If you didn’t think GRRM and the adaptation were setting Dany up to be the Mad Queen then you haven’t been paying attention. She’s been impulsive, vindictive, and wrathful since she started down the path to conquering Westeros in S2. She’s only been kept in check by the wisdom of her advisors, and even then, it’s been…

No, no. You’re just mistaken.

Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we sent scouts ahead for our ships? No? Okay. Well what about if we get Drogon to flank the enemy ships and burn their sails from behind. No? Okay yeah cool, good talk.

Every girl who was ever in high school has never related this much to Ser Brienne of Tarth.

Yeah, what’s the rush? Cersei isn’t going anywhere, & it’s unlikely she’d get any stronger if they waited a couple weeks. IN fact, as they even said at the strategy meeting, give people enough time & they’ll turn on her. They could easily have waited a while, let their people heal & let the news about the defeat of…

Dany did say before the scene that the offer was political theater. They just wanted to show the population that Cersei was offered a peaceful end to the conflict  

Anyone else surprised it was mentioned we still have Dothraki fighters?

I think it was just a last ditch effort. He knew he couldn’t really change her mind, but he had to try.

It was, wasn’t it? Jerome Flynn just burst into the room with some energy we hadn’t seen in a long time.

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It hurts how much this is true. I have corporate experience relating to dealers. Once you see how the sausage is made, it confirms all that you thought you didn’t like about dealers.

NYC sucks. Can’t we all just agree on that?

Tell that to Game of Thrones, which spent its first 7.2 seasons telling us that the characters who believed and acted as though “the stakes at play are the Iron Throne” were deluded fools who were missing the one true war that was staring them in the face—and then spent one episode completely flipping that and…

but she can’t kill both Big Bads

I think he’s saying that the writing of the show completely undermined the established stakes.

Oh yah, winter’s coming, dontchaknow. Heckuva deal for us white walkers.

I kind of wish he had a super heavy Minnesotan accent, and I also kind of wish when he killed Theon he would have looked right at the camera and had asked: “Cold enough for ya?”.

“White Walkers HATE her! This one neat dagger trick will end the Long Night”

The Night King doesn’t feel like a villain.  He’s more like a natural disaster, or Godzilla.  I like that he didn’t start explaining himself in a pleasant baritone.

Remember how good the battle of Hardhome was... because you could see the battle of Hardhome.  This was like the golden age of radio.