While I agree that there may be a spectrum of offensiveness in all of this, I’m pretty sure that when you add the “little short guy” trope on top of the “all Asian-Americans are from another country” suggestion on top of “all of Asia is Japan,” you’re moving pretty quickly toward the wrong end of that spectrum. I can…

Seriously, I was expecting some Pearl Harbor reference.

Terry Bradshaw in an insensitive buffoon? I never would have guessed

17 walls! Yes! and FIRE. Everyone was burned into a giant fused ball of ash, but her. She wakes up, walks out, and has a horse magically appear for her. Those Stark kids! Ammitrite??

I hope he reunites with Jon Snow and eats him.

Every character on the show is an imperialist.  They live in a monarchical world.

Dany has always been an imperialist. It’s incidental that her ideals dovetail with our progressive ones. 

The Cleganebowl was the only storyline that worked. Arya’s almost did, had she died instead of magically surviving 17 different walls collapsing on her.

He’ll be burying zombie bones around Winterfell for the next 5 years.

My husband said “Jesus fuck, just fly a fucking plane with a banner that says ‘THE BELLS ARE IMPORTANT, GUYS!1!!’ already”. It’s such lazy, paint-by-numbers storytelling.

Tyrion really didn't need to mention the bells 6 times in 10 minutes.

Awful episode in terms of narration, fantastic in terms of visuals.

Yeah, but those bells were really loud.

What’s important to note here, is that Ghost is very safe in the North, the REAL North, mind you.

It was like Truman dropping a third nuke on Japan after they surrendered, just for funsies.

D&D played dirty. Yes, Dany had shown she could go dark. But this wasn’t a gradual development, it was a switch being flicked, done only because they had to fit it into the time they allotted themselves to wrap everything up.

So, avoid the pointy end?

I think depictions of what we would today call war crimes should be jarring.  

The scorpions were only as accurate and powerful as the plot needed them to be.

The attack was amazing, but it seemed really easy for Drogon to just burn the Iron Fleet and all the ballistas, but whatever

Wow. I get that there have been hints and allusions to Dany going off the deep end, but that whole sequence of her burning the whole place down was jarring.