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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Maybe underscores how useless Varys is now. As the former spy master for Westeros you would think he would have the contacts still to track Euron's fleet, know that the Tyrell bannermen were meeting with Cersei in King's Landing, and/or that the majority of troops had left one of the capital cities.
We knew that Qyburn had taken over the "little birds" in King's Landing but you would think Varys still had some contacts and spies in Westeros that could sniff some of this out. Not saying he should have been able to see all of the Lannister movements, but he shouldn't be completely blind to all of them either.
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I think they are just trying to make Dany's whole crew seem naive and useless, but they've overdone it a bit. Tyrion's plan fails miserably. Dany is acting like a maniac, threatening everyone and going on about birthrights. Varys isn't really doing much of anything, despite just earlier having the means to bring the Tyrell's, Dorne, and Dany together.
Despite my gripes, I'm actually really enjoying the show. You just can't overthink it at all at this point. Even the first few seasons were like this. We're seeing more of an overarching strategy to the show now, which lends itself more to overthinking.