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The two weakest episodes of the series for me are Eastwatch and The Last of the Starks, simply because of the breakneck pacing going against the established norms of the show and as a consequence of the pacing, both episodes needed to have incredible character-breaking stupidity in order to get the plot from points A-B. Honestly, splitting both of those episodes into even just 2 separate episodes could have solved so many problems.
The frustrating thing is that while shitting on Benioff is now in vogue, he's actually a much better writer than this. City of Thieves was a fantastic novel and shows that he is very much capable of deep and nuanced character arcs.
I still don't know what Weiss brings to the table, other than the fact that he's "along for the ride"
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