I’m pretty sure they said that they lost half of the Unsullied and at some point mentioned having some Dothraki left (unknown number of them).

“No wonder they lost an entire ethnic group in the last battle, these people have the military planning ability of a bag of marshmallows.”

His downfall will come when he’s sailing one day, at the helm of his ship. Suddenly, seemingly coming from nowhere - maybe that bit of land visible on the horizon? - Arya flies through the sky and stabs him to death.

I agree that it’s very tough to provide a good ending, especially to something as sprawling as he’s made the ASOIAF series.

There’s a problem with the scene’s logic even more basic than that: if the ships can see the dragons, then the dragons (and Daenerys) can also see the ships.

Good tactical point about Euron’s ships. You’d really want to have two ballistas on ships as anti-dragon weapons: one each bow and stern, both on swivels.

I’d be excited if I thought we were going to get anything like we got in Seasons 3 and 4. With only two episodes left, though, I’m not expecting anything more than the two of them teleporting to King’s Landing.

“I can’t help but feel disappointed in the male writers’ understanding of Sansa, which suddenly doesn’t feel as good as I’d thought”

I think it’s been far more than a month since that meeting at the Dragonpit. It’s not your fault for thinking that since the show has abandoned all sense of time and distance for the past couple seasons, but let’s go through what happened since that meeting:

Well said. Even with the original Star Wars trilogy, the politics are cartoonish compared to the first few seasons of GOT.

“The petty critic in me would say the show could’ve done a better job of revealing how she got the drop on the Night King instead of just Deus Ex Arya’ing the situation, but it’s a very satisfying moment, so we’ll let it pass.”

Even if that’s his core strategic goal:

I’ll expand on my point a bit by contrasting the structure and resolution of the Battle of Winterfell with the Battle of the Blackwater, which both had “surprise” endings that turned the tide at the 11th hour.

After rewatching this episode, here’s what I find most unsatisfying about how it shows the death of the Night King: ultimately, very little in this battle matters for how we reach this outcome. The resolution depends only on Arya’s Faceless Man ninja skills and using Bran as bait, leaving the rest of the battle as…

Interesting theory, but that’s not how warging works (or it certainly hasn’t ever been presented that way). A warg doesn’t *turn into* an animal when warging into that animal: there’s no ability to move physical location. A warg controls and sees through the eyes of an animal.

These are all fair points about tactics. I’ll also add another one, which I’m almost certain must be here somewhere in 600+ comments: ridiculously dumb use of fieldworks.

“Backstory” may be a better term than “motivations” - at least for me - but I think that the Night King and White Walkers are clearly more complicated than just a pure force of nature.

Good point, and I suppose that Bran’s remarks that “nobody’s ever tried” to harm the Night King with dragonfire and that the Night King has tried to kill previous Three-Eyed Ravens both imply that Bran has used his abilities to gather some information.

The Night King/White Walkers/Others may just be a threat bent on annihilation, but I think that a twist is probably coming where we learn that the situation isn’t that simple. I highly doubt that they’ll be revealed as “good”, but they’ll have some degree of complexity to their motivations.

To that point about nobody confronting Bran about what he knows (or, more precisely, is capable of learning if he searches for the information): I find it very odd that apparently nobody has asked Bran “so, can you give us any more insight about what actually happened when humans fought the White Walkers thousands of…