Did the White Walkers spare Sam?

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!

If you look at all the things individually then

1. Sam is slow and not a good warrior (This is something anyone can make out through previous episodes)

2. There are too.. many White Walkers to escape from.

3. White Walkers are not forgiving or sparing (Can be seen in previous episodes)

All of the above three things if added up will surely guarantee that Sam would definitely be killed by the White Walkers.

But on the contrary He does manage to escape.

The only conclusion that comes out, that how Sam managed to do this is.... is through the courtesy of the script writers of the show.

Possible reasons: 1. This can be considered a technical error on the makers part. 2. They had to keep Sam alive as he may come of use in the future episodes. 3. He may be important for the story.

Or

There may be some other reason that may be revealed in the future episodes.

Or

One other possibility is that through some miracle Sam manages to outsmart the White Walkers and walks away from certain death. This may easily be true as Sam as shown in previous episodes has been a book worm and has read many books related to their history. thus he may have come across some method in the books to escape from.

Hope this answers your question.

I'm gonna answer based on what happened on the book.

This scene didn't happen at all in the book, not like this at least. This was just a cliffhanger for the final season, hence wasn't necessary to be explained in detail.

In the book, the night's watch group was attacked when camping, and Sam escaped using the Dragonglass (Obsidian) knife (BTW in the series they never tell what Dragonglass is in detail, and where did Jon and Sam found this knifes/dagger), just like when he used in the series to protect the baby boy from the white walker...

I believe there are big gaps between scenes in the TV show, and of course turn out to be confusing for people who haven't read the books.

(I apologize for my english grammar :D)

I assumed that they felt killing him just was not worth the bother of stopping what they were doing.

It is not as if he was a threat or anything. So what if he warned people, they were on the march anyway.

Assuming the walker did see him and look into his eyes, maybe he sensed that Sam had the dragon glass on him and decided not to initiate aggression since Sam was not?

I felt that because Sam just sat there and was no threat to the white walkers at all they didn't harm him... They saw that he was scared and that he wouldn't attack them so why should they attack in return.... Just my thought

I can think of 3 possible things,

1. Sam was hidden from sight, by fog.. seems unlikely though seeing the horde of White walkers.

2. Sam having dragon glass deterred them from aggression.

3. The one I like the most.. White walkers don't kill frightened people. Like the first deserter that they show, who survived and was later beheaded by Ned Stark.

I think it could be one of two possible reasons

A: Sam had the obsidian/dragon glass OR B: Maybe Sam being a virgin has something to do with it.

Just an opinion.