In the opening scene of the first episode of Game of Thrones, audiences got their first glimpse of the terrifying threat that had lain dormant in the frozen north of Westeros. The ranger, Ser Waymar Royce, had led his party of Night’s Watchmen beyond the wall to hunt a band of wildlings. He pressed them on, despite their protests, through the biting cold until they eventually came across the remains of the wildlings laid out on the snow in ritualistic sacrifice. Before long, they discovered the culprits – the White Walkers – before being swiftly and brutally killed. After throwing the decapitated head of a Night’s Watchman at the feet of a sole survivor, they left him alive to escape back to the wall to tell the tale.Cue the opening credits, and that would be the last that viewers saw of the enigmatic White Walkers for almost the entire span of two seasons. It left more questions than answers, allowing the imagination of viewers to go into a frenzy of speculation about their motives. Fans of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire would be well aware of the White Walkers, the Night King, and his army of the dead. For TV audiences, however, it would be the beginning of the buildup towards what many assumed would be the primary threat of the show.Fast-forward eight seasons, and in a hurried attempt to wrap up the complicated web of stories, the White Walkers arc came to a rather sudden end at the hands – or rather, needle – of Arya Stark. The winter that the Starks had promised for so long had ended before it had properly begun. Although it is true that out of the great houses of Westeros, it would be the Starks and their mantra of ‘winter is coming’ who would be best suited to deal with the threat. Nonetheless, far from being the culmination of the wildly successful show, the White Walkers became a side act before the actual finale of the show and Daenerys Targaryan’s battle for Kings Landing. The threat to end all threats, which had been slowly brewing throughout eight seasons, was resolved in one mid-season episode during the battle for Winterfell. Sadly, no one, not even the Starks, could have predicted that it would turn out to be such a short and uneventful winter.RELATED: Game of Thrones Star Wants Davos in Jon Snow’s Spinoff SeriesRELATED: Game of Thrones’ Varys Actor Opens Up About His Frustration With the Series’ End
In the opening scene of the first episode of Game of Thrones, audiences got their first glimpse of the terrifying threat that had lain dormant in the frozen north of Westeros. The ranger, Ser Waymar Royce, had led his party of Night’s Watchmen beyond the wall to hunt a band of wildlings. He pressed them on, despite their protests, through the biting cold until they eventually came across the remains of the wildlings laid out on the snow in ritualistic sacrifice. Before long, they discovered the culprits – the White Walkers – before being swiftly and brutally killed. After throwing the decapitated head of a Night’s Watchman at the feet of a sole survivor, they left him alive to escape back to the wall to tell the tale.
Cue the opening credits, and that would be the last that viewers saw of the enigmatic White Walkers for almost the entire span of two seasons. It left more questions than answers, allowing the imagination of viewers to go into a frenzy of speculation about their motives. Fans of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire would be well aware of the White Walkers, the Night King, and his army of the dead. For TV audiences, however, it would be the beginning of the buildup towards what many assumed would be the primary threat of the show.
Fast-forward eight seasons, and in a hurried attempt to wrap up the complicated web of stories, the White Walkers arc came to a rather sudden end at the hands – or rather, needle – of Arya Stark. The winter that the Starks had promised for so long had ended before it had properly begun. Although it is true that out of the great houses of Westeros, it would be the Starks and their mantra of ‘winter is coming’ who would be best suited to deal with the threat. Nonetheless, far from being the culmination of the wildly successful show, the White Walkers became a side act before the actual finale of the show and Daenerys Targaryan’s battle for Kings Landing. The threat to end all threats, which had been slowly brewing throughout eight seasons, was resolved in one mid-season episode during the battle for Winterfell. Sadly, no one, not even the Starks, could have predicted that it would turn out to be such a short and uneventful winter.
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