We also haven’t seen her continue this fear-based ruling style beyond taking Kings Landing, which has been Dany’s (or her brother’s) primary objective since S1E1. Everyone wants to label her as the Mad Queen, but, as you said, she hasn’t really done anything mad.

How many times in this episode did it look like Arya got crushed by falling rubble, and yet so many people are assuming that Cersei and Jamie are dead? I think there is a reasonable chance Cersei is still alive.

In fairness, it’s probably pretty difficult to dig a trench at Winterfell in the winter.

...or a super brain who knows the way Cersei thinks.

The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is 60,000x more fearsome than any of Dany’s dragons.

there’s too much investment in her not to have her skills be necessary to the next two episodes.

Lynanna Mormont did come back as a wight.

Rape builds character!

Shit. You nailed it. Arya Stark = Tom Chambers (video game version)

But yeah, it looked cool.

To the point of Albert’s post, you could make the argument that Cersei is not only smart, she cares about others. If she had sent her army north, Jon Snow would have ordered them to charge into a frozen lake or something equally stupid that got them all killed. Cersei saved the lives of 50,000 men!

Question: Ramsey Bolton probably defeats the Night King without losing more than a couple dozen people, right?

Albert, you just wrote the definitive take on Game of Thrones. Seriously, thank you.

Some people say its nitpicking to complain about Jon’s general-ship, but why should we care about Jon (or Dany for that matter)‘s right to the throne when he/they prove to be utterly incapable leaders. Jon’s strategy in the battle of winterfell was to take his 100,000 warriors on horseback and send them on an initial…

For all of the people complaining about the Raiders not trading back, I have a question. Why not trade up? This draft had 9-10 elite players. Why not pick one of those consensus 9-10 with #4, and then package #24 and #27 to move up again in the 1st round ... I would have to think Miami would have given them #13 and…

Ha...I’ve been saying the same thing. Someone’s going to come along and offer an “innovative” bundle of streaming services so that you can get ALL of the channels services under one bill! Amazing!

Everyone keeps calling her “Valkyrie”, but isn’t she a Valkyrie? I thought the Valkyrie were Asgard’s all-female elite warrior division, not some chick’s name.

Okay, but you still used the important word: “living”.

I’m pretty sure that doesn’t have anything to do with it (touching vs. arm raising). White Walkers are made by the Children of the Forest by pushing dragonglass into LIVING man’s chest. Wights are re-animated dead men (and bears ... and dragons).

People (especially TV writers/bloggers) have spent so much time analyzing and quoting Dany’s “I’ve come break (the wheel).” line from a couple seasons ago and use it to suggest she’s interested in democracy. Meanwhile, as you pointed out, nothing else she has said or done suggest she cares in the least about…