I dont think the plan was to send the Dothraki out like that. They kinda just got pumped up/warchanting and went on their own when Mel lit their swords on fire. Jorrah kinda got pushed into it, the scene showed him stuck in the middle and his horse bugged out and started running with them.
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:-)
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That's not necessary though, and the plot could make just as much sense approaching it differently and using the castle as the defensive bulwark it's intended to be. Put the soldiers all on the castle walls. Sit a dragon at each corner. Their plan was to lure the NK into the weirwood area. Sending riders away from the castle doesn't help that. It's just a waste that lowers your numbers and provides more dead bodies for the zombie necromancer.
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If I want not-really historically-accurate medieval battles I'll turn on Knightfall or Vikings or some other History shit. This is fucking Game of Thrones. Who gives a shit about the height of Winterfell's fucking walls or how General Dipshit, online tactical genious, would have placed the troops. Give me fire and blood and crazy stunts and heroic last stands and long stretches of terror and end it all with the winners in tears and I'm good.
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It's not like there is a history of planning to fight an army of the dead.

The NK could have just sat back and starved them out as well.
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Ok that makes more sense then, thanks. I knew they were trying to lure the guy out but didn’t make that link. I guess it’s a bit like the Frodo when he puts the ring on and Sauron can see him thing. In fact they probably ripped that off but in a worse way and probably should’ve spelled it out for idiots like me
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Then it would have been nice to have a fucking plan in the first place, no? Something other than "Hey look flaming khopesh! Whoo, let's rock!" which gets 1/3 of your soldiers dead in ~90 seconds. I mean, the visual was pretty awesome. But that's really the only purpose it served, to show the dark extinguishing the light.
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The dothraki do whatever the fuck they want to do.
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Also is the night king the reanimated corpse of darth Maul?
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They had a pretty good idea how big an army the NK had. It seemed silly to me they would send some of their best fighters into a charge on something they couldn't see. It didn't make sense but whatever.
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That's just an excuse for lazy writing which has been mostly unnecessary for the previous 7 seasons.
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waiting for the hound to get it

his thing for arya overrides his knack for selfpreservation/he turns into a wimpo until she's in trouble then its full bore to the rescue

he has to die trying to save her in some way int the future
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Remember that Bron is still out there gunning for Tyrion.

Going to be heartbreaking if Sansa or Jamie takes one in the chest for him. :-)
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He said last week that TNK knows where he's at all the time since he's marked...I mean I guess to get him specifically to the Godswood maybe?

I thought it might be for something we haven't seen yet...what that is, I don't know.
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Also, Bran gave Arya the dagger in the exact same spot where she killed the Night King. There is a good chance that during the battle Bran was pulling a Bill & Ted and influencing things in the past to help win the battle. When he gave the dagger to Arya, he had a bit of a WTF look on his face because he may have been speaking to himself from the future telling himself to give her the dagger.

About the Dothraki, they charge because that's what they do. They are not meant to be a fortified unit like the Unsullied. However, they absolutely should not have been used as the front line. If anything, they should have flanked the dead after the initial clash with the Unsullied.
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