And "You had me at 'Khaleesi'."

I, sir or ma'am, am unworthy to be in your presence here.

Lancel knows all about Cersei and Jaime, as well as a BUNCH of other things Cersei has done. It may not be just about the cousin incest.

That was pretty cool. I hope they show him a bit more prominently at times and don't just use him as a "lupus ex machina", as someone coined similarly below.

Danerys should be the last person to try to hold someone else responsible for the sins of other family members.

Agree completely. GRRM did so much focus on them in the first book the (almost) lack of significance of them throughout the series was disappointing.

It's possible they're just planning on foregoing the entire Sam storyline as well. (Mild spoiler, I guess?) It's not like he does anything significant to the plot through the end of the fifth book.

What does Sam have to do with it?

I think there're two arguments here, whether the nudity was appropriate in the situation, and whether the entire scene was necessary. I can see why people could think it necessary in the former and unnecessary in the latter.

"what was the point of Tyene’s display?"

Maybe, could be that it's mystical and him dying released it.

Maybe, could be that it's mystical and him forsaking his previous life released it.

She seems to think it's a family trait to some extent, as she says it before she goes into the fire herself. She COULD be intending it as metaphor, but given that she herself exhibits it later it's much more likely that GRRM meant it as more than just metaphor.

That's not the point, he was saying "logically" she can't mean fire can't literally hurt them, except that later on fire and heat LITERALLY CAN'T HURT one of them.

If you really want to apply logic consistent with the events of the story, you should be saying that fire isn't the same as heat and molten gold isn't really "fire".

Unless you subscribe to some mysticism involved (it does exist in that world, after all) and her brother lost it.

How is it annoying? As I mention below, even Dany says that her brother wasn't a true dragon because dragons can't be hurt by fire. True, she's young and doesn't really know that much about it yet, but I think that's enough to make it an understandable misconception.

Oops, sorry, yes, thanks for the correction. Fixed.

So I have what I hope is an interesting question…

What you call dumbing down, others (like myself) might call "preventing numbing boredom". I'm actually pretty happy about not spending 57 episodes of Dany playing politics and Tyrion getting dragged across a continent. I agree on the Sand Snakes, they should have been given far more characterization so we actually…