WTF was Sam not doing in the crypt with everyone else that can't fight?
It was totally inexcusable how that fat cowardly fuck insisted on fighting when he can't. He just ended up being responsible for getting Edd killed when he tried to save his indefensible fat ass from a wight.
Sam had an image to live up to; First man to kill a Walker.
shareI guess this portray's Edd as a hero dying to save another.
shareIt's still on Sam. Wonder if he'll have any hint of reflection or remorse. If he hadn't tried to be something he's so obviously not his friend might still be alive.
shareThat would only work if Sam had deliberately put Edd in harms way.
Everyone outside had chosen to be in harms way and anywhere and everywhere looked pretty precarious to me.
It's not like Edd would've been in a safe place had it not been for Sam or for saving Sam..
Also, wasn't it Edd that said "Took you long enough" when Sam joined the group before the white walkers showed up?
Yeah but that's only after Sam had insisted on joining the fighters and not going down to the crypt in the first episode because he proclaimed himself having been first to kill a white walker with dragonglass.
Edd might very well be alive if he only had to worry about defending himself instead of Sam's chickenshit fatass who pretty much hid among the dead bodies throughout the entire battle and didn't contribute to killing a single wight. He even ran in fear from the one that dusted Edd. He was a completely useless POS burden and the only thing he ended up doing was getting his friend killed.
Edd was not spending his time defending Sam. He saw him getting overcome and saved him.
It was Edd's choice.
You can blame Sam because maybe you don't care for him but knowing Sam I don't think you have to worry about Sam feeling guilty ..I'm sure he will.
You can blame Jon and Daernerys for thousands of dead Dothraki's, too, because obviously no one had a clue they might die... Or you can blame the source.
I do blame the source. Had Sam been honest with himself about being utterly useless in battle and that he would have only gotten in the way, he wouldn't have imperiled Edd to come to his rescue.
Sure, there's no way to know for sure if Edd would have survived anyway. But at least he stood a fighting chance if he was only defending himself and hadn't seen his utterly useless friend too chickenshit to fight that he felt he had to come to his rescue.
To be clear, I'm not saying Sam is 100% culpable. But he definitely shares culpability for Edd's death. In my opinion, that culpability is pretty significant. Because I can't hold Edd solely responsible for reflexively going to Sam's aid when Sam so clearly wasn't capable of defending himself.
He was probably emotionally torn between hiding in the crypt and participating in the fight. If he had chosen to be with the group in the crypt he no doubt would have been feeling fretful and guilty about their deaths and "not doing something" (I agree with the view that he will be sorry about what happened to Edd). I agree that he wasn't ready to participate in a fight against the wight army. There was a high probability that Edd was going to die at some point in the battle which only stopped when Arya killed the Night King - it could have gone on indefinitely until every human was killed.
shareSansa and Tyrion hiding like cowards as the thralls were slaughtering women and children was 1000 times worse.
What a shameful display.
And had Sansa and Tyrion bestrode the ramparts, they may have received the same criticizing that Sam is getting here. Neither one of them is a warrior, not in training, though they both have survived great hardship that would have broken a lesser person. How many good and true might have died trying to protect them?
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