Now, it may very well have been just your good old fashioned MacGuffin, HOWEVER on closer inspection of the scene at the end.
You never actually see Sam or the mounted White Walker make eye contact. It is cleverly implied. Sam clearly hears the hooves padding through the snow and hears the rattling chains and the White Walker looks off to the left and then shrieks an order/battlecry.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUT, when the pan out begins, we see:
The large rock is IN FRONT of the mounted white walker.
The only other rock in the entire pan out is tiny and there is no shallow on the other side.
And Sam is clearly seen getting behind a rock with a shallow which, when he sits down, gives about a foot of cover above
Therefore
- The walkers never actually saw him
- He pressed his back against the rock and waited until he thought they had all gone past
- He then legged it!
The council for the defense rests m'lud, although I would like to say at this point. This whole bit feels like it was just rammed in for a cliffhanger, and is actually full of gaffs!
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