Kentucky Fried Videotape

I’m assuming the prior ideas all SUCKED in some way.

I liked it as a kid, and I still do.

Stop melting my murdered snowmen!

Classic tragedies can do well despite everyone knowing where they are heading.

Sansa, Littlefinger, and the Knights of the Vale actually won the Battle of the Bastards. Then Sansa outmaneuvered Littlefinger and got rid of him. Then as Lady of Winterfell, she helped orchestrate the defense of Winterfell with all its allies, including Dany, but without ever actually bending the knee to Dany. And…

The North being independent was not necessarily to Sansa’s personal advantage. Tyrion basically just convinced the other rulers to create a standing, but limited in number, Great Council, with the power to appoint—and maybe depose?—the ruler of the Kingdoms. Going independent is probably what the North thinks it…

I agree she was not insane. She wanted very much to be ruler of Westeros, and believed (even if just for rationalization purposes, which is not an insane or unusual habit) that her being ruler of Westeros would be for the greater good.

My sense was Tyrion was trying to prevent another big war of succession from breaking out by pitching this idea that ALL the top regional rulers could collectively be the power behind the throne. Sansa was therefore being offered the same deal as all the other regional rulers.

My wife and I watching were initially like, “Um, so they couldn’t try just moving a few feet over?”

Yeah, I actually thought that was all VERY necessary. To justify to herself becoming a tyrant, she had to be convinced she could only rule Westeros by fear. Her personally learning Jon’s heritage, combined with watching how people responded to learning his heritage by immediately betraying her (in a straight chain…

I saw what I thought looked like bolts shooting by in the background.

Yeah, if the dragons can’t be killed in the air by people without dragons, then everything is impossibly weighted in Dany’s direction. Maybe Arya could assassinate Dany, or maybe you could poison the dragons. But other than that sort of thing, you have no mechanism for her losing a battle, or even being at risk of…

To me it looks like others are missing while those are hitting.  The problem is if they don’t hit they will just be zipping by in small fractions of seconds.

Dany is not a quick--or good--thinker in terms of dragon tactics. But she might have been working on it in preparation for the next episode.

To me it looks like a bunch of bolts are missing too.  If you imagine this was basically a shotgun pattern and only a few hit, that makes a lot more sense.

I think she was crying as much for Jaime as herself.

Bran actually makes the case the real hero is Jaime, for pushing him out the window.

Jon is Aragorn, distracting Sauron while the real threat sneaks up on him.

Does it help if you think of it as Bran plotting to kill the Night King? And he uses Jon as a diversion and Arya as the unexpected assassin because that might actually work? Jon is not subtle. And a front assault on the Night King actually working makes no real sense—ask Theon.