We need to talk about the ending

We need to talk about the ending.

Bran should have killed the NK with a hidden dragon-bolt crossbow. The whole "bait" plot was fucked, but it would have been a much better alternative to what happened with Arya.

It would have made much more sense because:
1.) The character had been reduced to a character that physically incapable of anything. It would have been genuinely surprising to see him shoot a bolt from his cloak as the NK approached. I think we, as the audience, may have forgotten that Bran has perfectly functioning arms, and it was be

2.) In the previous episode, Bran & Tyrion had a big long talk. After their talk, Tyrion is more optimistic. It was rumored that they must have came up with a secret plot. Perhaps Tyrion and Bran discussed Tyrion's murder of his father, and explored the idea of arming Bran with a dragon-glass tipped bolt. This would have been just as much of a call-back to previous events - even more significantly so.

3.) Was Arya part of the plan all along? The original Bran "bait" plan had no actual plan to kill the NK - what the fuck were they supposed to do when he inevitably showed up. A hidden crossbow would have been much more realistically premeditated.


Instead what we got was:
Arya coming out of nowhere. One of the biggest reason this pisses me off is because it was established in the middle of the episode that she had to be very, very careful and quiet not to get noticed by the wights. The question on everyone's mind is: "Where the fuck did she just come from?".

What would you have done to end the episode, considering it had to have the same outcome?

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does anyone have the death list?
So far I got:
Mormonts both
Ghost
Gilly
Dondarrion
Ed
the entire Dothraki
theon Greyjoy
the red woman

who else am I missing?

>who else am I missing?
the hopes and dreams of a redeemed show

[Who has been confirmed for being dead]
All the Dothraki (apparently they can't fight either)
Edd and all the remainder of the Nights watch (Press F To Pay Respects)
The Bear Lolli who (killed a giant before dying herself Press F To Pay Respects)
The Bear Knight (House Mourmont Now Extinct)
Melisandre
Beric Dondarion (Press F To Pay Respects)
Theon and all the Ironborn with him (He deserved it)
Possibly Alys Karstark
Most of the Unsullied (Press F To Pay Respects)
Most of the people in the Crypts
Possibly Little Girl with the burnt face
Most of the Knights of the Vale who went North for Lady Sansa (Except Lord Royce)
The Night King and his entire army (White walkers and wights included)
Around half of the Generic Northern Soldiers

[Important people who survived]
Tormund and some of the free folk
Jamie
Podrick and his Magic Cock
Both Stark Sisters
The Son of Bobby-B
The three-eyed peeping Tom
The Onion Knight
Jon and his Snow Doggo

no way for them to redeem themselves lmfao. it was a fun watch tho

did you not notice that Bran and NK were being friendly? I mean why even make this post if you can't catch basic things?

surprising =/= good

It would have been as out-of-character for Bran to crossbow the NK as it was for Arya to be an amazing swordfighter. The irony of this episodes is that Arya's scenes in the library and actually the ending itself were not necessary out of character for a stealth/assassin. It's just that her character has been so absurdly OP and nonsensical for so long, that the well was poisoned and nobody really wanted to see her win the whole fucking show. She didn't deserve it.

shared autism
spergs can smell each other. like dogs

Gilly survived the crypts and Ghost is in the next episode's preview, someone screencapped it

Bran knew she would kill the Night King because he's the one that randomly gave her the dagger.

this

I thought they showed zombie Tormund and Pod when the Night King resurrected everyone?

can you post the pic? I missed this

>night king sips an antifire potion
heh

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she was disguised as a wight

Everyone keeps peddling this "she wore a Wight mask" shit, but does nobody remember how fucking meticulous and LONG the process is for actually acquiring a face? Also, as seen, Wights shatter into snow when they're killed. Even if we handwave the process, there's still no goddamn face to acquire.

*presses button on wheel chair*
*a bazooka comes out of the wooden panel*
*"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND*

That actually would fix most complaints, but they never showed her ripping off the face and attacking him.

obviously her ninja skills are supernatural she was able to sneak up on john remember..

part of being a faceless man is the ability to creep

They should have %100 retard and have Arya use a wight face to sneak up behind the night king.

nah they were still fighting inside the castle and were shown again as all the wights died. they probably were low on budget so they had those actors play extras or something.

i actually agree

so did johns dragon die? or did he fly off to heal like drogon did?

