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Game of Thrones: The Winds of Winter (2016)
Game of Thrones at its pinnacle
As great as this episode is, it takes away some of the thrill when you realize that the epicness of Jon being acclaimed King in the North and Dany's fleet and dragons sailing across the Narrow Sea will never get the follow-up it should and it will all fizzle out.
The people who were angry about Dany's "heel turn" didn't notice all the foreshadowing, including in this episode, where she confesses to Tyrion that she "felt nothing" about abandoning her lover. Already getting dragonny there.
The whole "Sept" sequence is masterfully done, including the unusual music, which sets up a queasy sense of unease. Tommen's suicide was a total shock. Another shock: Arya using her faceless skills to check another name off her list. (However this just reminds me: why didn't she use that skill in the battles to come?) Seeing the wolf banner back at Winterfell was awesome, of course.
But Littlefinger's plotline makes no sense at this point. When and why did he decide to ignore Cersei's instructions to kill Sansa? Now that Cersei is on the Iron Throne, why wouldn't her first move to be to send someone to kill Littlefinger for ignoring her instructions?
Why would Sansa and Jon allow someone as devious as Littlefinger to hang around? It would be smarter to have him killed, blame it on Cersei, and as Robin's only living relatives, become his protectors and take over his army. The army is the only thing Littlefinger has to offer but why would the Knights of the Vale have any loyalty to an unctuous outsider?
As for the Melisandre plotline, I've never bought the notion that Ser Davos wouldn't just kill her immediately. His love for Shireen is his only notable motivation now. He's never seen the White Walkers and he's only just joined Jon's team. Why would he ask permission to seek revenge?
But all those are quibbles, not enough to change the score from 10/10. If only they'd kept up this level of quality!
Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards (2016)
best battle episode of GoT
GoT excels at its battle episodes but this outdoes them all. Better battle sequence than most big budget movies. Provides a palpable sense of tension and horror. The way it all pans out is maybe a bit "Hollywood" if ya know what I mean, Han Solo and all that, but the quality is so great overall that it still merits a perfect 10.
The Mereen part of the episode is also well done and sets up the next episode very well.
There are just a couple quibbles, not really focused on this episode but overall. I never bought it that Ser Davos would not go after Melisandre immediately when he had evidence of her complicity in Shireen's death. Or that the news of Stannis burning his own daughter at the stake on the orders of a "red witch" would not be big news all across the countryside, spread by all those sellswords who abandoned Stannis before the battle. Why wouldn't everyone have heard that story by now?
For that matter, I don't buy it that Brienne wouldn't have lopped her head off at first sight. The writers should have arranged for her to flee Castle Black for her life. She doesn't play a vital role in the story right now anyway.
The other quibble: I seem to recall Littlefinger was sent by Cersei to kill Sansa. Did he hear about Cersei's loss of power and decide to not bother? A little clarification on that would be nice.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)
some very good actors but it's definitely for kids
Your kids will probably love this but it's not enough to hold grownups' interest.
They've discovered two really good kid actors here: Walker Scobell and Aryan Simhadri. Those two should go on to have nice acting careers based on this strong start.
But the plotline really is really just for kids, sending Percy on various quests. The production values are somewhat cheap-looking. Doesn't Disney have a lot of money to spend on a top show like this?
I bailed in the second episode when the kids were all wearing awkward-looking Ancient Greek armor, preparing for some kind of fake kid battle. It's sweet but there's not enough at stake. I'll go back to watching bad Star Wars on Disney+.
The Acolyte (2024)
fire Leslye Headlund, she can't write or run a successful series
Disney needs to take a good hard look at the personnel they have working on Star Wars. They're letting unqualified and talentless hacks wreck this franchise.
So far, it looks like Dave Flioni is the only reasonably good showrunner they have on the payroll who is interested in live action stories about Force users. Ashoka could use some writing improvements but it's Shakespeare compared with the mess Headlund made with Acolyte.
The Jedi don't act like Jedi, but like a bunch of irresponsible, loose-cannon space thugs who invent their own rules to justify trespassing in other people's homes and stealing their kids.
They judged the Nightsisters as being "dangerous" based on nothing at all. Just bigotry. They act like a bunch of insular, frightened hicks who've never been to a single alien planet or encountered an unusual alien species. Who ARE these people?
