I told you Frankenmountain was gonna... [SPOILERS]
[spoiler]Kill Kyburn. Because the cliché is that the mad scientist is ALWAYS killed by his own creation, and they're totally going with the clichés at this point.[/spoiler]
shareI also told you that [spoiler] Arya wasn't going to walk away from a Death Cult and be free to live her life. Pity it wasn't Jacquen Hagar to usher her into the afterlife, but an appearance from Death's white horse is always welcome. His name, BTW, is Binky.[/spoiler]
I told you i told you. Does that make you feel good?
shareNothing about Season 8 is making anyone feel good! NOTHING!!!
But at least I get to feel smart.
Because you saw the leaked script that everyone else has seen? I’d rather wait.
Anyway it was a random white horse, she is free.
No, I've been diligently avoiding spoilers, the writers have just begun "telegraphing their punches".
And that as Death's White Horse. She's dead. They'll find her corpse next week.
Remember the commander of the Golden Company? I can't recall his name, but that was his horse. Arya isn't dead. Not yet anyway.
shareThat horse was outside the city when the shit hit the fan. FYI real horses are fond of spooking and running away from threats, so a real horse wouldn't run into a burning city where buildings are falling down, it'd run for the open road. A real horse with a horse's instincts wouldn't run towards dragon fire!
I still say it's The Pale Horse, but we'll see.
War horses will run to the sound of the guns. They're trained to deal with the chaos of battle. Otherwise they wouldn't be much use. I think after the commander got knocked off his mount when Drogon came crashing through the wall, the horse just joined in with the Dothraki charge and went back into the city with them (as it was trained to do).
shareAll right, I'll accept that a horse can be trained to ignore its instincts and run towards the sound of guns, but it's still a prey animal whose instincts is to run away from huge predators who could eat it, LIKE DRAGONS.
It could not possibly be trained to ignore dragons, because there weren't any dragons available for training purposes. Fires and a dragon overhead would send any horse on Earth into a blind sprinting panic, but that's a minor quibble about this episode when there are so many major ones. Like Dany becoming a completely different person in the space of two episodes.
And my original point is invalid anyway, Arya was alive, and visible in next week's previews.
But which way do you flee from a threat above you (and horses aren't well suited to looking up) that's all over the sky, this way and that, coming and going in different directions? Once the horse got inside the city it probably followed its herd instinct to stay with the invading army as long as it could. After it got separated, it would've been running in the opposite direction from the last dragon screech. So first one way, then another, reversing itself again and again, through streets and alleyways, surviving by pure chance until the overhead screeching stopped and it felt safe.
shareI can't imagine a horse feeling safe enough to relax anywhere in that city, not with the fires and people screaming and giant predator flying overhead. Honestly, even a trained horse's response to that environment would be to keep running until it broke a leg, and to lie there screaming.
Oh well, a horse standing calmly through the apocalypse wasn't the worst thing about that episode.
It would only have been standing there calmly when the chaos died down. You're right though, once it panics inside the labyrinth of the city the most likely outcome is that it trips and breaks a leg, or gets wedged in a narrow space it can't escape from. Or of course that Drogon turns it into Kentucky fried horsey. It would have to be incredibly lucky to survive the battle. But there were plenty of horses - so let's just say most of those without riders to control them died, and this was one of a handful of lucky exceptions.
shareI'm loving every second of this season!!! One to go!!!
Sorry to disappoint you random internet person, but you don't speak for me.
I think this season has been exciting as it gets!
I can't wait until next week to see how it all ends with Jon and the new villain Dany.
I bet Arya will now go back and marry what’s his name. But, she’ll still claim she’s not a “lady”.
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