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Originally Posted by StacknLikeCordWood
Imagine if...
...During the scene where Jon is grounded and runs toward the NK, NK pulls his sword and they have a 5 min fight that results in a stalemate before NK then raises the dead around them as he did in the episode...
...and when he confronts Bran, NK triggers a 5 min greensight vision together with Bran (like 3ER did) that explains some, not wholly evil, motivation and backstory right before Arya goes stabby stabby...
...those 10 additional minutes would eliminate so much of the controversy, and I think this episode would then be in the running for one of the best of the entire series.
From the little we know about the Night King, it just doesn't seem like he would do that.
He's had multiple chances to go 1v1 with Jon Snow and declined.
Two possible reasons:
1. He understands that Jon is a very real threat to himself and thus, his entire army. He knows Jon carries a Valyrian steel sword that he used to dispatch a WW at Hardhome.
2. He just doesn't care about Jon at all, sees him as beneath him and/or doesn't care about taking out the human leadership. His only real objective is to find Bran.
Some sort of insight on his relationship with Bran would have been great, IMO. I do think that a lot of stuff on the first Long Night, the walkers and the Night's King (not the Night King) is going to be fodder for the prequel.