The characters are poorly written and often inconsistent. One character says "X is the most important thing to me!" and then two minutes later, completely flips. And then she does it again not too long afterwards. I should send Disney a bill for my whiplash.
On the positive side, the fights are well choreographed. And the idea of delving into Nightsisters and Sith, who have different ways of relating to the Force, is a good one and long overdue. The Sith are just psychologically empty baddies. But this series did nothing to address that problem. Filoni, you're up.
I don't know if Disney is going to greenlight a season 2 but they really shouldn't bother.
The Acolyte: The Acolyte (2024)
Mae was right
Mae may be a mess of a character, flip flopping when the writers need her to go in a different direction, but it's hard to deny that she's actually correct.
The Jedi were bigoted against the Nightsisters so they used this to justify trespassing into their home and creating a domestic squabble that led to the deaths of the whole coven. Mae might have been a pyro but at her age, she can't be blamed so much as the adults who created the situation.
Sol was an idiot for trying to lure Osha away, knowing she was too old to be properly trained. He wrecked her life for his own selfish so-called "connection" with her.
This series depicts the Jedi as so irresponsible and stupid that it's a wonder they're allowed to operate at all. The Senator guy who shows up to lecture the green lady is absolutely right. The way the Jedi act, they need to be not just reviewed but shut down.
If this series wants to critique the Jedi, there would be far better ways to do it. Setting them up to look like buffoons and then pointing out that they're buffoons is just a lazy straw-man argument.
The Acolyte: Choice (2024)
now they're just making the Jedi look like idiots and bigots
First off, something good. Carrie-Ann Moss knows how to play a Jedi! Hooray! Too bad nobody else in the cast does.
They should have cast Moss in the lead role. I am really getting tired of Lee Jung-jae's non-acting. Supposedly he didn't even know English when he was cast. He's spending so much energy just trying to enunciate his lines so that the audience can understand that that is pretty much all he can do. His performance is stiff and boring. His facial expressions look like a cartoon.
But even worse is how the character is written. Based on no evidence at all, he decides the twins are in danger. Why? Because Nightsisters are "bad"? They're "not supposed to have children"?
Then Sol and Indara have a conversation that makes them sound like flat-out bigots. Oh no, the Nightsisters are so strange and unsettling! Haven't the Jedi visited strange alien worlds filled with all sorts of weird cultures and species? They act like insular frightened hicks.
No wonder the Nightsisters are in hiding if a pack of lightsaber wielding busybodies are loose in the galaxy, inventing their own laws that allow them to trespass on other people's property and try to steal their kids. Did anyone actually think about this stupid script?
And to wrap it all up, they make Indara look bad by deciding to hide the truth. Are these people Jedi or just a pack of self-justifying space thugs?
And why do Jedi need a metal detector to find the Force anyway? Shouldn't they be using their feelings or something? That was just bizarre.
I like the idea of various Force users - Jedi, Nightsisters, Sith - coming into indirect or direct conflict because of their differing and incompatable ways. But this is not the way to do it.
The Acolyte: Teach/Corrupt (2024)
finally delivering what I hoped this show would - sort of
When I first heard about The Acolyte, my main hope was that it would provide some much-needed psychological depth to the Sith, and this episode does deliver some of that or at least the promise of it.
Mr. No-Name Sith's motivation is not too different from Sidious, really. If you have a lot of amazing magic power, it can be galling to have to restrain it. Some people are going to be too selfish and amoral to hew to the restrictive Jedi ways. Not super deep or different there.
What happens with Osha is key. Okay, it's implausible that she could hang around with this obviously dangerous psycho and not just lop his head off when he got the chance. He murdered her friends and she's not a Jedi so it's okay to kill him when he's unarmed, in fact it would be nuts to wait for him to grab a weapon before taking him out.
But the prospect of seeing how well the writers do with a tricky topic - convincingly taking a "good" character like Osha and turning her to the dark side - is intriguing and I can forgive the bad writing and inconsistent characterization that got us here.
The Acolyte: Night (2024)
this show is much better at fights than characterization
The fight choreography is on point, so that's a plus. And the more they spend time fighting, the less I have to think about the characterization, which is thin when it's not inexplicable.
They aren't afraid to kill off major characters, which is good, but would be better if I cared about them. I was hoping they'd off Sol too since I'm getting tired of the stilted acting and pained line delivery.
