Not saying this as any defense of Dany, but Jon is actually a pretty terrible leader. He's good at recognizing an obvious threat when it's right in front of him, but he has no long-term strategic vision. He has no people skills, and constantly misinterprets the motivations of others around him. He is easily…

Well, in fairness, Highgarden presumably had its own armies there to protect it, seeing as how they hadn't yet moved to join up with Dany's forces. They just did a Really Bad Job of protecting it. (Realistically, though, having the Tyrell armies tied up in a siege for weeks or months would have taken them off the…

Well, a fortnight is actually pretty precise. "A few weeks" would have done the job more easily. Although I'm not sure why anyone would think a more vague indicator of time would be desirable for the audience in the first place, anyway…

Okay, fair point (although one might think they'd at least *try* until they learned the hard way that the dragons are in fact both real and fearsome). I probably should have written "blockade" rater than "besiege" — that's something Euron's fleet could do pretty effectively even at a greater (and safer) distance.

Sure was convenient that the wagon had those super-quick-release walls, too, wasn't it? ;-)

And yet, I have seen other posters argue passionately that she's never done anything wrong (or at least, no worse than the other rivals for the throne), at least not up until the moment she blew up the Sept. I tend to agree that she's monstrous, but a good defense attorney could probably make a case. ;-)

That was an earlier scene — the same one where Bronn was ordered to go help gather the food supplies. The attack occurred at a later point in the march, after the food had been gathered.

No point trying to analyze it… except for migratory patterns, yeah! Well, okay, we all have our areas of special personal interest… ;-)

The "fortnight" thing was flat-out impossible; Highgarden is too far away from King's Landing. I'm inclined to regard it as a sloppy writers' error, or careless braggadocio on Cersei's part, or, frankly, as the former but rationalizable as the latter.

I think the apostrophe not only indicates the origin of the word, it also generally helps to clarify the context. Same reason I'm a fan of the Oxford comma.

Except Tyrion wasn't at the beach scene on Dragonstone when Theon arrived, any more than Dany was. I assume they left together at some earlier point.

The comment about Arya's height makes me wonder. The all-seeing internet tells me that Maisie Williams is 5'1" and Sophie Turner is 5'9", but the height difference between Arya and Sansa on screen seemed much more noticeable than that. Did the producers have Sansa wearing platform shoes under he robe or something, to…

Why so? It's interesting that this comes just a few posts after someone else saying the exact opposite.

I agree that the Experts review is generally better than the Newbies one (especially last week), but in general I find the reviews here (and the comment threads!) to be higher quality than just about anything else I've found online.

To be honest I feel like a lot of these reunions are somewhat lacking in emotional impact, precisely *because* it's been so long since we've seen these characters together. We've gotten to know them individually, not in relation to one another. We haven't seen them interact since S1 (sometimes not since the pilot!),…

And that excuses what exactly?

Right on the money, for the most part. However, I feel obliged to point out that the Unsullied, if they're marching east from Casterly Rock, are doing so through the Westerlands, not the Reach. Those areas haven't been stripped bare by the passing armies; their problem is more likely to be anarchy than famine.

You seem to be looking for black-and-white moral contrasts in a show that has always been about undermining those at every turn.

That last sentence covers it, I think.

They literally have a family motto about it.