Which begs the question: If Daenerys finds these men so valuable that she’ll come running once they get in a jam, why didn’t she just send a dragon with them in the first place?Ī restless Hound soon compounds the foolishness by throwing rocks at the wights - which skid across the re-frozen moat, rousing them to pick up their charge. Jon sends Gendry to run back to Eastwatch so he can send a raven to Daenerys, which is an insane rescue plan except for the fact that the group’s flight path takes them over a frozen lake that cracks, forming a kind of moat that gives everyone enough time to wait until Gendry (#stillrunning) can hail the rescue party. They bag the single remaining specimen, but then, as even they expected, more wights come surging after them. (Exit, pursued by an ice bear.) Later, they spy a small party of wights and go to trap them, discovering in the process that, apparently, if you slay a White Walker, all the wights they made will also perish.
First, the Band of Boyfriends have a run-in with an ice grizzly that rips up Thoros of Myr, who eventually dies from his wounds. Spoiler alert: Jon is still alive, but not exactly for lack of trying. Even if Jon tends to be all aw-shucks about it, he is the King in the North, and somehow he manages to be both freighted with care for his people and totally cavalier about how effed they’d be if he died. The trip up North is strategically suspect on every level: not just tactically (wights don’t seem to do a ton of hanging out solo, waiting to be kidnapped) or in the plausibility of the ideal outcome (Cersei being like, “Why, yes, this is exactly the evidence I need to begin acting in the rational interest of our human collective!”), but also in the needlessly huge risk it takes. The spine of the whole thing is Jon’s patently ludicrous, if enjoyable, wight-hunting escapade. are in a pickle up North, prepares to launch a rescue mission, and Tyrion exclaims, “The most important person in the world can’t fly off to the most dangerous place in the world!” It is perhaps the most reasonable advice the Hand has given all season, but of course, it is exactly what Dany proceeds to do, because there is no plot point too absurd for this supersize episode. There’s a moment in “ Beyond the Wall” when Daenerys, having received a raven that Jon Snow & Co.
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