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The Battle With The Night King In 'Game of Thrones' Was Underwhelming

Spoilers ahead! Tread with caution.

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The Battle With The Night King In 'Game of Thrones' Was Underwhelming

This was the moment we've all been waiting for. Since the very first season of "Game of Thrones," it's been hinted that the show's final season would see all the men of Westeros fighting the Night King and his Army of the Dead. The entirety of the seventh season was spent preparing for said battle. The fact that so many houses put aside their differences to put up an army solely for fighting the White Walkers told us how grave the situation was.

That's why I wasn't expecting it to be resolved in a single episode.

Now, when I write this, only the first half of the final season has come out and we have yet to see the final three episodes, so maybe I will end up biting my tongue when that happens. However, from what I can tell, the death of the Night King seemed pretty final and it infuriates me.

For seven whole seasons, we were told the Night King and his army are unbeatable and that no living man could stop him. Then I had to watch it be done in about an hour.

As I watched, I could tell that the Army of the Dead was like no army that had ever been fought before. They were smart, they were fast, and they were relentless. However, I feel like I barely saw them kill anyone of any importance before they all were destroyed by the Night King's death. Whether this is because they didn't get to kill that many people before they were defeated or because the crew couldn't invest in a SINGLE light for the entirety of the episode (seriously though, I couldn't see a single thing because of how dark the lighting was) remains to be seen.

It's no surprise to me that Arya would be the one to kill the Night King.

She's a trained killer and she's super smart. I will never understand why everyone was so shocked that she would be the one to kill him. Jon Snow be damned, Arya has been training to kill people in various different ways since she was a child. She's gotten pretty good at it.

I just want to know how the Night King could hear her coming, but not see her switchblades? Or if Bran knew she would be the one to kill him, why didn't he tell her or anyone else for that matter? Why does Bran withhold so much information?

These are all questions for another day. For now, I will continue fuming about the fact that the problem that has been presented from day 1 as the final, unsolvable problem was solved within little over an hour of run time.

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