Gilly didn't die you retard and stop posting this shit holy fuck.

She had lvl 100 Sneak and was crouching.

actually, she's so ugly and disfigured that the wights mistook her for one of their own.

also if ghost made it please show proofs..
k thanks

pretty sure she died in the crips

I was hoping so much the night king would kneel in front of bran and it turns out he is the master mind behind it all.

>crips

kek

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Suicide with wildfire would genuinely be a better ending.

she is alive, watch it again.

Jon should have died in the scene where he was charging the Night King and Arya should have been choked to death when she got caught by him. Night King should have won the battle.

The dead break through the gate instead of climbing the walls, this allows for a more controlled number in the castle with generally better structured fight scenes (the more people in a fight scene the worse it gets generally, 1v1 is way more tense than a 7v100).

after breaking down the gate with either magic or his dragon the NK begins calmly walking towards where Bran is while the dead swarm everywhere.

After running from the NK Jon makes his way back to the walls of winterfell where Jaime throws him a rope to climb up.

The dead break into the grove with Bran and Theon and the others start to fight them.

Eventually only Theon and Bran lives, Theon slays the last of the dead to see that the NK stands alone before him

Bran tells Theon he was a good man before Theon duels NK and is killed.

As Theon dies Jon and Jaime finally make it to the grove. Time has passed and now dawn is breaking as the epic battle commences; it a methodical and tense swordfight, harkening back to the SWOT or Samurai movies.

Jaime is wounded and thrown aside and the NK focuses on Jon, eventually knocking his sword out of his hand. The NK is posed to slay Jon, but now, with the rays of dawn breaking into the grove, the Kingslayer struggles up and drives his sword through another kings back.

>he expected deep story

lol

>danny thrown from her dragon, fighting for her life with jorrah
>snow's dragon awol and down for the count
>nk lands viserion in the courtyard with bran
>kills theon
>commences ancient ritual to suck or bran's soul or some shit
>bran still warged out
>cutscene to throne room of aeris
>bran is with him
>aeris sees through bran's eyes into the courtyard
>his voice echoes out of bran's mouth
>"BURN THEM ALL! BURN THEM!"
>Viserion hears Aeris and destroys the entire courtyard with dragonfire
>cutscene to jamie slaying aeris with bran in the background

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So why didn't the wights just attack the harder to defend forest area that is separate from the rest of the castle?

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Bran gave Arya the dagger that killed the Night King you brainlets. He knew all along.

shitty fan fic

you responded to me twice you dumb sumbitch

That's cool, why not just show her making her way to bran instead of teleporting to him 30 minutes (screen time wise) after we last saw her though..?

fuck you gaylord

Better than the official fanfic

holy shit lmao

Wow this show is so unrealistic!

WHERE THE FUCK DID SHE COME FROM. WHY DID NONE OF THE WIGHTS OR WHITE WALKERS STOP HER. HOW THE FUCKED DID SHE HAVE THE SPEED TO JUMP UP BEHIND HIM. WHERE'S WOLF. WHY DID THE WHOLE LIVING ARMY DIE EXCEPT THE MAIN CHACTERS? WHY DID THE GIANT NOT KILL LYNNA? WHAT WERE THE WIGHTS DOING IN THE GREAT HALL FOR TWENTY MINUTES WITH THE HOUND AND THE RED PREIST? WHY DID THE MAIN CHARACTERS GET PILED ON BUT NOT KILLED? WHY DID EVERYONE IN THE CRYPT LIVE FOR TEN MINUTES? WHY DID BRAN JUST WATCH THE BATTLE? WHY DID THEON CHARGE INTO THE NIGHT KING? WHY WAS THIS EPISODE MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Because they wanted to make it a surprise. Showing her head over to protect him would kill the surprise, this is basic tv writing, user.

I'm just oblivious to why he spent the last 15 minutes warging out. Was he just watching Sansa be raped on repeat?

Turns out NK is Bran, NK wants to kill Bran because he wants to prevent his own suffering from happening in the first place. Bran doesn't know about this and wants to continue living. We still haven't seen Bran the Builder and all the extra bits.

wouldn't you..?

I honestly thought Bran was the NK, considering how alike they looked after the NK recast.

Bran becoming new NK is only redeemable point of this season. I don't want to spend last 3 eps watching Cersei face.

