Nihiloth90

Arya's segment took up 20+ minutes; the library crap, being trapped in a hallway, and then talking with Melisandre--such a stupid side plot and an even more ridiculous climax. The character of Arya would have been great as an assassin who takes out important (living) leaders, not the undead armies. This episode will go down as the dumbest decision ever made by the showrunners. I know you're all angry, and it's kind of hard to tell, but Jorah Mormont dies at the end of the episode, if you finished it. He's been one of the top-billed actors since season 1 (in nearly as many episodes as Jaime Lannister).

Except it wasn't even a real fight. She sneaks up behind him and stabs him with a weapon that causes his body to shatter. There were so many things in this episode that screamed 'anti-climactic.' I wouldn't want to see Jon Snow be the one to actually kill the Night King, I just would have liked to see a proper fight; perhaps it being many of the fighters vs. Night King all at once. Hell, some of the fighters could have been given a cool fight scene vs. a White Walker or something. Instead, we get all these shots spliced together where you can't tell where people are for much of the battle, and many characters seemingly teleport to difficult locations. Many of these characters also have thick as hell plot armor on-- they're out on the front lines in the thick of it and NONE of them die. So, for guys who said they aspired to create massive battle sequences that would either match or beat Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning LotR cinematography, they did not do a good job with this. There are so many good fights that could have occurred here. They blew it, honestly. A battle of this scale, and it being humans vs. monsters; you had a LotR quality battle that could have been as amazing as the climax to Minas Tirith. Three episodes left of more drama surrounding the bloody throne. Can't say I'm thrilled about that.

Besides that the episode was so dark and difficult to see things, the divergence from the battles into that long Arya side plot, dodging zombies and meeting up with the Hound and Beric, was probably one of the dumbest things I've seen in this show. How she defeated the Night King was just hilariously bad. Arya jumps out of nowhere, Night King is easily defeated by dragon glass. You'd think he might have some kind of immunity to it, at least. Whole thing was a letdown. Many of the final scenes also made no sense to me. I don't know if I can explain why, but the dragons ruined this whole episode for me; Jon and Daenerys riding the dragons and doing aerial battles--I don't know why, but it was just stupid. Then, Jon and Daenerys get knocked from their dragons; Daenerys is alone and so they are able to shoehorn that Jorah moment in. Why would Drogon take so long to get back to Daenerys? It would take too long to write a list about all the things wrong with this episode, but everything felt rushed and shoehorned in.

I love Tyrion. My guess is he'd be a great drinking buddy.