Great sense of mortality conveyed in this episode. Slow and emotional. The sense of foreboding isn't built out of the white walkers, but out of that feeling that everyone's stories are reaching the end. Sam's little soliloquy about death and being forgotten set the emotional tone of the episode. Something which has been great and that people care about is due to end and be forgotten.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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