NK total pussy, raises a bunch of dead to protect him jon snow..
typical pussy

why did he basically encourage Theon to off himself if he knew they were fine?

Because he knew that it needed to happen for Arya to get there at the exact specific time needed to kill the NK.

He had to buy time.

Your idea sounds dumb too. There is no saving this show.

God damn this is good.

Bums me out to come on here and read better plots from cellar dwellers on an anime board the paid professionals in hollywood

Damn, I like your ending. Real one was fuckin lame.

redemption, Theon wanted to die, he couldn't further his line, he had regrets for what he did to the starks, hates the fact hes been a pussy all his life. Decides he's going to die a hero

Why didn't the Night King order his dragon to fly over there and set the woods on fire lmao.

He didn't want to kill Bran.

Wat

what did he want then

He was about to kill him when Arya merc'd him?

>Bran should have killed the NK
But he did, you mushroom. All are but pawns in his great game. each person placed in the position he needed to get checkmate.

He was about to kneel before him

We'll never really know

arya silently running away to(a window?) after melisandre's line about eyes, it was pretty fuckin obvious that's where she was headed if you're not a brainlet.

>Theon
>The on
>Dee on
>Die on

Have we figured something out here lads?

fuck this hit now if they don't execute Cersei by jamei that will pissed me off.

long live queen-slyer and fuck feminism

the ability to warg into the clouds to create the endless night

While reaching for his sword?

>doubt.exe

This would have been really cool, though.

I get the whole blue eyes thing, it's just the fact that it happened a whole 30 minutes before the conclusion with the night king.

Dragon bolts are 3k gp each. Think he's made of money?
Bran didn't have the ranged level for them anyways

And because you didn't set it coming and since you think you a smart guy this makes you mad.

He was going to lay it on the ground in front of him or lean on the hilt

This doesn't make sense simply because of the danger Bran has been in from the white walkers before.

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I actually would've liked that.

not at all, I just thought they would have something better planned, it's as simple as that. If they really wanted to subvert our expectations they wouldn't have had a little girl kill the night king in 2019 after ~10 years of buildup of jon/literally anyone else being azor ahai

go quick pause the trailer hes there
also im sure that some dothraki lived

That would've actually been kind of badass. What we got was a complete fucking abomination. If the script for this episode was posted in those fake spoiler threads I would have thought it an obvious fake. Jesus. Bookfags must be laughing it up now.

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Someone needs to draw this immediately.

>The hound picks up Arya by her scruff and belt, winds up by spinning around and CHUCKS arya high up into the sky.
>Arya turns into a cruse missile
>Strangelove.flv

>We watched [Lost] every week trying to figure it out, and as it got deeper and deeper I kept saying, ‘They better have something good in mind for the end. This better pay off here.’ And then I felt so cheated when we got to the conclusion.”

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>you'll have to toss meh
>arya finally reveals tiny penis to the hound
>she's actually transgender
>berlington bar erupts

This show sucks dick lol. The only reason "people" still fawn over it is because a lot of women are obsessed with it because they think its "cool". Literally THE only reason the show is so popular still.

If you hate the show you are an "incel" or some other fun hating bullshit term.

Most guys are gonna go along with whatever bullshit happens because they dont wanna look weird in front of their wife/gf/potential gf

>Theon Seasoneightepisodethree
How did we not see it before?

This. If this troll isn't killed by Cersei for "Le Epic Reversal" I'm gonna shit in her pillowcase.

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>this show is only popular because women obsess over it like idiots
>guys only pretend to like it to not offend women
I don't think hating the show is why people call you an incel, user.

The Waif had blue eyes as did all the zombies Arya killed so melisandras whole prophecy thing from season 3 was fulfilled anyway and there's no reason it should have been brought back to specifically refer to the night king.

>The Waif had blue eyes as did all the zombies
The waif was wearing someone else's face and the wights don't have blue eyes, only white walkers do.

B R A V O

Is this some leddit pasta?

