It feels like there's 5 episodes of plot development missing from in between episodes three and five.
Did I really just see northmen killing unarmed soldiers and civilians just because Grey Worm went crazy? Like, were those former Bolton men, or what? Jon was right there and they just go in and slaughter people without even waiting for his command? What?
Mob mentality is a powerful thing. Mob mentality after surviving the dead when half your friends and family didn't and after the people of King's Landing were sitting all warm and cozy is undoubtedly more powerful.
It's not like the Northmen have Unsullied-like discipline. A lot of them are probably still sore about Jon bending the knew to Dani and don't really give a rats proverbial about his honor.
No, that didn't bother me. It bothered in terms of the horror they were committing but I believed it.
I went into this episode with zero expectations after the last couple and in a way it allowed me to enjoy parts of this one that I wouldn't have if I had a more pessimistic mindset, as I did in the previous ones.
I really liked the visual of the whole spectacle. The raw power of the dragon tearing everything up (where is he getting all this fuel?). The sadness of the whole thing and how it could have been avoided.
The loss of such a tragic character as Sandor and his parting with one of the few people he cared about.
I even felt emotion at when Cercei and Jaime met and finally died.
And Varys too. This whole episode has been grand loss of tragic characters, not least of which Dani's hope of becoming a just ruler. If only she burned down the Red Keep when she first landed in Westeros. One dragon could just melt that and the Iron Throne and she would have broken the wheel like she promised.
Instead she got bad advice and no advice from Tyron and Varys respectively, causing massive losses, and people are surprised the coin landed on the wrong side.