The Night King Change That Could've Saved Game of Thrones' Ending
The climax of the Night King’s storyline from Game of Thrones was, like much of the rest of the conclusion of the show, not well received, but a few small changes could have saved his ending. After several seasons of hype, the Night King and his army came and went from Westeros with the audience learning little about who he was, what he wanted, or why he wanted it. The reasons why a villain with so much potential failed to live up to expectation has been explored time and again. Less investigated is what could have been. The elements were there in the story for the Night King to be the big bad that audiences wanted, and if showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had dug just a little deeper, these small changes could’ve made all the difference.
Throughout Game of Thrones, the Night King was portrayed less as a character and more as a force of nature. This was an intimidating place for the evil King to start but leaves little opportunity for growth. There is no reason the Night King could not have evolved into a more realized, emotional villain. The groundwork was laid down by the writers of the show in earlier seasons; all that was needed was to explore those ideas.
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The Night King’s backstory was shrouded in mystery for much of the series until his origins came to light in the Game of Thrones season 6 episode «The Door.» Through one of Bran’s visions, the audience learns that the Night King was once an ordinary man who was transformed into the horrible champion of the undead by the Children of the Forest. It is from this origin story that the Night King’s motivation and end goal could have been fully realized.
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