Stannis is the Mannis

8. Best of the season so far. A lot of good moments, and very few I had a problem with. The bedroom scene with Renly went on a little long, time that could have been better spent elsewhere. Also I found the continuation of the Craster cliffhanger to be very anti-climactic. There was no need to even have Craster catch Jon, they could have just left willingly. Seems like they mostly just wanted to force a cliffhanger onto the end of Ep. 2, but it really didn't lead anywhere significant. The scenes with Theon and the Greyjoys were great, and the scenes at Renly's camp as well. All in all a very solid episode. However, one side comment about the season as a whole so far, the lack of characterization for the Dragonstone crew so far has been a little disappointing. Many characters cut out entirely, and very little back story on Davos and Stannis so far. These are relatively important characters and after 30% of the season I expected a little bit more to be invested in them. A few scenes this episode to develop character could have gone a long way.

I gave it a 6. I'm liking Davos so far and Saan was great. They changed a lot in this episode, but all of them I thought were necessary and/or acceptable except for what they're doing with Stannis. Not sure where they're going with Craster, but I'm excited to find out and I think it's fine they've decided to change that series of events some. But in the end, essentially ruining (it's early, but it's not looking good) my favorite character, Stannis, left me with a bad taste in my mouth by the end of the episode.