Originally Posted by Fish (Post 14241450)

I do get what people are saying about how they defended the castle. Why send 1/3 of your best troops away off into the unknown darkness when you're trying to defend your position? You have a giant ass castle that you've now intentionally left the front door open to, because you're trying to get your soldiers back inside the castle where they should have been in the first place. Also, what was Bran's plan other than just sitting there hoping the baddies don't reach him? He warged into a raven to give us a nice view? When that didn't work, he was just going to sit there and let the Night King kill him? 3 eyed Raven seems pretty useless other than learning secrets about royal incest...

Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 14241447)

Well can you provide any historical instances of castles being overrun by zombies?

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 14241454)

I would answer, but Duncan's already done a much better job.

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 14241489)

That's not necessary though, and the plot could make just as much sense approaching it differently and using the castle as the defensive bulwark it's intended to be. Put the soldiers all on the castle walls. Sit a dragon at each corner. Their plan was to lure the NK into the weirwood area. Sending riders away from the castle doesn't help that. It's just a waste that lowers your numbers and provides more dead bodies for the zombie necromancer.

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 14241466)

I think he warged into the ravens to get the attention of the NK and to draw him in.

Originally Posted by Aspengc8 (Post 14241470)

I dont think the plan was to send the Dothraki out like that. They kinda just got pumped up/warchanting and went on their own when Mel lit their swords on fire. Jorrah kinda got pushed into it, the scene showed him stuck in the middle and his horse bugged out and started running with them.

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 14241509)

Then it would have been nice to have a ****ing plan in the first place, no? Something other than "Hey look flaming khopesh! Whoo, let's rock!" which gets 1/3 of your soldiers dead in ~90 seconds. I mean, the visual was pretty awesome. But that's really the only purpose it served, to show the dark extinguishing the light.

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 14241501)

It's not like there is a history of planning to fight an army of the dead.

The NK could have just sat back and starved them out as well.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14241499)

If I want not-really historically-accurate medieval battles I'll turn on Knightfall or Vikings or some other History shit.

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 14241466)

I think he warged into the ravens to get the attention of the NK and to draw him in.

Originally Posted by DanBecky (Post 14241287)

In the first episode of the season when Jon is in the godswood, he’s asks Arya, “How did you sneak up on me?” They’ve subtly dropped those hints that she’s pretty much gone full assasin. And in this episode she comes out of nowhere in the godswood to get to the NK. Not a coincidence.