What this season has done is brought things back together. The "Two Towers" of the Song of Ice and Fire saga. I think it was just in the middle chapter. People started saying that the show had lost its edge. D&D knew this, and so they were anxious to get through it as quickly as possible which led to some of it coming across rushed. There was no sense of general momentum running through the whole of the show. But in season 5, when we were in a slower stage of the story, some people felt understandably frustrated. That was fine in season 4, when they were all very eventful. As a result, the story lines drifted farther and farther apart from each other as time went on. The Red Wedding changed all if that sent everyone their separate ways. During the first three seasons, there were certainly a lot of story lines, but they all tied back into one central story-line for the most part the war of the five kings. Ramin Djawadi did excellent work with the score accompanying the scene it really helped to draw out the tension. In fact, the sequence that I had assumed would be the climax of this episode ended up being at the very beginning. There were massive violent twists and big moments, but they were laced in equally with touching little character interactions. This episode balanced everything marvellously. Well, I can now safely say that I need not have worried. There was the distinct possibility of this episode becoming way too crammed with things and coming across rushed, like last season's finale did. I was admittedly quite nervous going into this episode there was so much they had to stuff in. It had everything I could have hoped for and more (except maybe Cleganebowl and Lady Stoneheart.
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