Guys. All these fucking posts and no good episode analysis. ffs sort it.
This kind of semantic/pedantic argument that goes around in circles where no one really wins is your expertise man.
Donât act like you donât love it.
Anywhere but here.
a good review:
"To Sansa, though, thereâs more than a little melancholy in the sight of a sister transformed into a weapon by her experiences during their time apart. The three Starks in Winterfell have been reforged by lifeâs cruelty, broken down and reassembled as people who in essential ways no longer recognize each other. Sansa a canny and paranoid manipulator, Arya a dyed-in-the-wool killer, Bran no longer even truly Bran. His empty, emotionless farewell to Meera Reed, his tireless companion and a woman for whom he once harbored an embarrassed, boyish affection, is one of the episodeâs saddest notes.
Arya should never have had to learn to kill. Bran should never have been forced to break his own mind on the altar of destiny. Sansa may have been groomed for command by her captors, but at what cost to her soul? In their power, as in the furnace hearts of Danyâs dragons, is a reminder of the essential ugliness of the world in which they live and a warning not to let the horrors of the battlefield become our heartâs desire. The spoils of war arenât glory or freedom; theyâre fire and blood."
I remember doing UBRS when that video came out
Still hoping for that legal Vanilla rehash personally havenât played for years - would be fun.
Hope the season hasnât climaxed yet! Although the focus should revert to the others in E6 onwards
https://twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/894664478343667712
âWoo, Bronn is back!â
âNo, no, fuck you, no, FUCK YOU BRONN, NOOOOâ.
Was about my reaction last night :sanchez2:
As the story on screen is often blurred and glossy on exact details, times, geography within that world, Daenyâs motivation for attacking Jaime and his Lannister army was purely to stop them from getting back to Kingâs Landing (and of course inflicting a great deal of destruction in the process) right? After finding out that they pulled a sly one in her.
I wonder if she knew, whether via Varys and his âlittle birdâsâ, if that Lannister army was also purposefully transporting a boat load of gold back to Kingâs Landing? Seems all too fitting of a plan to to tie up so many problems in one go.
Awesome though regardless, brilliant episode!!
Tyrion is fully aware of the crownâs debts to Iron Bank - will know that convoy is transporting gold, hence Danyâs targeting of their supply chain.
Just a little heads up there might be a few spoliers out there, the script for Episode 5âs been leaked.
Also in reply to @RichardDeP, the gold was safely back at Kingâs Landing unfortunately, Randall Tarley confirms this just before they hear the Dothraki rumbling away over the hill.
It was the food supplies Dany destroyed, the gold was already gone.
Ah fair enough, I missed that then! I asked as Tycho said to Cersei âwhenâ theyâve paid their debt, theyâd seal their alliance with the Iron Bank further.
Letting it all sink in right now but Iâm definitely going to watch this episode again later in the week.
I donât even watch this but Walcott is better than those dragons, not even a contest
Yeah I missed it too first time round and thought theyâd got the gold, therefore fucking up the entire arrangement Cersei was making with the Iron Bank. Only when I rewatched the episode last night did I catch that snippet of info
Donât bother trying to rationalize why Danaerys torched wagons instead of soldiers.
It was simply because effects were better performed on props like Wagons.
They burned 20 some stunt actors for this battle which is supposedly quite a lot/record for TV.
Destroying the food supplies is more important to the war overall than killing more of those men in a single battle. Itâs well established that the food from The Reach is vital to feeding large parts of the Seven Kingdoms, thatâs well established not just in this season but ages ago. Cersei is significantly weaker for having lost all that grain.
Also, if she went round lighting up the whole battlefield indiscriminately sheâd have fried loads of her own Dothraki soldiers. A living Dothraki soldier is more valuable to her than a dead Lannister man due to how fucking awesome they are. As Robert said, âOnly a fool would meet the Dothraki in an open fieldâ, itâs long established how great a fighting force they are.
It isnât hard to rationalise at all.
If she defeats the army, food supplies were not going to get themselves to Kingâs landing anyway.
Logically it is stupid to waste dragon fire on wagons when she could have flown ahead of Dothraki army and burned a major resistance and saved quite a few Dothrakis in process.
Plus she herself needs food supplies. She has just come to Westeros. She has no kingdom of her owns, no farmers to get food from. She relied on high garden for food supplies.
Plus Winter has come so more food supplies the better.
It is not rational at all.