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Late to the party but HORYSHIET BALLS!
That was the most intense thing I've watched in a long time! At points I was so tense that I almost forgot to breathe for a few seconds lol.
- I'm not convinced anyone at Winterfell is a "brilliant tactician" so seemingly bad ideas like the Dothraki charge was somewhat justified... the horde are at their best on a full-on horse charge they are less effective standing their ground. That is what the Unsullied excel at, phalanx formation like Spartans. What they should have done was funnel the undead like Avengers or 300. I'm not sure the Dothraki can flank the undead as they pretty much covered the entire field, but sending them that far ahead was bone-headed. Tyrion would be the smartest mind in the game but they forced him to hang out in the Crypts, even he said so himself he would have been much more useful surveying the battle rather than getting hammered in the basement lol.
- The NK death was semi anti-climatic lol. I get it Arya is a bad ass but I would have loved to see at least some of the main characters put their Valeryian steel to some use. Like Brienne and Jaime battle it out with a Walker general to distract them while Arya jumped in from behind. Jon should have at least fought the NK for 30 seconds before he did the arm raise, we didn't get to see the NK wield a sword at all.
I guess the Walkers didn't want to risk fighting cuz no point, the Wights already overwhelmed everyone, why risk dueling, dying and losing 2000 wights?
- The crypt thing was... interesting because we don't know NK's range of his arm raise, and I would have thought most of the corpses in there have already turned to dust or barely intact, Ned is headless.
- All the deaths were necessary for the build-up, now it gets REALLY intense on what happens when they face Cersei, they have just fraction of what they started with, ALL Dothraki dead, presumably 20% Unsullied and a few strangling Northerners vs the Golden Company and Ironborn. No elephants though lawl.
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