![]() (How does Gendry run to the Wall so fast? Why don’t the wights follow him? Where do the Walkers get a giant chain?) The episode is a cool idea that was thrown together with little regard for every episode that came before. “Beyond” sums up the big problem with Season 7: Elevating spectacle over narrative logic. ![]() It’s convenient, to make the story work later in the season, that the Three-Eyed-Raven prevents Bran from following Ned into the Tower of Joy that the Umbers decide to give up Rickon and Osha to Ramsay and that Qyburn is able to charm Varys’s “little birds.” 49. “Oathbreaker” is an episode of lazy conveniences. More: 'Game of Thrones' merch, ranked: From awful to awesome 50. Perhaps it was a budgetary consideration, but it's a disappointment nonetheless, and another insignificant “speed around the world” premiere. The Season 3 opener fails to deliver on the promised battle between Mormont’s Night Watch garrison and the White Walkers. If you haven’t caught on yet, Season 5 was not a particularly good year for “Thrones.” This episode in particular is a collection of the stories that were never as exciting or as engrossing, from the big Sons of the Harpy attack that plays out like a sad brawl to the introduction of the Sand Snakes, the biggest missed opportunity in “Thrones” history. It spends so little time in any one location that it’s tough to re-embrace the characters we grew to love in Season 1. ![]() The Season 2 premiere is a a letdown, a slow and overstuffed episode that tries to catch the audience up on too much at once. Season 2 Episode 1: “The North Remembers” But taken as a self-contained episode, it's a stunning piece of television. The biggest problem with "Bells" is what it means for the endgame of the series (Mad Queen Dany, boring death for Cersei). The visuals, direction and the absolute commitment of the actors are the only things that keep this terribly written episode from being at the very bottom. Season 5 Episode 3: “High Sparrow”Īnother joyless outing from Season 5, this episode launches the Sansa/Ramsay story, which, in addition to leading to the rape scene, also regresses her character three seasons, making her the same betrothed victim she was in Season 2. The script has nothing to balance all the unpleasantness. In this collection of rather odious actions from heroes and villains alike, Ramsay’s sadistic lover Myranda starts to taunt Sansa Dany lets her dragons burn a Meereenese master and Olly and the Watch traitors start to hate Jon. "Name" also provides one of the series’ worst moments of telling instead of showing, when Lysa oh-so-conveniently explains that Littlefinger convinced her to poison her husband and start the war, for no one’s benefit but the audience. Speaking of Bran and the mutineers, Jon comes to execute them in this episode, and Bran heads north instead of seeking out his brother, echoing a nearly identical scene from Season 3. ![]() Read: How 'Game of Thrones' went from everyday fantasy to a bonafide phenomenon 65. ![]()
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