Dany trying to get Jon to swear fealty to her was a nice callback to Jon's conversation with Mance, trying to convince Mance to bend the knee to Stannis.

If Bronn isn't a teacher at Fancy Lad School by the end of the series, then there just ain't no justice.

Upbote for "splatstick"

A callback to Joffrey' conversation with Margaery, when she says something like 'how exciting it must be to pull a lever over here, and watch something die over there'. One of the dragons is living on short time.

"Payoff" = comment / poster name symmetry. Well played.

I was just looking for a chance to point out another thing that JS knows nothing about.

Jon Snow knows nothing about the meaning of "perpetuity".

So far Tyrion has been overly impressed with his own strategy, and seems to have assumed that the enemy would remain static in the face of the threat from Dragonstone. Hopefully he starts to be a little more nimble. Or maybe these losses are setting up Revenge Mode Dany to unleash her flying nukes on KL.

Yup. I didn't realize how much the show was trolling us with showing a "previously on" featuring Benjen just before Jon Snow got shanked until I rewatched all of S5 few weeks ago. They add nothing and telegraph too much.

Davos: This is Jon Snow. He knows nothing…

Hey, Bran had a point, her dress was beautiful!

Tyrion's father nailed it: "Explain to me why it is better to kill a thousand men in battle, than dozens at their dinner".
In this situation a few thousand in Kings Landing vs. tens of thousands around the 7K.
Dany could have dropped scrolls before the dragons lit the place up "evacuate the city or die by dragon fire."

It made me think of what LF in S1 says about being choked by Ned… "Ah, the Starks; quick tempers, slow minds".

Theon might redeem himself a bit if he rescues Yara from Euron.
A bit.

It was a call-back to Ned saying that Arya wouldn't be a pretty pretty princess.

This was not the Arya / Nymeria reunion we were promised. Boo!
BOOOO!!

You are watching a show with dragons.
But I get how little realistic details are necessary to make us buy the big fantasy elements.

Scraping the bottom of the golden bucket.

I don't know who Ed Sheeran is, but I found nothing "off" about the actor or the scene. Dude sang a nice song, seemed like a good soldier. A non-psycho Lannister soldier, no less.

That sounds like stuff from the books. I think you are in the wrong recap.