so, BOTTOM LINE here.
For eight years, more or less, we have been tutored on the evils of the fukkers on the north side of the Wall of Ice. They represent the great battle between Good and Evil, and were promised that at the end of the day, we would know where they came from, what their intentions are, and why they want to kill every living human south of the Wall.
And what happens? They all disintegrate when some teenager knifes the king of the white walkers. How she got to the bastard, with his hundreds of guards and whatnot, but ignoring that.
Where is the conclusion? How did they come to exist? What was their overall purpose?
It reminds me of the novel Andromeda Strain. A virus infects the whole human race, everyone is going to die, everything imaginable has been tried to kill it or neutralize it, or whatever...and it just goes away for no apparent reason. AFU.
There's a moment at the end where one white walker turns his head. but no others. I think Arya killed a white walker and took his face. That's why she was right there behind the NK, to jump and try to kill him.
Granted, that would taken a lot of time to do, and I have no explanation for that, And also granted, if she used her valerien sword or dragon glass to kill him, he would have burst to ice. So no face the carve....
I changed my last post to say that, yeah, that's a hole in the story.