>Episode does a decent job is distilling the point of the

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>Episode does a decent job is distilling the point of the novels; adds excellent OC with the Hound and Beric
>Cersei is mad and Jaime is once more in the right and the only reason he hasn't left her is because he's scared she'll fucking kill him; he's getting serious Mad King flashbacks
>Sam's part is mercifully short
>Little Dany scenes
>Sansa and Jon's politics believably differ and make sense
>Moves Arya's character arc believably forward
>Introduces a song from the books that many hoped would be in for years
>That makes sense for it to 'be new', because it was made in 300 AL and the year is about 302 AL now in the show; 2 years is perfectly new in a medieval setting singing folk songs hundreds of years old

b-b-b-but Ed Sheeran REEEEEEEEEEE NORMIES xD

The episode was fine.