05-20-2019, 07:19 AM
Quote:I'm lost on why to even have the nights watch now. What are they protecting the "south" from? It made sense before with the white walkers and the wildlings being the enemy. Now the Wildlings are friendly and even part of the nights watch, and the white walkers are gone.... so what's the point?
I think that was a placation to the Unsullied - Taking the Black is a known custom (and they need a place to send criminals), but for Jon, it's really just exile to go North to be King of the Wildlings. Tormund never took the black (and I don't think Wildlings were allowed to anyways), and I don't think Jon would escorting all of the wildlings by himself.
They never really explained what happened to the Dothraki - the Unsullied were going to Naath, but the Dothraki did not seem to be a part of that fleet (although you saw Dothraki walking along the harbor front when Jon was walking to the pier).
I think the part that really frustrated my wife (and partly myself), was the momentum and build up to Dany being "the mad queen" followed by the anti-climactic kiss/dagger to the heart. I was fully expecting Dany to try to execute Jon as a traitor using Drogon in front of everyone, only to have Jon be unscathed by the flames proving his Targaryen blood.