including slave masters and those who betrayed her, but not the innocent and oppressed.

Too bad about Qyburn, he could whip something up for them. It would look like a necromancer’s strap-on and be cursed but it would be functional.

I started a petition for them to go back to season 1 and add coffee cups and Starbucks in every wide shot so they can explain the screw up two episodes ago

In opposition to the current “Game of Thrones Sucks Now!” narrative, I’m enjoying this season a good bit...but how the hell does she have that many Unsullied left?

I don't like that photo of Tyrion. Sign my petition to get HBO to redo it.

What episode is that? My wife and I have been discussing this endlessly and we’re both wanting to see it.

Hmm- great point.

Exactly. But too many people “YASS QWEEN”’d and now are mad about it.

You think they were all slavers?

They weren’t her subjects. They were the leaders of the slave society she just conquered. She would have killed anyone guilty of being a slaver if the they were her subjects.

I was thinking something similar, but a little more nihilistic: Dany kills Jon and Tyrion, and then flies up to Winterfell to demand that Sansa bends the knee. She refuses, and Winterfell is destroyed, taking down Sansa, Bran, and Gendry. Arya then jumps out of nowhere, kills Dany. The dragon then kills Arya. The…

Daenerys Targaryen’s transition from benevolent breaker of chains to burner of King’s Landing was abrupt

But despite that, I was frustrated at how the show seemed to be arguing for mercy for Cersei and the Lannister armies and painting Dany as bloodthirsty to suggest otherwise.

So, does Cersei at the balcony talking about how the Lannister army would  protect the red keep, that all we needed was one good shot, that everything was fine - remind you of Hitler in the bunker at the end of ww2, moving imaginary armies to already lost fronts?

I suppose I saw it as a bit of a parallel to the dropping of the A-Bomb and the message it may have been intended to send to the Soviets. It was a great big loud message to Sansa that people who fuck with Danerys risk not only their own lives but the lives of their people. Cersei didn’t care about that sort of stuff…

So I really liked the episode.

Maybe it’s just me but aren’t we sort of conflating the ideas of madness and evil? Killing innocent people in war is evil but not necessarily madness. Genghis Khan killed so many people in his conquesting that he altered the Earth’s environment but we think of him as a grade A jerk, not a funhouse lunatic. There was a…

Raising the son of a potential rival nation as a member of the family—as, bluntly, “hostage” but also to build closer peaceful ties—was very common in the ancient and medieval world.

We’ll have spent an entire series empathizing with the point of view of a leader who is eventually going to go down a dark path, taking you with her and pushing you to reflect on how she came to be there.

a thousand sub-Saharan dictators would like to remind you that tyranny is ubiquitous.