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Book Jaime seems to be building to a different ending, but a lot of this was not included in the show. It could have gone either way IMO.

His plan was (and so far as we know still is) to deal with Cersei and the other pretenders to the throne before going on to fight the Others. Since Dany will almost certainly be there for that battle this specific ending won't happen IMO. On the other hand, GRRM does have Dany doing some things she knows will harm a great many people in Westeros without a second thought (eg resettling the Dothraki) It's not my preferred ending but she may be a villain that needs defeating at the end, but it won't get there this way.

I gave it an 8, pretty good for what it was. It still suffered from all the flaws the show has when the material isn't fleshed out in the books, and I'm pretty sure this is mostly show-only materiel and the last act in the books will be the Others not Cersei

No they were there all along. The bodies buried in the crypts became wights when the night king raised up a new batch of undead while facing Jon

Gave it a 7 due to a couple good scenes. It was more of a 6.5 though. Worst episode of the season IMO

Gave it a 7. The packing felt awkward with them introducing so many story lines without having time to do much with any of them.