It was apparent to me when Dany pulled her hand away from Sansya there will be a major story after the night fight. I'm wondering if the night king is actually dead after the fight and he factors in somewhere afterwards.

Yep but it felt like a goodbye as well.

Yeah, it's going to be heartbreaking to see some of the people in these wonderful scenes rise as ****ing zombies at the end of the episode. :(

That's what I understood it to be. That a two handed greatsword was not something he could wield effectively, so he was giving it to someone who could.

In fact, I thought his rebuke of Jon's effort to put him in the crypts answered that question definitively.

At some point during the next episode Sam has to wield a weapon and fight awkwardly. That spoiler was let out, in an article about filming the episode. So either the dead breach the crypt or Sam stays and fights above ground.

Red Wedding II: THE DEAD WEDDING ROFL

A zombie Brienne would be terrifying.

I took it he'd be in the crypt defending Gilly and little Sam but I could be wrong. Don't get me wrong I don't think he's a coward. He'll play another game changing part. It was just funny to me.

Grey Worm appeared pretty well ****ed to me. "Hey, after this is done let's go away -- where do you most want to go..."

Yeah, you're ****ing dead.

OH GOD right after she gets knighted?

that's going to SUCK

assuming they don’t kill the night king and they lose the battle of winterfell. So the army of the dead marches on to Kings Landing.

What's after is Cercei's treachery following the battle, like Jamie described. And then whoever is left taking the iron Throne.

Plus I figure the Night King will still be around. They said it in the council: why would he put himself on the field.

I figure they have about as much success with him as the Avengers have with Thanos in the first hour of Endgame. However they eventually get the Night King, it won't be this initial plan, not with almost 4 hours of show left.

you really want to do an amazing showstopper of an ending....everyone gets killed and turns into a deadite and the last scene is all the dead main characters advancing on cersei and her just-born child in the throne room

Jesus, now that you mention it, perhaps the only question is whether it's Jaime or Tormund that finishes ZomBrienne... :shake:

Oh yeah, I forgot those two. Definitely highlighted for no reason I could figure. So yeah not ending happy.