Game of Thrones Season 5 Ep 1 (TV Show Review)

The finale of Game of Thrones Season 4 came at the end of a rather troubling season in general, with the writers making some really questionable departures from the source material and the directors being a bit too convinced of their own infallibility with respect to the final product. Still, as such things go, the finale wasn’t all that bad and it ended on a fairly positive note for many of the arcs that it touched, such as where Arya ends up after she disposes off of The Hound and sets out for herself, or even Tyrion killing his father and Shae both, for betraying hmm in the worst ways possible.

And this all brings us to season 5, which began this past Sunday, and generated an immense amount of controversy from the get go, namely that the first four episodes had been leaked together from sources that HBO had sent them to for review purposes. Hardly generates confidence, that. Either way, the season 5 premiere is of the grim and somber variety. Nothing really happens in this episode other than he viewers getting to touch base with some of the storylines and seeing what consequences past events have wrought on the world of Westeros and beyond. The characters are trying to find their feet once again, and moving forward, things should be… interesting.

Game of Thrones Season 4 Ep 9 (TV Show Review)

In one more week, HBO’s smash-hit Game of Thrones will ends its fourth season. As might be expected, the new season has seen the highest viewership numbers of any of the previous seasons, by a considerable margin. As much as the show’s popularity might have increased however, the success only seems to have made some elements of the show worse, while others remain plateaued. No prizes as to what has gotten worse, if you’ve read my reviews. Thankfully, the penultimate episode of the season seems to have escaped that particular disappointing element.

Now, if only things had remained like that. Much as with Season 2’s penultimate episode Blackwater, “The Watchers on The Wall” is an episode focused on a single event: the first battle of the Wall between the armies of Mance Ryder and the Night’s Watch. Start to finish, we see the full cast of the Wall, and that is that, making this episode the one with the shortest primary cast list, for none of the other high and mighty of the show make even a cursory appearance. At first I was all for it, but as the episode dragged on, I got bored and bored, and the ending proved to be unsatisfactory.