A Game of Thrones (contains spoilers)

[PAOBoston]

There's like 9 episodes left in the show and we get a 48 minute episode. Not gonna lie, feeling a little cheated.

We did get dragon burning up a lot of sheet so that was a huge plus though!

[GratefulCs]

so jon totally drew all that stuff on the cave walls, right?

[jpotter33]

There's like 9 episodes left in the show and we get a 48 minute episode. Not gonna lie, feeling a little cheated.

We did get dragon burning up a lot of sheet so that was a huge plus though!

Well, the rumors are that the final season episodes are all going to be 75+ minutes and even up to 90 minutes, so at this pace with so much left to happen those rumors seem to be true. It's also probably the reason why it's not slotted to air until sometime in 2019.

But at least we get to see the White Walkers next weekend!

[Moranis]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

[MasterEmile]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

As it turns out the other dragons weren't needed.
Also I think she didn't want to show them all she's got...

[MasterEmile]

What do you guys think happens with Jamie ? Taken as a prisoner ?
And does Tyrion turn on Danny after she told him he will always remain a Lannister and him seeing the whole army getting fried ?

[Moranis]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

As it turns out the other dragons weren't needed.
Also I think she didn't want to show them all she's got...

Of course they were needed.  If they were there, instead of Drogon continually making passes, they do it once or maybe twice and Drogon then doesn't get hit at all and less troops end up escaping behind the walls. 

[Moranis]

What do you guys think happens with Jamie ? Taken as a prisoner ?
And does Tyrion turn on Danny after she told him he will always remain a Lannister and him seeing the whole army getting fried ?

I have no idea what happens with Jamie, but Tyrion won't turn on Dany. 

[RLewis35]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

Dany kind of heeded jons advice - she used drogon strategically as an instrument of war rather than just burning entire cities.  That's the reason she only brought drogon - she has no one else to ride the other two dragons yet so doubt they would be able to stay on strategy without riders directing them.  If she was just burning everything they'd work great.

[GratefulCs]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

As it turns out the other dragons weren't needed.
Also I think she didn't want to show them all she's got...

Of course they were needed.  If they were there, instead of Drogon continually making passes, they do it once or maybe twice and Drogon then doesn't get hit at all and less troops end up escaping behind the walls.

to quote stannis and davos: "fewer"

[kozlodoev]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

I have found this season rather predictable and thoroughly uninspired. It's like the series is going through the motion and showing us a bunch of stuff we all know has to happen.

There are no plot twists, not even too much witty banter. But that's not really surprising -- I caught the Inside the Episode for E4, and some of the reasoning and justification they had behind their choices about character development was... let's just say it was fitting for a 16-year old. It's been a disappointing experience so far.

[kozlodoev]

edit: someone else said that already

[Roy H.]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

As it turns out the other dragons weren't needed.
Also I think she didn't want to show them all she's got...

Of course they were needed.  If they were there, instead of Drogon continually making passes, they do it once or maybe twice and Drogon then doesn't get hit at all and less troops end up escaping behind the walls.

Um, she is the only dragonrider available at this stage... makes it kind of tough to ride three dragons at the same time.

Maybe she should spend more time teaching the dragons to fly in formation, or to respond to other riders.

I expect we'll see all three dragons attacking soon enough.

[kozlodoev]

Maybe she should spend more time teaching the dragons to fly in formation, or to respond to other riders.

I expect we'll see all three dragons attacking soon enough.

I expect we'll see more dragonriders soon enough

[fairweatherfan]

Episode was ok and best of the four this season, but clearly the quality has gone way down since they passed up the books.  At least there weren't any useless scenes in this one, but way too short for what they need to do still.  And the dragon and battle was cool, but why only bring Drogon and not the other two.  Nonsense like that just takes away from the show overall as they make generally smart people do really dumb things all the time.

The real reason is probably budget, the plot reason is no one can ride them yet, but the thematic reason is that it parallels Aegon's initial conquest. He didn't break out all 3 dragons at once until the Field of Fire that more or less finished the war.  Even took out Harrenhall with just one dragon.


Enjoyed the episode but it was a bit cheesy how Bronn and Jaime both should've been toasted but got out of the way at the last instant. The continuing use of fast travel is a nice nod to RPGs, though.  And I liked how getting tackled about 3 feet laterally got Jaime from water shallow enough a horse can gallop through to like a hundred foot drop.