Once upon a time, we thought Game of Thrones was about various families warring for control of the seven kingdoms. Now, it seems that even the worst of those families are small potatoes compared to what lies beyond the giant wall of ice even further north than the North.
Based on the visions of Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright), the ice-faced Night King has been marching his army of reanimated dead corpses towards that wall for years now, with intent to kill everyone and add them to his army. He’s so dangerous and terrifying that Jon Snow (Kit Harington) thinks he’s going to get Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) to form an alliance with him to fight the guy.
But what do we really know about this snowy looking fellow? He doesn’t talk much. He’s mostly been seen protecting his own people and adding more to his kind, including babies who had been otherwise abandoned. Sure, he took a dragon last week, but that dragon was helping to burn his army, and who wouldn’t take the opportunity to acquire a dragon?
And he’s apparently been marching on Westeros for a couple of seasons now, but he hasn’t actually done anything other than march. How do we know he’s actually coming to wreak havoc on our favorite living characters? What if marching is just his thing and there isn’t anything better to do out there in the snow?
We’re not saying he’s good or not a danger to all of Westeros, but what if the Night King is only bad in the same way that everyone else is bad—he murders people, but only because those people are threatening him and his people?
Based on the level of reverence he’s being given in this show, there has to be more to the Night King than just Big Scary Bad Guy. Villains who are just villains—Ramsay Bolton, Joffrey Lannister, Walder Frey—don’t last long on this show, and if the Night King and his army really is the biggest thing to worry about at this point, we’ve got to have more of a reason to care about him, whether we’re fearing him or just anticipating him doing anything other than standing there or throwing spears.
Plus, if he were really truly evil, why wouldn’t he have targeted the dragon that was sitting on the ground, not moving, carrying a big group of people towards escape? His choice of Viserion seemed very deliberate, and not just in a convenient plot kind of…
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