It's not a big surprise that the bad guy turns out to be the "pharmacist" since he vanished from the story right when the bad guy showed up. I hope they weren't thinking that would be some shocking reveal.
Speaking of inexplicable characterization, the writers still have no handle on who Mae is. First she acts like a stalker in regards to her sister, like she'll have a breakdown if she's separated from her. Ten seconds later, she goes off with Sol and leaves Osha behind without a second thought.
The Acolyte: Day (2024)
still a mess
If Mae is just a natural born psycho, she's a boring villain. So it was interesting to watch her abruptly decide, screw this darkside stuff, I don't care about it. I care about Osha. However, Mae doesn't seem to be any too bright if she thinks ratting out her Sith master will get her absolved from murdering two Jedi.
So far, Mae is: murderously mentally ill from childhood; impulsive; doesn't really give a rats about the darkside, cares more about family (who she murdered but okay); and does not seem to possess even rudimentary logic.
On the plus side, at least Mae is getting some development, scatterbrained as it may be. The rest are as flat as a jawa that got stomped by a woookie.
The acting is still stiff and the dialogue is still flat. On the plus side, I'm sure it will inspire an entertainingly snarky Pitch Meeting.
The Acolyte: Destiny (2024)
bad worldbuilding, stiffly delivered
Okay first let me say some good things about this episode. I like the idea that the Force can have other names, like Threads. And I like that some Force users don't fit into the paradigm of Jedi or Sith (if Sith are even known in this time period).
But if this is worldbuilding, it sure doesn't feel well thought through. The Jedi barge into somebody else's home and start trying to lure their children away. Wait what? How is this justified? Only if the Jedi are paranoid about kids being trained to use the Force by people who aren't Jedi. Is this paranoia justified?
What in their past has caused them to come to the conclusion that they must interfere with other people's families? There needed to be backstory before the backstory to clarify why this is happening and the Jedi aren't just huge quasi-fascist jerks.
Maybe they are justified, since one of the twins is apparently insane and her mothers never noticed. The kid somehow manages to cause a fire that kills everyone. Still a bit fuzzy about how that happened and how a coven of Threads-users weren't able to predict/stop it, how convenient that it all happens off-screen.
So are we supposed to believe that the Witches were playing with fire by "creating" and then training Force using children? Which makes them look like a pack of prize dopes while the Jedi are right. Yet I've seen the Witches of Dathomir depicted in animated Star Wars and they seemed far from idiotic. They also seem much cooler and more exotic that the bland bunch depicted here.
And I'm far from certain the intent of this episode is to set up the Witches of Dathomir as straw men to be knocked down by the Jedi so the Jedi would look good. The writing is so inept, it seems to be giving the opposite impression from what is intended, except I can't actually tell what was intended here.
The whole thing has more holes than Bantha cheese. I was really hoping this series might add to Star Wars lore but instead they seem to just be creating a confused mess.
On top of that, could the acting get any more stiff and lifeless? The head witch was pretty good but that's about it.
The Acolyte: Revenge/Justice (2024)
interesting mainly for where it could lead
When I first heard about The Acolyte, I really hoped it would do what Star Wars desperately needs: give some reasonable background and motivation for darkisders.
Just having them be baddies who are bad because they like to be bad, doesn't cut it. It keeps Star Wars locked into a creative straightjacket where the stories always have to go a certain way. Obviously, not good for ongoing storytelling.
This episode was pretty dull for what happened: some fighting in a temple and in the street, big deal. The interest is the possibility that it's setting up the solution for Star Wars, not just in this series but in the portrayal of both Jedi and darksiders so the Jedi don't have to be stiff, moralistic bores and the darksiders can have some nuance and variation.
I'll keep watching, at least long enough to get an answer.
The Acolyte: Lost/Found (2024)
good start, but stiff
This episode really feels like old school Star Wars. I particularly like the music. I assume it's not John Williams but seems very Star Warsy anyway. In some Star Wars series, the music hasn't seemed right at all, and it's a real distraction.
I liked the first fight being mainly without lightsabers. I appreciate it when the writers remember, Force users have other tricks up their sleeve, and use them.
I also like the new duds for the Jedi - white and gold. It conveys a sense of being part of the establishment, in a time when there's not much to challenge their position.
I like Amandla Sternberg as Osha and Charlie Barnett as Yord. They put the personality into their roles that the dialogue lacks.
