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🤣 Incredible though, right?

damn... the suspense is killing me.... ugh.... I wanna watchh tooooooo!!!!

@images ... its was fresking awesome! I was screaming ...cheering ... crying ... lol ... Im pretty sure my family thinks I possessed ... lol ...

@SM ... hurry babe!

Strategically, the use of the Dothraki was super dumb - yes, they are better fighters on horseback so you would expect them to be used to charge. But you either use horsemen like that 1 of 2 ways - as skirmishers to inflict attrition and disruption of formations (if they had bows or ranged weapons) or you use them in a charge, preferably in a flank or rear attack on an already engaged line in order to destroy the enemy's morale. The only problem is that the army isn't really much subject to attrition that matters, it has no morale to weaken or destroy, nor does it rely on tight, structured formations. It is a literal wave of bodies that gets stronger the more enemy it kills and it will never break without losing its animating force, i.e. the Night King. The Dothraki were kind of the worst army to use against it in any capacity because none of the weaknesses it can attack exist in an undead army.

But damn did that charge look cool with the fiery catapult rounds flying overhead like meteors.

Also, now I think I've fully processed why this isn't a satisfying end to the NK/Dead storyline. It's not Arya: that was great. If it was going to be a one-shot, having her do it is something the series has fully built up to in a very good way. But the thing is: the menace of the Dead has been a major, maybe the major, driver of one major portion of the overall narrative. ALL of the Night's Watch content was about it, and that's a lot of storyline. Meanwhile, the "fire" thematic has also used up a lot of real estate.

For that to end with one stab seems to make most of that thematic unworthy of the time spent on it.

Unless.

Unless the next episode catalyzes it. If the characters just walk away saying, "Phew, that was a close one", it was pointless. But if they say, "The Dead very nearly overran the living, and that's because the Seven Kingdoms have been paralyzed by pointless civil war but even before that, because the vanity of monarchs and lords led to the slow stripping of support from the Night's Watch, because we forgot our own histories, because the madness of kings and the greed of nobles made us all weak. We came together here and survived: now we go to break the wheel and make a completely new society". Ok! That would make the whole thematic pay off--it is the narrow escape from never-ending winter and death that convinces everyone to join a new crusade, to put aside all the vanity of power-seeking that dramatizes the need for change. I'm expecting that's where it ends, but not until Jon and Dany kill each other and their dragons.

If next week is just "back to the Game of Thrones, who will sit on the Iron Throne", then it really was kind of a waste.

Arya has always been one of my favorite characters out of the books and out of the show...She is so bad ass, lol.