superflyninja wrote:

Its cool to hate popular things.
Or so I've been told.
By cool people.
Cool people that wear glasses with clear,non prescriptive glass.

Childintime wrote:

Its cool to hate popular things. Or so I've been told. By cool people. Cool people that wear glasses with clear,non prescriptive glass.

Im not trying to hate on it, buddy - like I said above, I'm glad people are liking it. I just think it's become really badly written. But I won't begrudge anyone thinking otherwise.

pantyfire wrote:

A mate has just reminded me of something I completely overlooked in the books and it has been altered to in this season. 

Spoiler:

Euron finds a dragon controlling horn. Fnar.

Escape wrote:

Dolores Stormborn's not just one of the most tyrannical characters, she's also the biggest hypocrite by far, but the incorrigible geekery of those who fancy her provide more protection than her dragons ever will. So because I've time, I'll do a quick breakdown on her history (for future readers/mugs, we're up to S7E4)...

Spoiler:

Wronged by: Viserys, who said that he'd let a thousand men rape her to win the Iron Throne, and then held a sword to her to threaten Khal Drogo (though it was obvious to all that he couldn't harm her).
Punishment: she not only condoned his murder by torture, she approved of it and watched.

Wronged by: wineselling assassin.
Punishment: death by roping.

Wronged by: Mirri the witch, who put Drogo into a permanent trance and killed her unborn child.
Punishment: burned at the stake.
Mitigating circumstances: Mirri was first raped three times and — if we're to believe her story — had witched for the good at her temple until then. Dolores was also in a Stockholm-syndrome marriage to Drogo, so his fate only mattered to her for his power.

Wronged by: warlock sonny.
Punishment: burned alive by dragons. One of her few fair reactions, and the warlock was roasted by his own petard. (Also, was he planning to stack the dragons on top of one another in his tower when they grew...)

Wronged by: Xaro and Doreah, who helped Qarth's warlock capture her dragons when she refused Xaro's marriage proposal.
Punishment: death by suffocation in Xaro's vault, which is actually one of the cruellest deaths in the prog's history, given its protraction and psychological torment.
Mitigating circumstances: Xaro actually had nothing, so when Dolores rejected his offer (I'm presuming he would've secured her ships with his key, and been on his way by the time their seller opened the empty vault), he nabbed her dragons with Doreah's help. Doreah was only guilty of switching masters, and they'd all have been dead in the Desert of Bones had Xaro not vouched for them (for his own ends, but still).

A fitting punishment would've been to simply reveal his empty vault to all in Qarth and leave him and Doreah there with nothing.

Wronged by: the Unsullied's owner, for some mild insults and his ownership of slaves.
Punishment: dragon-torched.
Mitigating circumstances: there were tons of other slave-owners in the region, as became a boring theme in seasons to follow.

Wronged by: more slave-owners.
Punishment: 163 were crucified in place of children who suffered the same at their hands.
Mitigating circumstances: Dolores later recognised that Barristan was right about showing mercy, but defaulted to tyrant once again.

Wronged by: Jorah, threatening to execute him upon his return.
Punishment: Tyrion talked her out of it. Halfman!

Wronged by: Dothraki captors, who wanted to imprison her in their special-wimmins tent.
Punishment: burned alive for failing to comply, without first giving them any warning that she could survive fire — absolutely no shot across their bow.

Wronged by: slave-owner ships, who attacked [Mike] Meereen.
Punishment: let many of her own people die before retaliating with Drogon to deescalate.

Wronged by: Jon Snur, for failing to bend the knee when he's every right not to until convinced of her motivations for power.
Punishment: tyrant strop.

Wronged by: acting lessons.
Punishment: withdrawal. She spends most of the time with her hands by her sides in the neutral position for piano (it's really hard to unsee), and she has no sense of presence whatsoever.

monkey wrote:

That's her schtick though isn't it? She's half a vengeance consumed rage queen, half a benevolent liberator. Which side of her will win out? Will she go too far? Will her vengeance consume her? Will she bang her nephew? Find out next week, same bat time, same bat channel.

Matt_82 wrote:

Season 2:  I'd actually prefer if they dropped the magical stuff and just kept it as a medieval drama.  The magic stuff doesn't add anything to the story. Season 7:  DRAGONS!!!