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Why it’s alright to support the Night King

Alright, as many of you probably already know, I'm a Night King supporter. Now I'm going to go into the reasons why so that you know why I'm genuinely a member of #teamdead .

All Of The Woobie

First off I'm going to start off with the obvious. He is a woobie. Seriously, think about it. This guy was taken from his family, his home and everything he knew and loved to be forcibly made into a weapon. I one hundred percent sure he didn't want this. He was tied to a tree, struggling and he looked terrified.

Could he ever go back to the people he loved and cared about after that? No. He was stuck as a monster created by a group of monsters who didn't care about anything beyond saving their own skins. I feel so bad for him. It's no wonder why he's so furious and why he went on a rampage the first Long Night. He was all alone and the only family he had was the family he could create.

And what happens after he becomes this monster? He is banished, hated and feared. Even by the ones who created him. If I were him I'd be pissed too.

The Other White Walkers

As said above, the Night King was forced to create his own family after what happened to him and what a family it is. When we see him with the other White Walkers we actually see them acting as a family. They gather together when a new one of them is made (much like when a mother gives birth to a new family member) and actually communicate with each other through looks and gestures.

They don't try to stab each other in the back, they aren't constantly fighting and they aren't trying to kill each other. On the contrary. They work together towards a greater goal. What this goal may be, I don't know. But we do get endless hint that these are not just mindless monsters and putting them in that category is just not cool. They have feels and goals just like anyone else. And it's very clear that the Night King cares about the opinions and feelings of his own people through expression and action alone.

Loyalty To His People

This is another thing that I've noticed from episode 6 alone. In episode six we see a lot of this in fact. Sign of loyalty to both White Walkers and Wights.

Now, people are probably going to think I'm crazy for this, but as a member of #teamdead I was paying extreme attention to what was going on with the White Walkers and the wights and I noticed something. True loyalty. When the wight was captured and started screaming for him, the dead and the Night King came running. They followed the sounds of their captured ally and went on the attack.

This is where the Night King really shows his true kingliness. When the ice breaks he decides to wait until he's sure the lake is frozen over before he starts the attack. The only thing I can think of as why he would do this is to save his men because they can't swim. The could water would not kill them but it would be difficult to get them out once they have fallen in.

Also, for those who were wondering how those chains got around Viserion's neck? There you go. The dead who already sank did it. (Still doesn't explain where they came from though)

Anyways! Back on track.

So, the lake freezes over and the one who got a rock thrown at him first goes towards the Hound to get himself some revenge. But wait a minute... Why would a dead thing want revenge for getting it's jaw broken off? Could it be that the dead have emotions!? -gasps-

Well, let's look into that shall we? We have a terrified wight screaming for help, a zombie seeking revenge and... Oh wait. There is one more. Zombies seeking to help their captured friend. Seriously, watch it again. Everytime one of them gets close to the captured wight they are trying to set it free. It's really tragic. They tried everything to get to him. This is also probably why the attack was so weird with so few attacking at once when they could have easily over ran them.

Why did the Night King have them do this? Because he cares about the un-lives of his men and has come to understand the dangers human beings hold for them.

Why He Killed Viserion First

Now, at first I thought this was a dumb idea too. But when you look at it from the Night King's point of view it makes more sense. Drogon was stationary at the time. He had limited places where he could kill the Night King's men. If the Night King's goal was to preserve the lives of his men during this battle taking out Viserion and Rhaegal first was actually the best idea because they have more mobility. They were doing a lot more killing than Drogon was because they had more freedom.

This threatened both the wights, white walkers and himself a lot more than Drogon was at the moment. Basically I'm saying it was an emotional response. He was afraid for his family and his people so he targeted the most dangerous one first.

A very very very smart move on the part of a king who loves his people and it successful scared away Rhaegal as well. I have much respect for him for aiming at the true threat first and foremost. The Night King is going to be a great daddy for Viserion and I'm glad they are together. Viserion will now get the love and respect he deserves. <3

Anyways! That's it for now. If I think of more to add I'll make another blog later. All hail the Night King! #teamdead !

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My full crazy review of Beyond the Wall

WARNING! I’m going to be ripping into this episode. If you can’t take criticism of the show this is not the review for you. You have been warned. Also, sorry for any typos. I was pissed when I wrote this.

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So, we start off with the most pointless five seconds of table top action then cut straight to beyond the wall were our not so intelligent heroes (I thought this was stupid from the beginning. At least take an army or some shit. What were you guys expecting? A walk in a fronze park) wander through the frozen wasteland in search of wights.

Now, I can actually say that I enjoyed some of the dialogue in this scene. That being said, there is a very stupid piece of dialogue in this that made me facepalms so hard it left a mark. But that's later. Next we get a great sense between Arya and Sansa talking about Ned. I really liked the talk about Ned. I even teared up a little. Until, of course, Arya decides to go full crazy and ruins it with a level of stupidity that legit gave me a headache.

