An explosive episode that was more focused than any other episode in the series to date — everything took place in and around King’s Landing — is followed by an episode that had quite a lot of storylines left to wrap up. The result? The burden that “Blackwater” left “Valar Morghulis” helped to detract from [...]

After “Blackwater”, the way that the ships of Stannis’s fleet were depicted — and the fact that there was little discussion of their origins — suggested to me that there might be room to discuss naval technology and fleets as described in the novels. Ships are actually quite an important aspect of the setting — [...]