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Farsala on 28 August 2017
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Hiku said:

Rant:

Why would you give two of your children the same exact name? It seems like the only reason the show writers did that was because there is an Aegon Targaryen (supposedly) alive in the books. So it was just some stupid fanservice? Will some random person be called Stoneheart next?

And I wasn't a fan of how the negotiations went. I expected them to say that they don't think they can beat the dead on their own. And point out the difference between a Wight and a Whitewalker, and that if they lose, they will be added to the armies of the dead immediately, etc. Cercei later mentions that she's heard stories about Whitewalkers as a child, but it's unclear if she fully understands the threat they're dealing with. She speculates about the loss of a Dragon without considering that it may be an undead dragon now. And we didn't get to hear exactly what Tyrion said to "convince" her.

And then there's D&D seemingly shitting on the rules established in previous seasons by GRR Martin.
If someone tells you "I can't have children", are you going to ask them "How do you know?" Then if she tells you that she's tried many times but had misscarriages, you'll feel like an insensitive asshole. But in this case it just coincidentally turns out to be the words of a magical witch, and Jon discredits her reliability, just so he can seemingly put a baby inside of her, because fuck "breaking the wheel", right? Let's just return to the usual way of succession.

Overall though it was a good episode. Although some of the high points were predictable, like the dragon destroying the wall, or Bran revealing whar Little Finger had said from a vision, after he previously repeated his "Chaos is a ladder".
It was nice seeing some of the interactions between characters that hadn't seen each other in a long time. And there was some memorable dialogue and good acting.

Agree with bold, if Jaime/ Cersei both acknowledge that they didn't even scratch or kill the 3rd dragon, then who else could have killed it but the army of the dead. And if they had no chance against a dragon, but the army of the dead killed one, then the threat is obvious.