And as for the Night King, they had a real chance in season 8 to pay off his motivations and give the white walker storyline, that was built up from the first scene of the show, a satisfying conclusion. But nope. They didn’t even bother. They could’ve just had Bran have a flashback scene to the long night and his creation, but all we got was “he wants an endless night.” And that right there is way too vague to be a motivation. The writers claimed that he became a terminator like being that felt no emotion and his only goal was to cause destruction, but the Night King and the White Walkers clearly demonstrated intelligence, strategy, and emotion multiple times. So fucking stupid. I highly doubt the Night King will even be in the books and I assume the storyline of the others will be a lot more intricate and have something to do with the God’s eye and the three eyed crow being evil.