Yeah, that seems likely.

My first thought was, what black dresses? I may have just been thinking it's been a while since we've seen those titays.

It's not much of a choice, really, and even in that society is probably considered morally questionable. Roasting the army is one thing, killing captured soldiers is another. I wouldn't care if it was just the elder Tarly, which is maybe why both were killed.

Not really, the dragon was a terror weapon - leaving a few common foot soldiers alive to spread the story would make sense. Hold on to the Tarlys, though - Randall is one of their best generals, and both could be ransomed.

Yes, you'd want to hold on to him at least - I don't get it, hasn't she ever heard of a ransom? That's standard procedure. It bugged me that they killed Dickon too, it seemed pointless to introduce him and then kill him so soon after.

She remembered something she'd said about five seconds earlier. Rain Man, eat your heart out and move over.

Well, I hope he does. He's done plenty of bad things but she's a psychopath.

As soon as they were captured they became prisoners. Giving them a choice like that is no choice at all. It helps if you put this stuff in a real world context - in our world, even in the Middle Ages, you didn't do that. Even beyond the morality and legality of it, she must need money to fight a war - so you ransom…

I'm not taking it seriously at all.

Absolutely. I could have done without that.

Obviously I need to tell you too.

There was no reason to believe him at the time. Even the men at the Wall had never seen one before. Consider the time scale here.

There's a reason it hasn't happened since.

I guess we should start dropping A-bombs, then - we have them, our enemies should expect us to use them.

Dany has been pretending she's better. So, anti-slavery but in favor of executing prisoners. Nice.

Seeing that many troops, wagons, horses, etc. burned by a dragon would probably do it - I know I wouldn't have bent the knee in two seconds after seeing that. Although POWs cost money to feed, etc., the ransom you'd get for Randall and Dickon would be worth it.

If they more closely resembled the Mongols on which they're I guess based, I would say with a Genghis Khan as their leader they would have a very good chance. The way they fight, without discipline, every man for himself - I just can't see them winning. (We also know siege warfare isn't their forte, although…

Probably a safe bet. King's Landing is that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Seven Kingdoms are irresistibly drained.

I guess it's not very humane, for one thing, and a bit low to execute POWs.

I thought he was just going to check up on him - then when Gendry assumed Davos was there to take him away, thought "Why not?"