game of thrones beyond the wall plot armor

(What am I going to do, read a book?) But I’m tired of all the ways George R. I will keep watching it, obviously, because I am much too far gone. Lucky break for our heroes that they turned out to be the heroes of the show! If you watch the knuckle-dragging “inside the episode” featurette, you can actually hear Weiss and Benioff explain just how hard they worked to think of a contrivance to keep everyone alive, which is basically the clearest articulation I’ve ever seen of this phenomenon: We wanted them not to die, say the creators, so we wrote it so that they don’t die. We are just propping up the show’s stupidity. But come on: we know that that’s never the real reason why things happen the way they do. You can rationalize every decision if you want, and you can figure out, retroactively, how actually it made sense: see, he had to attack the one who was loaded up with fire because that was what killed it, if you rewatch the scene, you can see, etc. The Night King even chucks his ice javelin at the flying dragon, a much more difficult target, rather than the one who is literally just sitting there, all loaded up with personnel close call for our heroes! Oh, we just happen to be on a little island of stone in the middle of a frozen lake that the night king’s wights fall into, creating a perfect standoff. Thus: an indeterminate number of indeterminate red-shirt wildlings were killed, along with one named character - the least engaging person in the party, whose name I can’t remember - but, otherwise, the show worked really, really hard to imagine a way for Our Heroes to not be easily slaughtered. No matter how stupid you behave, the plot will intervene to protect Characters Who Matter To The Plot.

And then they were fucked, except what the internet calls “ plot armor” intervened. What happened was pretty much what was obviously going to happen: they found one wight by finding fifty of its friends, which was immediately followed by finding about a million of its friends. Going north of the wall to steal an ice zombie was, it turns out, a really bad plan, as Jon’s “I am so, so sorry” moment indicates he now realizes. LARB’s Collected “Game of Thrones” Coverage Previous episode: season 7, episode 5, ' Eastwatch.'įollowing episode: season 7, episode 7, ' The Dragon and the Wolf.' There are spoilers, of course, so don't look directly at the sun during the eclipse. Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle get a raven from Eastwatch saying some bad stuff that was obviously going to happen is happening, so they put on their white tailored fur coats, saddle up their dragons, and talk about 'Death is the Enemy,' the penultimate episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones.

Game of thrones beyond the wall plot armor