Beyond the Wall

Iam a die hard fan of this series which is why iam not giving the episode 1/10

This episode is completely bad by all standards and scales there is...even in the game of thrones standard for past pre-finale episodes

I excpected more ..alot more than this...but OK lets hope the finale makes up

Not to mention that it is unnecessarily long

The wight hunt plan in this episode look stupid. but thought the director and writer make it seems smart. there are a lot of plot holes in this episode. but those plot holes are must and make the story fun to watch.

Work this out. Our heroes are surrounded by the walking dead. Gendry runs to the wall, tells his story to the night's watch, a message is composed and sent by a raven over a thousand miles to Dragonstone, Daenerys Targaryen gets organized and flys back ... all in 1 night. That has to be the fastest raven ever.

I will say a little differently from everyone else, I was reading the reviews, most people said that the episode is not good. I just want to ask them why this episode is not good. I think this episode is better than that. We saw some things change. Some of the changes that are justified will be understood in later episodes. This episode has to be watched carefully because there are some stories hidden in the episode that we can easily avoid. So look at my advice very carefully, there are family quarrels in this episode, there is death, there is transmission of life, there are monsters, there are monster oppressors. I will not say much about the rest. I will just say this. Watch this episode with your mind. Listen to each dialogue and try to understand the different parts of the story. Awesome Dialogue Delivery Awesome Writing and Awesome Management All in all an awesome episode.

I don't want to focus here on the large number of plot holes or the absurd level of suspension of disbelief necessary to take anything in this episode seriously. That's been done thoroughly by others already. Instead I want to emphasize how far from the earlier seasons this show has come.

A quick reminder, here are the things that made Game of Thrones an amazing and unique show that both hardcore fantasy fans and those not so much into fantasy could enjoy, for at least four seasons:

• Scheming, plotting and politics. There were so many layers of betrayal, intrigue, and loyalties (and lack thereof). How many times we were shocked to see key characters unpredictably turn on each other. How sophisticated the political relations that did not treat the audience as idiots.

• Truly gruesome violence and head-turning sex scenes. Few movies or shows have displayed such graphic deaths. Sure, there are splatter and gore movies that are "worse", but it's a completely different thing to see it realistically portrayed and happening to characters you're heavily invested in. GoT has on multiple occasions left me trembling from shock.

• Multi-layered, deep, interesting characters. None of the characters felt like stereotypes or flat. They were always surprising you with new depths and character development. They were smart, deep and interesting. Compare Tyrion in the first two seasons to the Tyrion in the last two. He's completely uninteresting, a shadow of his former self. Same thing with Jaime. And it's not because of their character arcs. They've just become bland, stupid Hollywood stereotypes, completely hollow.

• Unpredictability and sense of danger. There's been no other show where you always felt that anything could happen, any time, to anyone. And just when you thought that you'd hit bottom and surely a sweet revenge story would start and things would get better. Nope. Things get worse. And worse. And gruesome, heartbreaking and still surprising.

All of this is gone now. It's become totally predictable, stupid popcorn entertainment. There's barely any intrigue left, all characters are boring and one-dimensional, nothing really shocking. I started feeling it in the sixth season, but that still had its highs. Now this episode. Not only is it a bad episodes, it's actually so poorly written that it lifts the veil off the preceding episodes of the season as well. It was still possible to ignore the worrying signals, until now, but this episode actually manages to remind me of how far off the track this show has gone. It's really, really sad.