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Originally Posted by Clovis8
This is such a dumb point. It basically negates all criticism.
No it doesn't. People aren't coming up with real criticisms...they are complaining that the story they were most invested in didn't end in a manner they envisioned in their head. Because of that the episode/season sucks.
Complaining that the ****ing Night King didn't get burnt by dragon fire or that he died from simply being stabbed with a knife, or that it was Arya not Jon/Danny is stupid.
The show established virtually everything that happened in the episode and with the characters prior whether one likes it or not.
-Jon is a great fighter but a terrible tacitican when it comes to battles.
-Dany is hotheaded and goes with her emotions over common sense or a pre-set plan/agreement
-The Night King/WW can be killed by valyrian steel.
-Davos is useless in a fight.
-The Hound is self-centered, terrified of fire, and prone to quitting and cutting bait in a losing situation, but has an emotional connection to protecting Arya.
-Arya is a fearless badass at fighting/killing even more so than Jon, Brienne, Tormund, Jamie.
-Jorah is loyal to his queen over anything else.
-Jon is inexperienced and somewhat uncomfortable with riding a dragon
-Jon always charges head first at a problem even when it might be tactically dumb
-The NK has never seemed to view much of anyone as a real threat besides possibly Bran.
-Melisandre has zero idea what her premonitions and visions in the fire actually mean. She's bats like .185 when it comes to correct predictions. The Hound is better at interpreting what's in the flames than she is.
-The NK wants to kill the 3ER more than anything and he was focused on that.
-The whole Arya sneaking past and killing NK with the Jordan going to the other hand trick.
Bran is pretty useless.
-Tyrion has a bond with Sansa.
-Tormund is really hard to kill.
If your argument is that this episode was bad because the NK/WW storyline should be the main storyline and should end the show then you are arguing about how you view the story in your head. It is not the main storyline, it never has been. Its is part of the Night Watch's story and thus Jon's story.
If it is that it was to easy to kill the NK well the NK died in literally the manner they planned for in the prior episode as it was the only real chance they had not to be completely wiped out, it just wasn't Theon/Jon or Danny doing the killing because they all failed. It has been quite clear that simply stabbing a WW with a blade kills them.
If it is that not enough important characters died in this episode, because well in early seasons they killed of major characters unexpectedly...well that was the early season and the writers likely have a reason for not killing off Jon or Jamie or Brienne etc and it is probably not accidental they had Tyrion say "I think we might all live" in episode 2. A **** ton of people died in the episode, many who have been in every season since the start.
If in 3 episodes everyone survives then yes...that's a valid criticism. There are 240 minutes of story left...seems like a **** ton of more characters are going to die in that time.