This is a roller coaster of an episode, to be sure.
Jon Snow brings the wildlings he saves from Hardhome back to Castle Black, which makes a lot of people unhappy, especially Alliser Thorne. Arya discovers that Meryn Trant is in Braavos and practically begging to be killed on account of being a pedophile creep — except she can't kill him if she truly wants to be a Faceless Man. Jaime and Bronn are allowed to leave Dorne safely and take Myrcella home with them, though Ellaria Sand is not happy about it at all.
And then Stannis burns Shireen alive. Perhaps never before had an episode of Game of Thrones managed to take a character that viewers were sort of coming around to and make everyone hate him so quickly. Bad Stannis. Even at the last second, when Selyse changes her mind and tries to save her only child, Stannis doesn't budge.
But at the end of the episode is a scene that almost made everyone forget about the rest. Drogon swoops in at just the right moment to save his mom (and the day), and Daenerys rides him off into the sunset. Epic, to say the least. Tyrion finally realizes the potential power behind the queen he's serving, and the Sons of the Harpy realize they might have gotten in over their heads.
