6x04 POST-Episode Discussion (airs 15th May)

Thanks for that! That was great.

I am really ok with how much of the Dothraki sea parts they cut away. There's no one for her to interact with other than Drogon and it wouldn't have worked as well on screen as it did in the book since we can't hear Dany's internal dialogue or thoughts. Doing another vision type thing for her would have felt too 'magical' in a show where they've toned that down and reserved it only for the biggest reveals and character moments such as Bran's visions. Dany's visions in House of the Undying were more relevant to their mysticism so it worked better.

But I wanted to say - the part I highlighted in your response is definitely an important aspect of Daenerys that seems to be missing so far. The entire unsullied audience seems to view her progression as one continuous badass moment after another. And as much as I love Daenerys I think this does her character a little disservice. She has admitted in a couple of scenes her doubts and failures in Meereen but there was no real resolution to that failure acceptance since she has flown away. Her time with the Dothraki is not showing enough negative to justify the positive nor does it display the "I must go backwards to go forwards" theme. 

But again, she has no one to do this sort of dialogue with other than Jorah and Daario so unless we get some kind of talk about that - then most of her failure has been forgotten from past seasons. I guess Tyrion and crew in Meereen are the ones to show the failure still happening but most viewers seem bored with it at this point. 

The best we can hope for is a very quick resolution to the problem and even quicker decision to leave. There's really no more time left to wallow in regret or for Daenerys to reflect on her mistakes as a ruler after just taking an army of 100,000 Dothraki. 

So in summary... I think some sort of re-evaluation in herself between the time she flew off on Drogon and the time she burned down the temple in Vaes Dothrak would have nicely explained her transition even if they didn't do the visions and realization she has in the books. We're just not going to get that. 

Thank you, Belle and GreenChili for the catch. I didn't get spoiled. Yay!

This may have been discussed , this episode Brienne says she and Davos met in S2, without watching it, I don't remember that.

He was with Stannis, and she was with Renly when they met to talk terms and Renly asked Stannis if he was a ham.

Edit: Damn it! Ninja'd by Konrad.

Minutiae
In the credit crawl Khal Moro's wife (Fola Evans-Akingbola) is listed so I guess she was in the big crowd scene , don't see her earlier. Had a big speaking part in E1.

Yeah , that goes by quick. 
Dany has created another power vacuum , thousands of years of tradition and tribal rule right down the drain.
A unique circumstance but this has to lead to trouble.
Another set of slavers she has to convince to become , what?, farmers? 
Lots of fighting left , but after that.

Classic Renly, snarking on Stannis the whole scene and making his guards wear goofy helmets for his own shits and giggles. 

Kinda hot?