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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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Well I mean the show has to work within the bounds of there being only 3 episodes left, some closure had to be drawn with the North v White walker plot line while leaving time for the other major Cersei v Everybody plotline. It's not like Arya took a ship beyond the wall, knifed the mofo and that was that. There was a ton of development in the seasons leading up to this one, the preparations to fight them, allying with wildlings, diverting Danyreas from her clear goal, compromising the North's independence, and a lot of major characters making the choice to abandon their own goals to fight the overarching threat. And now that the battle is over there's still a ton to flesh out on if that was the right choice, and was Cersei correct to be shamelessly self serving the entire time? What degree of altruism is woth the cost?
It feels sudden because killing the NK and a battle are a pretty finite moment of time. But I don't think the critique people seem to have that it was all worthless is correct, there are a ton of consequences stemming from this battle that will decide this series in total. What did people want to happen? A longer battle, two part battle that made it seem like more of a struggle against the WWs? Or maybe people wanted the WW to win, but I have a feeling a lot of the same complaints would arise that we've followed all these characters for 8 years just to see them all die in a pile for nothing, and have three episodes left of the same thing happening to the only other major character still alive in King's Landing. I think a lot of the complaints are more directly related to the series ending.