I understood her actions as a Mayday plan, I mean where would a handmaid get the explosives by herself?

YES! Especially since that line in the last episode about her smoking in the past, I’ve also really wanted to know how she was in the past and how she came to be in such a position of power.

Aunt Lydia’s line about smoking before made me want to know of her past before Gilead (she’s probably one of the few women of the show we know nothing about) and how she came to be in such a position of power.

Yeah I also expected Frank to at least ask how her first day was in that scene with beds. I guess that was to show the they are now just-not-on-paper seperated, so they don’t really talk anymore?

Yeah, that also threw me a bit. I’m not sure if I remember correctly, but I think in the books they mention she did something like undergrad or other, because it didn’t feel as weird to me.

I hadn’t heard that yet. 6 episodes will feel reaaaally long, since I’m not finding the seperated storylines all that compelling

Yeah, I agree with you. Until this episode I didn’t even remember that there was a voice over, so when it appeared it felt pretty jarring. And yeah, it was not needed at at all in this episode, since visually we were being shown pretty much what she was narrating.

Well, the whole army was able to pass through the hole, the remaining wall its not really relevant at all

Jon Snow makes the most stupid decisions on the show now. Maybe tied with Tyrion.

Seriously, after almost a decade of working on a show that began as a small niche fantasy series that was based on a series of books from where there was a lot of material to draw upon but that eventually became a global phenomenon (with all the scrutiny that that implies) that they now have to write the ending for,…

It's one of the very few instances where I kind wish that the creative team behind the show had changed, or that the show had actually had a few years long break, to maybe let GRRM catch up on the books and let the people behind the show work on other projects.

I never did believe he would die, but I was sort of hoping that he would come out of the water riding the undead dragon

At least when I read about the shortened seasons, I got the impression that it was more D&D whishes to be done with it, than it was HBO's wish. I think they just want to move on to other projects. But yeah, the show would have benefitted much more if it had regular sized or even bigger final two seasons

Oh that's how he did it? I actually wondered about the flaming swords too, but I reasoned they just used some fuel, like the torches. But also, at some point there were several flaming swords no? So did he just light them all up himself?

I don't know, it might seem stupid but I miss colors in this show - a few seasons ago everything seemed so much more colorful, not just the costumes but also the sets. Now it's just black and grey all around, and I know it's part of the more grave tone the show has now that everything is coming to fruition, but still,…

Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about the show now, in regards to all the rushing to get to the importante plot points. Like the reunion between Tyrion and Jamie - in one scene they planned it and then in the next it was happening, it didn't even give us time to let the suspense build for such a meaningful…

Why would she contract greyscale? Wasn't Jorah cured? And yeah there's a cure now, so there's really no big worries

I haven't seen this mentioned and it seemed obvious to me, but the dragon weapon is called scorpion - so that means the arrows are poisoned no? So they might not need the headshot; a flesh wound woud be enough to poison the dragon (though I really hope not, cause that just makes them too easy to kill).

Yes, I very much agree, it has lost almost all of its suspense now that every character just knows everything almost at the same time as we do. It took me away from the episode a lot, the way that every plotline just knew what was happenig with all the other plotlines imediately, makes everything seem cheap.

At the end, when all the dust is settled and every character's dead, we'll see a lone boat wash up on King's Landing - inside is Gendry, who is the only one left to sit at the Iron Throne. And the show ends