And Aegon invaded with much less (I think his army was 2000-3000 men + 3 dragons) and conquered all of the 7 kingdoms. Dany lands with 50k+ dothraki + unsullied + dragons... it's going to be a retard slap-fight to see who can surrender to her first.
We have basically gone from watching Breaking Bad fantasy version with the GRRM written stuff to watching a Avengers movie turned into a TV show. Avengers isn't bad, it is even probably good, it just isn't anywhere near on the level of story-telling that GOT was early on. It should be ok to acknowledge that the show has fallen off, it hasn't fallen into a ditch and it is still good but it isn't great anymore.
This is where Euron started becoming the foil in the book. With mad occult powers and relics retrieved from Valyria. But book Euron didn't have half the Ironborn actively rebelling against him like Theon and Yara are doing. The only Westeros armies that don't seem to be completely fucked are Dorne (small in size in the books but they can do whatever in the show), The Vale, The Lannister Army (questionable strength, but they have at least 8000 in the show to go about with), The Reach (Tyrell and his bannermen).
This show is doing things that no other show on TV is really even attempting to do. It has a ridiculously large cast and a silly number of plots going at the same time. Yet even with that huge cast, the acting is very good and we see episodes like this one that do something that only movies have succeeded at before.
Honestly most of the shit can be laid right at GRRM's feet anyway, it was him who totally splintered the plot lines and created this ridiculous sprawl we had in books 4/5. The show runners have to wrap this up and they don't have 2500 pages to do it in, they have 10 hours. Some shit is going to be zip zap this happens the end. Had they clipped down the sprawl in the first place and not really followed books 4/5, the storyline could be cleaner. Having shit happen like a the whole Dorne storyline only to completely abandon it is just wasteful BS.
Yeah, Dorne was dumb but I think they were fooling themselves into thinking they had more time.
She was back at their warcamp, his army had to march through it to get to winterfell. Pretty much only explanation.
Sure, but thats people who want a scene for scene re-make of the books. I think anybody reasonable realizes that isn't possible. And what they really "ought" to have done is hire an editor with some balls to completely trim down books 4/5 into maybe 1/2 a season, do some montages, and stick to the primary 4 storylines: Jamie/Cersei, Tyrion, Dany, and Jon. We've been off in the weeds following Arya, Brienne, Theon... and most of that shit turns out to not matter to the overall storyline. GRRM's books are fun to read because he's not constrained by space and the details are interesting. On a TV show it feels like someone cracked out on coke spooged out 80 characters and was like MAKE THEM ALL HA HA!
This has to happen and will happen. This will offset Littlefingers ambitions a bit and knock him down a peg, providing a permanent reminder of his mishandling of her. He will make advances to marry but then shes gonna be like "lol ok but im pregnant with Ramsays baby" and he is going to make that Carcetti face.