In time immemorial, setting seen on [easyazon_link identifier=”0553593714″ locale=”US” tag=”tvovermind00a-20″]Game of Thrones[/easyazon_link] went through a winter without end called the Long Night. It was not restricted to a particular region but instead covered both Essos and Westeros, as shown by the stories telling of its horrors from a wide range of cultures in a wide range of locations. However, a hero managed to lead the surviving humans to triumph over the [easyazon_link identifier=”B009B13F4C” locale=”US” tag=”tvovermind00a-20″]White Walkers[/easyazon_link], thus bringing a conclusion to the winter without end. Now, the White Walkers have returned, meaning that it is time for the characters on Game of Thrones to repeat the feats of those who preceded them.
Should the White Walkers Win?
The setting seen on Game of Thrones tends to be seen as a rather unpleasant place, which should come as no surprise when most of the focus is on a continent-spanning civil war. As a result, it is not unheard for its fans to make comments that the White Walkers should win, whether because they are angered by the course of the narrative or because of some other sentiment. With that said, there might be some point to their mutterings.
First, [easyazon_link identifier=”B005JV4L1Y” locale=”US” tag=”tvovermind00a-20″]Game of Thrones[/easyazon_link] has been much fonder of inducing shock for the sake of shock through various means than its source material. For example, Theon was tortured in the books but most of the process happened off-screen, whereas the TV show made a deliberate choice to film such scenes. Likewise, Sansa was never married off to Ramsay in the books, which still makes no sense from either an in-setting or an out-of-setting perspective. Instead, the books used Sansa’s friend who had been brutalized into compliance as a fake Arya, which the show-runners rejected because they thought that no one would care for her.
Ironically, this was the exact point to said character, which is to say, no one cared about the suffering of the character because she didn’t matter but Theon managed to struggle through his own soul-crushing terror to help her out anyways because of his basic human empathy in a clear existential victory. Regardless, this context means that a White Walker victory would be the ultimate shocker, which would ensure that people will continue talking about [easyazon_link identifier=”055358202X” locale=”US” tag=”tvovermind00a-20″]Game of Thrones[/easyazon_link] for decades and decades to come.
Second, one could argue that the Westerosi are so unprepared that logic demands that the White Walkers should win, which is rather important point when Game of Thrones is so often touted for its supposed realism. After all, the White Walkers are super-human monsters that became stronger with each battle as they raise the corpses of their enemies into undead thralls that need neither food nor water nor rest. Furthermore, they have the advantage of the oncoming winter, which will make campaigning nothing short of a nightmare for human soldiers. Against that, what can the Westerosi do when winter has come even if they manage to scrounge up all of the obsidian, all of the Valyrian steel, and all of other supernatural elements that they can?
Should the White Walkers Really Win?
With that said, while exaggerating for effect can be fun from time to time, there is such a thing as taking it to excess. Speaking bluntly, the White Walkers are omnicidal monsters who slaughter not just humans but also all other living beings caught within their reach before raising them as their undead thralls. Given the evidence that said undead retain at least some of their living memories, it is possible that their fate is one of eternal torment while trapped within their own shambling corpses, which is something that no one deserves. Never mind the horror of being caught in a winter without end.
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