Atomic Playboy
Lifer
- Feb 6, 2007
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why wasn't there an archer with Grenn's group to hold the Gate, especially since there's a 2nd gate to delay them if they get past the first?
hell, why not give all 5 men bows + arrows? u don't even have to aim. the enemy will be confined in a tunnel. just shoot straight.
take a few more down b4 the 2nd gate falls?
They were fighting a giant. A giant who had already been shot dozens of times and didn't seem much worse the wear for it. A normal arrow to a giant is like a chopstick to you; yeah, with enough of them piercing you, it will probably take you down, but the first hundred are just going to feel like shitty acupuncture. We saw that the interior gate was smashed open in a corner, which likely came from the giant's initial charge (which took all of 20 seconds). Basically, even if every Crow left was firing arrows at that thing, they weren't taking it down before it breached the defenses, and when it gets its hands on you, it makes the Mountain look like the Imp. That said, they had a giant steel anchor embedded in the wall; why not use some of that steel to make a wall three feet thick in the tunnel? What giant is getting through that?
Also, a complaint about the episode; the battle clearly takes place at night (either that or the contrast on my TV is broken). When they open the gate for Jon to leave, it's daylight, indicating that several hours have passed since the battle broke. Yet Jon talks to Sam as if they're just finding the bodies of the Crows and the giant in the tunnel for the first time. Either they all went to sleep for a few hours without bothering to figure out whether or not the tunnel was actually breached, or they figured out the tunnel was secure, left the corpses overnight and came back in the morning... but that doesn't make any sense, because Jon's immediate command is to burn them to ensure they don't come back as ice zombies. Either way, they completely shit the bed dealing with the tunnel defense in the wake of the battle. Investigate it, ensure you're still secure, burn the potential zombie corpses and THEN take a nap. No wonder Jon was made a steward.