The action is the city putting up any kind of resistance at all.

But there was no ultimatum. Nothing to connect the burning with the actions Dany wants to dissuade. Even under medieval sieges, besieging armies routinely sent messengers or propaganda telling the cities explicitly what would happen if they didn’t throw open their gates. This connected the actions to the consequence…

Those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear.

YOu know what would have been a better ‘shocking moment’ for the show? If in the battle, Grey Worm or the Unsullied or the Dothraki or Drogon killed Jon and his men and any witnesses on her order. He is a traitor and threat to her throne. Killing him makes ruthless sense. Killing civilians while letting her enemies…

Even a scene during the execution of Missendei where the Mountain holds up Missendei’s head and citizens inside the town cheer would have helped explain why Dany turned on the regular citizens. 

You’re right about the comparison with the littlefinger plot. Except this time it’s more infuriating because it’s not about what they chose to show, it’s about what they had their characters do.

I seriously don´t understand this “rule by fear” argument. The scene with Jon Snow is about her realizing he’s not willing to marry her and share his legitimacy and popularity with her; therefore, her claim to the throne will always be contested and she’ll have to face possible traitors and rebellions. Those…

Only if he had something to gain form it. Tywin always seemed too practical to burn down a city for no good reason.

This is exactly it! I would have 100% bought into Dany laying waste to innocent people in the midst of battle. As an “ends justifying the means, however awful” sort of way. But I 100% do not buy into Dany burning up children for absolutely no reason after the battle was won. It would have been shocking and horrible…

Read the column again. I’m sure some people are angry because they wanted Daenerys to be the good guy and win the game, but all the serious criticism i’ve read is about the execution, not the character turn per se.

Look man it’s ludicrous to say that there’s been a steady and naturalistic change in her personality over the course of the show. Pretending that there has been is such a weird hill for people to die on.

How does her killing slavers, traitors, and people who threaten to rape her to death lead to her killing hundreds of thousands of random people for no reason?

People keep saying this like hockey is a real sport anybody should care about.

Piss-poor take. It’s like someone who only watches the Super Bowl and no other games all year complaining about a crucial ineligible man downfield penalty that affects the outcome of the game. Horse racing has rules. “Leading the entire way” and “quickly straightening out his horse” is all well and good but the foul…

Exactly, I bet you can find dozens of similar example, but now we live in bullshit world where no one can accept losing anymore. 

I think the only reason for the delay was because it was the Kentucky Derby.  That would have been called in about 2 minutes at Santa Anita.  (Not that I’m there a lot or anything.)

Hasn’t this sort of thing always been present in horse racing? A jockey could always question how another horse ran and get that horse DQ’d for something like this. That is why they won’t cash tickets till the scoreboard says “official” and this system exists because horse racing survives off gambling, which is why it…

That horse wound up lanes outside where it started and absolutely could have killed the other horses AND the jockeys. War of Will’s legs actually wound up straddling Security’s for a few strides, and AFTER that move you can see Security move back inside to the rail to try and keep the inside off a clean line as well.  

I mean, if this wasn’t the most famous horse race in America that decision would have been made in like 3 minutes

You know this takes bullshit, right.