'Game of Thrones' Season 8, episode 5: The war begins, and Daenerys takes a turn
OK, in hindsight, maybe the Night King had a point.
After all the fighting, darkness and burning corpses that filled "The Battle of Winterfell" a few weeks back, "Game of Thrones" reloaded for Sunday's long-promised Battle of King's Landing, which marked the debut of two more destructive forces of nature: A dragon laying siege to a city, and a Targaryen with the history of poor mental health to kick it into gear.
As the horrors of war raged inside King's Landing for most of the episode's nearly 80 minutes, ending the lives of countless civilians (and a few significant characters), humanity didn't come off as something worth all that trouble back in Winterfell. It's almost a shame the Night King didn't survive for a run-off
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