I don't care how cool an assassin is. When they are acting this stupid and their motivations and emotions are this fucking easy to manipulate and change, that idiot does not deserve my respect. Arya is utterly insane and intolerable this season. She's a bully, she's a psycho and I'm pretty much done with her which is a pity because she used to be one of my favorites "I'm going to forgive these rando Lannister soldiers because they have families and stuff. But the sister I saw screaming, crying and begging for my father's life? Nope. She's a traitor. Fuck Sansa." - Arya, season 7. Hypocrite... Fuck you, Arya.

Now we are back beyond the wall and Tormund and the Hound give the best set of dialogue in the whole episode. I love their talk together. Especially the talk about Brienne. I will ship Tormund and Brienne forever and hope that they have awesome giant ginger badass babies together. Sadly, that's when it turns from my favorite piece of dialogue to my least favorite. "You don't look much like him. Your father." - Beric Dondarrion, Episode 6, beyond the wall. That's TOTALLY why they believed he was Ned's bastard forever without question and TOTALLY why Cat couldn't even look at him without getting pissed. Totally. Makes perfect sense. -sarcasm- After this we get a scene with "The most morale man in the universe" and Dany. Nothing really to complain about beyond Tyrion hypocrisy again.

"You don't want to be the queen of the ashes," Tyrion, season 6-7 "If anything happens to you we burn King's Landing to the ground." Tyrion, season 7 episode 6 "if we want to create a better world I don't think deceit and mass murder is the right way." - 10 seconds later. I did kind of enjoy the "he's too short" line though. I laughed a little. Such bad dialogue. I can't even. I do agree that burning the Tarlys was necessary in that situation and that Tyrion is right and she needs to start thinking like her enemies more so I'll give them a bit of credit for mentioning those at least. Otherwise it's just pointless bickering again.

Back beyond the wall and all of the sudden unimpressive jump scare bear! Has GoT really sunk so low that they need to use that boring horror trope? Yup. Looks like it. I felt like I was watching the Revenant again only you could actually see what was happening in that movie. Not so much here. That's not the only with this scene though. After the first red shirt goes down, Thoros of My gets attacked by the bear before it gets taken out finally. That bear mails the hell out of his arm and all Beric needs to do is use his flaming sword to burn it shut and it's just fine. Thoros gets pulled up like it ain't nothing and he's walking around like it's a flesh wound. All searing does is close the wound. Thoros would be in agony but this is only shown when he's being THROWN ABOUT BY THE POLAR BEAR. Why is he all of the sudden just fine!? Jesus fucking Christ D&D. How stupid do you think we are? How much crap do you think we are going to take before we feel like our intelligence is being insulted? Anyways, back at Winterfell Sansa and Petyr are talking. It's a pretty legit talk but I'm wondering why Sansa is doing it with Petyr. All season she's been treating him like he doesn't matter and now she's giving him an opening for his bullshit. At least he's trying to be intelligent about it this time, choosing the supportive route rather than the "they are the enemy" bullshit. It's clever manipulate in a way. Good on you mate. You aren't a complete waste of screen time anymore.

And beyond the wall again with the fellowship of the wight (ugh...)! Thoros backstory. I approve. But then the wights come in and an epic battle starts! Or not... The White Walker commander gets killed and most of them crumble except for one. Well, isn't that strangely convenient and very lame? Why, yes. Yes it is. And trust me. That's not the only problem I have in relation to the wights and white walkers this episode. I am not impressed or intimidated at all and that's a HUGE problem. So, they catch themselves a wight and tie it up. Cool. Whatever. You have what you need. But Snow hears something coming and sends Gendry off to... Send a letter to Daenarys? -headdesks and shakes head- Are you serious? Seriously. Are you fucking serious? Why the fuck would you send Gendry for Dany? Daenerys is on the other fucking side of the world and you have no fucking clue if she will come or not!! Do you know how long it would take a Raven to reach her in Dragonstone? Days! Fucking day! Why didn't you just have Gendry go get the Wildlings at eastwatch? Oh, I know why. Because that would be the smart thing to do and the story doesn't need to be smart anymore. Just awesome as will be proven in further rants down the line in this review. So, they start running (in the complete opposite direction from Gendry mind you) and come up upon a frozen lake. This is about the time when things go full stupid. So, they are on the lake and it's cracking. This already doesn't makes sense to me. It's been winter for how long and that lake hasn't completely frozen over? With White walkers walking around? I highly doubt it especially with the White Walker walking around in that area. But whatever it's your lake. Do whatever the hell you want with it.

So, they run across the lake to a rock thing in the middle of it and the ice breaks under the weight of the wights after a bunch of the tackle a red shirt. Because that totally makes sense. You'd think the weight would be enough but nope. It took a tackle. Now they are surrounded on all sides. Whatever shall they do!? But don't worry! Because Gendry is here to save the day and gets the message to Dany like really stupid fast. Magical raven are a go! I repeat! Magical teleporting Ravens are a go! We are still with the idiots beyond the wall after this Gendry scene (to my great displeasure) They wake up to find the wights still waiting on the edge of the broken part of the lack and they quickly learn that Thoros is dead as a doorbell. Now from this scene we quickly learn that wights can't swim and that they are on ice. The smart thing to do would have clearly been to shove the body in the water. What do they do instead? They burn the body using Beric's sword. It doesn't seem very practical but I'll give them a little break because at least they'll freeze a little slower. I'm still wondering why the White Walkers didn't just make a bridge to them in the night though. It's a known fact that they can freeze shit and make shit out of ice. I guess they thought it was just funner to stand around. It's not like they could have known Dany was coming but they were sure as fuck prepare for that shit. Ain't that ironic? Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's get back on track.

