In general, this show is what happens when you try to write historical drama set in a fantasy world, but all you know about the history of middle ages is what you read in Shakespeare’s historical plays 30 years ago and all you remember is that a lot of people died there, but not why they died or any of the…

1. This is the second time Criston Cole murders a nobleman in full view of other people. This time it’s, I assume, the lord of his house and one of the few close advisors to the king and most nobles in the kingdom know who he is. It’s OK, his family will probably be told he slipped and fell down the stairs and died…

I’m starting to think there aren’t any questions you can ask him that don’t result in him smashing your head or drawing his sword.

I was on one of that same thought processes.

Yes, and here in the 21st century when you want characters to be sympathetic to the audience, you don’t have them murder innocent peasants. I liked Rhaenys a lot, and now I like her a lot less, because apparently she’s the kind of person who will casually murder peasants. (Although it’s more that I like the writers a…

So there I was, just another day in King’s Landing, going about my business trying to make a living when a bunch of douchebag knights shuffle me into the dragon pit to watch the coronation of the new king. Like I give a shit about who the king is, it makes no difference in my day-to-day. Then a fricking dragon busts…

Im curious as to what they will do with Lord Commander Westerling.  He is such a minor character in Fire and Blood that he just dies of natural causes.  But since he's played by an actor from Outlander I expect to see this role greatly expanded.  I hope anyway, he's one of the few likable people. 

I imagine asking questions like that would get you murdered by Criston Cole 

I doubt very much she’s dead.

No, I think she’s fine. The fire in the brothel was very clearly CGI, so there were likely few if any injuries.

Others have already covered the episode’s usual bizarre narrative and character choices: I’ll just say that I think this show’s storytelling mostly works except it keeps tripping over its own feet (when it’s not fetishizing them) in ways that undercut whatever they’re trying to do. I’m fine with sometimes throwing…

A thoroughly licked Otto tries to play dear old dad, telling his daughter that she looks like her mother in certain lights.

How many lives could have been spared if Rhaenys had just uttered the words “Dracarys.” Alas...

I’ll take that scene 100x before having to watch the Ceserean section from the first episode again.

The Foot Fetish bit cracked me up pretty hard. I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t quite realize what was going on for certain until near the end of it (and then of course him jerking off to it was the dead giveaway). 

Look, I understand the need for cool dragon moments whenever you can get them, but the Rhaenys scene at the end of the episode is just nonsensical. She has the power to end the war in an instant, and she just... Doesn’t? The Greens are apparently worthy of her mercy, but the hundreds of smallfolk she murdered in her…

After giving it much thought, I’ve come to the conclusion that Ser Criston might have an anger issue.

Lol, it does seem like that’s a discussion that’s gone on in the writer’s room at points.
Fair’s fair to them though, Princess Rhaenys has been a steadily-growing force throughout the season and this was a high point. You never can tell which way she’s thinking (I can’t be the only one who got the feeling that, in the…

Yeah, but a DRAGON BLEW THROUGH THE FLOOR DUDE EPICCCCCCCCC

Who needs character development, amirite?

Whether it was intentional or not, I had no idea what was going to happen at that coronation. Was Alicent going to take Rahneys’ woman empowerment talk and crown herself, was Aegon going to stab himself with the dagger, was Aemond going to pull a fast one.....and then damn! It went without a hitch!