I really can't agree. It made no strategic sense for Dany to set up camp at Dragonstone (rather than, say, in Dorne) unless she was planning an immediate attack on King's Landing… which is precisely what she then decided *not* to do. No matter how well Jaime knows Tyrion, he couldn't plausibly have anticipated that.

Nah, it's not actually easy to believe that at all. A spy would make a *lot* more sense of recent events, and IMHO Varys is the only logical candidate. 13-dimensional chess is what he *lives* for.

What they're doing *now* is destroying any attempt at pacing, in a pell-mell attempt to check off plot developments. The show used to have a much better sense of how to do a slow build, and keep events moving at a pace that was less, shall we say, startling and implausible. As it is now, it's impossible to watch it…

I care. This is the kind of thing that grabs my attention as a viewer (in general, not just for GoT), and if it's mishandled too badly it really pulls me out of the show. Time is still passing within the story (because all joking aside, the characters are not actually teleporting from place to place), so it's…

Makes more sense than some of the other strategic decisions recently. The dragons can't be sent on recon missions on their own; they require riders, and so far the only known rider happens to be the claimant to the throne. Under the best of circumstances, it'd be bad to have her away in the field for days at a time.…

Nothing could conceivably make me side with Euron. He is a cheap farce of a character.

I actually *don't* much like the faster pace for events, and inasmuch as D&D *chose* to have fewer episodes this season and next I can't really buy it as a matter of necessity, so for me it just makes the fast-and-loose approach to the passage of time all the more annoying.

Yeah, to make sense of that we have to assume quite a few days passed between (A) Melisandre's arrival and the raven to Jon, and (B) the departure of Yara's fleet for Dorne. It's the sort of behind-the-scenes assumption that the show requires all the time these days, and it's certainly possible, but it'd be nice if…

Euron's fleet can only be in one place at a time (much as the show's cavalier treatment of travel times obscures that), and right now it's on the other side of the continent. By the time it could get back, Jon should be more than able to move a few boatloads safely up to White Harbor.

It keeps out the uncivilized Wildlings in the far north. That's a purpose people can understand. Beyond that no one really knows anything about the Wall's creation; it's so far back that it can all be dismissed as legendary.

Prophecy isn't really much of thing in the show's world, but my impression is that to the extent that it does exist and work accurately, it's simply because the future is *visible* (to a select few people… e.g., similar the way Bran's visions linked past and present), not because it's *directed* by some mysterious…

Nah, that's not the kind of risk Dany would take (nor does she even have the connections to leak info to her enemies). And it can't be Tyrion; he would never betray anyone to Cersei of all people. If there's a spy, the only person who makes sense is Varys. He's the one who always had the network of informants, and it…

This is perhaps an odd thing to call out from all that, but what makes you think Littlefinger is in his 50s? He's actually *younger* than Ned and Cat (and Jaime and Cersei) by a few years, hence early 30s — just a year older than Tyrion, if I remember the show's backstory correctly.

No, it's more like: the Targaryen dynasty claimed sovereignty by right of armed conquest. Then they *lost* it to a rival claimant, through armed conquest. Nothing is every really "in perpetuity" when it comes to monarchies. Dany may win the throne back, but she can't realistically expect anyone to simply *give* her…

It's a relative thing. Personally I thought the second episode was way, way sloppier than the third. But yeah, they're all eliding logical plot points that could have been the basis of entire episodes in the early years…

What, you didn't think blowing up an entire sept full of innocent people amounted to accepting that role?? o_O

I thought this was a *much* better episode than the previous week — more emphasis on dialogue and character interaction, which is what always made this show great. Almost all the characters were *in* character (Jaime's ongoing lack of coherent motivation aside), and it was thoroughly enjoyable.

I'm fairly obsessive about that sort of thing, and it *is* really annoying sometimes. With a little effort, though, the show's chronology and travel times (mostly) still make sense. They just require us to assume that weeks are passing between certain scenes, even if the pace of things on screen appears faster.

True, the show definitely paid closer attention to geography and travel times when it was adapting the books than it has since it moved past them. That change is noticeable and frankly annoying (to me, at least). Still, it's fair to assume that what happens is at least *supposed* to be logically possible in the world…

There are seriously places with that kind of reputation?