[Senator Clay Davis]

I guess for me the best way to sum up that episode was that was the tensest episode of TV I've seen where I still knew what the outcome would be. It was obvious that none of the truly major characters were going to die, they telegraphed that by leaving four hours of content after this episode. It was also obvious as soon as Melissandre showed up that Arya was gonna kill the Night King. I don't think there'd be much audience to see the Night King marching on Kings Landing, especially since without dragons there's really no shot he could die. The remaining Starks weren't going to die, they need to deal with the fallout of Jon being their uncle and not their half brother. Tyrion and Jaime have to deal with Bronn coming for them. Daenerys needs to fulfill her previous vision of that scene in Kings Landing at the destroyed Red Keep.

The disappointing thing is minor characters like Sam or Brienne, who we really don't need anymore for the plot, were not only allowed to live, but live under pretty unbelievable circumstances. It wouldn't have pissed too many off to see a few of them die. I'm not holding out much hope the Night King and White Walkers storyline will see much more than this. And Bran was useless, but he was always useless so no biggie there. Hopefully he gets to warg into the Mountain and kill Cersei that way so at the very least his only big contribution to the show wasn't witnessing incest.