#Map of game of thrones beyond the wall series

I also thought the battle scenes were fun, even if the stakes never really felt that high to me.

(Every line that Tormund, in particular, uttered was pure gold.) Visually, the landscape was also so beautiful that I enjoyed the shots of them just walking around. There were many great character interactions.

#Map of game of thrones beyond the wall series

Maybe it will turn out that he can withstand extreme cold in the way Dany can withstand fire, but unless that it where this is headed, that was just a ludicrous series of events.ĭespite the many, many flaws, I did enjoy much of the north of the wall plotline. He’s wearing soaking wet, icy clothes that would have frozen in that weather. Speaking of frozen corpses, we are also supposed to just accept that Jon Snow can climb out of icy water and ride back to the wall without dying of hypothermia along the way. Unless Gendry’s trip, the raven’s journey and Dany’s flight north all happened in the span of an hour, it’s hard to accept that she wouldn’t have arrived to find their frozen corpses or zombified bodies instead of actually helping in any way. Even if the dead didn’t kill them before Dany could get there, hypothermia would have. Even doing my best to suspend disbelief over travel times, it’s really hard to accept that he is able to make it back to the wall and send a raven off to Dany, who is able to arrive just in time to save everyone. Gendry rode off on his horse as the others were being surrounded by the Night King’s army. It’s something we’ve all just had to accept, but this week’s episode completely went overboard with it. Characters can jump from one spot in Westeros to another instantly in order to move the plot along. For a while now, the show has completely ignored travel time in its plotlines. I probably could have looked past those flaws if this episode didn’t double down on the lazy writing. There was a lot of lazy writing to get us across the wall and to these big action scenes. The whole plan to show Cersi a wight still makes no sense and Dany completely being on-board with it because she saw some lame cave paintings felt forced. It was hard to shake my frustrations from last week, which had this band of explorers going north of the wall for the flimsiest reasons. Some of those problems begin with how we got there. However, while that final scene made me giddy, there were so many frustrating moments getting to it that took the wind out of the episode’s sails a bit. I don’t know exactly how an undead ice dragon functions (Does it freeze its victims instead of burning them alive or is the flame unchanged?), but I’m very excited to find out. It levels the playing field and makes it a much closer fight. The Night King having his own undead dragon is a completely unexpected and delightful development that has me very excited for the coming war especially after Dany easily laid waste to his army of wights with her dragons moments earlier. The final shot of this episode brought me so much joy.