A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Proteus_MST]

Which IIRC was exactly what we had seen in the series.
Of course that raises the question why he didn´t freeze to death in the icy waters of the northern shores

[BeBMan]

It was shown? Don't remember, or maybe I missed it back then

[pchang]

They did show the giant wading into the water. Since they're from north of the wall, they must be adapted for the cold.....

[rah]

Even though they didn't show it, I always assumed that eventually he got on one of the ships. I did wonder how that was accomplished though.
You figure that eventually the water got too deep for him to walk

[Dinner]

Why don't the zombies just walk under water? It is not like they have to breath so they could go around the wall and just pop up on a beach south of the wall.

[DaShi]

Ice zombies float

[Dinner]

Well, in the last chapter of the latest book Jon sent some black watch guys on ships to Hardhome from East Watch by the Sea using the Night's Watch ships and the three ships borrowed from the Iron Bank of Bravos. He gets a crow back saying the wildlings won't get on the ships because they think they are slaves and that there are "dead things in the water". The red witch keeps telling him his fleet is lost and then Jon gets stabbed later that night after the whole talk of leading a wildling army to attack the Dreadfort and save fake Arya.

[Lorizael]

Figured the ice zombies would freeze the water they walked into, trapping themselves beneath the sea and getting precisely nowhere.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

My money's on them fizzing furiously and dissolving like an Alka-Seltzer.

[rah]

It had to be something. They didn't seem to have any problems jumping, en mass, off a cliff, but a little water stopped them.

[pchang]

Figured the ice zombies would freeze the water they walked into, trapping themselves beneath the sea and getting precisely nowhere.

I could see a cool visual for defeating them with a bucket brigade. Splash them with water and freeze them in place.

[Dinner]

The zombies don't freeze anything just the others.

[pchang]

Well, once the bosses are frozen in place, will the zombies do anything or will they just stand around?

[Dinner]

That is a good question. Truthfully, how the white walkers worm has never been explained. From the last episode of the TV show we see one of the others some how reanimated the dead as white walkers but in the books it is never explained beyond that it is something the others do.

[Ecthy]