Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Homeless Nutter]

I don't think Dany sees Gendry as a legitimate threat - not legitimate in that he's not Robert Baratheon's child, but legitimate in that Gendry doesn't want to be king and wouldn't pursue it.

How does she know that? She barely knows the guy and the way she looks at him - she clearly has a problem with him. And what does that matter what he wants anyway? When Jon says, that he doesn't want to be king and won't pursue his claim, Daenerys screams that it won't be up to him - and she's right. Gendri was a threat even as a bastard, especially that people of Westeros don't really seem to give a crap about tradition, lineages and legitimate successions lately. They'll crown pretty much anybody with a head, it seems. And if the lords of Westeros decide in the near future, that they don't really want to be ruled by another blonde b*tch and rebel against her - now they'll have a legitimate Baratheon Lord to gather behind and to install on the Iron Throne, even if Jon Snow dies, or his real identity remains a secret somehow.

That's why I'm faintly hoping, that Daenerys means to play Jon and Gendri against each other, or at least have the option, if one of them (most likely Jon) becomes too much of a threat to her
rule. But I'm not holding my breath, because quite possibly she is just dumb and inconsistent - or rather written that way.

I got the feeling that Dany was just distracted watching Rhaegal flying and didn't see the fleet.  They were hidden out of sight of the rest of the navy and Dany was distracted. hrug:

Well, she must have been watching Rhaegal for a long time, because those huge black sails would have been visible from miles away. And what fleet drops anchor without scouting the area first and checking if they aren't about to be attacked?

We care because she had a close relationship with Dany and her death increases Dany's sense of isolation and sours her emotional state even more.  At least, that's the read I got on why we should care about Missandei's death.

Meh... She lost more than half of her army and two of her dragons, her boyfriend turned out to be an heir to her throne and his people hate her, despite everything she's done and sacrificed to save them. And I'm supposed to believe, that what pushes her over the edge is the death of just some girl, with whom she occasionally talked about their boyfriends' c*cks? I get the idea, but it still seems like bad writing and a poor effort to artificially inflate the stakes, at this late stage of the story. And it makes no sense whatsoever, that Cersei wouldn't kill Tyrion, when she had the chance - at least that would have had some dramatic effect. The show killing off minor characters and acting like it's meant to shock the viewer - as has been the case lately - is pretty laughable, considering how many seemingly important characters died in early seasons.