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Originally Posted by Ashasx
I have gripes with the episode, but after last season this was kind of what I expected, so I wasn't disappointed.
However, this comment kind of personifies my confusion with the series:
We got to see the Night King's wrath for one whole episode after such a buildup. The very first episode of the series is literally titled "Winter is Coming".
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Isn’t this is a great example of not following fantasy tropes. The hero’s journey of the bastard becoming the chosen one, and coming back from the dead and fulfilling the prophcacy.
Instead the character with Agency kills the big bad. Arya chose not to be a princess when she was a child. Demanded to be trained. Was clever to name the faceless man to escape prison, choose to leave the Hound and Brienne and set her own path, chose not be no one and instead to be a Stark, choose to #### Gendry, chose her weapons and chose to kill the night king. Agency beat prophecy.
The evil in the world isn’t an unknown enemy that has been prophicized about. It’s people. I think the divide you see in this episode is those who the fantasy elements were paramount versus those who the political elements were paramount. The writers always shied away from fulling embracing and getting into the how the magic worked. I think in a TV show this is a good choice.
Going forward the next prophecy and opportunity for consequences to be real is Cersei. Dany chose to fight the Night King instead of go for Kings landing. Cersei acted in self interest. Will Cersei allow the prophecy to be self fulfilling like when she kill Margery leading to Tommen killing himself or will she chose to reject it.