The dialogue is just utilitarian, and does the actors no favors. Most of the Jedi actors just recite their dull dialogue and that drags down the scenes. Either the actors need to step up their game, or the dialogue needs to improve (hopefully both).
Overall, I'm interested. And I don't like most live action Star Wars lately. The sequel movies are bad, Mando has run its course, Andor is fine but not about Force users. Ahsoka is the only one I'm really into and that one needs better writing.
Wonka (2023)
sometimes awkward, mostly charming, lacks bite
I was entertained through most of the movie, so that alone gives it a 8/10. It was charming, Chalamet was charming, worth watching.
However, there were many times when the charm failed and it just came off as awkward. And compared with Gene Wilder's Wonka, the gold (ticket) standard for Wonkas, Chalamet's version lacked that interesting undercurrent of malice. He's just a nice kid who wants to make spectacular chocolates.
As for the music...it's notable that the most memorable songs are the ones from the original, Pure Imagination and the Oompa Loompa song. The new songs sometimes had clever lyrics but I couldn't hum a single one right now.
Hugh Grant as the Oompa Loompa was okay but I kept wondering if Peter Dinklage wasn't available for the role because he seems like a slam dunk for a mouthy, snarky small person who is running rings around the lead character.
The movie was a big hit so no doubt a sequel is on the way. Maybe that one will throw in a little sour taste to leaven the sweet and show us how Wonka evolved into the semi-monstrous genius of Wilder's version.
House of the Dragon (2022)
disappointing
I've tried, but I can't get into this series. It is just too much of a letdown compared with GoT.
The characters are sullen, gray and far too much the same. None of them seem like complex, distinct, real people like Tyrion, Jamie, Littlefinger, Brienne of Tarth, even Bronn. GoT was full of characters who could have been the star of their own story. HoD has no stars like that.
I don't like how the Targaryans are portrayed. I would have thought that they'd be, I don't know. Sexier, more exotic. They just seem like a pack of pale, mopey bores.
The dialogue is awful! In GoT, characters would say things that sounded natural for them, just conversation. Often they'd go on about something not directly related to the plot at hand, some story from their past that would give us a better sense of who they are, and was entertaining in its own right. And by the by, they would also reveal some info necessary to understanding the plot.
In HoD, the dialogue never much goes beyond info necessary to understanding the plot. The characters stand around making stilted speeches. The warmth and humanity of GoT is entirely absent and the characters are just robots spouting words to get us from Point A to Point B.
HoD is the soulless version of GoT. Let's drop a bunch of names! We must get these houses to bend the knee: Tarly, Stark, Lannister, Greyjoy, Tully, Baratheon, Arryn, Tyrell! You remember them, right? Let's go stand on the Wall and speak in whispers of the terrible danger beyond. Err sorry guys. Doesn't really work the second time around. This show has no original ideas of its own, just regurgitation, like bad fanfic.
Okay it's fun seeing stuff like Herrenhall before it was a complete tumbledown ruin, or dragons waging aerial combat, but that just isn't enough. Maybe we all owe the infamous Benioff & Weiss an apology. Sure they botched the ending but until then they delivered several seasons of fine entertainment. Now they're gone and it's all gone to dragon poop.
The next time they do a spinoff series, can we get out of Westeros? That's a big part of the problem, just stomping over the same territory that we've already seen. The fun of adventure and discovery is gone. Let's go check out the lands off the map in Essos or to the West where Arya is adventuring. That will force the writers out of their comfort zone and stop the bad fanfic.
Game of Thrones: Mother's Mercy (2015)
holy cow episode
Wow, what didn't happen in this episode? Major events for every plot thread (except Bran, who has been dropped for several episodes now) and a cliffhanger that must have driven the fans insane when it originally aired.
In retrospect though, I don't like the handling of the Stannis-Mellisandre plot thread. Her powers wax and wane for the convenience of the plot. When the writers need her to thwack the other side, her powers are effective. When she and Stannis need to be the thwackee, suddenly the Fire God isn't so accommodating.
I don't mind the notion that using the Fire God's evil blood magic will get you thwacked in the end, but there needs to be more logic behind it. Unlike the Seven, who we've never seen any evidence for being "real" in the story, the Fire God appears to be a real deity. How else would Mellisandre abruptly realize that the real threat is the White Walkers, long before most other characters did, and never having encountered them herself?
