I have to say that this theory at least underestimates the aggressiveness of the White Walkers' response.
It may well be that the White Walkers are in fact 'reasonable' in their eyes, or that men are in fact in violation of some longstanding and now forgotten agreement. But I don't think you can say the White Walkers are using anything like the minimum of force that would be necessary to enforce the agreement. If nothing else you'd think they would at least send an emissary to TALK to the Night's Watch about all this.
In the books, Cersei manages to systematically throw away everyone with a position of real power and replace them with nonentities, or with people who are so busy doing their own thing (Qyburn and his experiments) that they pretty much leave her alone otherwise. That might partially explain it.TheFeniX wrote:But I guess Cersei's ego sucked up all the intrigue that used to envelope KL.
This is essentially how White Walkers operate, so yeah.Ok, so Blizzard brings in the zombies, they eat everyone outside, turn them into more zombies? That should have taken a bit longer to kill everyone. People weren't bashing into the gate and screaming in pain, they were screaming in fear and I didn't hear any hacking or eating of flesh. It was just screaming, then quiet, then ZOMBIES! I assumed the blizzard killed then made them into zombies outright.FaxModem1 wrote:I think it was less magical blizzard killing and turning all the people beyond the gate than the army of freaking zombies quickly turning a huge mass of unarmed people into wights/zombies and really boosting their manpower.