lol, i didn't even catch that!

So I expect Bran is right now instructing the smiths and craftsman at Winterfell to make dragonglass scorpions/ballistas right? Nope, just being creepy and vague still-I see.

Yep, like are the white walkers supposed to be super strong? They haven't been up until now.
I assumed the spears were magical, but when it hit Viserion, it made him bleed as I would assume a normal spear would. I think I'd have preferred that it would freeze him or do something ice related.

It's especially irritating because they do this with Jon in every season, sometimes every few episodes. Instead of adding drama, it just makes him look more incompetent and extraordinarily lucky.

They wouldn't be losing the spears.. they can just walk over and get them after the guys are dead. The Night King knows who Jon is, and that Jon has killed White Walkers, and that he leads men, so it he definitely seems worth killing. The Night King literally amassed a huge army and besieged him for however took for…

Someone raised a good point, why didn't the Night King and co throw spears at Jon and his band?

In response to the question of the week, I was actually really excited for a moment when I thought Jon actually died. That would have been a Red Wedding level curveball.

So they are down one red priest who can revive people, a bunch Wilding redshirts, and a fucking dragon. But they gained… a wight? Cersei's possible help?
It seems like one dragon is worth more than whatever help Cersei may have provided.

Twice is two times too many, don't you think? I believe he was saved at the last minute by Stannis's army and then resurrected by Melisandre after he was stabbed to death as well, although these situations weren't exactly the same

Having the balance of power shift could have been done in so many more plausible ways. Like even having Jon and Dany team up to decapitate the white walker army by assassinating the Night King would have been more sensical than this wight-napping caper gone awry.

The whole thing raises the question as to why Daenerys couldn't pop over, have a look, and come back, entirely out of icicle range.
To have any of this remotely make sense, we have to believe that anyone in the show believes that showing Cersei a wight is like dropping the Ring into Mount Doom.

Also, how many times has Jon charged in stupidly to something, gotten a bunch of people killed, been saved by deus ex machina, and then been rewarded for it?

The theme of this season is contrivance, the more absurd, the more unearned, the better.

I hope so, but the show doesn't seem that smart. Like for example, Sansa and Jon never seem to talk strategy off screen or in private, instead they have messing arguments in front of an audience that undermines their leadership.

That is just it though, no one takes her claim seriously but for the fact that she has dragons and a giant army, neither of which joined her because she was Aerys daughter. In fact many are hesitant to join her because of memories of the mad king. This is why all these comments about Jon being the true heir to the…

Yep, they should have had him stay until he found something… the show used to punish characters for being rash and impatient.

Also, I'll say it one more time- Jon being secretly the next king of the Seven Kingdom because of his hidden parentage would be incredibly lame, just the sort of tired fantasy trope that the series was famous for subverting once upon a time.

Someone needs to tell her, use them or lose them!

That needs to happen. Sansa and Arya fighting each other is so 6 seasons ago.

Gendry and the hammer! I love the fan service here. How many years has it been since the leeches?