Denster wrote:They attacked a village at hardhome. Full of vulnerable old people and children. While they were on the process of fleeing by ship.
This was a defence by seasoned warriors of a patch of land. They were about to be engulfed but were then rescued by the flying lizard 'plot armour /teleporting' trope.
Yeah bit had walls, gates, guards etc = and a small group of traveling seasoned combat veterans. The unrelenting horde overwhelmed them in minutes, killing everyone including many "main-adjacent" characters = and everyone escaped by the skin of their teeth.
Here a small group of travelling seasoned warriors held off on open ground for...oh...about 20 hours for a dragon to arrive? (Yeah Wrights couldn't just go through the water or make a corpse mountain in the ice...for some reason). Redshirts and 1 guy succumbs to previous wounds is our causality list (I'm not counting Horse-Ex-Machina)
It's clunky disengaging storytelling personally that took a load of threat/menace from Winter.
(I was also annoyed that Dany "just in from Essos" had some stunning winter clothes ready - but that's a much smaller issue
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(Also if that Dragon, who got directly hit in his fire maker, can still breath fire, or ice, I'm gonna be mad...)