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Really liked the episode. I can see some of the criticisms, but imo most of these arise from for bad the previous few episodes were. I understand why they needed to kill a dragon last episode. They needed to give Cercei the illusion she could win, so she didn't surrender. It was also shocking how many of those Dothraki and unsulied survived the undead attack. I just don't know why the last few episodes couldn't have been less clunky, to arrive at this point. It's almost like the writers realised how bad some of the writing had been, and decided to ignore many of the most nonsensical parts of the last few episodes, by bringing back Danny's army and nerfing the scorpions.

Back to the episode itself... Great stuff. The gore was excessive, but really drove home the point of the horrors of war. So many of the seamingly invincible characters, reduced to crying children by it all.

Great exits for the Lannisters, the Hound, etc
. Felt really bad for Varys though. I thought he would make it to the end.

Now it's the Starks vs team Dany. Time for Rickon to shine to fix the dragon problem? He won't walk again, but he will "fly". Surely that doesn't just mean in some crows.