>The original Bran "bait" plan had no actual plan to kill the NK
hmm, I just noticed this
I wonder if Theon was supposed to be Azor Ahai

except dragonfire can't kill the Night king

She was a trained assassin. Do people forget that? Maybe the show didn’t focus on her training or everything she learned but she learned it. I thought it was great. It was the only way she could win. Quick and easy. A long drawn-out fight would would have been a dumb idea. No way John or Anya could have beat him toe to toe.

you do realize that the books aren't done right? and that the writers for this garbage are going away from the books

i want eight years of watching this shit back

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>trained assassin
how? how the fuck does training to be an assassin let you teleport
this isn't even mentioning the fact that she failed every single one of her "tests" and barely killed the girl

>you do realize that the books aren't done right?
And they never will be. Face reality user.

holy shit why is this thing still alive? If he was completely pointless before, what the hell is he now? Can he get the knife too?

yes but I'm responding to someone defending this garbage so what's your point?

I'm not even mad that Arya killed the Night King, nor am I mad that she was an anime ninja that just appeared behind him. What makes me mad is the fact that she wasn't wearing a mask when she did it. She should have literally just looked no different from any other random undead or maybe a White Walker, and borked the NK before removing it with some satisfied smile.

F
based bear loli

Like pottery

the point is its the retards at HBO have nothing to do with the retard writing the shitty book

HAHA SUBVERSION
I SUBVERTED YOU BRO
LMAO GET FUCKED KID

It's what happens between the panels. Practice makes perfect. She didn't teleport. She knew where the NK was going. The red woman could have told her what to do. Hide in a tree and wait. The red god is a real god afterall. He brought people back from the dead. Anya was his best instrument to defeat the NK. John was too slow.

My girlfriend was so excited about Arya killing NK and I was just sitting there after the episode ended in a state of apathy. This show just isn’t that interesting anymore.

[Spoiler]The hyped up necromancer is knocked off his dragonlike mount, and is then stabbed and killed by a female lead while he's distracted by the magical power acquired by short stature male character. The battle ends because of how undead work in that universe. No one particularly important dies.[/spoiler]
Pottery

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please, he obviously is giving it his go ahead

>Arya goes in for the kill, NK stops her
>pans into NK's eyes
>flashback to a young three-eyed raven, with white eyes looking at sansa getting raped
>his beautiful wife to be jumps up on him and she beckons him to come with her, he joins but has a solemn look
>next scene is the raven running from wights, one of them is his deceased wife
>he makes it to the cave in the wall, his wife is the only wight that gets close
>after a moment of struggle he finds a dagger in the dark and stabs his wife, the dagger glows with a vibrant red
>next scene is the raven burying his wife in the godwood and he jams the dagger into the heart tree which covers it over the years
>back to NK eyes, stab sound, faint red glow on his face
>looks down and sees the dagger through his chest, Bran is standing behind him a chunk of the heart tree is torn
>NK catches on fire and explodes, both the starks are left with burn scars

If we were to continue the theme of brutal realism that characterized the rest of the show, you are right. This is what should have happened.

It is a shame indeed that the books were never finished.

ending the series with the cersi problem is fucking lame i literally dont care about the iron throne or who gets to sit on it WHO CARES

And its still a thousand times better

oh, we know. to dickle bran's booty hole.

BUT WHAT WAS THE NIGHT KINGS TAX POLICY

>"i'm going now"
What was Bran doing the whole time? I don't get it.

probably go watch cersei fuck an elephant

im literally dropping the show after tonight dont care how it ends

When feminism invades high fantasy, what is left

Being this mongoloid

Gay as fuck stop shitting it up here faggot

>Jon and his Snow Doggo
I know we didn't see Ghost die, but we didn't see him live either. Showrunners hate wolfs because they are stupid. Ghost is dead (died offscreen w/ dothraki).

Nigga go watch your Chinese cartoons from 1970

Show of hands, who would still eat season 1 bran's shota butthole knowing what he looks like now in season 8?

He is in the damn preview for next week's episode you stupid son of a bitch

It's still a dues ex machina.
See were pissing herself just 10 minutes ago and that talk supposed to make up for all this shit?
There was no buildup until that point. Just because a character says it doesn't mean you should believe.

maybe the real long night is the friends we made along the way

>arya silently running away to(a window?)
After her conversion with Melisandre about "What you say to death," I thought she was going to try and escape to fight another day. I though Bran's warging into birds was a plan to escape the clutches of the Night King. Especially since he would no longer have his marked human body, Bran would no longer be trackable. The Night King razes Winterfell to the ground as he calls his army back to the march and we see the remaining living characters watch the army of the dead march south. Cut to credits where in the preview we see Cersei getting absolutely fucked in the ass.

Why the fuck would Bran be in the past?

Shit was retarded, kill yourself