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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
much better episode
this series would have been so much better without the night king
I think he should have just remained north of the wall. If he drove the wildlings south, leading to the battle of the bastards but jon had to leave a significant number of troops along the wall to prevent the night kings advance, thus making Jon's control of the north very weak, it would have been perfect.
The early development and mystery of the WW threat is done really well in the show and books imo, but once D&D realized they wouldn't have time to really develop the NKs invasion they should have done a major change instead of trying to force a conclusion to it.
Calling the entirety of the show Game of Thrones instead of A Song of Ice and Fire ended up being pretty prophetic. Clearly the focus was on the Westeros power struggles, so leaving the rest of the story unresolved would have been fine imo.