The episode was fine, but it was probably the worst of the season so far. That's not a burn on this episode the rest of this season has just been great. The fade to white at the end as Jon walks out to negotiate with Mance was a dumb ending. I could have done with way less of the pregame (Sam/Gilly, etc.). They could have extended the run time a little longer to show the morning where Jon is negotiating and Stannis shows up to save the day. Maybe I just had this episode too hyped up in my mind, but I thought they could have done a lot better. They had to kill off Grenn, because they hadn't established enough characters at the wall. The episode was fine, but it definitely could have been done better.
