scott1328 wrote:Matthew Shute wrote:The army Dany addresses in her Nuremberg Rally thingy (note, it doesn't even include all the northmen, just her own personal forces) sure would've come in handy towards the end of the Battle of Winterfell, when there looked to be a tiny handful of survivors, all named characters, holding out against hundreds of thousands of wights and a zombie dragon.

Daenerys started with 8,000 unsullied.
I know. Now go back and watch episode 3, all the way to the end. See how many seem to be in evidence after tidal waves of wights have been washing over them, or literally raining on them.
Do you really think that the "Nuremburg" shot portrayed anything close to 8,000 men?
Obviously not. How did you surmise I might've thought that?
It might have shown 500.
Possibly. Adding the Unsullied and Dothraki in those shots, there looks considerably more than that to me. But okay, let's go with 500. Is there any evidence of these 500 in the final stages of the Battle of Winterfell? Oh, we also have "thousands" of northmen left, according to Sansa, who uses their existence to threaten Greyworm. Remember this is just
weeks after the battle with the Night King, the final scenes of which suggest that the surviving troops would've been in the tens rather than the hundreds... certainly not the thousands.
Look at all those Dothraki. Here's David Beihoff, talking about the Dothraki charge in episode 3:
After the flaming
arakhs go out (very dramatic scene) we see, what, 5 returning alive, plus a handful of riderless horses? The whole point of the scene, dramatically, is that the formidable Dothraki get quickly "snuffed out" like they're nothing, just to emphasise the apparent hopelessness of the situation.
But... the next episode? The characters and audience are casually informed that
half of the entire Dothraki faction survived the battle. Eh...? WTF were they doing for the rest of the battle, then? And why did the writer himself tell us the faction had been wiped out, only to immediately summon them back into existence when Dany's forces need to look more powerful again? Because the writers have lost all sense of consequence, maybe? Let's face it, the Unsullied and the Dothraki are almost completely obliterated in one episode, then hordes of them are resurrected in the next, as if it's the writers trying to be the Night King. As electricwhiteboy put it, the numbers rise and fall depending on what the next scene or line of dialogue seems to call for.
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