Let John Snow have his big show down with him and ultimately fail despite landing blows with his Valyrian sword, and then let the Iron born hit him with a volley of dragon glass arrow heads.
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Let John Snow have his big show down with him and ultimately fail despite landing blows with his Valyrian sword, and then let the Iron born hit him with a volley of dragon glass arrow heads.
In the interview they even said that a Jon showdown with the king felt wrong to them. Also having someone hit the night king hit with anything by anyone was just not Jon's plan. He banked it all on fire killing him, because he didn't even suspect that he'd ever be in a position to attack him in any other way.
Yes, I get the same impression after listening to it. Thanks for highlighting that point. I had seen the special after the episode but had missed that.
It didn't have to be a part of a plan.
JS had his moment where he almost faced off with the NK. Let that scene play out a little longer and we see Valyrian steel won't kill the NK.
Once the NK reaches the Iron Born we see Dragon glass arrow heads won't kill the NK.
We already know that dragon fire didn't kill the NK, so once he reaches Bran the audience are thinking the NK is pretty much invincible. Cue Arya..
But Valyrian steel did kill him, that us what Arya’s dagger was.
I suppose that would require exposition on why he died that time. I guess Bran would be able to provide said exposition. Not clear if it would be better though given time constraints.
Apparently it was only because she accidentally struck him in the spot that he was struck when he was created.
EDIT: I wonder if George RR Martin really intended for things to play out exactly this way... It seemed that the show was going in a direction that fate does not exist, and prophecies don't have to come true. Looks like it is now saying that everything played out just how it always would have, people were just reading the prophecies wrong.
Things playing out exactly how they inevitably would have is kind of boring.
^ The Night King doesn't exist in the novels.
The novels are so behind the show that it's very possible that he was going to be introduced. We'll never know now even if the final novels are written, as Martin will obviously have been influenced by the show one way or another.
Yet visual evidence from their own show disproves their claim.
So the people that wrote the scene are lying to us? lol
I don't think that they're wilfully "lying", but their explanation is, well, pretty dumb. It doesn't fit with what was shown in the scene itself. We can see in the flashback sequence where the Night King was stabbed during his creation, and it's not the same place in which he was stabbed by Arya.
There was nowhere for him to go, literally or figuratively.
Yeah he was dead no matter what he did at that point.I'm not complaining that he died, I was expecting that as soon as he showed up back in Winterfell and especially when he volunteered to protect Bran.Well, I suppose he was exhausted and expending the last of his energy.
Exactly. I don’t know why there is a desire to more complicate that moment as a way to “explain” something that was pretty clear.
She stabbed him with a blade that has supernatural qualities. Why does there have to be more to it?
There doesn't have to, but there is.
And Jon Snow had his showdown with the Dragon, he almost scared the Dragon away if he had more time 
I'm amazed at the debate about Arya. Arya has been learning to be a "ninja" warrior since the first season. She developed her skills throughout the series, including fighting while blind. We have seen the skills of the faceless assassins since the second season. We are not supposed to see how the assassins move--we never have. (Personally, I would have liked to have seen her wearing the face a white walker but it wasn't necessary.) Arya coming out of nowhere, using the same move against the Night King that we've already seen her use against Brienne, using the same dagger that was used to create the Night King as we have already seen TWICE is more than enough. The episode was done excellently in this regard. An excellent story is when we don't see the end coming but it all makes sense once it has happened--and that's what we got. We don't need to have the steps in between spelled out for us because that would just be demeaning to the viewer.
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