Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The Long Night


Many of us waited for this long night to unfold. Naturally, all fans went berserk seeing this episode. I am sure none of us predicted it to go down like that, beat for beat.


If anyone ever imagined how the end would look like, it would be either the Dragon queen or Jon or someone else but Arya. But, it was her! All her training with the many-faced god makes sense now. Also, the words of the Melisandre (Red woman) were to the point. The epic third episode of Game of Thrones ‘eighth season saw Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and the rest of our still-living heroes face off with the Night King and his army of dead in the Battle of Winterfell. It was one hell of a fight in the cold night.

But the end, The end, um, I am kind of still trying to come to terms of it. His army of the dead was guarding him, right? I am sure they are really good at whatever they do. How the hell Arya emerged in the thick of the night right before the Night King got a chance to kill Bran? You know, Arya just jumped in with a Valyrian dagger in her hand to defend her brother, Bran, who was apparently waiting for this moment to come. Duh! For a moment, it felt to me that, this is it. Arya will kill him, but on the very next moment, before she could realize anything, the blue-eyed monster caught Arya by the throat in midair. All hope seems to be lost at that very moment. But, next, badass Arya just dropped the dagger from her hand and caught it from the other hand, plunged the pointy end forward into the Night King's gut. No points in guessing, what it would have done to the monster!! We all know that by now.

Is the night king really dead now? I mean I know she killed him with a Valyrian steel but if Jon can come back to life again, can he too? And someone please explain to me what and how Arya did what she did?


Valar Morghulis! All men must die. Also, what is dead may never die, but as it turned out in the climactic final moments of the episode, what is undead may very much die. But wait, wasn’t it something like dead's thing to...rise from the undead??


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