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Oh it would have been perfect if Arya had found a crossbow somewhere and shot Walder when he was visiting the crapper. That way the two architects of the red wedding could have been united in their journey to the afterlife as well. I don't buy her somehow finding the time too cook the Freys, and to not have anyone walk in on her while whacking the old man, a discrete arrow in the night a the privy, where privacy is more reasonable to expect, would have been better. Furthermore: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/a-review-of-s6e10-of-game-of-thrones/

Funny how I nitpicked all kinds of stuff in this episode but didn't see the most obvious blunder until reading about it in this thread. Of course if Shereen's wooden toy was there with her it should have burned with. Either they let her have it with her until the ended or they took it away while preparing her for the pyre, in which case I can imagine her mother taking it with her and it not being left behind at all. Furthermore, Dany's dragons are clearly part colibri, as evident by their ability to hover in one place. Sansa said nothing about the Arryn forces so that the men more loyal to Jon would die first and she be left as the one calling the shot (this theory may be a bit crackpot). Dany, I think, took a nap between arriving at the pyramid in the middle of the night and going to war in the morning. For a slightly more thorough analysis, check this out: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/a-review-of-s6e9-of-game-of-thrones/

So I have two questions. First of all, is Brann now going to the Wall or are they going to conjure up a hidden city full of the Children of the Forest that he can go to? And also, anyone else having doubts about George originally naming Hodor Hodor for this reason way back when? And while we're at it, here is a somewhat longer analysis: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/a-review-of-s6e5-of-game-of-thrones/

Certainly the strongest episode so far in this season. I din't like that Daenerys apparently can accelerate flames in addition to being resistant to them and that the pink letter did jack shit. Sansa first had to convince Jon to fight and then the letter came and he still hesitated and she still had to convince him again and he didn't even give his great speech from the books. That blew, but I like most of the rest of the stuff. Here is a more in-depth analysis: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/a-review-of-s6e4-of-game-of-thrones/

A solid 8 points. Most of season one was better, and some of season four, but beyond that this episode was above most of the rest. If they keep the season focused on the wall and King's Landing and sideline the Dorne fiasco, there are probably more eights and nines to be had. The worst part was Ramsey's "I killed lord Bolton, now I'm lord Bolton"-moment, it seemed way too easy. For a more in-depth analysis, check this out: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/a-review-of-s6e2-of-game-of-thrones/

Alright, I've been thinking about this a bit and I gave it an 8/10. This might sound preposterous to some, but hear me out, I believe that I can make a rather strong case. Everything has to be compared with the alternative, here being other television shows. At 10/10, as good television can realistically get (with some obvious slack given since nothing is perfect), I would place the first season of True Detective. 1/10 is the worst television imaginable, we are comparing single episodes so say 40 minutes of a fat, naked hobo masturbating to anime while eating cheetos and groaning loudly. That is the scale, it is now firmly anchored in both ends and we can do some honest comparisons. We are living in a world where the other major fantasy shows that I have seen and that are based on books are easy to count. Basically, we have Legend of The Seeker and The Shannara Chronicles. The former is very bad, though we can make it worse by introducing the dude I mentioned above as a guest star. So give an average episode of it a 3 or 4 out of 10, and an average episode of the Shannara chronicles 5 or 6 out of 10. Having done this, I personally can't put this episode of GoT at a lower score than 7, since I consider it to be better than all or most of the episodes of those two shows. Now for some fine-tuning, compare it to the first episode of every other season, S1 and S4 had better premiers but S2, S3 and S5 probably didn't so this one gets an 8. I don't see how anyone give it a 1, since it obviously could have been much worse, even realistically speaking and not trying once more to introduce the previously mentioned forearm-exercising guy. Imaigne if there had been more scenes in Dorne, resembling the worst excesses of last season, like the "you want a nice girl but you need a bad pussey"-comment, and then imagine if Melisandre had banged Davos to birth another shadow-monster to take out Allister. Even with 1 being the wors and 0 the best of this particular show, we saw worse things last season. Remember the Bolton family dinner?

So surely this has to be the third best seasosn premier so far, S1 was of course better and so was S4, but considering that the first episode each season tends to struggle this one was quite decent, the Dorne nonsense excepted. The dialog at the wall was great, Allister gave a great speech, and the Davos stuff worked to, the only thing I didn't like was how they are trying to put a slightly human face on Ramsey. But I doubt that the Melisandre scene meant that she has already cast a revival spell or whatever and that Jon is now alive, it would really be awaste to not make more of such a scene. The Dorne part unfortunately sucked, I'd rather they had cut that arc off. (We didn't get to see Hotah fight eve once, WTF is that about?) For a longer analysis, check out: https://promethiumwings.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/a-review-of-s6e1-of-game-of-thrones/