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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
We have no reason for why after 8,000 years the NK woke up. We don’t know why he wanted Bran, or what killing Bran would accomplish. We don’t know why he wanted sacrificial babies. Why he made symbols out of body parts. What would he have done if he killed Bran?
This isn’t a secondary villain: this is the big bad from the opening scene of the pilot. Jon Snow’s whole raison d’etre. The source of magic and mystery throughout the show. A guy who can kill dragons with lances. Ok, forget that part.
The NK deserved better treatment, as did the WW, and so from my POV did the whole series.
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Actually, we know the foundation to a lot of these questions.
The NK never slept, he was always there. After being driven back by the first men he has been building his army. Only White Walkers can resurrect the dead, hence the baby sacrifices...he was amassing/growing "Generals", I suppose you could call them. And slowly as those north of the wall died, he built his army from the dead. With a Dragon he was able to fall the wall, which had magical properties preventing the White Walkers from crossing it (it's why Uncle Benjen could never return home, he was part White Walker).
The NK wanted Bran because he is all of man's knowledge and history. The NK was created by the Children of the Forest to protect them against the first men. Their entire purpose and motivation is to kill people and wipe humanity from the world. It's not complex, but there it is.
It seems like a let down that 7.5 seasons of build ended in the first battle of Winterfell, but it's not like the writers did a disservice to the power and threat of the undead. Had it not been for a trained assassin everyone would have been dead. All these great northern Houses, the Dothraki, the Unsullied, the Vale, all major characters in the battle. At least I got the feeling it was that dire in the closing moments.