Please tell me the eldest Tarly also ended up extra-crispy?
That actually is one of the better battle decisions made in the series.
Cavalry cannot defeat or dislodge determind infantry which is in formation.
Air power works best against enemy concentrations.
The Lannister-Tarly forces were dispersed when the battle began, hence not good targets for Drogon. When the Dothraki charged they rushed into formation, suddenly becoming very good tagets for Drogon.
Once Drogon started to spit fire; they wisely dispersed; (we even hear Jamie ordering them to). Unfortunatley, if infantry breaks, it becomes easy pickings for cavalry.
So they were presented with a [del]Hobson’s[/del] Dany’s choice.
Has it ever been firmly established exactly who ordered the assassination attempt on Bran with the dagger? We assume it was Cersei, but for all we know it may have been Littlefinger himself, as part of his chaos/ladder thing.
Not all bodies of water are gently sloped. It’s not impossible for a river to have a deep pool close to a bank. I agree that it looked a bit unlikely, but it doesn’t break the laws of physics like, for example, a napalm-spewing dragon.
That was an entire army. Dragons aren’t indestructible. There’s no way she could have done that without the Dothraki. Or someone on the ground.
Bran isn’t dumb or smart for being open to Littlefinger. He’s beyond all that now but bewteen Bran’s knowledge, Arya’s skill and Sansa’s guile he’s very very nervous which is dangerous.
Actually, it looked to me like they were doing OK - the shield wall was (mostly) holding (they could have used longer spears) and hadn’t yet brought their archers to bear (which seemed odd).
They weren’t definitely losing until Drogon punched a hole in the shield wall - once the Dothraki got behind them they were doomed.
All the time spent in the catacombs of Winterfell has to be foreshadowing. There’s a lot of bodies down there. I bet the final stand against the white walkers will be in Winterfell. We’ll see a zombie Ned Stark before the show ends.
Oh, yes. Field of Fire 2.0. About time Dany started getting some wins. But where were Rhaegal and Viserion? CGI budget is where they were, to answer my own question.
Ok, I’m gonna get lynched for this because he’s a fan favourite, but does anyone else think Bronn *should’ve *got toasted there? These last second jumping out the way cuts just seem a bit un-Game of Thronesy. Seriously doubt Jaime goes out, I’m thinking one or both of the Tarlys are dead, though.
Dr Branhattan needs to pull his flipping finger out and let Sansa/Arya know how Littlefinger held a dagger to their father’s throat and started the entire war that ended with him, their mother and brother dead because “chaos is a ladder”.
They saved Bronn because of some other purpose he must have in the story. That’s the only possible reason, I think – the producers of the show are more than willing to kill characters, especially if they’re not “core” characters (i.e. Tyrion, Jon, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and to a lesser extent Cersei and Jaime, by my estimation).
I thought the episode was fantastic – the best of the season so far. Hopefully Dany and Tyrion will come up with a plan to deal with those ballistae.
So, the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers to help them battle men. And later teamed up with men to defeat the White Walkers. Against fireball-throwing children and WWs, it’s surprising there were men left to join the later battle. Wonder how that all went down.