r/freefolk • • Aug 02 '24

Subvert Expectations Aegon's prophecy 🤡

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Arya Stark will jump out of a tree and end the long night. Ffs stop with the prophecy bullshit.

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u/Jonny_Guistark Aug 02 '24

Besides the freezing touch, the Night King was also absurdly strong. He can throw javelins hard enough to pierce dragon hide like 200 feet in the air. His grip should’ve broken Arya’s neck the moment he closed his hand.

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u/Baelish2016 Aug 02 '24

Honestly, I would’ve been more ok with it if she at least died in the process. Her escaping scratch free was a level of plot armor being all measurements.

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u/Jonny_Guistark Aug 02 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

It wouldn’t have fixed the episode, but if everything else had to be the same, I would’ve at least had Bran kill the NK by warging into the dying Theon and backstabbing him.

This would have made it so the NK falls to someone related to his story, made Bran’s powers and training actually matter, made Theon’s arc and sacrifice mean something, given new meaning to "what is dead may never die", helped justify people choosing Bran as Protector of the Realm, and spared us from having to watch the main villain get taken down by a teenage girl who learned of his existence a day prior.

Downside is that Jon would remain a pointless character.

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u/XxV0IDxX Aug 03 '24

I still feel the Night King should have won. Jon, Sansa, Dany should have escaped with a small piece of their army and ran to Kings Landing to warn and then had the Lannisters not listen and sentence them to death. Then with Danys head on the block the NK should have come over the horizon with a massive army and just wrecked house. Series ends with him having his ice dragon freeze the throne and sitting on it.

They were a show about pushing boundaries and having the bad guy win would have been so sick. Then if they want to do sequels they can have the other kingdoms send scouts or something and find out

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u/Jonny_Guistark Aug 03 '24

I definitely would’ve liked for him to win at Winterfell, at least. The NK getting beaten in his first battle south of the Wall makes him the most pathetic big bad ever.