Talkin' Thrones Episode 71 - The Last of the Starks

Well we survived the Long Night (somehow), and are now onto the final three episodes of the show? Wait, I thought the dead were the end all, be all? There's more? Is the thought process that everyone had when the living were victorious at Winterfell in only the third episode of what was already the shortest season of the show. It's safe to say that if people weren't already aware the show was in trouble, they were with this episode, the Last of the Starks, which has the impossible task of leap frogging through hoops of logic, more than any previous episode in the show's past and rapidly inventing character arcs out of nowhere to push the characters where they need to go for the final two episodes. The surviving heroes at Winterfell bid goodbye to their friends, celebrate in a massive victory feast, before Daenerys turns her forces south to finish with Cersei, but not before begging Jon to keep his true identity a secret. Jon, who's an idiot now, doesn't listen and tells his siblings, which leads Sansa to tell Tyrion, who tells Varys, and the rest is pretty explanatory. Jaime sleeps with Brienne, and then leaves her to save Cersei from inevitable death. The Hound & Arya ride south to settle unfinished business. When Daenerys' forces arrive back at Dragonstone, they are surprised by Euron, who (somehow) shoots and kills Rhaegal with a scorpion. When they had proved to be almost entirely ineffective in the past against the dragons. Gotta love that plot armor. This also leads to Cersei making the single stupidest decision of her entire time as the character, wherein rather than peacefully surrendering to Daenerys, she instead executes Missandei in front of her (still confused as to how Euron got her), pretty much ensuring the destruction of King's Landing in the following episode. It's a series of mind-numbing storytelling decisions that make it very clear how little Benioff & Weiss really cared about the last three episodes and ending the show, and Dom & Pat are here to break it all down in the third to last ever episode of #talkinthrones