Even doing my best to suspend disbelief over travel times, it’s really hard to accept that he is able to make it back to the wall and send a raven off to Dany, who is able to arrive just in time to save everyone. Gendry rode off on his horse as the others were being surrounded by the Night King’s army. It’s something we’ve all just had to accept, but this week’s episode completely went overboard with it. Characters can jump from one spot in Westeros to another instantly in order to move the plot along. For a while now, the show has completely ignored travel time in its plotlines. I probably could have looked past those flaws if this episode didn’t double down on the lazy writing. There was a lot of lazy writing to get us across the wall and to these big action scenes. The whole plan to show Cersi a wight still makes no sense and Dany completely being on-board with it because she saw some lame cave paintings felt forced. It was hard to shake my frustrations from last week, which had this band of explorers going north of the wall for the flimsiest reasons. Some of those problems begin with how we got there. However, while that final scene made me giddy, there were so many frustrating moments getting to it that took the wind out of the episode’s sails a bit. I don’t know exactly how an undead ice dragon functions (Does it freeze its victims instead of burning them alive or is the flame unchanged?), but I’m very excited to find out. It levels the playing field and makes it a much closer fight. The Night King having his own undead dragon is a completely unexpected and delightful development that has me very excited for the coming war especially after Dany easily laid waste to his army of wights with her dragons moments earlier. The final shot of this episode brought me so much joy.
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