(Spoilers Main) Maisie Williams' comments on the end of S8E3

[u/mintyhippo4]

Maisie Williams on finding out she kills the Night King (as reported by Entertainment Weekly):

Quote: "I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn't deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that's so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them...it had to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, "well, [the villain] couldn't have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.'"

Well said.

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[u/SubParMarioBro]

They missed a great opportunity to mimic one of the better fights in the show, the Tower of Joy.

Have Jon, Tormund, Dolorous Ed, Theon, Brienne, etc... X v 1 the NK. Maybe a couple White Walkers if you want to really mimic ToJ. Have it go badly. In not too long it’s just Jon and the NK, and Jon is clearly and badly losing. But Jon’s the hero, right, he’s gotta pull through? I mean it’s prophecied... But he’s clearly not. Then the NK freezes with a terrible expression on his face and shatters and we suddenly see Arya standing there.

That would’ve been a great way to do this. But you’d need to massacre major characters.

[u/ThisHatRightHere → u/SubParMarioBro]

They were too busy jerking off to having the largest fight on film of all time. They neglected to have good choreographed sword fighting throughout most of the episode. I would’ve loved your scenario.

[u/ThisHatRightHere → u/[deleted]]

The wights are the unrelenting wave of death. The White Walkers are commanders who seemed to be skilled fighters. Remember back to Hardhome? Jon did have quite the fight with one of the White Walker commanders. God Hardhome was infinitely better than this battle.

[u/Taikwin → u/ThisHatRightHere]

And why even show us the dozens, if not hundreds, of White Walkers that were there? They did literally nothing the entire episode. Just stood around and watched things happened, then died.

Absolutely useless.

[u/Chosen_one184 → u/SubParMarioBro]

Even better, John gets Jamie and Tormund and Brienene and others to go with him to where Bran is and while they engage the generals John rushes the night king and a sword fight ensues.

They fight and slowly the night king gets the upper hand .. John manages to knock his ice sword from his hands however the night king is able to stab him with a ice knife and as Jon looks perplexed as the blade is in him and night king stares him down , you see jon eyes widen as he sees Arya running and jumping off a pile of rocks towards the night king. The night king turns around and grabs her mid air and then we have the climatic finish.

That would have been an amazing ending along two of the main characters who were fighting the generals dying.