re: Worst episode of game of thrones ever?

While I agree with the general premise that their love interest has been shoe horned into the show, this scene was far from pointless. The whole point was to humanize the war and show the change effected on two actually fairly well loved characters. Grey Worm is an entirely different person. Missandei has grown. This scene shows that, humanizes the war and brings home the point that the Unsullied are about to face a true test. And, probably, sets up Grey Worm's or Missandei's death.

Season five had a couple that were worse. At least this one had a good battle scene.

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This scene shows that, humanizes the war

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Not really. The Ed Sheeran scene humanized the war. Those were actual normal people that literally were taken away from their lives to fight for other people. Grey Worm and Missandei live to serve Dany.

I do think the uncertainty over the status of Grey Worm's equipment made the scene even more awkward. It also was much longer than it should have been. This would be the equivalent of Bronn getting some action. Something we've seen before but it was handled as a side plot in a scene which is appropriate to his character, there wasn't an entirely too long scene dedicated to it.

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Not really. The Ed Sheeran scene humanized the war. Those were actual normal people that literally were taken away from their lives to fight for other people. Grey Worm and Missandei live to serve Dany.

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Grey Worm and Missandei were both slaves until Dany rescued them. They had no lives of their own until she came. They have as much vested in the war as anyone else. The war not only affects their lives but also those who are like them.

Not you too...

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I do think the uncertainty over the status of Grey Worm's equipment made the scene even more awkward. It also was much longer than it should have been. This would be the equivalent of Bronn getting some action. Something we've seen before but it was handled as a side plot in a scene which is appropriate to his character, there wasn't an entirely too long scene dedicated to it.

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i think the problem with the show now is that D/D think we care about people that we actually hate

on a larger scale, D/D are writing the show around values/ideas they have built that aren't necessarily part of what made the books great (and gave them the back bone for the greatness early in this show's run). they have a bad case of "writing dialogue and scenes to be super serious" instead of writing good characters who are serious about their goals. the scene with Dany forming her plan was cringeworthy in how over the top it was

if you watched the short bit after the episode, one of D/D talked about how great and interesting the scene was b/c it was all women doing it and if it had been men nobody would care. it's like in order to make the audience jump on board with how great this scene was, they had to add in over-dramatic and over-acted dialogue. in their eyes, THAT is important and not creating deep characters (think Tywin here) who didn't need that orchestrated help

Dany is completely unlikable at this point. all the over-emotional and pompous aspects of her character early on have merged into the queen of douche. the way Emilia Clark delivers her lines just adds so much pomposity that it's hard for me to take any of her scenes seriously

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"and bend the knee" was such a cringeworthy line

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What? Why?

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What? Why?

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Maybe it was the delivery?

Maybe it's because I feel like Dany has no real right to demand that of Jon?

It is a line that make sense coming from Cersei, not Dany. They have built Dany to be his god like Savior to the world, not this dictator.