Since leaving the books behind GoT has been generating an awful lot of its narrative tension by having its leads be *terrible* strategists.
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No hero has ever deserved to lose a battle more than Jon Snow in last season's Battle of Bastards. (Though Davos/Sansa take some blame too.)
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Meanwhile in Meereen and now on Dragonstone Tyrion is a Westerosi Ted Cruz: He always has a clever plan and it's generally a bad one.
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And spare some eye-rolls for Lady Olenna, who swears fealty to a queen with dragons w/o buying herself any immediate military protection.
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Of course it's hard to be a military strategist when the distances between cities and regions expand and contract without warning.
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Replying to @Brian_Matthew88 @DouthatNYT
nope its actually just become shitty tv
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glad youve come to ur senses
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