Soon enough the horde was in pursuit, until the shattering ice stopped their progress. It was a kicky sequence that included an important revelation - killing a White Walker also takes out anything he’d resurrected - and conveniently left over a wight for bagging and tagging. He hasn’t been around for awhile but clearly retained his flair for slick set pieces, like the bear attack and the wight capture, in which Jon dispatched a White Walker and saw his skeleton platoon topple like undead dominoes. The episode director Alan Taylor is an old “Thrones” hand, overseeing the finales for Seasons 1 and 2, among other early installments. I figured Beric and Jorah, at least, would be goners this week, but their inevitable sacrifices apparently come later. “Funny old life.”) Still, not a bad survival rate overall. (“I just got bit by a dead bear,” he told Beric. The answer seemed to be “enough to kill off some people for drama without losing anyone you know.”Įxcept Thoros, that is, who got mauled by the bear - maybe lead with the dragonglass weapons next time, guys - and would eventually die.
How many good guys are there, exactly? I wondered more than once. The first foe was a tremendous zombie bear who dispatched the first of who knows how many luckless, nameless Wildlings. (Spinoff idea: Tormund and the Hound get an apartment together.)īut soon it was time for fighting. “Like she wants to carve you up and eat your liver?” “How does she look at you?” the Hound asked him. Then you had Jorah, who Ned condemned and whose own dead dad (Jeor, former Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch) is revered by Jon and hated by Tormund (because Jeor battled Wildlings), who adores Brienne, who almost killed the Hound. Gendry thinks his father (Robert) fought alongside Jon’s (Ned, he thinks), only Robert really killed Jon’s father (actually Rhaegar Targaryen).
You had Jon Snow and Beric Dondarrion comprising the formerly dead bloc, while Gendry and the Hound made up the formerly prisoners-of-Beric-and-Thoros one. But just as implausible, he’s transformed from the cagiest person in this story, outthinking even Varys and Littlefinger back in Season 2, to one given to almost universally terrible decisions.īut whatever odd choices led to the Wight Expedition, I did enjoy it, because it featured some of the show’s most likable characters negotiating the dizzying knot of connections between them, which made for fun conversation. You’d think Tyrion, who knows her better than almost anyone, would understand this. (The internet says it was Viserion.) This means the forces of annihilation have not only a constantly replenishing army of wights, but also their very own version of the one thing that seemed to tip the scales in favor of Team Breathing.
In the episode’s final moments the White Walkers retrieved and reanimated the dragon the Night King brought down with his ice javelin. We also saw what the Dragon Queen didn’t: Confirmation of the long-rumored, much-feared Zombie Dragon Scenario. (I’m no fashion expert but Dany’s winter whites were really something.) Unlike previous White Walker confrontations, this was a true song of ice and fire, complete with frozen wastes, dragon fury, undead hordes, flaming swords and breathtaking outerwear. Viewers got an eyeful as well, with a wintry battle of the living and the dead that figures to foreshadow the culminating clashes of the story.
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