And I'm thinking really hard to imagine which ones come close. The only two that spring to mind are Jon's encounters with Ramsey and then the one with his encounter with the white walkers.
shareNo. Not even close. compared to The Rains of Castamere, BoB, Watchers on The Wall, Winds of Winter not even close.
shareThese "epic" post season 5 episodes lack a few things. One of them being Stannis.
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shareSure he is. In our memories as the best king Westeros never had.
shareThere was a brief reference to Stannis in the latest episode. Remember how he used to correct people (including Davos) who would say "less"? He corrected them: "fewer". Well, Davos just corrected Jon in the same manner. I hope Davos will continue doing that, it's like a small tribute to Stannis.
shareI know. That brought a bit of fresh air into this stale episode. Reminded me of better times.
shareI think the best 3 episodes are Battles of the Bastards, Hardhome and the Winds of Winter but this was a brilliant episode with some spectacular moments!
shareI actually wasn't that impressed by the Battle of the Bastards. Jon's idiotic suicide charge, which destroyed his own plan and damn near doomed all these people he'd convinced to follow him, really damaged it for me. It would have been great if it weren't for that bit of inexplicable stupidity.
sharePeople are saying similar things about Jamie's charge in yesterday's episode but I just put it down to people not thinking straight in the heat of the moment. Jons emotions were high when he saw what happened to his brother and Jaime was convinced he was going to die anyway.
shareYeah, but I think with Jaime it was completely different. He had already lost the battle, and he thought he could end the war by killing Daenerys even if it meant sacrificing himself, which is reasonable. It's totally different from Jon's charge, in which the battle hadn't begun and he ruined a strategy that had a good chance of success, thereby needlessly almost dooming his army. Jaime risked nothing but his own life and could potentially have saved thousands of lives by ending a war, whereas Jon risked not only his own life but those of thousands of others needlessly, people whom he was responsible for. I understand that Jon's emotions were high, but that's no excuse to risk killing all these people who agreed to fight for him. I like Jon, but it just really made me mad.
shareIt definitely was a stupid thing to do, but he's still supposed to be reasonably young (do we think about 18?) whereas Jaime has lived through a lot more and is able to control his emotions a lot better than Jon.. he's never been able to express his emotions towards his kids or his sister.
share(yawn) I don't care about battle scenes
shareI'm not a huge fan of battle scenes either, but I do think GOT do it particularly well... they show the absolute chaos of it, particularly in The Battle of the Bastards I think.
shareThese battles when they happened, must have been brutal ... the real ones that is. I wonder how they ever got people stupid enough to live that way, or if we turn the light on ourselves are we any smarter as "peasants" now than soldiers back then?
shareIt was a good episode though I wouldn't say it was the most epic of the entire series.
shareSomething just seems "flat" with these new episodes, like the team went away on vacation and forget the general feeling of the show.
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