“He is coming to claim his Night Queen - Danerys or Cersei”
“Or Sansa. Sansa is of the North.”
I guess like so many others, I have grown attached to the Starks. So yeah, Sansa or Arya might fit that bill as well - maybe better than Cersei. Danerys makes for a good Ice and Fire combo though.
I have heard other folks speculate that the Army of the Dead might need to win this battle in Winterfell, to keep things building toward a big battle in episode 5 somewhere else.
Alternatively, a climactic battle at Winterfell might be held off until then, in a siege.
They still might kill everybody off though. SOMEBODY ought to die in the next episode. I’m guessing some of the second string should start going.
I’m betting on at least Greyworm next episode. He’s outside the walls, and the “Let’s run away after all this” seemed like a setup to make his death more poignant.
My daughter reminded me of Danerys' vision which was very early in the series. One of the visions was of the throne room where there was a hole in the ceiling and it was snowing inside the room. No one was sitting on the Iron Throne.
See 178, this isn’t the final battle to save Humanity... (I mean the author could make it that way) but it doesn’t make sense if it is, most of humanity would never believe the things even existed, if they are defeated in their first real confrontation with Humans in 1000 years, in the far north...
I would expect the final battle to be later, and closer to the heart of the continent, not some northern outpost, most of Humanity will never know or see.