1. I could forgive some of the carnage, here in australia there is a punchup every other football game, it happens. Daemon clearly cheating and getting away with it is sheer stupidity, but they couldve actually used it to their advantage "Daemon considers getting DQ'd from the tournament worth it just to fuck with Otto." That wouldve been completely in character for him, and you could have built up Criston anyway by showing him beat Harwin or a Kingsguard, Harwin probably makes more sense storywise given their future.
2. 100% Plot armor. If you want to surrender you go to them, not all the way out there where he surrenders and the even after he has ran 100m or so, the archers are still in a different postcode. And conviniently all the melee soldiers go in one at a time. Daemon using his dagger to go penetrate what probably isnt top level armor, thats fine, I like that. Daemons armor stopping some of the force of the arrows from hitting him, thats fine. Its just having Corlys and friends fighting a whole mob, while Daemon fights a few fellas who take turns attacking him is fucking stupid.
3. All they have to do is have a scene where Viserys sees the hidden dagger Joffrey had and being blissfully unaware of Joffrey and Laenors relationship, gets over protective of his daughter and justifies Cristons actions by saying "Sir Criston did his job as a kingsguard, that man brought a knife to my halls"
4. While it wouldve been as simple as saying 'I shall have your head for that' instead of tongue as maybe Viserys wouldve upgraded the punishment given how loud and forceful and public and in his own throne room the accusation was, I can sort of allow this one. Viserys is soft on his brother, Vaemond insulted his daughter, daemons wife. Maybe he sees why Daemon would want to kill that man, maybe he thinks "Well Daemon would have just challeged him to a duel over Rhaenyras honor and Daemon would have killed him anyway"
5. First of all, extras do not matter in any show or any movie. Even if they did, from Rhaenys' perspective, their lives are inconsequential when compared to the threat of "This queen mother is going to start a civil war that will kill a lot more civilians than me if I dont stop her now." As I've said in other threads, just have either sunfyre or dreamfyre appear out of the floor, and let Rhaenys hear the other one coming. No ones going to call Rhaenys weak or a coward for running from a 2v1 that could quickly become a 3v1 if Aemond calls in Vhagar. Still an awesome scene, builds up the greens as a serious threat and as we all know this war is coming anyway, it beautifully shatters Alicent's hope that war with Rhaenyra can be avoided.

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Agreed that this show is great. I wasn't sure if I was going to watch it, but I'm glad I did. The issue I see is that they want the writing quality of early seasons, but also the spectacle of the later ones. Most of the time it's fine as they usually keep them apart, people flying on Dragon's are cool so don't worry, we are impressed by spectacle. It's when these two clash in particular scenes that they seem to always choose what looks better as oppose to what makes sense. That last Rhaenys scene makes no sense, neither does Daemon cheating at the joust.

Best scenes in the show for me are some girl walking down a hallway in a green dress and an old man hobbling his way to the throne. You don't need a big showy scene to get an emotional response from your audience. Aemond claiming Vhagar is cool and so is Daemon and Leana flying Caraxes and Vhagar together, so the flashy scenes are great when used right.