RIGHT! The entire time Rue was in Laurie’s house I was waiting for some scary men to pull up and disappear her into a life of sex slavery. It got even scarier the longer Rue was there. Laurie’s comment about “you still have something to sell” sent chills through me and the bath tub scene where she is shooting Rue up…

Yeah i was almost wondering if we watched the same scene.

Yeah, that definitely deserves discussion. She’s getting ready to traffic her and also it looked like she was giving Rue track marks on purpose. That might be me not understanding how IV drug use works but I’ve also gotten enough blood drawn so I’m familiar with the process.

I was thinking the same thing and why Rue ultimately went hobbling home. I agree about the lack of race/gender being a critical issue, especially at the end.

How does Laurie just get a passing mention in this review, and with just the comment that she was helping her out with her withdrawal? Sure, she stopped the withdrawal but she has incredibly sinister intentions and the entire scene in her house was wild.

Wouldn’t he be more of a “depraved bisexual”?

Cal isn’t “the only gay man” in this show. He doesn’t identify himself as gay, he isn’t in a gay relationship. He could probably be described as a closeted bisexual, based on what we know about him, but you can’t really say that he’s gay.

I’ve decided that the best explanation is that when they surpassed George’s books, they realized they had no idea how to build out his world, and completely panicked. That’s why everything is rushed — they’re making desperate leaps from one bullet point to the next, struggling to understand how any of it makes any…

she isn’t a good enough actress that they could show her riding drogon while he’s burning the city.  she was fairly indifferent to it all

Credit where it’s due: Emilia Clarke has usually not been much more than a decent actress (though I’ve often defended her from critics who assert she’s bad, which I don’t think she has been), but she has been absolutely wonderful this season, even as the writing for her character has turned into a trainwreck.

Dany has always been blood-thirsty and vengeful. People ignored it because they liked Dany and disliked the people she kept burning. But the fact remains she KEPT burning people alive in half a dozen (or more) episodes—it’s not a great surprise she started burning folks now. The scale might be surprising, but once she…

This show needed another whole season to tell this story properly. 

The only really disappointing thing for me in this episode is how Cersei went out. Not a satisfying way, imo. She did go out whining like a little bitch, but she got off way too lightly.

I liked this episode.  If this episode got one thing across, it was that wars are bloody, gruesome, and more often than not pointless.  Thousands of people died because all of a few people couldn’t see reason.  I especially liked that out of everything Arya’s experienced and seen, it was THIS that freaked her out. …

What an utterly baffling episode. It’s almost like this show got cancelled and the producers clapoed their hands and said, “Mm’k, let’s get this shit over with.” And then proceeded to finish the series out in the most basic way possible while ignoring 90% of the built of mythos of the books and the last 7 seasons

Honestly maybe even worst served than Dany’s arc was Jaime’s.

What in the seven hells was Jaime’s plan? Did he seriously want to run back to Cersei, even when it was clear she hired a hitman to kill him? The framing of their death being tragic was really weird.

In a loving embrace at that? Much better than either of them deserved.

And Jon won’t stop her. Unless he ends up choking her to death himself. /kidding-maybe-not-kidding because clearly the writers are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Arya will kill her.

So Arya is going to kill Danny right?