It's the end! NO hope! it's all OVER! (Game of Thrones S7 Episode 6 spoilers)

[AbbathTheGrim]

noagenda said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

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.

The director of the episode addressed the criticism of the speedy back and forth:

“We were aware that timing was getting a little hazy,” Taylor told Variety. “We’ve got Gendry running back, ravens flying a certain distance, dragons having to fly back a certain distance…In terms of the emotional experience, [Jon and company] sort of spent one dark night on the island in terms of storytelling moments. We tried to hedge it a little bit with the eternal twilight up there north of The Wall. I think there was some effort to fudge the timeline a little bit by not declaring exactly how long we were there. I think that worked for some people, for other people it didn’t. They seemed to be very concerned about how fast a raven can fly but there’s a thing called plausible impossibilities, which is what you try to achieve, rather than impossible plausibilities. So I think we were straining plausibility a little bit, but I hope the story’s momentum carries over some of that stuff.”

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-6-beyond-the-wall-timeline-director-1202534403/