Game Of Thrones: How The Battle Of Winterfell Should Have Gone
Think of that as an image, repelling the dead by burning the very walls of the city. That would look insane and gives your key characters a moment to regroup together. Strategise, grieve, pull the episode back together as they discuss what the hell they’re going to do, Melisandre weakening by the second trying to hold her magic together.
Back in the sky now and Jon is flying, directionless, aimless looking for the Night King when, out of nowhere, he attacks him and we get that scene of the muddling in midair. They fight, the scratch, they claw, duck and dive all those beautiful shots of the moonlight in the sky.
Viserions has Rheagal’s number though and has Jon hanging on for his life. As he’s doing so he looks down and can see through the clouds the burning image of Winterfell below. He looks up, and the Night King is in position to swoop down and finish him but as he comes in for the kill he flys straight past and back into the clouds. Jon can’t believe it.
Back in Winterfell the army of the living are getting into position, securing themselves, ready for the dead to come over the wall. Begging Melisandre for just a few more minutes while they get the wounded out of harms ways and their defences set. She nods, clearly putting everything into this wall when out of nowhere Viserion swoops in, cleaves her in half, and bounds back into the sky. That’s why the Night King didn’t finish Jon.
A stunned silence descends on the courtyard as the walls of Winterfell slowly begin to burn out. The light fades with them, the cracking of the fire quietens and there’s not a sound. Again we get that uneasy still and slowly we hear the cracking sound of ice, and rustling against the walls.
They look around the walls and see dozens these jagged white legs coming over the walls. It’s ice spiders.