[Yasi]

Overall, it was a good episode, but I am afraid GoT is losing a bit of what made it a great series initially:

 

GoT has always been able to kill protagonists.
Playing an important role with a big share of screen time didn't protect you from dying.

As stated somewhere above, several key People were fighting an overwhelming force of undead for several hours, just to barely survive - a miracle! Even the fat kid survived after spending the entire episode buried and crying under a pile of zombies.

The ones who died even got their heroic death. Little girl died just after killing an undead hill giant; Dany's step grandfather protected Dany for as long as necessary before his death; Theon protected Bran; Even Melisandre had her decisive moment in telling Arya to go for the NK.

Death of NK then pretty much came out of nowhere, although I liked the little wind/hair scene. Before that, I was hoping Bran would turn into something powerful and kill NK himself. Perhaps hiding a shard below his skirt over the last 25 episodes while faking his paralysis.

Going a bit too much Disney for my taste. But perhaps they manage to return to the good old GoT magic in the next episodes. Too early too judge now.

Btw, I loved that everyone kept ignoring the misogynist's rants in this thread for most of the time. Keep going.