Does anyone know who would have been rightful heir, if Tommen had died under more normal circumstances, without an heir? Is it supposed to be another Baratheon? If so, who's left?

Sansa seems to enjoy saying "Winterfell", too.

They could still reveal that he set off with one mission in mind, and changed it to recruiting Dorne after Dany returned.

Cersei's in worse shape than that — she's cash poor, too. She just killed off the entire family (minus Olenna) that was keeping the Lannister/Baratheon regime financially afloat. Next season, with no Tyrell cash or grain, it's going to get even uglier in KL. If the de-religified peasants don't get her, the Iron Bank…

Worked perfectly in Iraq, right?

I'm completely with you about missing the more complex, slow character building scenes. I'd take those over most of the battle scenes every time. It feels a bit like they went heavy on conversations — and so we got the associated character depth and nuance — in the early seasons because the budget wouldn't let them do…

I watched two. It didn't get better.

Good point — as fun as the play was, it did seem that the writers fell it love with it a little too much. Which makes sense, writers being writers, but still: compared to more time with, say, Tyrion, I'd definitely take more Tyrion.

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I'm not so sure that the High Sparrow didn't drop the ball regarding the wildfire stash. Surely he remembers Blackwater, when Tyrion nuked the entire bay to save the city. So now, a few years or so later, he unexpectedly finds himself on a path to power over not just the city but the Realm. A few bad moved by Cersei…

Or, perhaps even more significantly, because the brand is on the Three Eyed Raven now. That's some old magic that's possibly of the caliber of magic laid into the Wall.

She was so great I even felt bad for the other actors in that scene. "I've gotta compete with this?

I agree. The time budget for this show is so tight that any suggestion of "there should have been more of x" needs to come with an equal suggestion of what to cut. And, usually, there's nothing to cut.

Exactly. And each of these characters is a monarch, dictator or free agent. It's not like they need to start a commission or bring in a dozen functionaries to approve a treaty. They have all the power and are making handshake deals in person. Plus, there's only so much runtime. Condensing these scenes to their essence…

The new reviewer at The Ringer is pretty good. The NYT review for this episode was very good, too.

That's the problem with ATT — Greenwald makes one or two great points each week, but they're sandwiched in between 28 minutes of annoying garbage. I miss his written reviews of the show.

"We're probably supposed to have been worrying about the path Arya has been on for a while now."

They've definitely been leading up to it. And I don't see two uses of wildfire in six season as excessive at all. It's the equivalent of nukes in this world; occasionally, they go off.

I like Lancel Lannister's character arc from sycophantic dummy who helped Cersei kill Robert to sycophantic dummy who couldn't stop her from killing almost everyone.

Yes, however, it seems like since we've seen that fail once already, this time it's likely to stick. After Littlefinger spends a season nipping at Jon's heels, that is.