Winterfell throws an emotional house party as Game Of Thrones prepares for battle
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Despite its compressed episode run—the final season of Game Of Thrones is only six episodes—the show is taking its time. Season eight’s second episode let us bask in the presence of most of the show’s remaining characters, gathered at Winterfell and passing a long existential night of the soul before taking their stand against the dead. Senior Writer Katie Rife and Managing Editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog discuss this Game Of Thrones’ version of a bottle episode, in which tradition is fucked, character history is exploited to its full potential, and the show delivers one of its most emotionally rewarding scenes as Jaime knights Ser Brienne.
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Plot twist: NOBODY DIES. Because everyone who can possibly hurt the undead are holed up in Winterfell, leaving the rest of Westeros completely undefended. The Night King leaves a token force to keep the good guys locked down and goes gallivanting across the rest of the countryside adding more and more to his undead army. The good guys finally figure out what’s going on and break the siege.THEN everybody dies.
The Night King could fly his dragon over and take out Euron’s navy single handedly.
I’m trying to figure out why he and his dragon didn’t lay waste to Winterfell before Jon, Dany, and the unsullied arrived.
This is my thought as well, what does the Night King have to gain by laying siege to Winterfell now when there are literally millions of “smallfolk” just waiting to be killed and reanimated and added to the pile. Plus why not go ahead and wight-out all of the cattle, raccoons, birds, et al any living thing they can because every eagle that flies into the face of an archer or fighter is one more creature that that person is going to have to deal with (and possibly be killed by) while the Walkers are closing in. If nothing else, its just more chaos for the living to sort through.