Looks like they took away the Godmode token from Euron and gave it to Dany.
The episode was decent up until where Euron started fighting Jaime or Dany started torching the civilians (I don't remember what happened first). It's interesting how the scorpions can go from insane killer machines that defy both logic and physics to useless junk so fast but in this episode they performed more in line of what would be expected, though I feel like they should have shown the ships firing off more projectiles as we only saw a handful of shots during the whole fight between Dany and the Iron fleet, and there were many more ships present here than in the last episode. So no objections for me when it comes to the naval battle but I really wonder what went on in the writers minds when they had a small fleet be ridiculously overpowered in one episode and in the next have that fleet with reinforcements be completely useless.
The battle of the actual city is quite alright. Seeing the golden company go up in flames was quite pleasing and I liked that scene where Jon and Davos meet up with the city guard and they nervously stare at each for a bit, though I feel like it would have made sense for at least Davos to order the guards to surrender their swords. So the city is captured, everything is fine and then...ugh.
I get that the writers really want Dany to turn mad but it was made in such a dumb way. Dany goes from only attacking military targets to killing everything in sight, while the Red keep is still unharmed. If Dany had turned on the Red keep and Cersei and then started attacking civilians it could've worked. The city has fallen, Cersei is defeated but it wasn't enough to quench Dany's thirst for blood so she turns on the civilians, that I could buy. But going on a rampage against the city while Cersei is still breathing, that's just dumb. Dany's actions in addition to the way the attackers join in on the slaughter and start hacking against the city guard felt really forced and poorly written.
The rest of the episode drags on for way too long and is not particularly interesting. Euron picking a fight with Jaime felt random as I'd imagine Euron rather fleeing the field than dying a stupid death. Wow, you could killed the Kingslayer, now that he lacks a hand and is well past his prime! Well done, Euron! It reminded me of when Jesse James is killed by getting shot in the back in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford".
I did like how Sandor succesfully persuades Arya to make her escape, even if it's somewhat anti-climatic, and Sandor finally facing his brother. But both the fight between the Clegane brothers and Arya running through the streets went on for too long.
Lastly, it felt silly to me how Drogon can keep fighting for so long, and be that devastating. It's possible that dragonfire can topple huge towers but I couldn't help but think it was a bit on the silly side. When they were waiting for the city bell to ring I was quite sure that Drogon's stamina meter was depleted but apparently he had just begun. I don't know, dragons are supposed to be powerful beings but surely they have to run out of fuel at some point!?
Last edited by forest-spirit - on 13 May 2019