@S.C.:
I may be in the minority, but I never really care about the Wall-centered storylines, but even moreso for the White Walkers. In a story so based about characters and dialogue, antagonists that literally are just walking icicles doesn't do much for me.
I kind of like the idea that all the ugly infighting of humanity has this almost natural disaster like inevitability bearing down on it though.
It is a force creating big ripples and waves within those many squabbling characters.
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We nitpick, because they put themselves into that trap of how they staged the whole scene with the NK clearly aiming at a nonmoving dragon with the ENTIRE party on board. He could have taken them out easily, he even aimed at them at first. So it's on the creators to stage it better and not allow such complaints to be made in the first place.
The other dragon was actively destroying the zombie army and could very well be headed to the WW's next. It was an aggressive real threat. Taking out the landed one wouldn't have killed the passengers on it as they weren't airborn yet anyway.
One minute you kill the landed one, next minute the flying one scorches you dead.
Not that there wasn't lots of little bumps and warts this episode (and in general), but you're simultaneously thinking too hard and too little.
I dunno personally at this point I've come to accept this show isn't the tightest written thing on details.
It's not a total disaster of messy writing like latter Sopranos like people keep pretending, but yeah no it's not a super airtight masterpiece like The Wire either. No disagreement there.
Some details bother me still, some don't.
But all the same I'd worry more about legit outright issues and not easily interpretable stuff that isn't even really an issue.
Maybe it would have made more sense to aim for the landed dragon, or maybe the flying one was considered too much of a threat to the Walkers and their staff. Given the choice why not give the show their plausibility?
Much easier to mock the warping thing, which I generally don't care about, but yeah was pretty hard to ignore this episode lol.
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There is a chance that arya was killed and skinned by the waif at her darkness battle, and she has just been completing arya's list but Little finger with his bravos connections has hired the faceless men for a hit.
That's way too ridiculous dude. Why would the Waif care about Arya's list?
Or even Sansa's letter?
Assuming she is arya, and is just being dense for plot sake, or for her own weird plans:
I don't see it as dense, so much as the logical end result of her quest to some degree.
We've all (me included) been too used to rooting for her and her goals that we've overlooked the classic pitfalls to becoming obsessed with revenge like this. The most morally dubious she's really been previously was leaving the Hound to die even after developing a Gohan/Piccolo relationship. So we got lulled into a false sense of security.
But I mean if she's this obsessed with revenge and restoring the honor of the Stark house, yeah a side of that will be a sort of insanely deep distrust of any possible enemies to the family and anyone who ever worked for their main enemy the Lannisters. Including her sister sure.
What most made me uncomfortable was the comments last episode where she was talking like a dictator about striking fear into the hearts of the vassals and allies rather than worrying about generous leadership. At first I was like "wtf?" but thinking about it makes sense. Becoming totally obsessive of losing loved ones and what happened to those you're still out to avenge could easily lead to that. Now she sees enemies everywhere, daggers behind every corner. And it's not even a crazy sentiment really, it's based in reality.
I mean, that's essentially why the nasty but smart Lannisters (Tywin, Cersei) have been the way they are. Brutal and cunning because you expect everyone is out to get you and your loved ones/lineage at any time, including sometimes relatives. Look at how Cersei was with Tyrion and Kevan.
Sad to see Arya falling into that, but it's not out of nowhere.