Is All Prophesy Dead Now In Got?

Published April 29, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey Guys,

I, like the majority of people absolutely adored the spectacle that was episode 3, The Long Night. I looked past the fact that as a book reader, this has always been the battle I assumed would wrap up the Song of Ive and Fire. I overlooked the forced plot that has positioned Cersei to be the main antagonist. And…I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Up until the very end. I bought into the idea that the NK couldn’t just wait until everyone was dead to make his appearance because he had to reach Bran, AND he felt invincible. Whether he knew prophesy or not, he knew simple dragonglass, dragon fire or Valyrian steel could not kill him like a wight.

As the show opens, we see the red priestess return. The woman who smelled like a forge, whose sigil is a burning heart, who told Jon, as she bore her chest to him that they would create light together; a woman who again told Davos, “I will be dead before dawn.”

Then, in a perfect setup, she and Arya meet up together just as the NK makes his final approach. Jon and Dany are cutoff and cannot help Bran. And we know what happens next. Arya kills him with a Valyrian Steel dagger. Now, I love the weapon that was chosen, as its weaves its way through the story since season 1. Maybe it was forged from the remains of Lightbringer. (Though the death reminds me of Snoke…smart enough to know everything except…)

Anyway, why give us all these prophesies and then set it up perfectly to have Meli be Nissa Nissa, just to have the NK die the way he did, and have her die by taking off her necklace. She could have done that in Essos.

Imagine if Arya’s dagger had lit ablaze just as she stabbed the NK. Or she stabbed him and it did nothing, right before it set fire and melted him. And then at the end, Meli wobbles our and falls to her knees. We see blood running from a wound to her heart. She collapses in the light.

I have no issue with Arya being the one to kill the NK. It’s odd and seems to be simple fanfare, but whatever. My issue is with the disregard of both show and book prophesy. I can get over Cecei’s forced role as the ultimate antagonist, but this is too much!

Sean Stewart

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