Just working my way backwards through the thread so I'll try and answer some of these points
1) missed the giants too, picture was dark and awful, I'll rewatch when better quality becomes available
2)old nan mentioned spiders, might of been nice to bring them out at the end. Also no mammoths or did I miss them in the dark too lol
We've never seen spiders in the show, an old woman telling a fantasy tale isn't necessarily all going to be true.
3) when nk grabbed bran worging he was marked, three eyed raven confirmed, he had a good hold of arya hence marked too, should mean something
Why? The NK is dead now. Also we don't know that he always marks people when he grabs them. I guess if they do want to to attach some meaning to it we might well find out in the coming episodes...
4) they seemed surrounded, nk was there with quite a few white walkers, how did arya who seemed really scared in the castle with a few undead milling around, sneak past, an army and basketball dunk the main man
Well she is a trained assassin now, that has been a significant part of her story arc, that she wanted to train to fight, in fact she's been training to fight since the first season, first episode even when she demonstrates much better shooting ability than Bran.
Few possibilities, she jumped from a tree, her device she got Gendry to make is some sort of glorified pogo stick thing, she changed faces with a wight or maybe she's just really good at jumping/really quick etc...
5) they have been very prepared in previous eps, like with the chains to raise viserion, why not spear throwing at the dragons again?
He did, he threw one when Jon was is a scuffle with him, he missed.
6)they have been readying for what 1000 years? Winter is coming, has been a North saying for how long, the undead don't seem to be in a hurry, they have been in contact with the roaming nights watch since s1 ep1, years and years ago, again no rush, just slow march forward for the horde it seems
It isn't clear that they have actually, they've not been seen for 1000+ years, that isn't the same as them having been preparing for that time... I dunno - was he in hibernation? The army of wights is a relatively recent thing, that is what caused the wildlings to get anxious and form an army and indeed what we started seeing at the very start of the episode when rangers form the nights watch come across some massacred wildlings.
The current white walkers have seemingly been created thanks to Craster leaving his male babies outside.
The reasons for this arrangement and/or how it came about have been kept from us, as has the night kings motivation etc.. that's all been kept as a mystery, we don't even get to hear him speak.
7) the horde of undead are one of his major weapons, why would he not raise the living who fall
He did, when he arrived on the scene and Jon tried to approach him that is exactly what he did just before he entered Winterfell, at that point they were truly ****ed
I just don't see how a pregnant queen and a pirate make for a better ending than the undead built up for 8 seasons as mankind's no1 enemy lol
I dunno, I mean it seems fairly obvious in the TV series that they're going to beat the NK etc.. as for who ends up on the throne (though yes, less important than defeating the army of the undead and the NK) isn't quite so clear.
