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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Re: the number of named survivors, that surprised me also. But a few things... someone has to survive, and it makes sense that the best trained/most skilled would be the ones winning clear...
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You're a history buff, yes? You kinda know that's not right.
Granted, this isn't exactly modern warfare, but it's melee combat with dragons and the undead...so it's close enough to assign it a lot of similarities to WWI. And I think the takeaway from WWI and pretty much all close combat that we have a strong historical record for is that survival is little more than blind, dumb luck.
And the Battle of the Bastards tried to show that, though not quite as well. That scene right after the merge where Jon and others are wandering through and someone would just get blasted by a random horse was a perfect demonstration of the luck factor involved here.
Moreover, Jaime, Sam and Davos are shitty fighters. The wildings, unsullied and Dothraki are not. So even if I'll give some credence to the idea that better fighter = better chance of winning here, Jamie, Sam and Davos ought not still be alive.
I'm honestly fairly disappointed in this episode. I'll re-watch it on the OLED rather than gut my settings on my LCD downstairs that I have set for sports (high color stuff) and maybe even keep my HBO Now for long enough to make sure I get my Fiber installed to give it it's best chance at impressing me. Maybe I'll appreciate it more if I get the visuals better. But from a strictly storytelling standpoint, I was pretty disappointed. They passed Martin and lost the stomach for this.
Brienne should've gone down protecting Jaime (perfect way to finish the character arc). Grey Worm should've been out there with his men and serves no further purpose in this story apart from living happily ever after with Misandai.
And maybe a little less foreshadowing? I have no idea how anyone was surprised by Arya's RKO out of nowhere there - they didn't so much foreshadow that as they just flat out told you it was going to happen. And when Arya was the only name character we weren't getting updates on in the final crush, it made it that much more obvious. Of COURSE Arya was going to kill him. And no, they weren't gonna have EVERYONE die with 3 episodes left to go. I mean we were literally 15 seconds away from every major character dying and every major character apart from Arya was clearly in peril.
So yeah - that was obvious.