Uh... what?  Sansa spread Jon’s secret which played a large part in Dany’s breakdown.  In Dany’s eyes, that’s treason.

I said it in another thread yesterday, I’m not so sure the North will be as appalled by Dany’s actions as most are thinking. We have to remember, the North is a civilization that is more or less a step behind the rest of the realm because of the remoteness and lack of resources. Okay, I’m being nice. The North is to…

These are my feelings, almost exactly.

Yup, this is the heart of the issue with the last 2 seasons. All the storylines in the final two seasons really should have played out over 3-4 seasons. And not only that, but it’s not really 2 seasons. In fact, it’s less than a season and a half, even after you factor in the extended episodes.

He asked Davos to set up a boat at the escape point for Cersei and Jaime. I doubt he told Davos why, he just asked that the boat be there.

I’ve said this since the pacing issues of Season 7 began to creep up. If they had the full 20 hours to work with, this could have been told in much better fashion. Still might not have been enough time, but it would have been much, much better. Even with the oversized episodes, they’re telling a 20 hour story in 14.5…

So I assume Arya and Jon take her out next episode for being a crazy war criminal, and then, idk, if Jon doesn’t want the throne, maybe Sansa gets to be queen after all.

the death of another dragon/child because of the incompetence of the people she surrounded herself with

I also think that torching King’s Landing was absolutely a message to Sansa. She’ll be called the Mad Queen for sure, but I don’t think this was specifically about snapping into madness

There’s no doubt she doesn’t die this way in the books. The show never had the Valonquar prophecy to worry about, so they came up with this.

Clearly, we were wrong, thinking the writers were still invested and using the same foreshadowing and subtleties they’d mastered in the prior seasons.  Nope, they just inexplicably axed his entire story.

No, Cersei’s arc was actually the worst.  As pointed out in this column, they took the time to clearly paint her as the ultimate evil, and then basically attempted to turn her into a sympathetic figure, dying afraid in the arms of her one true love.

As a complete aside, today is a pretty big win for the pro wrestling community at large. I’m seeing the phrase “heel turn” used all over the place, including by people who likely don’t even realize that is an expression whose origin comes from wrestling.

3 things (to start):

It *looked* awesome.  The performers were awesome.  The fight sequences were awesome.  But from a storytelling perspective and a narrative perspective and a character perspective, this episode was pure shit.

I still think The Last of the Starks was worse, but yes, this episode was clearly Bottom 5 material.

It’s amazing to me. The roster is deeper and more talented than ever, and they’re absolutely squandering it. Then, they’ll blame the talent 10 years from now (like how they blame Kevin Nash for the wretched mid-90s product), even though the talent has no creative freedom, their storylines and characters make no sense…

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It ends with Adam Warlock coming for the Guardians and fucking shit up at Cap’s funeral.

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