Dragonstone is much closer to King's Landing than Highgarden is.

Certainly possible! There's only so much time left in the series.

Yes, I think that's what does him in. But Arya being present for that doesn't give anyone any new information.

They just brought it up again!

I think if you watch him in "A Man Without Honor" back in Season 2, and then when he sends Brienne off to rescue Sansa in Season 4, you get a pretty good sense of how much he's changed. It's just that they've muddied that a ton over the last few years because they no longer had a real arc for him that made any sense.

The writing for Jaime has been subpar since he went to Dorne. I thought the set-up with Brienne was perfectly well done.

So the first option. I mean, I guess. Normally people think that is "exciting" and "builds suspense."

Is Dany really going to give the guy who murdered her father the option to join her? I tend to think Jaime will escape to King's Landing.

Why, though? Their role in the story is primarily relating to Sam's narrative, wherever that ends up going. It'd be odd to kill them without resolving that.

War is hell. The "kind" plan was to besiege King's Landing, which involves not letting any food in.

I think both Tarlys will survive long enough to have some resolution with Sam.

God, this is such a dumb way to think about it. Would you prefer if his escapes were less suspenseful, and thus more plausible?

He doesn't know she's his aunt.

You didn't see the one where he murdered his own cousin to try to escape? And I think the "arrogance and talent as a swordsman" came across early in Season 3 as he traveled with Brienne, and he had plenty of conversations with Brienne where he reflected on it.

Mostly the Children of the Forest paintings looked like Australian aboriginal ones, I thought.

Talking to Jaime. He wanted Jaime to run away and live.

Has the *show* ever established who was behind the assassination attempt on Bran? In the book, Tyrion theorizes (at the Red Wedding, iirc) that it was Joffrey, but a) this is never confirmed; and b) I don't think this happened in the show.

I was impressed how they managed to make me root for Jaime and Bronn in that scene, rather than Dany. And then, once they've achieved that, they cut to Tyrion, who's apparently feeling the same thing.

They were ambushed.

Do you…have a better idea for how to fight dragons?