Fogghorn wrote:
Season 6 was so good and season 7 just annoyed me. They finally started doing really stupid TV just too move the plot forward.
It really think this is a consequence of the show being such a runaway success, and GRRM's lazy ass... They caught up and passed the books long ago. But from what we've been told, he has consulted with the show's producers for the final chapters of this series. For me, it was very unfortunate that Season 7 seemed to pass by at warp speed.
Fogghorn wrote:
Example 1: The zombies chasing Bran out of the tunnel after he flees the Three Eyed Raven. They were running on the ceiling and walls at full speed. Like something out of Brad Pitts "World War Z", if they can run on a ceiling why can't they run up an ice wall?
This may have no relation to the TV series but in the books, the Wall is supposed to be imbued with magic that was intended by its builders to prevent the White Walkers from ever crossing. The Horn of Something-or-Other was hinted to be the one thing that could bring down the Wall but it was never introduced on the show (or if it was, it was summarily glossed-over). I believe Beric and his merry band were supposed to have brought it to the Wall.
The Ice Dragon (Viserion?) I guess is supposed to take the place of Horn and take the Wall down.
Fogghorn wrote:
Example 2: This one really grates me. When Jon Snow goes beyond the wall to capture a zombie they meet a bear. Wildlings get killed. What happens when a human gets killed by a zombie, they turn into zombies. Mission completed. Tie up a dead body and head for home but nope they have to move forward and temp the whole zombie army and lose a dragon in the process.
Didn't they decide to burn the bodies of the dead? But your solution makes a lot more sense for sure. However, there was the recent revelation that when a White gets killed, the zombies he created become truly dead undead. I wonder if that is also true of zombies down the line; that when the zombie bear is killed off, then the people it killed (and perhaps make undead) can no longer become undead and just stay dead.