Lol yeah, after a quick google I'm seeing people discussing the salt content in the waters in different areas of Westeros and how it could hurt them, haha
Should have been nicer to Meera, Bran, and maybe she'd help you all make your stand at Moat Cailin instead
I guess the goal is to prevent the army of the dead from getting that far south. Also Winterfell is a more meaningful location from a storytelling standpoint obviously. But yeah Moat Cailin definitely would be a better place to make their last stand from a tactics perspective lol
One of the White Walkers probably attached the chains to Viserion's corpse, and then the wights pulled it out.
Ohhh so it’s more like a white walker and not a wight. Cuz he just raised his arms and all those wights came to life
I don’t think it’s that they can’t be in water or touch it, they just simply can’t get out of it. They’re reanimated corpses with likely no ability to float or swim. They had to wait until the ice froze to get at Jon and co. last season so they all didn’t just wind up piling up in the bottom of the lake. NK sending a few to their death deaths to wrap a rope around the dragon’s neck doesn’t seem to crazy in theory to me. He can control them, but he doesn’t move them with his mind. More meaningful yes, but also its location was easier for all of the northern families to meet at. The largest army, which is Khaleesi’s, went straight there with Jon for obvious reasons. With the amount of time they had, makes sense for everyone that could to come to them. Winterfell I believe holds the reputation of being unpenetrated until Jon took it back.
Watching mindless zombies do the complicated work of getting a massive chain around a dead dragon underwater would be as amazing for a mini episode as watching them interpret the NK’s artistic ideas over and over again.
White Walkers are technically not dead, just turned into essentially a mythical being/force created by the Night King. they have powers like their strength, sight, and also the ability to raise the dead (create wights). They're also unharmed by regular fire and steel. Viserion being dead beforehand means he is just simply a reanimated beast corpse. Not an "ice dragon" per se, just a blue-tinted undead one.
I believe so, but since the White Walkers are involved with the seasons being out of wack, I'd imagine eventually they could just freeze the oceans to cross.
I didn’t think they could swim either. But they somehow jumped out of the frozen lake in Beyond The Wall.
shot of the NK heavy frustration sighing as they pull only the chain back out of the water while trial and error-ing how to keep it secured