**Spoilers for this episode of Game of Thrones**

While watching this episode, I found myself reflecting on the series a lot.  The implications of what were happening were monumental, but I kept coming back to one conversation had between Varys and Olenna Tyrell in Season 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFZen-XO5II&t=3m18s

At the end of this conversation, Varys says perhaps his most famous line of series.  “But he would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes.”  Of course, in this scene he’s talking about Littlefinger.   While watching this episode, obviously my mind was on another person…

Dany has gone full Mad Queen.  The revelation was a slow burn, unlike King’s Landing, which was more of a broil.  Her ruthlessness and paranoia had peaked in recent episodes with the loss or betrayal of the majority of her allies (and like, whatever Theon was).  Still, to see a character proclaimed ‘mother’ by the slaves she liberated turn into the worst war criminal in the show’s history is…well…at least a slight change.  But she has chosen fear over mercy, as she told Jon right after he refused to fuck her for the second time in as many episodes.  Like c’mon man.  Can’t you just throw a girl a bone when she’s down?  And I mean a bone.  Like fuck, man.  Literally.  At best, it shows her how love is better than fear and maybe thousands of people don’t die.  At worst, you have sex with a crazy cat lady whose cat is a fire-breathing weapon of mass destruction.

Meanwhile, outside of what was King’s Landing

Dany:  Phew, I’m beat, what a long day…

Tyrion:  A long d-  A LONG DAY?!?!

Dany:  Yikes, what’s up with you?

Tyrion:  YOU ROASTED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ALIVE!

Dany:  Can you believe this guy?

Jon:  YOU FUCKING BURNED THE WHOLE CITY!

Dany:  Why are you guys blaming me for something Sansa basically did?

Tyrion:  ARE YOU-

Jon:  My sister-

Dany:  Cousin.

Tyrion: -FUCKING-

Jon:  -did not just massacre untold numbers of innocent-

Tyrion:  -KIDDING ME?!

Jon:  …people.

Dany:  *fake cries with baby voice* Oh waah.  I’m all butt-huwt cause a wittle town wif some randos went bye-bye.

Davos:  THAT WAS THE CITY I GREW UP IN!

Dany:  And it can be the city you die in too- hang on, here’s my boi.

Grey Worm:  KHALEESI!

*Dany and Grey Worm perform an elaborate handshake with multiple steps that goes on for a full minute.  Multiple high fives, couple booty bumps, a backflip, the whole 9…*

Dany:  Remember when the people were like “oh my god, scary dragon, I hope she doesn’t-”

Grey Worm:  And then…

Dany:  WASTED

*Both laugh while the others look on noticeably horrified*

Tyrion:  My brother was in there…

Dany:  Wait, you let him escape?

Grey Worm:  Dude, that’s fucked up.

Finally, we come to twincest couple of the year, Jaime and Cersei, getting a weird final moment together.  If you told me 5 years ago they would die together, I’d say that kinda made sense, especially if they killed each other.  But if you told me they died under the Red Keep while it was crumbling on top of them while Cersei begged for her unborn child’s life while Jaime bled to death from a wound inflicted by EURON GREYJOY….well, I would’ve still probably believed you and gotten really fucking mad that some time travel wizard used their powers just to ruin the show for me.  I liked late game Jaime a lot.  He used his powers of wit for good, was the straight man in a lot of great scenes with scene stealing characters like Tyrion, Olenna, and Bronn, and took Brienne’s virginity…which was a thing that certainly happened.  Cersei was the villain the show absolutely needed an episode after it lost Ramsay, and boy did she deliver.  Now its her time to step out of the way for the only villain that could eclipse her levels of monstrosity…and also, definitely, the last one.

Quick Hits:

1)  Poor Varys lasted almost the entire show, always serving the realm from the shadows.  Its been a bad season for the dickless so far, with Grey Worm getting the best of the deal by only having to watch his true love beheaded in front of him.

2) Dany’s execution pronunciation of Varys was very matter-of-fact.  Felt like Anne Robinson from the Weakest Link.  “You are the weakest link.  Dracarys.”

3) Dany: This is the only thing left of Missandei, I want you to have it…
Grey Worm:  *throws it in the fire*
Dany:  Okay bitch-

4) The Queensguard was evidently more of a one-man team than the late-2000s Cavs.

5)  I can’t speak much to the Clegane Bowl because it speaks for itself.  It was perfect, from Qyburn getting hilariously dispatched to the Hound finally facing all his fears head on to consummate his revenge.

6) Euron’s the kinda guy that scores a hat-trick on a losing team and celebrates like he won.

7) Big ups to the dude that played the leader of the Golden Company that probably got a pretty decent pay day for a couple days of work.  I think they spent more time talking about the Golden Company than they did showing it get slaughtered.

8)  If you’re one of the few Dothraki that survived…you had quite the ride huh?  Went from serving under Khal Drogo, best Khal in the Dothraki Sea, to following some lady that willingly burned herself alive to hatch not 1, not 2, but fucking 3 DRAGONS.  THEN SHE WAS UNBURNT!  Then you languished through a bunch of slave cities, fighting here and there, until you had to take a wooden horse across the sea, before going to like the coldest place ever, fighting the literal dead with a flame sword, and then, after all that shit, you FINALLY GET TO SACK THE BIGGEST CITY ON THE CONTINENT!  Wooo, Dothraki, you the real winners.

I literally cannot wait to see what the last episode has in store…literally anything could happen in those last 80 minutes.  See you one final time, next week.