Worst Written Episode of the Series For me it is the worst written episode of the entire series...
There are lot of stupid writing for this episode and I am left wondering whether the writers get carried away by the success of the show.
First of all... Assembling the team itself felt a little unimaginative. Are you telling me that the wildings captured the Hound, and the brotherhood without the banners without a proper fight in the first place? It would be a lot better if instead of all going together as a team, Jon's team had met with the brotherhood beyond the wall.
From the first episode, the night watch rangers always go beyond the wall on horses. And somehow the King in the North and the former lord commander decided to go on foot for this suicide mission.If they would have gone on horses gendry rushing back towards the wall at least would have made more sense (although it doesn't make any sense at all).
Also gendry comes to the wall send an express raven to daenerys and daenerys comes for the rescue and all... all this feels idiotic and stupid. Gendry left when the wights starts attacking, and he has to run back all the way to the wall and then send a raven to Dragonstone and then daenerys somehow managed to come with her dragons beyond the wall on time. Also note that she doesn't know the North and it is the first time she is riding north. Unless she had a GPS tracker on somebody it doesn't make any sense. If you are saying so many hours passed in between, then the north is not as cold as it shows for the lake to be frozen.
Jon and his team were ideally waiting in the middle for the lake to be frozen. Instead they should have broken the ice and created a circle around them as a barrier for wights. That would have made more sense for the time that passed.
Instead of all this Gendry-Raven-Daeneys business, they could have shown that daenerys herself decided to see if Jon is telling the truth or decided to support his expedition on her own and could have shown she left dragonstone before even the wights started attacking.
Also when Beric says we can kill the Night King and all the wights will be dead, Jon says No, we need one to take back to King's Landing. Come on, if the Night King is dead the war is literally over, They don't need to take back anything south, then. STUPID! STUPID STUPID Dialogue...
Now when the Night King took his ice spear in hand, we could clearly see that Drogon was on ground while everybody started climbing on him. The better aim for the night king is obviously a bigger Drogon on the ground rather than a smaller flying Visereon. Yet somehow he decided to throw at Visereon. A better scenario will be that the Night King arrived after dany reaches the north and after she starts carrying of everybody and he only has visereon to aim at.
I would have imagined that after Visereon died, Dany and Drogon would have gone mad and would have lit the entire place on fire and then when the night king starts picking up the spear they fled. But instead all we got was a roar from drogon and a look from Dany.
Benjen sacrificing himself for Jon doesn't make any sense at all as well. He had enough time to carry Jon on his horse and flee. Remember how he rescued bran and meera on the same horse.
After i watched this episode, i was utterly disappointed with the writing of this episode. It felt forced which never happened with GOT (except for Dorne scenes in season5). Add to the fact that the penultimate episode have always been the best and they decided to do this. Dan and David should understand that special effects and all the budget is only secondary and the primary thing that needs to be outstanding is the writing. That is the one thing we all fell in love with in the first place.
I also hate to see Tyrion been sidelined. He was a much intelligent person and much better written character until this season.
One of the good thing about this episode is Sansa and Arya going against each other. Arya was the favorite character for a lot of fans and after watching this episode, I believe most of them will like Sansa more than Arya.
Hope we have a better season finale.