If the Fire God is real, then we should have gotten inklings of what this character wanted from the directions Mellisandre was receiving, and why she might have veered from the plan and deserved to get thwacked. Or alternately, perhaps the Fire God is a Satanic force that wants to drive humans astray. Anything's better than the Fire God being a cheap plot contrivance.
The Boys: Season Four Finale (2024)
expected yet surprising
Let's face it, it was always obvious how the next to last season would end: with the good guys back on their heels, to position the storyline for maximum dramatic tension going into season five.
However the process of getting there, and the details of how it all pans out, were still very surprising so there was never a sense of yeah yeah yeah get to the expected cliffhanger already.
The biggest negative was the portrayal of Starlight. The writers have done her no favors this season, writing her as far too bitchy (because of her loss of electric powers?). The way she attacked Hughie for a situation where he's the victim if anything, was completely out of line. At least she got her head straight pretty fast afterwards.
Other than that, things are set up very well for an epic final season and their spinoff series, Gen V, may pick up the storyline so we won't have to wait a whole damn year!
Game of Thrones: Hardhome (2015)
progression of the main stories and a kickass finall 30 minutes
This episode is justifiably popular, probably because of the final 30 minutes, which is as intense as anything I've seen from The Walking Dead, back when it was still good, but on a much bigger scale. Game of Thrones excels in its battle episodes and this is a good one.
But I would have still rated it highly for the scenes with Tyrion and Danaerys, which deftly move their relationship forward to where the story needs it to be, providing enough backstory reminders so the audience is oriented, but not so much that it gets too stilted and exposition-y.
Also, some good forward progression on other characters' stories: Arya, Sansa & Theon, and Cersei's predicament.
The Boys: Dirty Business (2024)
well, the MAGAts won't like that!
Okay maybe they went too far over the top with this one. Up till now, the current events satire has been slightly more subtle but the "how to torture a zillionaire" scene verged into awkwardness. They should rein it in a tad. I think the audience has enough intelligence to get the point.
Other than that, this episode was a total blast, with plenty of The Boys' utter grossness and shock value on display. How does Hughie manage to get himself into these situations anyway?
And at long last, I think they're developing Kimiko into a genuine character and not a brooding mute presence that occasionally busts out to kick ass.
Game of Thrones: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken (2015)
Arya's journey was so fascinating
Spoilers ahoy. I'm re-watching GoT to see how and where it all went wrong.
In my original watch, I was largely bored by Bran's journeys in the North but fascinated by Arya's training in the mysticism of Essos. Yet both plotlines went exactly nowhere, just a lot of visually compelling filler to give the characters something to do, waiting for Dany to arrive with her dragons.
Tyrion's fast thinking when confronted with penis-napping slavers just shows why he's my favorite character in the whole series.
I remember there was a lot of furor about Sansa's plotline but girlfriend gets her payback.
The Dorne plotline is filler too but entertaining enough, especially Bronn's reaction to suddenly getting jumped by a pack of whip-wielding girls. Just another day in Westeros.
The Boys: Wisdom of the Ages (2024)
combining real drama with demented excess
This episode exemplifies the whole approach of The Boys: combining real, gripping drama with hilariously entertaining demented excess.
First, the serious part: Starlight's story. Horrible things happen to these characters on a weekly basis but with Starlight, it just seemed a bit too real, ya know? I'm just waiting for some deplorable to pull a stunt like that in the political arena in real life. Starlight's reaction is exactly what you would expect, and represents the emotional state of all of us who are fed the hell up with this crap.
And now for the way over the top part: Homelander is trying to come to grips with his tragic past but ends up doing so in a way that is unlikely to improve his mentality. But a redemption arc for Homelander would be completely absurd, so this show just keeps pushing him further into total madness.
This season is just amping up the insanity in preparation for a kickass final season that resolves Homelander's (and everyone's) story in the goriest way imaginable. I can't even fathom how great S5 is going to be.
The Boys: Beware the Jabberwock, My Son (2024)
Ashley vs Sister Sage
Just like I thought from last week's episode, it looks like a main arc this season will be Sister Sage's smarts vs Ashley's cockroach-like survival instincts. My quatloos are on Ashley.
