Steve Ahlman

It was gutting emotionally to watch, but that was good TV.

No?

No?

That's never the, those are, to be honest with you, those are never my favorite parts of Game of Thrones show.

It's like never, like there's some really awesome battles, but like, you know, there's nothing you can't get from like Braveheart.

You know what I mean?

I wanted to spin Master and Commander after I saw this.

Well, the reason why it resonated for me so much is because number one, she's already lost a son.

So now what you start to get in this show is,

is the ultimate question, which is, like, legitimately, what is she willing to sacrifice for this?

Because it's going into the realm of it costing you... Everything.

Everything.

Like, it's costing you all the dragons.

It's costing you all your family.

It's costing you everything.

And what I do like that the show has done...

is it's raised the stakes of that incrementally throughout the shows.

At first, it was just going to cost a friendship.

That was the first thing.

So Rhaenyra and Alyson's friendship.