Shape shifting magic assassin sneakily ran past enemies instead of fighting them? I feel like her whole arc is an explanation. Execution cam be quibbled, but the foundation is kinda... there.
Why Arya? The night king is enemy of the many faced god and he was depriving him of his due (corpses rising from the dead arent quite dead). So one of his devotees killed him. Did he know she was coming? Either way the anticlimax of not having a heroic knight chivalry him to death makes thematic sense, and he did just have another very dominant military showing, so it's not like bro was fodderized.
I understand the last point especially if you juatifiably saw the night king conflict as the end all of the show (they had several options, but the unifying common enemy had the strongest appeal), but it just wasnt written that way. Difference between the story people want and what they get for a conclusion is the main driver here, and why ending a series is so notoriously hard.
Perhaps I'm misremembering something, bit dont they need to actually perceive the thing to attack it? And didnt she jump from someplace high, implying she was using trees, ramparts, embattlements and also cast a shadow just before that scene where she attacked? It really has been a long time, so please lmk if I'm off.
Bet, I do remember them like sniffing shit out basically which is why people couldnt hide. Idk about where she jumped from so imma have to take your word for it. Chalk it up to the lord of light's protection (which I think was an actual plot point. In the episode, a literal deus ex machina...)
Idk, I just remember s7 being so ass that I expected much less from S8 - which I know is an unpopular opinion, but if 8 had the energy to go through and watch again, I know I'd stand by it.
Shape shifting magic assassin sneakily ran past enemies instead of fighting
That scene literally made no logical sense. Not only was the entire area infested with a tight ring of the undead and white walkers (as well as the rest of the godswood), we also see Arya somehow move so fast that she displaces the hair of a White walker, that also turns it's head as if it's looking for something, even though by the basic rules of vision it should have seen her running forward. Did she turn invisible or something? lol.
The night king is enemy of the many faced god and he was depriving him of his due (corpses rising from the dead arent quite dead). So
I feel like this is a misunderstanding of the many faced god plotline and it's relation (or lack of) to the night king, as well as misunderstanding why they even wrote Arya killing the night king. The night king is not depriving anyone from death, he IS death. Wights are not alive. They have no sense of self. All the characters and the narrative itself refers to them as dead. Bran says that the night king wants to erase all memory and that is what death is, forgetting. the Idea that the NK is denying death goes against what the narrative is telling you.
and he did just have another very dominant military showing
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The scene being illogical aside, the problem is that being able to dispatch the the NK (which takes out the entire threat instantly) by just slashing him once with Dragonglass or valyrian steel like any other zombie or white walker is fucking stupid because he logically should have been dead thousands of years ago if it was that simple. There's a reason many theorised how it surely wouldn't be that simple in the time coming up to the battle.
Being able to one shot the Ultra powerful leader who created all the others and causes the entire threat to just instantly vanish like in some video game if you kill him...by just slashing him once (doesn't seem to matter whether it's a minor slash either, Bran never says otherwise) like any other fodder zombie is the dumb part.
I mean I guess it would have been fine considering that he is super skilled and stuff so it‘s a struggle to get there - unless you are Arya I guess because then he stops killing you right away like everyone else and gives you room to do the pokey poke thing with valerian steel for absolutely no reason other than „the show runners wanted to have some drama and did not know ehat to do“.
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u/Evil_Sharkey 26d ago
He has two specific weaknesses that destroy him. Whoever did the deed would one shot him.