Anyways, so they burn Thoros, Beric points out the obvious and then we are back in Winterfell again. This actually starts with a scene I like. Sansa gets a letter from King's Landing requesting a envoy from the North and she goes to Brienne knowing she can't go. This is literally the smartest thing Sansa could have done. Brienne is the most loyal and honorable person surrounding her current. Sansa has faith that Brienne will do will and I one hundred percent agree with this. On top of that this is more proof of how strong she has become as a character. Brienne is the only one that would defend her if Arya does decide to be a petty bitch and does let everything go to shit. This is a great sacrifice and choice for Sansa and I respect the shit out of it. All the way over in Dragonstone the letter reaches Dany and she decides to fly after the idiots of the wight. But of course the most moral man in the universe has to get his tearful two cents in and he's making more sense then anyone else at this very moment. But naturally Dany the hot head doesn't listen to the wise dwarf and takes the utterly pointless flight that she'll soon regret cause lurve! I actually like Tyrion's part in this but the whole situation is just so dumb. Anyways, back beyond the wall the Hound is throwing rocks at the wights. A funny scene. But then my boy misses and hits froze water and it skitters across the ice. The lack if froze and the wights start charging as slow as inhumanly possible (D&D: it makes total sense! I promise!). Seriously. They should have been over ran based on Hardholme but nope. The dudes gotta live.

Things are moving fast. Bros are taking on dead bros in every direction. The last red shirt falls off the rock thing and gets torn apart by wights. Tormund gets over ran but he's fine because he's a red shirt. Jorah is using tiny little daggers to stab at wights and somehow doesn't die. Jon stands behind them, the only one watching their back, as the horde rushes them from behind. Then the dragons and Dany come swooping in as they are about to get completely over run. All three dragons are blowing fire everywhere and the ice doesn't melt. Yay magical ice now! Dany starts pulling bros on Drogon's back but instead of following suit Jon stupidly charges more wights for no reason at all. While this is all going on the night king very slowly picks up his spear and aims it at the smallest dragon even though Drogon is on the ground much closer. With awesome super strength we didn't know he had he Spears the dragon and the ice is suddenly not magical anymore and breaks beneath him. The dragon dies and sinks beneath the ice into it watery grave. Poor Viserion and stupid NK. As the NK pulls out another spear, Jon does not run to the dragon and jump on real fast. Instead he shouts for Dany to go. Reluctant she does and manages to swerve out of the way of a spear neither her or Drogon knew were coming (Go watch the scene again. They were both looking straight ahead.) They escape but Jon falls into ice and dies from shock and drowning. No wait. That's wrong. My bad. He miraculously survives and pulls himself out of the freezing water. Only to be saved by Benjen ex Machina who just happened to be in town because plot demands it. Benjen gives Jon his horse and sacrifices himself pointless (that is a undead horse. It can carry two people no problem) because we need to end his character somehow.

He gets back to the wall (still alive somehow) and Dany is waiting there because she's in lurve. The watch take care of Jon at Eastwatch (because even gods get hypothermia). This is also where Dany learns that Jon really was stabbed in the heart and takes it pretty well when she realizes she's in love with a corpse. Finally we cut back to Winterfell for more stupi-... I mean, great Arya/Sansa time! Sansa decides to take matters into her own hands and tries to find the letter in Arya's room. Instead she finds the lamest plastic looking faces ever in a bag underneath Arya's bed. Sansa is rightfully freaked out. When did her sister become a mummer!? That's no job for a lady! But of course Arya finds her and goes full psycho again. I'm pretty much done with Arya's shit by this point... I hope she grows a brain soon or this is her own trick on Littlefinger because this is fucking stupid. Now Jon and Dany are in a ship sailing off to King's landing or whatever (I kinda stopped caring at this point). They have a moment, Jon verbally bends the knee and we cut back to the wights pulling on four enormous chains that seem to be attached to something in the water. But wait... Where did they get the chains? How did it get attached to whatever's in the water? This is a question that will never be answered. Why? Because it's cool. Cool things don't need answer. Answers are for suckers. Just shut up and enjoy the bullshit (says David and Dan and half the world who can't take criticism).

So, they pull up whatever's in the water and it's Viserion. No surprise there. Just surprised they did it the hard way. The NK can raise his hands and bring the dead back to life so this scene was pointless and stupid. Would have been cooler to see the NK just raise his hands and the dragon burst out of the lack but we aren't allowed sensible cool things anymore. Just the stupid shit. Anyways. That's my review. Like it. Hate it. Whatever. These are my honest feeling and I'm tired of hoping for something better and kissing D&D's asses. If they give me a shiny shit I'm going to call them out on it. I'm done.

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