braintransplant / ......thank you.....for that (Reply)

s8e3 certainly was a fun watch but also like what the ever loving fuck:

arya killing the night king felt really undeserved to me - not in the sense that i dont think she could kill him, but in terms of the episode/entire shows story arc it seems out of left field. and it was a corny/cheap shot...a bit campy for me. arya has zero interactions with wights for all 7 seasons and no relationship with the night king - in terms of narrative its a really bad move. the writers said jon felt too expected but i think they are confusing what is inevitable to a character with what is ""predictable."" its not bad writing to satisfyingly complete character arcs. they didnt subvert anything in a meaningful way and just went for shock value....asoiaf is good because when expectations are subverted (i.e. neds death) it tells us something important (love/truth/honor can get you killed). arya killing the night king doesnt tell us anything
isnt the hound supposed to be terrified of fire? did i miss when he got over that? i know he was frozen in fear at one point but that seemed to be about thinking they couldnt win, not, yknow, the fact that beric was running around with a flaming sword and the entirety of winterfell was on fire. this is the guy who literally committed treason to flee the fiery battle of blackwater when JOFFREY was king. and his fear wasn't overcome when arya wanted to cauterize his wound, later. this plot hole is.........giant.
the fact that we are basically getting back to petty political squabbling after knocking the main, core villain/drive of the show in one episode is um. basically the antithesis of what grrm made this series about. the writers were seriously like i know that the series is about how vapid the political power struggles are, but what if the vapid political power struggles were the important part?
they really just wiped out....the entirety of the dothraki? wtf