I was kinda shocked, I wasn’t prepared to see that happening right now, but honestly I like it how it is. Plus she doesn’t really just use her bare hands to destroy the helm, she almost goes (again) into that banshee form.
And… Don’t be so sure about saying good bye for good to the Lich King. We can think "wow, blizzard got balls to destroy one of the (if not the most iconic) “antagonist” of the Warcraft universe, they don’t rely on fan service… but eh.
Don’t like being that kind of guy pretending to predict how things will go on in 3 years, but the destruction of the helm being the reason to the opening to the shadowlands, one way to close it screams to me…
Plus Ion saying right after the cinematic “There must always be a Lich King, and for the first time there isn’t”.
We won’t kill that “thing” who probably had many names, the last one being remembered by a little part of Azeroth, some trolls, is probably “Mueh’Zala”, which is said to be even older that the Titans. (And I like that idea, Titans being not all mighty, they never had power on Death itself, we’re drifting away from the constant threat of the void, it became hard to find any other villain that could find its place between all that void stories).
And I think it’s clear Arthas will play some role here (Unless I missed something?).
I clearly see a way of ending his tragedy once and for all, his soul being fused with Nerzh’ul, the identity of the Lich King being part of him, and one way or another using that to close the rift.
Yeah I really don’t like being like that, trying to see too much in the future.
But what one must keep in mind is, I think, we’ll hear “There must always be a Lich King” some more.
Yeah, I wen’t off topic, sorry about that.