Remember when the Hound realised the futility of the cycle of violence and lived a simple life as a builder and farmer for a season and appeared to be one of the characters who can learn and grow from his experiences? What happened to that guy’s story? “Guy returns to violence that kills him” could a valid ending but... why did he do it? He was driven back to it, reluctantly, after the people he was living with were killed. But then the reluctance vanished without trace and he was right back to the same character we started with.

I have mixed feelings. Most of them are "why is everyone suddenly a massive twat".

45 minutes

Hmmm... I can't be the only one who failed to realise that Varys and the little girl at the start were attempting to poison Dany, can I?

No, I didn't

While we’re on the subject of “I see where we were going with this story but we got there via the laziest writing”: what the hell happened with Arya? Eight years we’ve been watching her transform into an implacable assassin, watching her soul leech away as she becomes colder and colder. Wondering if this is it for her or if she can turn it around, remember what it is to be human and to defined by more than war and hatred (as I type this I think she might serve as a decent metaphor for the whole of Westeros.)

And when eight years of relentlessly ratcheting pressure on her came to a close, what was the dramatic culmination? The Hound said “don’t” and she said “okay” and skipped off. Thirty seconds and we’re done with that story.

She's going to kill Dany. You know it to be true.

Jon's not a murderer

Also lol

Euron’s ending was slightly anticlimactic, but he did have a perfect final line; egotistical to the very end.

We didn't see him die, though. That makes me GAME OF THRONES SUSPICIOUS.

We didn't see him die, though. That makes me GAME OF THRONES SUSPICIOUS.

(a) why didn't Cersei just kill Daenerys there and then? I cannot believe, after all we've seen from her, that she suddenly grew some respect for the rules of parlay. Those fuck-off great big crossbows could have killed Daenerys's inner circle at a stroke. (The only answer I can see is: because the plot demanded it, and consistent characterisation be damned.)

Not saying you're wrong, but if so, what was the point of the scene this week with the Hound paternalistically growling "don't choose this life, girl"?

Bran is the horse

This whole massacre of King’s Landing has got to be from George, init?

I can’t wait for next episode when Dany and Jon have a word and she’s like “Blimey, that got a bit crazy didn’t it?”

She flies in and is "great work, team!" And tries to Hi5 everyone

She flies in and is "great work, team!" And tries to Hi5 everyone

And Grey Worm responds enthusiastically.

"Fuck yeah! Killed me some Lannisters!"

Your boy Grim... posited that after the episode.

I can only conclude that they were saving the crack shots for the dragon attack.

WAIT

THE

OTHER

THING

Stop making excuses.
It.
Was.
Shit.

I think that was just a visuals thing. They’re supposed to be just out of arrow range. Obviously if you account for the Scorpions they would have to be further back, but then it would take Tyrion fucking ages to walk to the wall, and Dany wouldn’t be able to hear Missandei telling her to burn the city down.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your furious fanwanking.

Only DocG is patronising enough to think the rest of us don't understand the words he uses

Only DocG is patronising enough to think the rest of us don't understand the words he uses

Bran is the Table

I think we all know that is far from true