Game of Thrones: Book of the Stranger (2016)
Season 6, Episode 4
4/10
Napalms and unbreakable Dothraki reed
18 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
There are some good scenes in this episode. Really.

But you will not read about them here. Because the bad ones are too bad to be overlooked.

A poser and a leper (Daario and Jorah) cross a desert on foot, in the same exact time as the Dothraki. OK, not a big deal. They enter Vaes Dothrak (which is now in an arid wasteland somehow), kill two men for no obvious reason other than risking revealing themselves, and then happen to intercept Daenerys, who has a better idea than sneaking out. You see, her judgement by the Khal council is approaching. So she stands before them, and tells them she will rule the Dothraki. They laugh at her, and then she drops a few braziers. On the ground. On the dirt ground. MAGICALLY, these braziers were secret Napalm bombs brought to Vaes Dothrak from Vietnam, so the fires spread (across the dirt) in milliseconds and envelop the entire giant hut in flames. The Khals try to exit, but Daario and Jorah have killed the guards (in the exact middle of a city with the population density of Bombay where weapons are forbidden) and barricaded the door. The door of a hut made of reed or something, which a small battalion of Conan the Barbarians are completely unable to even try and break. They also allow Daenerys to drop all four Napalms without stopping her, even though she takes surprisingly long breaks between each drop. THEN, the Dothraki, THRILLED that this woman has murdered all their leaders inside their holy city, worship her. You know how everyone just LOVED it when Walder Frey did something similar? Yep, pretty much the same thing.

In other news, Davos finally remembers to ask Melissandre what happened to Stannis, when Brienne shows up with a smug look to inform the two she killed him. She also reveals she knows it was actually Melissandre who killed Renly. But apparently she doesn't feel obliged by her oath to do anything about that, because, hell, do you need a reason?

(PS) Also, all this time nobody in Meereen has noticed Daenerys is missing. It's not like leaving on the back of a dragon in front of a lot of people is something anyone would notice.
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