I thought it was a fucking awesome episode, and I don't think that their trip is stupid at all. How else do you convince someone that this threat is very, very real and marching towards the Seven Kingdoms? Cersei Lannister and the Iron Throne mean nothing when it comes to the Night King and his army - Jon Snow is so right for doing what he needs to do to convince people of their existence. He's one person that could care less about taking the throne. And so far, it has paid off, but yes - at a cost. A big cost.
Again; it's uncharacteristic of Cersei to give a fuck about it, even if she believed it. And Tyrion should know that.
That last Dragonstone meeting about Cersei doesn't make sense to me. What do they want from her again?! Pledge an armistice? In what world do they think she'd keep a promise and not stab them in the back? If none of them know her, and Varys does, at least Tyrion should have told them she can't be trusted!
Besides, character-wise Cersei shouldn't believe any of this even if she saw a wight, she probably would believe it if she saw a white walker but wights may just as well be magic or something an ambitious maester like Qyburn created. Then the question of even if she believes them, why would she care? She's losing a war and this new unbelievable danger they speak of is threatening to wipe everybody out, it's much more characteristic of Cersei to let all her enemies die with her than help them get rid of their problem then wait for them to turn around and fight her again.
Maybe Cersei would pretend to believe them and agree to the armistice, then attack them when they go north. That'd be Cersei 101 and it would be pretty weak writing that Tyrion didn't see it coming.
But let's bite into the hypothetical of Cersei actually giving a fuck, let's say she does cause she's pregnant and wants her newborn to survive, even though we've already seen Cersei ready to kill Tommen once before when she thought the battle of Blackwater bay was lost so she wouldn't really be struggling with the concept.
But okay, she cares to stop the world from ending, does that still warrant all the loss they suffered to get that wight? I think just getting rid of Cersei would have been easier. Cause let's face it here, what was the plan beyond the wall? To find a drifter wight? Jon knows they run in huge ruthless packs! It was a suicidal mission and they lost more than they gained out of it IMO.
The logistics of the trip just seemed really stupid because outside of that little sortee that we saw the walkers have notoriously traveled by the thousands so were they just hoping to randomly run into one? The situation they found themselves in seemed like the only obvious conclusion to them traveling out there.
Yep!
The night king knew they were coming and he set a trap. He needs a dragon to melt the wall (assuming it still breathes fire). He had the chains ready to go and intentionally held his army back until the dragons were almost there. I think he can see all things like Bran.
I think that's possible but a little far fetched, they have given us no indication that the night king has the sight. It would explain how the Night King knew they were gonna device such a Rick Grimes kinda plan so he'd set a trap to, cause there was no way he could've presume they were gonna be this stupid.
The Night King doesn't need the dragon to melt the wall, his problem with the wall is not it's size, but the magic built into it. Like the one that prevented him from entering the three-eyed raven cave until he put his mark on Bran.