Posted on 04/28/2019 10:42:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Wights can be destroyed by fire, but White Walkers are resistant to fire due to the extreme cold they radiate. This as was shown at Hardhome and also outside the cave in “The Door”. White Walkers can be killed by dragon glass or Valyrian steel. The Night King’s power over ice and cold was why Melisandre had a hard time lighting the trench on fire.
Bran said that he wasn’t sure if dragon fire would have any effect on the Night King, because it hadn’t been tried before.
I do not think the Night King has any Targaryen blood, because he was one of the First Men and was created approximately 10,000 years prior to the events in the TV show. The Targaryens only came to Westeros about 300 years before the War of the Five Kings.
However, it is possible that he is related to the Starks in some way. The Starks claim to be descended from the First Men.
Well written I agree but boy they have sure satisfied girl power
I dunno
We’ll see
I was stunned
Seven plus years of the existential threat of the ice people and its over in one episode at the hands of s tiny girl
Now it’s three episodes of Targaryen versus Cersei etc
It’s hollywood now and all that comes with it
I hope I’m wrong
I noticed Walter Frey killed more top tier characters than the Night King and his half million Wights did
“And what about Bronn?”
Recall that when Bronn was in Dorn on the mission with Jamie to rescue his daughter(or was it Cerci/Baratheon daugher?) that he was smitten with the young dark haired Dornish Princess?
She’s the one who Cerci poisoned and is chained across from her mother so the mom can watch her die and then rot.
Cerci asked her Hand how long it would take for the Dornish chick to die. The Hand replied (paraphrased) “Days, weeks, it depends on the person’s constitution but eventually it kills”
Speculation: In the continuity of the series it’s only been weeks since the Dornish chick was poisoned. Bronn is at King Landing. He finds out about the Dornish chick, rescues her, forces the Hand to provide the antidote and flees kings landing with the girl and mom leaving his gold behind.
Savage.
Bran didn’t seem to do a whole this this last episode. He was just watching Raven TV.
They have a very big crossbow.
Now I have to watch it again.
If Arya did it, I like that better.
Yeah it was Arya, using one her Kung Fu tricks.
Apparently, she has used that same hand switch trick on someone else, earlier in the series.
“Bran didn’t seem to do a whole this this last episode. He was just watching Raven TV.”
Maybe he had already foreseen the battle, so that real life was just a boring rerun for him.
My favorite all the way from season one comes through and pulls an Eowyn.
What a water dancer.
(it was the cat chasing done it)
And Dani has seen it.
And that Bran would die when the Night King died.
I see that Bran lived, so if that was a planned GRR Martin plot line, they scrapped it as too intricate or too sad.
Which makes Bran's whole quest and becoming the three-eyed raven pretty useless to the story line, if you ask me.
Yes, I have a feeling Bran foresaw the whole thing and made things happen (dagger --> Arya).
LOL
He had a bird’s eye view of the battle, though.
That he did!
It seems like my level of suspense and anticipation for the next episode has basically collapsed. It was the abandonment of the whole Azor Ahai story.
I now expect ho hum hollywood cliches for the plot - poll-tested determinations for what happens to characters, tempered by political correctness.
Suddenly, after years, the thrill is gone.
If the books had been out, and most of the characters were killed, maimed or broken in the final battles; it would probably have felt more like Christmas to have the Hollywood happy ending. But to have that as the answer to the great mystery that had been building, seems like we were the victims of a scam.
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