I do feel that fans are not upset she became the mad queen, they just wanted a little more evidence that she was the type to show such cruelty towards the innocent. It’s like we’re missing some middle or final arc to connect the Dany we saw mourning Jorah just an episode ago to the one we saw last night.

Show me a season where she worked towards diplomacy and avoided outright violence to serve her ends

It really is. Anytime I get upset about the ending of something I compare it to that. It’s the gold standard of shitty endings (Brown standard?).

Not avoiding violence is quite far removed from murdering thousands of innocent civilians just because you feel like it. Before this, the violence always had a purpose. I saw a comment somewhere else that pointed out why this was poorly executed. Dany went from a Stannis with dragons to a Joffrey with dragons in 2…

The problem for me isn’t the violence, it’s the targets. If she incinerated the Lannister army down to the last man and had Drogon eat Cersei, that would be perfectly in character. But when she spends an hour just barbecuing pedestrians for no particular reason it feels like it came out of nowhere. 

Yeah, half-assed is a good way to put it. It just feels unearned. Like, we spent seven years going through a slog of unraveling incredibly complicated interweaving plots and some really compelling character development that, while having plenty of twists and surprises, justified itself pretty well (some bits of the…

No, the pikachu tweet mentions a lot of prior actions removed from their context. She burned the witch, the Undying, and the Mereneese nobles for treachery/betrayal. She burned Astapor and the Masters for the cruelty of slavery. She burned Vaes Dothrak because they expected her to submit to a sexist system that…

Looking back, the common threads of all the major arcs in this episode were family. Jamie and Tyrion both choose Cersei and each other. The Hound settles his family business. Jon fucks up by siding “against the family” and Dany only truly becomes a monster when she loses the found family she made and decides to take…

Show me a season where she worked towards diplomacy and avoided outright violence to serve her ends. @Buckay_ on Twitter nailed that idea as mentioned above.

None of that would be relevant in a Late Middle Ages style world. No one would have batted an eye at nobility being incestuous. That was QUITE normal in fact. So there is no reason to call it out, unless you want to insert modern social mores into the show. 

This is what happens when you’re not good-looking enough to get the steady stream of women that male privilege convinced you you were entitled to.

I said this on Twitter the other day, but there will be a movie about the Trump Presidency and the way things are going it will have to be like the Marvel Comic Cinematic Universe to properly tell the story. You’ll need entire movies explaining all these characters on the fringes of the administration and their…

Related. Kinda. The guy who shot up the PA municipal building...

That’s fine, as long as you take time to reflect and become a better husband and father afterwards.

There’s a reason they say that for a powerful man to face consequences for a scandal, someone would need to find either a live boy or a dead girl.  That speaks to how much we care about the women, that they have to actually die before it’s taken seriously.

“he needed her to believe she was going to die so that he could be sexually fulfilled”

But he needed it. Sex-u-al-ly. Needed. Small price for her to pay, a few hours of fear and a lifetime of horrible memories. He needs to be fulfilled. (My eyeroll just threw my back out.)

The Judge presiding over the case was similarly optimistic, noting that he’s a member of the community.

This can never happen again.

I’m betting normal processes are not functioning quite as smoothly as usual this week.