11 Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In Game Of Thrones
2. The Walking Skeletons
The last episode of season four shows Bran and his friends fending off a group of rampaging walking skeletons before they meet the three-eyed raven. Quite what these skeletons are we do not know. Perhaps they are some underdeveloped white walkers? Maybe they are wights, reanimated deceased bodies?
Whatever they are they arent explicitly explained in the episode and as such it makes them harder to comprehend. Surely after their years under the snow the bones would have broken apart or rotted along with the rest of their bodies. The snow would have went some way in preserving their bodies, yes, but even if the skeletons had remained intact somehow, they still wouldn't have been able to maintain a grasp on the weapons they were buried with. And this brings with it another problem.
Why were they buried with weapons anyway? In Game of Thrones dead bodies are scavenged for clothing and weapons all of the time and yet somehow these bodies were left unscathed on the off chance that they were reanimated years later? No, that doesn't make sense in the slightest. A more plausible threat would have been the white walkers themselves.