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I'd mark out

 

The Mountain would def be the person everyone teams up to take out

 

"by god. Lady Stone heart is the third man!"

 

I don’t think it’s the worst episode of the series. That score shows that critics do

 

man

 

I believe that closeup is the last time we see her. It had to be a conscious choice to dehumanize her completely after that moment and only show the carnage, but that switch from the show making her sympathetic just a few minutes before to a literal flying monster is a big example of how rushed her descent was.

 

Maybe Dany burned everyone because she was searching for more secret Targaryens?

 

it's nitpicky but this is still driving me nuts this morning. last episode they hit three shots on a flying dragon firing those bolts like a goddamn turret and then last night's episode it took them several moments to load a single bolt and they couldn't hit shit on a dragon that's a bigger target than the one they hit last episode. like this recut scene from someone on reddit made it 1000x better and more believable using the same footage cut differently, so they have no excuse.

 

It was actually a Bran heel turn, he warged into the dragon

 

Right, like a sadistic ass Where's Waldo.

 

Honestly, that was so much better and more believable. I know they really wanted to go for the surprise and shock of it all, but it did not work or make sense. That recut works perfectly. They set an ambush and shot a bunch of bolts where they knew (hoped) the dragons were gonna fly.

 

We got full on redemption arcs for Theon and the Hound. It’s bewildering to me that people are upset Jamie didn’t get the same treatment too. Does everyone have to be redeemed? Cersei’s been this monster for years and expecting Jamie to turn on her now feels way more out of character than what we got. I thought his ending was perfect.

 

it should've been a literal royal rumble as in it should've been a pay per view event on WWE channel or wahtever the hell channel thats on

 

I think Nathan nailed it when he said the problem was they didn't dramatize that decision at all. They spent a lot of time on his initial possible redemption and how he had to be convinced and learn and have all these new experiences to possibly become a different person and then they reversed it in one 5 minute scene

 

I went back and watched that moment just now and the bolts are clearly coming from three different angles. Also there's a delay between the first one (that Euron fired) and the second two (that hit Rhaegal while he's struggling to stay airborne and clearly unable to maneuver away from them).

 

This killed me

 

yeah like it's a fantasy show i'm okay with real world physics not being a thing when we have fucking dragons and shit, but they can't even have consistent world building and in world logic within two successive episodes

 

we waited 8 years for Cersei to be killed by a bunch of rocks

 

I will give you that that is better than what I was thinking, which was that Euron shot them all.

 

Until literally just now I didn't know people out there thought Euron fired all 3 of those shots at Rhaegal.

I had assumed from the get go that 3 different ships fired

 

I also think it's worth noting that every time a dragon has seen projectiles coming/known what they were, the dragon has dodged them and survived. The only two times a dragon was mortally wounded, they were surprised/ambushed. So there's clear precedent for the dragons being able to easily dodge projectiles when they're ready for them/have a rider to guide them.

 

It could just be me haha

 

Maybe 'snapping' is diving too much into semantics here, but to me it would generally indicate a loss of control and rationale. I don't think Dany lost control, it'd basically been her stated preference to nuke the joint and govern from there. There was enough premeditation and reasoning behind what she wanted to do that I can't argue it was insanity or even a huge departure behaviorally.

The coin flip stuff I just took to mean that the Targaryens have generally been a mixed bag in summation, not so much that they all teeter on the same edge. Varys clearly knew what Dany was already and his last words were basically that he hoped he was wrong. If you wanted to take the coin flip thing in a more literal sense odds-wise, then he really shouldnt have felt strongly one way or the other.

 

lol idk man, it explains why so many people are as fixated on that scene as they are for the 'unrealistic'ness of it. I thought the Dany not seeing the ships part was a little lame but I was never mad at the accuracy/rate of fire because i just assumed a dragon flying in a straight line+3 different shooters, and Iwasn't sure what everyone was so up in arms about with it haha

 

That criticism has always been incredibly weak.