10 Biggest Wasted Opportunities In Game Of Thrones

Winter was coming... and then it went.

The fact that nobody fought a dead friend in wight form is one missed opportunity, but you can understand if the showrunners felt it a little too campy. Then again, when the episode revolves around ice zombies attacking a castle, it feels like you passed ‘a little campy’ a few turns back.

Still, while that can be singled out as its own thing, it doesn’t change the fact that The Long Night itself was massively underwhelming.

Even if they didn’t come back as wights, more characters really should have died. The Unsullied and Dothraki seemed to be wiped out, only to return the next episode. Jaime, Pod, Tormund and Brienne all survived insurmountable enemies and Sam snivelled through the battle.

The White Walkers were the ultimate enemy, yet they were defeated in a single night.

Daenerys burning but not injuring the Night King was cool, but it’s undercut by Theon’s pointless death, Jon’s lack of impact on the battle narrative and Arya’s final blow.

Arya trained to become a master assassin, so her delivering the kill has some logic. Narratively though, it’s a little hollow. Arya had other beefs in Westeros; this was not her fight to win.