I was rewatching season 1 this weekend and I've never quite understood Varys and his intentions. He claims he is on "the side of the realm" because "someone must" but that just seems like a cop-out answer to me. I think Varys looks out for Varys and aligns with whomever gives him the best chance for survival and a place at the table.
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It won't 'even' any odds; it would wreck them. You can't defeat an army of zombies who can reanimate if you don't have at least one massive advantage over them. That advantage is dragons. Without them, the walkers would absolutely wreck everything.

I do think the writing was odd in this one. We were supposed to be unnerved by the scorpion but did anyone really think Drogon/Dany were dying in the first battle? I'm not saying it can't/won't happen, but they're not killing Drogon yet.

They needed Viserys or Rhegal out there as fodder to truly give the impression that a dragon might die.

Oh, and once again Dany demonstrates that she's A) and entitled shithead (seriously, isn't the kingdom worth your pride? Why does it have to be Jon's?) and B) A shit tactician. As has been noted - the day is won. In short order your Dothraki will have captured the scorpion or burned it down. Just get out of dodge.
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This. Dany has done nothing but slowly get on my nerves more and more as the show goes on. As soon as that first shot missed them both.....she should have flown up to where Tyrion is and let the Dothraki wreck shit. They didn't need her at that point.
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Pretty short sighted too. I don't understand why she burned all the food they were transporting. She has an army to feed too.
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She may expect to re-take Highgarden. They would still have stores/crops there. Or she may make a move on Dorne. That's all far enough south to still be fertile.
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True, Jamie was sending Bronn to urge reluctant farmers to give up their grain.
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Agreed they are going to need more than one major ace in the hole to battle the dead army.
It looks like they may play up dragon glass as one of those weapons.
To date the dead army has been shown to be of massive scale, bigger than the hosts of Westeros combined. It will be interesting to see if they hold to that scale, which makes them almost impossible to defeat, or if they make them suddenly more sake to defeat for the sake of the story e.g. the Lanister army that stood there and shat themselves against the Dothraki.
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I assume she was primarily trying to destroy the wagons carrying the gold.
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Thanks! I just didn't remember her getting murdered. I thought the last thing I remembered with her she was forced to torture that chick with Joffrey there. I just assumed he was the one who killed her but didn't remember it.
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In the books it certainly appears that the walkers can reanimate birds, etc...

So it gets back to the argument of "a horse sized duck or 10 duck sized horses." You telling me a swarm of 10,000 scattered zombie ravens dive bombing the shit out of a dragon (with only one source of firepower) couldn't harangue the dragon into inattention or accident? The Walkers already have tools at their disposal that could wreck dragons or at least render them less effective.

If the Walkers have a dragon, it's an end-game. There's just nothing else to it. Because if that dragon launches a completely Pyrrhic assault on another dragon and knocks IT out of the sky, now the Walkers have 2 dragons even if dragon one goes down because they can now just reanimate them both. That or they have to be somehow completely incinerated and that seems unlikely given what we know of wars between dragons in the past (again, book information).
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Don't worry....Bronn will be there with the scorpion and dragon glass bolts to take it down.
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Some awesome memes out today.





























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You wouldn't need an Army if you had Dragons breathing fire over their infantry. You would just continuously pass overhead, out of reach of the undead, raining fire down upon them. You could land in the South, feed the dragons, then return to the North to continue the onslaught. It wouldn't be much of a battle.
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This made zero fucking sense, and the producers made a point to illustrate it to us for a reason. Im curious to know why they decided Danny should make a poor decision and burn the food.
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