He didn’t prioritize Bran. They tried to use Bran as bait but he really didn’t go for Bran until the path was cleared and most of the defenders were dead. He only died there because of assassin Arya apparently sneaking through his army. Otherwise, he only exposed himself against dragons that apparently couldn’t touch…

The Night King was a weapon created by the children of the forest in their desperation to win the war with the first men. But they didn’t use him as a peace treaty was signed. However, they weren’t counting on the long night- which was when a comet crashed into one of Planetos’ two moons (this messed up Planetos’orbit…

The Night King couldn’t pass the wall due to magic, and didn’t have the means to destroy it until he had a dragon. If Dany hadn’t gone up and saved Jon the Night King would likely still be trapped north of the wall. At bare minimum, he would have had to assault the wall manually which would have seriously depleted his…

They’ve done a poor job of developing the characters with supernatural powers. We still don’t know how he’s connected to Bran or who he is. Or really anything about him. Everyone thought he was a Stark or a Targeryen but I guess we will never know now. I wonder if we will find out why a Stark must always be in…

My theory is that the Night King is a bit like Lord of the Rings “Why didn’t the Eagles just fly them to Mordor?” Arya needed the distraction of the battle and Bran as bait and the Knight King being overly confident to get her one shot.

I’m hoping a big piece of the next three episodes is Bran explaining what he knows about the Night King, and what the Night King wanted to learn from him.

I’m really grateful for the glimmer of humanity we got to see in Bran in his words to Theon!

Anyone wish they knew more about the Night King and what he was up to? Why did it take like 8000 years to put this plan into motion? What killed the Long Night? Why didn’t the Night King have a chat with Bran for a min? I can’t believe it was all just bad programing.

Oh man, I was looking for some Gimelstob stories from when he turned pro, and I came across this — the most magical of all quotes (also, interestingly from a 1996 NYT article):

The best part of it was it’s the shot he wanted the whole time. Over the best wing defender in basketball, from almost 40 feet away. 

That was some horseshit NBA JAM eat-your-money cheating-AI shenanigans of a shot... And it was fucking AWESOME

Chris, that was awesome. Fuck.

And also that one show that wasn’t very good but it starred Lea Thompson so of course you’re gonna to watch it.

Mmm, lunch while pretending to not have made a moral choice. What an American hero you are, refusing to stand for your beliefs.

Indicted. 

“Opening fast food locations in an empty expanse of a state to own the libs” 

Glad to see people still fly their “proud to support bigots” flag so openly. 

Ballsy move if you ask me, pandering to a chicken-centric fast food franchise right in the heart of cattle country. 

If your chicken sandwich is so bland and inedible that you need to season it with liberal tears to enjoy then you probably made a bad lunch choice.

Guess he doesn’t comprehend that whole “franchise” thing. CFA isn’t opening the damned locations out of the kindness of their hearts. 

*Chicks-fil-A