D&D just destroyed Jon’s character. The utterly insulting depiction of him as having to be slow-walked through that Dany is bad now. He even defends the destruction of the city.

Yes, by the same connection as TR.

Very distantly. Teddy and FDR weren’t closely related by blood, moreso by marriage, as Eleanor was Teddy’s niece.

She could only resist the abs for so long.

I wish we had more war films that attempted scope like this making use of modern VFX. Dunkirk was handicapped by Nolan’s unwillingness to stray beyond all the practical effects, which led to everything feeling very small (you’d never know that the RAF and the Luftwaffe lost hundreds of planes in the course of things,…

That mistake prevented the troops on Utah Beach from having the same experience as the Omaha contingent.

Tyrion was the one who unchained them, not Dany.  And they were magically well-behaved thereafter.

I believe the writers admitted back in Season 1 that Cheryl’s age vis a vis everybody else has is a goof on their part.

Tiera Skovbye has been a regular on an upcoming Canadian drama about nurses, so I’m guessing she had limited availability.

What the heck was going on with that scene around the fire? They clearly didn’t burn all their clothes.

I figured based on Ringwald’s appearances in recent episodes that they’d be bringing Mary on more regularly.  Particularly since the role of the parents on the show has on the whole receded a bit, it shouldn’t be too demanding to bring her up to Vancouver for a few scenes here and there.

These scenes are more fun to discuss than watch, the usual camp value spoiled by a seriousness of tone.

She had won the throne. She has overwhelming force on her side.

I’m not sure bringing later spoilers into this episode thread is the preferred course, but in any event:  Sansa’s attitude toward Dany wasn’t based on any sort of character analysis or observation, she’d made up her mind in advance, so no, I don’t credit her with possessing any particular insight here.  Hell, she…

In Astapor, yes, and then she learned from that in Meereen.  The Slaver’s Bay arc is GRRM exploring the difficulties of ruling and effecting the sort of massive changes that region needed.

The moral valence of breaking chains depends a great deal on who (or what) is wearing the chains that get broken.

It definitely was not.  The jump from using overwhelming force against enemies and just massacring civilians after she had won is one the show came nowhere close to justifying.

She left the Second Sons to maintain order while the domestic affairs were sorted out (the show’s writers evinced their usual lack of concern about the details there).  That’s responsible.

Nerfed before.

No, I didn’t.  Deciding to attack the city regardless of the supposed PR hit is not the same thing as going completely mad and burning the whole thing down after you’ve won.