I'm many pages behind, so this might have been covered. Two things:
1. I was happy with the way that Dany's motives for burning down King's Landing were described in a more "understandable" way, as if she thought that were necessary in order to "break the wheel" and blah blah for the future. Might give Dany Fan Boys a little more comfort in light of last week's episode.
2. As to the above quotes...I realized that, through the entire series, I didn't know from whose perspective we were meant to be seeing this. Lots of evidence it might be a Lannister or a Baratheon, and with Ned Stark's demise in Season 1 and many others at the Red Wedding, didn't seem the Stark house we should follow? This episode placed us firmly in the camp that we should have been seeing the Starks as the protagonists all along, with one King of Westeros, one queen of the North, and two off to do their own things. But RIP to Robb and Rickon (just swerve!).