Her tone seemed boastful and confident, not the kind to let the Seven Kingdoms slip away from her now if they just asked nicely enough.

Well, Bran does for one. Maybe he can give his visions to other people? Maybe there's some way to prove Jon Snow is a Targaryen? Can the Red Priests show he has king's blood? Has he ever been burned?

I believe the implication was the complete opposite. It wasn't a promise - it was a threat. The other kingdoms could ask for their independence, but let's see if they still want that when she brings her dragons across the Narrow Sea and burns their houses to the ground.

Dany only said the other kingdoms could ask for their independence. She said nothing about giving that to them.

None of that matters. The irony is that Dany's devoted her entire life to reclaiming what she thinks is rightfully her's, and it turns out it was never her's to begin with. Same goes for Viserys, except that he never came anywhere as close as his sister has to making that a reality. Finding that out right after she…

I don't get your point.

Holy shit, this is going to end like Oedipus, isn't it? Just with his aunt instead of his mother.

Unless Rhaegar married Lyanna, which he almost assuredly did.

King *in* the North, not just *of* the North. He's rallied more than just the North behind him. Especially now that the person sitting on the Iron Throne has almost no one behind her, I can easily see even more getting behind this King in the North as the threat of the White Walkers looms closer.

SHE'S HIS AUNT.

Not if Rhaegar married Lyanna, which he almost assuredly did.

He accepted a role as king in this episode. It doesn't matter if he wants it or not, what matters is that he's more than willing to be that if it can save the people from the White Walkers. Dany and Viserys believed the people of Westeros were clamoring for the return of a Targaryen king. They weren't until this…

Rhaegar almost assuredly married Lyanna. A lot of Targaryens took multiple wives.

Heh. It's funny because Daario was in Deadpool.

Love the irony in revealing R+L=J RIGHT after Dany "gets everything she wants" (as Tyrion put it) and finally launches her invasion of Westeros to reclaim what she believes is rightfully her's. Unless we're for some reason not supposed to think he's Rhaegar's son, Jon is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne under…

It's not a huge surprise, but the AV Club also dropped the reviews for the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series on Disney XD. Kevin Johnson said he seriously doubts he'd come back to review the second season of the show in his review of the episode he thought was the season finale but actually wasn't. There's no…

You'll also note this is only the third newswire posted today. The AV Club usually doesn't put anything up over the weekends, and Saturdays in particular tend to be slow news days entertainment wise. There isn't much else a Newswire would be written about on a Saturday other than to report on someone's death.

That's part of the humor.

It's not his most-watched video, but my personal favorite of his videos is his analysis of the weekend where Valve and Bethesda tried to implement a system for monetized Skyrim mods. Humorous, incredibly detailed, and reaches conclusions no one else seems to have.

The warnings were the rise of the far-Right movements like UKIP, the Tea Party, Greece's Golden Dawn, etc. The rise of Trump and Brexit are just the results of that. If it took you this long to realize the Western World was sliding back into those feelings, you weren't paying close enough attention.