u/LescobeRanden

This was one of the worst scenes and the show would be better if they had just cut it entirely. It didn't move the plot forward even an inch, at the end Hugh's wife still was in Tumbleton, and Hugh was outside again being anxious about it, just where they were before the scene. It might just as well not have happened and the finale would have made as much sense.

And in addition, we wouldn't have this terrible scene with Hugh somehow getting in and out of a besieged city undetected, his wife refusing to leave for no good reason, the absurd dialogue to generate contrived drama between them, or the offscreen SA they added to manipulate the audience into siding with the wife.

Because I have no idea what this was supposed to be

At this point, if Sunfyre is alive, the show has been lying to us for several episodes now, it would mean Baela is either hallucinating or mistaking Meleys' corpse for Sunfyre's.

So what they might do instead, is have Aegon bond with the Cannibal instead to set up his later comeback, and when he captures Rhaenyra on Dragonstone, the Cannibal will eat her accidentally, because they are newly bonded and Aegon doesn't yet control him.

Every important event in the Dance gets turned into a misunderstanding or accident in the show, after all. So why not this one.

If your enjoyment of a show can be ruined by someone on the internet pointing out its flaws, you probably never enjoyed it that much in the first place