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Dany needs new speech writers ;)

Kevan ain't taking no sh*t from Cersei! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OjAsfBYF4g

I'd rate this somewhere between a 7 and an 8. Likes - Bronn & Lollys & their convo w/ Jaime - Brienne/LF/ Sansa inn scene - The banter between Varys & Tyrion - The dwarf head scene... "We don't want to discourage the other hunters" lol - The small council meeting, particularly Kevan. I was bummed that Kevan is leaving KL for CR, but damn I loved how he didn't put up with Cersei's BS! "You're the queen mother, nothing more." Hell yeah! - Everything up at the Wall - Pretty much everything in Mereen, including the Drogon-Dany scene! - Sailing into Braavos - The look of Dorne & Doran Dislikes - I didn't find the Brienne/Pod fight-chase scene compelling. It seems like it was thrown in there just cuz. - Ellaria...I guess I'm ok w/ the fact that she's seeking revenge & seems willing to use Myrcella to get it. But I just don't think it's the best choice the writers could have gone with. I understand that the people running the show maybe feel like they "need" Ellaria to introduce Dorne, but as others have mentioned, I think it would have been better to have her as the grieving widow, & have the Sand Snakes confront Doran. - The Dorne scene went by too quickly IMO, especially since we were just getting our first introduction to it. I feel like when you introduce a new locale, you need to give the viewers a little extra time there to get accustomed to it. I know we'll be back in Dorne, maybe even in the next episode, but it just felt like we were thrown in-and-out of an entirely new place way too quickly. - I feel like, even though we did get two scenes in Braavos, they didn't amount to much. Arya being locked outside & roaming the alley just felt like squandered screen time, IMO. - Overall, I think that the show is doing an admirable job navigating all the different storylines from the books. I guess this is just a criticism of the books: having so many different story lines & perspectives is a real hindrance to the flow of the narrative. We're with one character for five minutes before we cut to a completely unrelated character for another 5 minutes...and the time it takes to progress anything just takes, to quote the Sandlot, FOR-E-VER. Prime example is the Tyrion-Varys scene. Absolutely nothing happened. We learned that they are on their way to Volantis, we got some good banter, & that was it. I miss the narrative structure of the early books & early seasons. EDIT: Also, I didn't mind he hissing. I thought it was actually kinda cool.

Totally agree w/ Valetudo about Kevan. This is Tywin's brother. I think he deserved more than a quick pop-up scene. I would've liked to have seen him entering the Sept & viewing his brother's body, maybe say a few words, see some emotion. It didn't need to be a long scene. But certainly a brief period of time fleshing his character out even a little bit would have been more productive than, say, the Loras-Olyvar scene mole scene.