"Non book readers" - Season 8 Episode 2 "A Knight of the 7" - Spoilers post 2 fo

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Forces could easily retreat and scatter.

Dany off to the Iron islands.

Jaime/Tyrion off to the Twins (dont the lannisters hold it now?).

Wildlings etc off to the dreadfort or deepwood motte etc...

Maybe the thing to do would be retreat backwards to the wall seeing as the army of the dead are now south?

But is 'retreat and scatter' really that easy when you're being pursued by a zombie army that "Doesn't Tire, Doesn't Stop, Doesn't Feel." Apart from for the handful who can escape from the embassy roof on a dragon helicopter.

So I think the good guys might actually win this battle, but the Night King and a few of his henchmen will get away at the end on the back of his dragon chopper. And then reappear for a vital cameo in the last/second-last episode.

Yeah I'm thinking a few of the lieutenants will go down first, which will reduce the army significantly, before they take a run at the NK.
Similar to killing the WW at Hardhome

Or, which could be interesting:
Few WW are killed, loads of Wights drop, NK then raises the dead.. from Winterfells army.
Suddenly they're fighting friends.

I must admit to having a less-than-favourable view of episode 2, and wasn't planning on watching it over again before ep. 3. However, I'm now changing my mind after reading through this thread.

As for it being the "worst episode ever"? No. I know there have been certain episodes over the run of the show that have left me feeling a bit unfulfilled, but as far as I'm concerned this is the greatest TV show of all time, certainly the one I have invested myself in most. So I think that even the episodes that are possibly below-par (in the way that they didn't totally grab me) are still far superior to almost anything else on TV.

I must definitely re-watch the Brienne knighting scene again. So many comments here about how beautiful and moving it was, whereas I just felt it was a bit on the cringe side.

On the flip side, I didn't really have a problem with so many important conversations being interrupted - on the eve of the most vital battle in the history of mankind, surely conversations would be interrupted as more important events took precedence (I did wonder if Theon turning up would really be considered important enough to barge into a private meeting between the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms and the Lady of Winterfell though!)

GavRedKing wrote: »

Theyed need to kill someone of Thormunds level of fandom for it to hit home hard, Pod is just an auxiliary character whos been around ages without much fondness IMO.

Although they lost the lowest-raking of all the characters on the capture-a-wight mission. And you might have expected Beric and/or Tormund to go down with the wall. So the show seemed to have lost its appetite for killing off major characters since the sept explosion...

Here s a thought I had last nite when lying awake. What if Arya can use the many faced god to become a white walker and sneak up and kill the king??

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Why has no one else made a dragon glass javelin so that they can try to take out Viserion?

No-one living has the Night King's throwing arm: the Steve Backley of Westeros:p

Redriddick wrote: »

Here s a thought I had last nite when lying awake. What if Arya can use the many faced god to become a white walker and sneak up and kill the king??

How would she kill one to take it's face though? When they get stabbed with Valyrian steel they disintegrate. Not likely to take a face while they are still alive and get away with it.

I reckon with what's happened before they're bigging Sansa up lately for a dramatic collapse... Sansa will die in the crypts while Arya tries to save her, Arya goes mental and kills looooads of wights down there and pretty much saves everyone down there, except Gilly/Sam.
On land, Theon dies, Jamie dies, Brienne lives, Thormund lives, Bronn arrives too late, tries to kill someone (Tyrion/Jamie/The Night King), but he's arrived too late and is killed...
For The Night King to die, Bran has to die also, the Night King leaving his mark on him will have something to do with that...
Once the Night King is beaten they'll travel South to King's Landing...
The vision of the Throne Room in bits and a dragon flying over it shows only one dragon if I'm right? Jon has always been honourable and true to his word, he bent the knee to Daenerys so even after the big revelation it won't change anything for him, and he'll convince Daenerys and they'll get married and live happily after after... :rolleyes: I think Cersai is ready for the dragons when they come back, or at least thinks she is.. The massive crossbow thingy will be set up and another load of wildfire will be waiting for Jon/Daenerys. Once either of these die, (I'm guessing it'll be Daenerys who's pregnant) the other will go berserk (as his wife and child were just killed) and wreck King's Landing and the Throne Room. After a while whoever is still alive, I'm guessing Jon, will go mad and be killed by Jamie (Kingslayer). After everything has settled down, the only true heir to the throne would be Gendry surely? I can see something happening him, the Red Woman coming to his aid and saving him... He'll obviously marry Arya who is the new Queen Of The North after saving everyone in the crypts and because Sansa is dead, is the only Stark left alive... Arya weds Gendry... Once he dies does that make Arya the heir?

Too Long? Lots of people die, Can't wait to see Sansa be killed, never stops moping, Jon/Daenerys end up on the throne. More people die. Arya wins the Game Of Thrones...

End Scene; Arya peels off her face to reveal the face of Jaqen H'ghar, everyone now learns how to be a faceless man at school. Everyone now makes their holy communion in the Church of The Many Faced God.