I don't watch premiere on HBO at 1am. I watch GoT online and when I read the comments, I always see "Thank you, good man who publishes these episodes!"
also it's pretty unpredictable, if you ask me. there were many moments when i thought jon might actually die, or really, any of them might. it was a relief that only wun wun died.
the sheer amount of luck that allowed jon to survive is what we're supposed to take away from that glimpse of the chaotic nature of true warfare. no one is going to make it out alive without being extremely fortunate. jon just happened to dodge all those arrows that fell down around him. is the Red God protecting him?
i don't think it matters. the reality is that he survived insurmountable odds, but just barely. that's what war really is: a hell from which only those with 'divine' luck happen to escape from
i can defend rickon not zig-zagging. it was actually very deliberately set up by ramsay.
first, note the burning flayed men stakes act as wind and distance markers. this is a carefully laid out battlefield for ramsay.
next, look carefully at how he fires his first arrows at rickon. they are intentionally way off the mark. when he fires the second arrow, he actually turns away from his aiming, to look at his archer and smirk.
basically, he's giving rickon a false sense of hope that ramsay isn't as good at archery as he actually is, and u can see rickon looks at where those first two arrows fall.
by the time rickon is halfway through the field, ramsay goes for the final shot, which is shown with a closeup of him looking precisely down the line of sight of the arrow's head. this is the only shot ramsay needed, and he basically baits rickon into running straight for jon, because rickon thinks he can make it to jon if he just goes quickly enough.
so does jon, and thus jon gets trapped in a hail of arrows and has to advance into certain death.