This episode has so many interesting conflicts. Will Homelander succeed in corrupting Ryan? Will Butcher demonstrate that he has anything to offer The Boys in his remaining days on this planet besides entertaining, outlandish chaos? Will Frenchie finally come to grips with his past? Will Stan somehow save poor little Zoe from her demented mom? Will Starlight stop crying and go back to butt-kicking?
The story of Hughie and his parents was tragic in contrast to the horrifying/funny plotline on the Frankenfarm. Nice seeing the Gen V crossover even just briefly.
And of course the brilliant MU parody with 1000 superhero movie logos, all iterations of each other. Plenty of awkward comedy. "Black At It," good lord.
Andor (2022)
watch this show and be patient!
Andor reportedly has the lowest ratings of any of the live action Star Wars series on Disney+ and that's a shame but I think I know why. The first 2-3 episodes really are slow, plot-wise.
It didn't bother me because I was so blown away at the gorgeous production values that I was mesmerized by them long enough to get into the meat of the story, which gets rolling and never lets up.
The visuals on Coruscant are particularly amazing. There are several action set pieces that take place in a factory, a prison, etc that are imaginative and gripping. The Imperial mentality is depicted in a mature and convincing way, with special kudos to Kyle Sollar as Syril Karn and Denise Gough as Dedra Meero. I would watch a series that follows just those two crazy kids and their interestingly icky interpersonal dynamic.
The downside is: no Jedi, no Sith, no Force. Star Wars needs help but it can't run away from its core. I know Tony Gilroy is moving on to other things, but Disney should hang onto as many of the writers, directors and production talent as they can from Andor and assign them to help bring the other series up to par.
The Boys: Life Among the Septics (2024)
nailed it
This is shaping up to be the best season yet. The current events satire is strong but stuff like TruthCon has got to be the easiest satirical target ever. Makes me wonder why this hasn't been tried more often. Is The Boys the only series with the guts to do it?
Adding a character like Sister Sage could have backfired because it's easy to come up with a new character who is super strong or can melt you from the inside out or whatever. You just hand the work off to the CGI folks.
But the smartest woman, sorry, person, in the world is not so easy. The writers have given themselves the challenge of writing a person who actually IS smart, says smart things, does smart things. And you know what, I think they're pulling it off.
The Sympathizer (2024)
RDJ got that Emmy nod he was angling for
I had high expectations for The Sympathizer but it didn't really pan out like I hoped it would.
Robert Downey Jr. Puts in an Emmy-bait performance, playing multiple roles, but they all seemed to be the same guy with just slight variations. There's a story-based reason for this if you stick it out till the end but it still did not come off well, watching a parade of cliches march through the story in lieu of well-rounded characters.
Another major mistake was casting an actor who is obviously 100% Vietnamese as a Eurasian character, which necessitated silly things like awkward looking blue contact lenses and white makeup that must have been stolen from Michael Jackson's cosmetics case.
The actor who played Bon was good though. The story always came alive when he was in a scene. The best episode was the one dealing with a zany movie about the Vietnam War and shot in Napa (??? Must have been a cheap quickie, not something Coppola or Scorsese would have stooped to).
The Vietnamese refugee community was fun, especially the demented General. But the lead character was always lying and being evasive, running away from himself, not even sure who he was. I guess that was the point of the story but when you have an unappealing lead character, it drags down the story.
Worth watching, but only just barely. HBO's glory days of prestige productions seems to be waning. Under Zaslav, I don't expect even productions of this caliber. Zaslav thinks HBO is a good brand to slap on a Harry Potter series.
Game of Thrones: Kill the Boy (2015)
let's have a Valerya spinoff
For the most part, this is a standard mid-season episode that advances various plotlines but it also contains one of my favorite sequences in the entire series: Tyrion and Jorah's journey through the eerie, fog-shrouded ruins of old Valerya.
This is what I've been missing from the GoT verse: the mystery and exoticism of unexplored realms. Of which there are still plenty.
Other than that, this episode is notable for more developments in Daenerys' story. Ser Barristan was the wise adviser who could hold her back from her more dragonny self.
With him gone, who's left? Missandei thinks everything Daenerys does is peachy. Follow your instincts, great. Jorah is in love with Daenerys and can't be objective. Daario just encourages her worst instincts.
I guess it's up to Tyrion now, the guy who by his own admission loves power for its own sake and who will be a hunted fugitive as long as Cersei breathes...