I still can’t believe the show spent eight years treating the nobles’ infighting as a farcical distraction from the White Walker threat, only to reveal in the last few episodes that everything about the series’ mythology was a farcical distraction from the nobles’ infighting.

That would have made a lot more sense than Stannis and Dany both leaving Dragonstone completely unoccupied. Dany originally just sailed in, found an empty island, and started hanging out in the throne room. Even if we hand wave away Cersei’s initial negligence there, why wouldn’t Cersei send a thousand members of the…

What’s with every AV Club writeup of this episode complaining that it’s racist for the show to behead Missandei? Was it racist and sexist against white men when Dolorous Edd, Theon and Beric died last week? They all died protecting a white person too!

Yeah it would have been more in character for Sansa to point out that her experiences with Littlefinger and Ramsay laid the foundation for her rise to power in the North. She totally played Littlefinger into sending his troops to help her kill Ramsay and take back Winterfell, and then she had Littlefinger’s throat…

Yes and the medieval rules of warfare are also very clear that once you extend guest right you can’t turn around and murder your guests, but that’s exactly what the Lannisters did to win the War of the Five Kings, and Cersei didn’t see much of a problem with it.

The show implied more than once that Varys suspects something is up with Jon. It comes up a few times in the show that the Westerosi nobility has their suspicions about Jon because Ned was too honorable to have done what he claimed (Stannis says something like “It wasn’t Ned’s way.”) Sansa’s gossip to Tyrion just…

They also magically declared that half the Unsullied and some non-zero number of Dothraki are still on the board, after the last episode implied that maybe a dozen of them survived. Same for Jon’s Northern army. How many could be left? The dead breached the castle walls, we saw thousands of dead bodies and the only…

Actually I think they conceived after that time Cersei got all turned on by poisoning the Sand Snake and locking up Ellaria Sand in the dungeon to watch her daughter rot. Joffrey’s been dead for a few years at this point. However, since it must have taken months for Jaime to visit the Riverlands, head south, and…

3-1 Euron is the father of Cersei’s baby
5-1 Jaime is the father of Cersei’s baby

Also, the last thing Arya said to Jaqen was “A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell, and I’m going home.”

It’s already been established that the Faceless Man masks are magic, and that Arya becomes as large or small as her subject whenever she puts the mask on. This isn’t a Mission Impossible movie where you’re left wondering how Tom Cruise grows a foot when he puts on a Dougray Scott mask. If Arya does disguise herself…

The issue is that the show spent a *lot* of time depicting Arya learning the following skills: stick fighting, lying, lie detection, magic-aided disguise, more stick fighting, how to stick fight while blind, and fencing.

Yeah it’s pretty clear that Theon’s sacrifice was not pointless, because it distracted the Night King long enough for Arya to get the drop on him. Without Theon charging in, maybe one of the White Walkers would have noticed Arya climbing up a tree (or whatever she did). It’s also clear that Bran knew all along…

This was never really addressed onscreen, but it’s hard to believe the Boltons would have agreed to the marriage with Ramsey if she was still technically married to Tyrion.

Sansa looks pretty silly for the way she received Dany in the season premiere, doesn’t she?

True love with her nephew tho?  What are we supposed to be rooting for there?

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…

Also, given that the effects shots may have only been exported in 1080p (and nearly every shot in this episode is an effects shot), there may never *be* a true 4K version of this episode.

Well, but didn’t the first Long Night last a full generation? How did that work? I guess if the Night King was starting off without a full army it would have taken him longer to build his numbers, but it seems like he could do it fairly quickly given the exponential growth of a wight population.

So my issue there is, last episode everyone wouldn’t shut up about the crypts, and we all knew they’d be important because all the dead Starks would burst out of their caskets once the Night King did the magic “come at me bro.”  And its fine for something predictable like that to just happen, but then it wound up…