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Originally Posted by The Franchise
That whole battle plan was stupid from the ****ing beginning.
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From a tactical perspective, they've spent 4 seasons building up the WW's true weakness, which was the NK. The hope was that they could hold off the WW/Wights long enough to isolate the NK - and it worked.
Together Jon and Dany unseated the NK from the ice dragon and Dany got him 1v1 to roast him alive. Unfortunately, the plan always went in not knowing if Dragonfire could finish the job.
Jon then ran in with Longclaw, but the NK wasn't going to risk going down in a 1v1 with Jon.
The plan was designed precisely by Jon and Bran to expose the only weakness of the army. The walls of Winterfell never would have held against an undead force (walls only work when you can wholesale slaughter the enemy as they're trying to make their climb).
Now, criticisms of the execution of Arya delivering the final blow and characters surviving on plot armor are totally cool with me. I was livid when I first saw it, but have calmed down a bit on those points that since.