Of course not. It’s much more complicated in the modern context. I was merely pointing out that claiming that this is akin to killing innocent civilians when droning or attacking enemy combatants that don’t wear uniforms and hide amongst the population is an objectively poor comparison to what Dany did last night.…

Did you mention the biggest casualty: logical consistency and decent writing? 

Agreed. It was gratuitous and exhausting. We got multiple different scenes of Arya running from buildings and dragonfire that all felt exactly the same to me. Take out 90% of those scenes, have Euron die with his fleet so that you can cut out the useless duel (why the fuck did that happen? Jamie didn’t die from his…

“not sure about that, as in modern warfare the term of war is so lousely applied that even undeclared wars with civil casualities are normal now...”

“it is just that until now, she more or less always got what she wanted.”

I mean, the writers literally did have her saying “I’ll be loved or feared...” and then had her kiss Jon and decide that when he spurned her she was going to go the fear route. I agree that there was a lot of build up that led to that moment, but we can’t overlook what the writers explicitly told us went into her…

I thought this too. Especially if you think about the claim logically. Jon is RENOWNED for being a bastard. Everyone knows he is Ned Starks bastard son, and everyone would roll their eyes at the thought that Ned would allow such a vile lie to propagate if Jon wasn’t his son. And it would be incredibly convenient for…

That has been the most frustrating thing about how people have responded to gaffes by AOC and Omar and other inexperienced but incredibly popular democratic lawmakers. If any republican was getting this much attention and widespread praise for this statements (take Dan Crenshaw for example), we wouldn’t all be bending…

THAT would have been satisfying. Sandor spends all this time planning to kill his brother, sees him, realizes he’s already dead, and abandons his goal. It would have made vastly more sense for him to be the one that backed out at the last minute than for Arya to have. 

Didn’t she leave people behind to assist? What was her boyfriends name? Not to mention that you’re clearly making a lot of assumptions about what kind of a vacuum she left behind her. Sorry, but the show wasn’t all that interested in showing us the back room dealings as they negotiated a form of government for a…

I would have liked it more if The Mountain’s big reveal was that he didn’t look like Humpty Dumpty had been put back together again. Between how ridiculous he looked and the slow, plodding way the fight actually went down, I’d say it was incredibly boring and overwrought. But hey, the background did look kinda cool :)

Agreed. The dialogue was pretty mediocre (SOOOO on the nose- anyone who has paid attention to the show knows the backbone of their relationship was Jamie treating Tyrion like a human being and a brother. We didn’t need that explicitly spelled out for us), but I think Dinklage did some phenomenal work with it. 

It was amazing. They had multiple shots of her blowing up scorpions, and literally everytime the things were just impotently pointed out to the horizon. JUST LAST WEEK they established how dangerous those things were for dragons, and this week they may as well have been paper mache. What’s worse is that Dany defeats…

And he always comes close to killing them, but never quite gets there. 

Agreed. Why not show the two of them having a few conversations on the weeks long trip (umm, I mean instantaneous travel) from Winterfell to King’s Landing? You can have The Hound laying the foundation for this very development over time by explaining how awful his life has been because of his focus on getting back at…

The same Euron who told Yara he’d simply sail away from King’s Landing if things went south? The guy who couldn’t care less about anything and was just a big maguffin to do things on the show? The same guy who just saw his entire fleet wiped out by dragonfire and knew that Dany was decimating King’s Landing and that…

Exactly. Martin’s subversions were grounded in the choices the characters made, not in the necessities of the plot rushing forwards as quickly as possible. It’d be one thing if we saw Jamie wrestle with his redemption in Winterfell after he realizes what will happen to Cersei, and then see him ultimately abandon his…

The complaints have more to do with the fact that they undid his arc so sloppily and swiftly, and in a way that doesn’t make sense given what they’ve shown us of the character. It would be like if at the end of Endgame, Bucky just shot Cap in the back and then had the writer be like “What?! He’s a brainwashed Hydra…

“At this point, the characters are saying what they are doing.”

Ehhh, Martin created the themes and the characters in the first 5 seasons. The showrunners just had to make what he wrote look cool and interesting. Which, to be fair, even after they got past the books the show has LOOKED cool and interesting. But it’s been clear since that time that the showrunners and writers had…