted in a creative way. But, with all the set up, you can’t just get him out of the way for the aspect of the story…

Yeah, I mean, they put forth all that effort on building and manning that giant wall for.... that?

Who of consequence died? Meaning who died that you didn’t expect to die, whose death will impact the rest of the story vs just being a natural part of it? I get some people may have seen fan favorites die but me liking a character doesn’t mean their death has any consequence on the story.

God that was awful.