Tyrion was shown pretty well in S1 to be one of the very few educated — even intellectual — members of the ruling class.

If so, that will be the first real cliffhanger they have ended a season on and it will be a tacky way to go out.

Total momentum killer.

Especially after they showed him rolling up his sleeve and staring at his greyscale last week it does seem a little odd.

I don't think so. Littlefinger looked pretty sure of himself when we last saw him five episodes ago.

Ok, but still we were expected to be cheering and I agree that the reasons not to be cheering outweighed the Neverending Story feelgood reasons for triumph. What is Dany good at besides getting out of things at the right moment? How is that skill going to help anyone except Dany?

But won't she go back for Needle first?

Wouldn't you say the show is one long exercise in delayed catharsis?

Dwarf roll.

If he thought he was the one in trouble why did he ask to take Shireen with him? I'm sure the show will gloss this over and make it clear that he didn't suspect anything, but I will call bullshit when they do.

You're right. I forgot about that.

And yet somehow the Unsullied are useless against them.

He announced to the Lannister men that that brothel had just what he was looking for. It looked like a pretty sleek place, pretty high end. And yet they were totally unprepared for his request — shocked by it. This is really shoddy world-building.

I didn't have a problem with it at the time but now I'm thinking it was another lazy move on the show's part. Either the brothel would have had a girl young enough for Trant on hand or it would have been against their policy to provide girls that young and they would have been prepared to muscle him out with security.…

Next week Dany tumbles through the council chamber window, smacks Daario across the face for something and asks Tyrion what he thinks they should do about the Mereen uprising. "People fall off dragons all the time," say commenters, "it happened even more often in medieval times. If you can't stand realism go watch…

But I'm going ahead and saying the Unsullied suck. What was the point?

That was just badly laid out. At first I thought there had been a coup inside because they had no idea what had happened. But then it seemed that they all knew what had happened and just didn't care. I think that was so they didn't "waste time" having Jon tell them what happened but that was a mistake to leave out. It…

Drogon is the Unsullied of dragons.

It does. I was hoping that when it went off book it would be more surprising but it definitely telegraphs what it's going to do way more than it used to.

I meant in the general atmosphere. Instead of just the usual Night's Watch sulkiness and one-upmanship.