Spoilers notwithstanding.
Let's deal with that first. Lots of people in my social media bubble couldn't stop themselves from posting their excitement about a certain character's big moment. In their defense, they didn't say exactly what that big moment was. But, knowing that this character had a big moment coming affected my experience while watching the episode.
Most of the action was hard to interpret visually. Part of it was how crowded everything was. Part of that was how dark it was. (I don't think I was dealing with a bad picture, having recorded it from satellite on DVR.) But, I had a hard time seeing what was happening on screen most of the time.
As a result of the above, I'm not sure who actually survived. But, it feels like there weren't enough meaningful deaths for such a big battle. Clearly thousands of people died, but almost nobody whose name I know did. Plot armor out the wazoo.
I also felt like the ending was anticlimactic. If all that needed to happen was for Arya to sneak up on the Night King, why the fuck didn't she just hide in the damn tree? Why did she have to fight her way through all that bullshit in the keep only to appear out of nowhere and kill the big bad at the last possible second.
You just stab him and he's dead and that's it? And all the other bads die too? Were the other White Walkers only in the episode so we could see them disintegrate at the end? Why didn't we get to see them do any fighting?
Clearly a lot of people loved that moment, given all the emphatic exclamations on social media last night.. Most people seem to be a much bigger fan of Arya Stark than I am.
I'm half-way on board with the people who are disappointed that the Night King arc is over, but that's mostly because his ending was so anticlimactic. The other half of me is happy that we'll get to see what shakes out between John, Dany, and Cersei without worrying about the zombies.
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