Except the problem isn’t that Gendry would be an immediate challenge to Dany for the throne. The problem is that he would be pretty much be next in line to be king if Dany died.

Except it’s not an issue of Gendry suddenly wanting the throne, it’s an issue of other people using him to gain power. Just like how Tyrion and Varys are manipulating Jon into making a claim for the throne. Why do you think Gendry was ever important in the first place? He was a bastard and a peasant with no influence…

I don’t trust anyone full of unexamined assumptions about what’s in the interest of other people. It’s people like you that try to put ideas in my native manservant’s head beyond his station.

Gendry isn’t really legitimized until Dany is sitting on the Iron Throne, which would basically nullify his claim at that point.

If the “little brother” is the fetus in her womb and she dies in childbirth...well, that will be some (more) bullshit.

Yeah, the army of the dead was so much stupid. I was so sure a couple of seasons ago Jon Snow would wind up being a Cassandra, warning the Seven Kingdoms about the real threat while they through more and more bodies on the pile. I guess I should have known since the show is called “Game of Thrones” and NOT “A Song of…

“Euron Greyjoy... You are NOT the father!”

Yes, true. She also killed a unarmed bound captive in a gruesome way, now that I think about it...

Depends whether you have aerial recon, or just an idiot on a flying flamethrower. 

Even if you ignore Robert’s time on the throne, using the old Targaryen line of succession and ignoring Jon since he’s a secret, Gendry is Daenerys’ heir, since Robert’s grandmother was a Targ, and Dany is sterile. 

It was perfectly clear she would have “talked” to the officers to get an endless array of excuses

That’s really the crux of it. Imagine saying to Tywin “but it would be against the rules of parley” and just envisioning the withering glare he would give you to in return.

Euron has been such a terribly under-developed character, who at the same time, has an almost magical power to completely turn the tide of battle and massively affect the story. He’s not just a shitty person, he’s a shitty plot device.

Meh; Sansa is no less short-sighted and selfish than Dany, just in different ways. Yes, she was right that it made sense to let the troops recover and defer the march south. On the other hand, she was completely wrong to imagine that Jon would be a “better” alternative, and (hence) to tell Tyrion about his bloodline.…

Knowing that I will be in the minority with this opinion, I will be brave and express it anyway —

Everyone always glosses over the part where, after conquering a city by violence, she crucifies an entire class of people.

Jon may well be the better ruler, but Daenerys is willing to do what is necessary to seize power. At the end of the day, that matters more.

Dany could have ended Euron right there. We’ve already seen that those dragons can fly really high, & straight up. Those balistas can’t aim straight up, & it probably takes a while to bright them around to shoot aft. SO if she flies high, up over their heads, & comes straight down or from behind, she could light up…

I think Forgetting Sarah Marshall did a decent job with this. Jason Segel is a working musician (so a pretty interesting job) with creative aspirations. And despite Sarah Marshall being depicted as pretty terrible overall, the movie DOES let her say her side of things, that he had rejected his ambitions to do what was…

I think the biggest issue with the “schlub gets the hot girl” trope isn’t so much the attractiveness differential - we’ve all seen couples in the real world where one person is much more physically attractive than the other. The problem is that most of these movies and shows don’t put in the work to make the…