Knee-Jerk Reactions to “The Long Night:” Best and Worst Moments

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN SIX: Where was the headless Eddard Stark?

If you’re gonna raise the dead from the crypts, it seems a bit of a waste not to milk the horror a bit. What could be more awful that seeing the decomposed bodies of Eddard and Lyanna and various walking dead ancestors rising to attack Sansa? Maybe it would have been just too much.

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN FIVE: Bran just sat there

I suppose Bran knew what was going to happen beforehand. He knew that Arya would save him at the last second. So he just sat there. He warged into a raven once, though I’m not sure what good that did anybody. I guess Bran is a mystery wrapped in a riddle and we’ll never figure him out. But at least throw a rock or something.

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN FOUR: Why did the Dothraki charge all alone into the void?

An unsupported cavalry charge against a well-organized enemy, especially one you can’t see, is an invitation to disaster. Who ordered them to charge, anyway? Bad generalship, I think. But those hundreds of burning swords looked so awesome in the dark.

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN THREE: Beric didn’t get any last words

Did you see how many stabbings that guy took? Yeah, he was on his last life and yeah, his purpose was to rescue Arya, but he always had so many pithy, witty things to say. I would have like to hear his last comment.

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN TWO: Jorah didn’t get to say his last words

Just like Beric, Jorah fell and went mute. After the incredible feat of determination he displayed on the battlefield? As he lay in in Dany’s arms, it would have been nice for him to say one final “Khaleesi.” Okay, I’m sentimental. Sue me. This is melodrama, after all.

FLEA BOTTOM BROWN ONE: What happened to Ghost?

C’mon, showrunners! We don’t get to see Ghost in like, forever, and then you show us a glimpse of him charging alongside Jorah and the Dothraki and then he disappears. At least I didn’t see the direwolf come back. Did you? That’s the ultimate red-shirting of Ghost if that was the end of him.

UPDATE: Okay, so I’ve been informed that Ghost appears in the trailer for the next episode, so he survives. But would it have killed HBO to show him along with everybody else at the end of this episode?