… and he won't, not with four episodes to go...
A logical strategy would be to assign ten or twenty thousand of his undead minions to besiege Winterfell and starve the living out, while he blithely marches on to the Southlands and King's Landing. That'd be a few entertaining episodes!
Maybe the living get their asses kicked here, then they have to fall back and regroup at Kings landing.
shareSo the fall back point is a thousand miles away with an army who would be ordered to kill them on sight?
shareWell, a preview had snow falling on winterfell, and this show has a history of disregarding timeflow. Wouldn't be the first time they basically had characters teleport.
Not to mention... how could they outrun an enemy army that doesn't rest or stop to eat?
So really, the only way to do that, would be if all the major characters left the people of the North to die, and ran for it on dragon-back. I really hope they don't do that.
Well there are like 15 major characters at Winterfell right now, so a scene with them trying to load up on two dragons could be kind of funny. Would Drogon carry Brans wheel chair in his mouth I wonder?
shareI'd tie Bran to a dragon's foreleg myself, whether he liked it or not. "Shut your noise!" I can hear myself yelling, "I'm not leaving you for the Night's King, Gods know what he'd do with your powers!".
Still, that would be an extremely cheesy way to end an episode. And the second-cheesiest way would be if Melisandre appeared with an army of Essian Fighting Monks, clad in red armor and bearing flame-throwers.
They shamble along. The remnants of the Nights Watch blew right by them with hours to spare on their way to Winterfell. Not to mention, the writers can invent some reason to slow down the Army of the Dead
shareYep. This is what I've thought for years. It makes the most sense storytelling wise. I also think Cersei will save the day in the end with wyldfire.
share… and he won't, not with four episodes to go...What makes you think that? For me it seems like the opposite.
Yes, the army of the dead is relentless and never sleeps but they don't march all that fast. You can outrun them. Besides, I seem to remember Dani having a fleet of ships. If they could get their people on those, they could sail for King's Landing.
shareHe's going to make General Santa Ana's mistake. He should have done that at The Alamo.
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