OHHHHH SHIT! <3
This episode had all kinds of awesome in it!
- Seeing all the Starks reuniting after going so much shit feels so rewarding and nice... Though I'm expecting something here to go horribly wrong.
- That Sansa vs Brienne fight was all levels of awesome. You can really see how Arya's mastered her swordplay.
- The whole Dragonglass scene with Jon and Dany was nice. Definitely is helping them get along (though Dany still has her ego), and at least Dany now believes that there's White Walkers.
- I'm getting convinced that a Jon X Dany thing is gonna happen. They seem to be warming up, and Davos has already commented on Jon's fancying of her.
- Bran is no longer Bran, the whole "You died in the cave" bit really did hammer it home. He's the three eyed raven now.
- However, Bran does seem to be normalising a bit. His conversation with Arya at least was a bit more direct, and he wasn't as zoned out into different visions/planes as before. But still very clearly not Bran.
- And Little Finger is definitely on guard now with Bran's whole "Chaos is a ladder" deal. Will be interesting to see how that turns out.
- Though I'm a bit confused about Bronn sticking around in the fight. He left Tyrion as soon as the political climate got rough. He's facing a Dragon and he sticks around to likely get roasted? I'm hoping he get's questioned on this next episode so we can see what his reasoning was.
- I'm wondering how Cersei's gonna respond when (if) Jaime get's back to Kings Landing and mentions the Dragons.
- Seeing the Lannister soldiers not only burn but turn into Ash was really cool. Really get's across just how deadly and terrifying these Dragons are.
Sansa'a face was clearly not too pleased about it, and I felt she was...disappointed?
Sansa might have grown up a lot and become stronger in some ways, but she knows she'll never have the same abilities that Arya does. She's always going to have to rely on someone else to fight for her and I think it hit her when she saw how much Arya had grown and developed while she was off on her own journey.
I don't think it's anything like that.
I think she's just realising just how... Alien and foreign here siblings are becoming.
Jon's the most normal having been ressurrected and uniting the North with the Wildlings.
Bran is knowing stuff he would have no business knowing other than from his visions, and is rather robotic as well.
And Arya has gone very vengeful, where the realism of her "list" first sunk in when Bran mentioned it, and then seeing just how good Arya could fight?
I think Sansa more than anything else is soaking in just how disconnected she's become from her siblings. I don't think she feels small in comparison, she's Queen of the North and has become a very strong and shrewd politician, she's grown just as much and she knows it. But growing up to be good at the Game is normal, growing up to be a three eyed raven or a female master of the sword with a kill list isn't. And personality wise, Bran and Arya are completely different people now too, where Jon is still Jon. He's more experienced, but he's largely still old Jon (granted, Jon is also older. So Arya and Bran also had puberty/adolescence to go through).
Dany annoyed the hell out of me during the cave scene. So help me, if she asks Jon to bend the knee one more damn time I'm going to start cheering for her death (As long as it's not by a Lannister!) I honestly don't think she's learned anything from her history at all.
Yea... Dany needs to smarten up. She's not going to make that loyal of friends or allies by pissing them off.
The part with Davos, Jon, and Missandei also got me wondering too. Missandei believes that Dany would let her leave if she asks, but are we really so sure of that? I don't think that she would. I don't think Dany would chain her up or whip her, but I don't think she'd be quick to let Missandei go either.
Eh... She probably would. Cause if not she sends the clear message within her core group that she isn't even fighting for freedom, and that will destroy her.
(Hubby and I were debating this. I kept telling him that a good chunk of the soldiers were the Tyrell bannermen and some of the Lannister army. He insisted that it was almost all of the Lannister army.)
The majority of that army was clearly Lannister, just look at the uniforms.
I also found it stupid how Dany was attacking the wagons. Just a few scenes ago you watched her whine about how the Lannisters stole the food she should have gotten from the Reach. What exactly do you think all those wagons she purposely destroyed contained? She needs food for her army but just did a pointless strafe run with Drogon attacking only the supply wagons.
Agreed.
Granted, we don't know for sure that it was food in those wagons...
But neither did Dany, and if she was worried about the supplies leaving?
Make a flame wall. Or burn more soldiers so there isn't enough to evacuate.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I feel like the Dothraki will now have an ego when fighting again. The comment "Your people don't know how to fight" when he was talking to Tyrion makes me feel like they will fall for some simple military tactic and be killed by superior formations and tactics instead of just 'charge at them with muh horse'
Maybe.
The Dothraki certainly don't care for tactics as much as Westeros. But they still live for war and conflict. Naturally the Kahns with more strategic sense would of been more successful, built stronger tribes etc. So they likely still have a grasp/concept of it.
Already advised to not so readily use her dragons on King's Landing, attacking the soldiers seemed like a "happy" medium of sorts between her and Tyrion.
I don't know.
I think Tyrion already took for granted that the Dragons would burn soldiers. There was no getting around that, her army doesn't function without them.
And War is brutal, the citizens of Westeros already get their sons, brothers and fathers dying in battle. I don't think they care too much if the soldiers die by sword or fire.
What they do care about is if
they get hit. If Dany starts sieging cities, allowing civilians to get caught in the crossfire etc.
I honestly don't think Dany was impatient. Does she have an ego? Yeppers. But I think she waited long enough. With the Martells, Greyjoys and Tyrells out of the game, she had to do something.
Agreed. She's been backed into the corner. If she didn't act then the Ironborn would of continued taking more and more ground.