So, Game of Thrones S08E03

I have to. There is frustration inside of me and I have to let it all out in text and reddit is full of similar thoughts so I am doing the original thing and going elsewhere *taps forehead*

For some context, I wrote a minor "expectations" theorycraft that turned out totally wrong and while I hoped it would be wrong, I also hoped it wouldn't go this far off. You can read it here https://pastebin.com/5th9Dt64

For the purposes of this article I will ignore the books exist for a time being.

Now I am disappointed.
Not by the episode itself, besides some minor things (light cav charging front and center, artillery being the first line of the army...), I actually quite enjoyed the episode.
I am however disappointed by the plot. The writing. The everything else than the episode itself to be honest.

I have two major gripes and they are quite entwined, so I will be weaving through them both to save some time.

First of these things is the character of the Night King himself.
Second is the way the whole show is written and presented.

Night King is a character apparently (mostly) introduced only in the show. He is the main White Walker. He is the big bad given face and form. He is the whole personality of the army of the dead.
Without him the dead are just a bland and boring side story.
For several seasons he is being pushed as the big enemy who will win if the GAME OF THRONES is being put forward by the major houses. He is the reason why the dead are the main story, the story about war of life and death.

And then there is how the show is written.
Everything that happens in the show is shades of grey. People lie, even the most honorable characters end up lying for the greater good or whatever. People have redemption arcs, they fuckup, they make us hope they die horrible, but then they make us praise their victories. The characters are not some mono-coloured figurine that is put there just to fill space. Even the blander characters have...character. It's what this show does, it's why so many people love this show. Because whatever feelings you feel towards a character today, you can't be sure about them tomorrow (well with the exception of Daenerys, eh) .
 This is an incredibly powerful thing that so many shows get wrong but this show has always gotten right.

Do I even need to say it? Do I even need to finish the thought? We have all seen the same episode. We know how it goes. Both of these points are chucked out of the window like work worries the moment you get home. The suspension built over the last several seasons is destroyed in one single instant and no matter what our theories were, what we hoped in, whatever we thought would happen, it was all gone.
I can go and rant about the casual viewer or not enough time or basically anything else, but I will not. I am just disappointed.


Then again, there may yet be a rebuttal. Something that wouldnt save the bitterness, but at least give some sort of satisfaction, a little bit of closure. It would have to be Bran creating some sort of timeloop. It happened in the past, it may happen again. Be it warning sent to the past to fear the white walkers, lest all may die; or something that causes them to happen again in the future. I don't know.
And I don't want to create more theories, because it may just rise my hopes up again.