Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Amarok]

I'm saying that for the scale and scope of the threat, for the entire battle to be over in a matter of hours was... unexpected.  Basically, the first major battle that the NK fights south of the wall and he's dead.  Seemed too easy for such an existential threat.

Why should it have been the first rather then the last ? And again easy by comparison to what ? Do you have some profound math that calculates how hard he should have been to beat ?

I'm not saying that the Dothraki would have been effective at Hardhome, I'm saying that Jon saw the kind of relentless onslaught of attack the army of the dead have and he still thought sending the Dothraki across a field in the dark without dragonglass weapons - because 100% they were not expecting Melisandre to show up and light their blades on fire - was monumentally bad planning.  The way it would have gone down without even the hope of Melisandre's fire blades would have been Jon doing exactly the stupid thing he was warning against: sending an ill-equipped army into battle against an enemy that would immediately kill that army and suck its victims into its own regiments was stupid.

Nor did I say you said it . I said they used the Dothraki in a way they inherently fight in really the only role they would be useful . And you realize their wasn't anywhere near enough dragon glass for everyone.

You can still have symbolic darkness and an episode where you can see what's happening

Wouldn't have been as scary

Predictability in story-telling is usually bad

Then you must hate an awful lot of stories

Because he's 8-fucking-thousand years old and magic.

So? Why should being old and magical make you hard to kill . The old three eyed Raven was both he died easily . The Children of the forest were both and they were nearly wiped out by barbarians with bronze weapons . Stannis effortlessly strangled Melisandre (thou didn't kill her) . This show has made it clear being old and magical doesn't mean much .

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No shit?!! But keeping your troops alive is equally, if not more important.

That's an ill defined term . How many troops ? How many is an acceptable sacrifice and to what ends ? And going back to your chess analogy they received a check mate and wiped the board  clean .

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Charging into the darkness?? no.

Charging period yes

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Uhm... I don't know what "dragon fire arrow idea" you're talking about. I said no such thing.

Sorry I was confusing you comment for someone else's 

The defenders prepared the trench, so they could have set up whatever system for setting it off they wanted. I understand a single arrow fired directly into it wouldn't work, because if it was that easy to light it, it could have happened too early, by accident. But something like a pile of easily flammable material at the far end of the trench, that someone would shoot a flaming arrow, or throw a torch into - that could have worked.

You do remember that white walkers can snuff out fire and there is nothing stopping him from using his dragon to simply stomp the flames out .

They are? LOL. Well, then someone should have told Theon and the Ironborn guarding Bran, because they were using bows - quite successfully - against wights, until they ran out of arrows

1. Because they using dragon glass which not everyone had access to 

2. They weren't up against a horde 

3. If the used arrows the night king would just use his dragon an torch them so it would have done shit .