“Him being a total tit to Brienne was his way of doing her a kindness in his fucked-up way.”

Good.

So, basically, this.

I was okay with the show having Dany being ignored, because the show seems to think it sucks too, and it sucks in real life too.

I agree that it was sort of weird that the two of them consummated their whatever-it-was. I knew they were into each other, obviously, but figured they both understood it would never work out.

Well, except that Theon and Yara stole the Iron fleet, this is the BACKUP iron fleet that Euron whipped up in no time flat, AND it defeated the ORIGINAL iron fleet. Because Dany doesn’t have a Navy, she has Yara’s fleet (or what remains of it).

Whether or not they are real doesn't really affect my point. My point was that they were the established religion of the Andals long before the maesters and the Citadel were a thing.

The thing is, I didn’t really have a “I want it to end a certain way” attitude. But obliterating character development and creating ridiculous (and borderline racist) situations just for cheap shocks and drama, that’s what I have an issue with.

Why didn’t Cersei kill Tyrion? why didn’t Cersei kill all of them?

Exactly - again, it isn’t that the dragon died, it’s HOW it died that is stupid and literally takes you out of the story. If there would have been say 15-20 bolts flying through the air, then one finding the target would have been at least plausible, and then another group for the kill shot. It still would have been…

Yeah it is, though. I want a world with magic and dragons and shit. I don’t want one where the show can’t think of a better way to counter dragons than giving up and just saying “heatseeking missile launcher”. It’s just a total surrender by the writers. 

Wasn’t Balerion also supposedly much, much bigger than even Drogon, however, when Aegon used him to conquer Westeros?

100%

A- how did the Iron Fleet manage to hide from Dragonstone behind ONE OUTCROPPING? Was there no one else there to keep watch on the sea?

Yeah, Fire and Blood goes into a fair amount of detail on the dragon population and even when the Targaryens were firmly in power, there weren’t that many of them. The largest number of them at one time IIRC was around 7, I think? Maybe we’ll get a swelling population in book 2, but that seems unlikely

“A crossbow but bigger and who cares about physics” is not a shorthand for science, it’s a metaphor the the increasingly nonsensical plotting since they ran out of books.

It is also INCREDIBLY difficult to hit a flying, moving target with such accuracy. The first three bolts we saw all hit the dragon. Even with today’s advanced targeting systems with computers worth millions of dollars, that would be impressive. Let’s not forget that, since nothing in GoT flies EXCEPT for dragons, it’s…

“While the Targaryen family might have been able to solidify their grip on power with the help of dragons back in the day, the key differences to bear in mind here are that at their height, Dany’s ancestors were in control of far more of the creatures and were much more familiar with dragon-based war strategies.”

Yeah, I got to the point where I was like “just kill them all and get it over with so I can finally put this trainwreck (dragonwreck?) behind me.” Oh well.

To be fair, between losing no speed over distance (well over a mile) and coming from completely different angles (even though the ships were all in the same place) the scorpion bolts defiance over the laws of space and physics were probably not on Dany’s mind?
(I mean I know they’re shooting at magical creatures)
Also,…