I don't think it'll play out this way (D+D love Dany too much), but she's basically acting like a villain. She's been moving through different cities, overthrowing their governments, and forcing her beliefs on the people. She has no sense of the people she wants to rule. Evil people don't think they're evil. They…

I would have liked to see Meera stick around in the Winterfell cafeteria with all the other peeps.

I'll add: Telling Brienne he used to be a way good swordsman isn't the same thing as 1) seeing it in a flashback, or 2) reading about it extensively in Jaime's POV. It's okay to admit that the writing for Jaime has been subpar.

I remember all that, but i don't think the average viewer does. Additionally, the existence of a few plot incidents 4-6 years ago doesn't make for valid or quality character writing in season 7. Jaime's book arc is largely internal and depends a lot on comparisons to Loras, which are both components of the books that…

Davos is so smart. He learned to read and now he's learning grammar.

Dude, The Gendry truthers are more intense than the Stoneheart believers, the BenJen nerds, and the Stannis-is-alivers.

Still too hot to be Sam's brother.

I think it was probably necessary to cut Jaime's arc of "let's go on a vague mission through the countryside but really we're just thinking a lot and seeing how the Real People are living" because Brienne was already doing that (another needlessly extended motif in the GERM's writing), and because the churchies Jaime…

I think it's time to talk about Jaime's characterization. The show has done a poor job of conveying what he was before the span of the show/books/real-time narrative, which I suppose is part of the GERM's larger problem of having a backstory that's heavier than the story we're actually watching/reading. Without…

This…is more of a surface-level recap than a worthwhile review. Sorry.

It's Obara (whip girl), Tyene (bad pussy), and…Whale Rider. the Barbara joke was from when Olenna gave no fucks and called Obara, Barbara.

- The timing issue is disorienting for the show, since GRRM wrote a million pages of the Meereenese Knot to make sure that everything could eventually line up and everything could happen on a concurrent timeline. I'm not mad that the show is done with this type of stalling, but I agree that it removes a certain type…

Maybe one of those magic horns?

He was positioned usefully in the beginning because he showed how a nonbeliever could become fully entranced by Dany, and how her early support was cobbled together out of people who had no other options. Iain is a great actor and excelled in a fairly thankless role, which is more than can be said of a good portion of…

I agree - Jorah is a different kind of warrior character for this show and I'd like to see him fighting in the north. I can't see him breaking out of Dany's arc though.

The show doesn't know what to do with these middle-nobility characters who are important to the plot (eventually) but aren't hugely active in the story.

I think Olenna's tired of sitting in rooms while other people negotiate schemes that never end up working out.

Book-Varys is a Targaryen loyalist but he's not Team Dany. He's with Crypto-Aegon. I think tonight's scene was meant to smooth over the fact that his actions in the early seasons (when he was secretly working with Aegon the whole time) don't line up with him being Team Dany on a show where Aegon doesn't exist.

One of the weirder issues on this show is that, for its emphasis on history, none of the cultures have evolved from the time of the First Men. There's no sense that there has been any progression since the Doom of Valyria.

Tarly won't be a big bad but the books have established him as being a good military guy. I'm interested in whether he lends his troops to Jaime or perhaps ends up bringing them to the north.