It wasn’t. You don’t go from struggling to make it through a library to killing one of the most powerful beings in Westeros in a matter of minutes. Had the NK been distracted my Jon or a Dragon it might of been a completely different story. Her opportunistic strike realistic. But as it was shown it really sucked
From a sort of in lore perspective, the Dothraki have never fought defensively. Their strength come from charging in and taking the fight to the enemy. Asking them to absorb a charge or engage in hit and run tactics might have resulted in a equally failed outcome minus the awesome TV drama quality of watching the flaming swords just snuff out in seconds.
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Is this a serious comment or just an attempt to find fault no matter what?
they still had a leader who would have known it was a bad idea to give the NK an entire army of undead just because dothraki happen to be good at charging. they should have been hiding on the far side of the castle, and flanked after the undead army pushed into the defenses. it could have been just as cool, and not fucking stupid.
I think it was realistic - he and all of the whitewalkers thought he had won; everything had worked out how he planned, and he was about to exact his revenge on the last greenseer. It was *the* moment of weakness to strike him in. The way he grabbed her after she took him by surprise also didn't leave him much room to counter, when all she has to do is stab him literally anywhere with the Valerian steel.
Everything is predictable for the next episodes, episode 4: they will try to recover whats left from the army, and some more talking, episode 5: they march to Kings landing and even more talking and episode 6: Guess what, some war will start and then, Brown eyes(dead, the king from the two towers), blue eyes(dead NK) and the last GREEN eyes Cercei , Arya will kill her. I dont know how will end politically.
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I just still really want to know how, with all the characters there like Tyrion and Sam and Varys who are defined by their intelligence and wisdom, not ONE of them went "You know, maybe hiding in the crypts surrounded by dead skeletons against an army of the dead who can raise skeletons is a bad idea."
But I suppose they needed a way to kill off some of the people who weren't going to be fighting.
I thought it was completely believable. Now if Gilly had charged out with little Sam in one hand and a dagger in the other and stabbed him in the chest, then I would agree. But this is Arya.
Maybe they could have done that, and after the Night King kills Gilly, little Sam turns into one of the Red Woman's shadow people in the shape of the High Sparrow who utters the ominous phrase, "Every one of us is poor and powerless. And yet together... we can overthrow an empire," before summoning the seven gods to slay the Night King.
Maybe not.
Not going to get an argument here. Its the same as the "The crypts are safe" from last week. Like if its so heavily foreshadowed that everyone knows what will happen, your writing is shit. There was no twist when it happened because they laid it on so thick.
I expect much disappointment this season.
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With a big fucking sandstorm!
READ and be less Ignorant.
thats fine. it still could have failed as a flank. it would have been great to see them initially do well, cutting through the undead lines at around the lines of defense, only to quickly realize that no matter how many they kill, they are more and more and more, and eventually being overwhelmed. same result, but would have not made me facepalm, and possibly even better at bulidng tension and a sease of dread, that the mighty dothraki flanking force wasnt enough to bring down the massive undead horde.
I know, its like they did not spend YEARS, building up Arya as this stealth ice cold murder machine. People trying to make the argument that this INCREDIBLY well training assassin, IN HER OWN HOME, does not know all the nooks and crannys and could not sneak up on the Night King, and then use a move she literately showed the audience she was capable of doing last season are just looking for reasons to complain.I thought it was completely believable. Now if Gilly had charged out with little Sam in one hand and a dagger in the other and stabbed him in the chest, then I would agree. But this is Arya.
I personally think it stems from some belief that these white walkers are just quasi-omniscient, and that there's no way a trained assassin could breeze past them, which she literally did if you watch the scene. The wind blows by a white walker and he looks sideways, and then in comes Arya. I don't see anything unbelievable about it.
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