I'm good with the ending...
Simply because it gives some purpose to Arya's YEARS in Braavos.
And she's still not half the Mary Sue that Dany or Jon is.
Yeah but it also gives no purpose to the LITERAL YEARS the weve spent hearing of the looming threat of the night walkers.the ancestors couldn't beat them so they built a fucking wall. Dragon fire couldn't even destroy the night king. But arya could because she spent a long time in bravos? Sorry. No. It was a shit ending to a long waste of screen time. This means that the writers could have written out the white walkers from the entire beginning, and it would have changed literally nothing about the show.
shareExactly!
shareWe learned a long time ago that Valyrian Steel could kill a White Walker and the Night King would need to be stabbed in the very place he was stabbed next to the weirwood where he was stabbed initially when he was conceived. That's how he died.
shareWe also learned that dragon fire was supposed to kill him. I mean dragon fire destroyed the magic wall for christ's sake. And it didnt. And the way he smirked at dany like "im the exception to the rule". So hes only the exception to SOME rules? As in all the ones that make it convenient for the writers? Sorry, but this is absolute shit writing.
shareYou're right. The producers admitted it was done that way or else it would be too easy. He said: "We thought it was important that whatever the plan was it doesn't just work because that would be dull."
shareI agree.
The way that ending was shot as well is so questionable. Arya flies in through a wall of thick fog (where did this thick fog come from in the courtyard all of a sudden?) and at such a high angle that the Night King has to put his arms up to stop her attack. She's only small, did she fly in? Was there a trampoline that she bounced off? Or is it just she can do whatever she wants because Bravos training?
Could she have not hidden in the tree? It would have made so much sense and less people would be scratching their heads at how she was able to run and superjump at him.
Ah well I suppose, at least the last few seasons have prepared me for the disappointment in the writing.