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noagenda on 21 August 2017
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AbbathTheGrim said:
noagenda said:

Would it have been so hard for John to say "Dany, have the dragons concentrate the fire on those guys"?  No, it would have taken less time than all of them climbing on back of the dragon, and would have killed almost all, but perhaps the Night Kings himself (if he had such protection from Dragon fire).  It's really poor writing, and there is NO justification for it.

The shortening of distances (or perhaps complete lack there of) in the last seasons and the tacky dialogue and writing here and there I cannot deny. Still the show succeeds in creating some memorable scenes.

But this that you say right here is spot on. I mean, this showdown between the White Walkers and the dragons, this could have been the end of the threat right there. I mean, more soldiers and Cercei's support a necessity? What was really the need of Cercei or more soldiers when everything they really need is to recreate that moment right there where they face the White Walkers and get to finish them?

Every effort in the future will be to recreate that very moment where they can kill those WW and unless the dragon breath is not enough and they need a Valyrian Steel close combat excecution with those WW to really kill them, I don't see why they didn't end everything right there. Jon Snow figured out that you kill the White Walkers and the dead go puff rightaway just a couple of moments before.

That is the crux of the problem with this bad writing.  It would have ended the existential threat that the Night King represented to the 7 kingdoms if the characters had acted rationally.  That would have only left Cerci as the protagonist in the last season, which just isn't threatening enough for a whole 6 episodes in season 8.