With the jaw dropping events of last week, it was hard to visualize another installment so impactful, as to stand up with the series much revered ninth episodes. But my word, does the Watchers on the Wall, the battle from two fronts deliver!
Taking place all at Castle Black, the episode allows it self to build up so much tension and suspense that I may have forgotten to breathe. Boasting one of the series most, and arguably best battle sequences to date, director Neil Marshall delivers perfectly the four year build up, surpassing his efforts in season 2's Blackwater.
The battle is central to the episode, but also delivers on character interactions and reinvests your interest in the happenings at the Wall. The best part of this episode however is following Jon, Sam, Ygritte, Tormund, Styr, Gilly, Ser Alliser Thorne and all the others as they fight for different things around them and within themselves. It nice to focus on the Men of the Nights Watch, and really makes you feel that all the backstabbing and games at the capitol,are. well. games.
Everyone has been telling us that winter is coming for so long I almost stopped believing them, but The Watchers on the Wall reminded me once again that Game of Thrones always delivers, always surprises, and ALWAYS satisfies. One of the best 10/10
Taking place all at Castle Black, the episode allows it self to build up so much tension and suspense that I may have forgotten to breathe. Boasting one of the series most, and arguably best battle sequences to date, director Neil Marshall delivers perfectly the four year build up, surpassing his efforts in season 2's Blackwater.
The battle is central to the episode, but also delivers on character interactions and reinvests your interest in the happenings at the Wall. The best part of this episode however is following Jon, Sam, Ygritte, Tormund, Styr, Gilly, Ser Alliser Thorne and all the others as they fight for different things around them and within themselves. It nice to focus on the Men of the Nights Watch, and really makes you feel that all the backstabbing and games at the capitol,are. well. games.
Everyone has been telling us that winter is coming for so long I almost stopped believing them, but The Watchers on the Wall reminded me once again that Game of Thrones always delivers, always surprises, and ALWAYS satisfies. One of the best 10/10
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