Biscayne
Ocean air
I rewatch from jump every year.. It truly is amazing how this show just flipped the script.. but really didn't
starts off, first scene, with the white walkers.. Then they just let you forget about it until damn near episode 7... I'm watching with this girl for her first time. She completely forgot about them. I'm thinking to myself, we haven't even got to magic, faceless men, dragons, wars, deceptions, or even the walkers true numbers
Watching season 1 and watching season 7 is like two different shows. But it was always about the white walkers. But also, never about them
The story is so well written. GRRM is a wiz. Like you said, as the story progressed it was no longer about the white walkers, YET it was always about them. Every conflict and every major death that spawned from the petty conflicts are all part of many prohecies by the many prophets, greenseers, woodwitches, wizards, servants etc that serve their various religions in the ASOIF world. Whether its R'hllor(Lord Of Light), The Old Gods Of Westeros/The North(children of the forest religion), Valyrian greensight(Dany, and other past Targaryens had prophetic dreams), etc, all these ppl had various prophecies come true concerning the petty conflicts of the current story. And the deaths and or events from these conflicts ontribute to humanities fate. Magic was always still apart of the story. Just beneath the surface.