Game Of Thrones: 8 Reasons 'Battle Of The Bastards' Is The Show's Most Overrated Episode

8. The Meereen Dragon Scene Feels Like It's In The Wrong Episode

Let's kick this off with what I perceive to be something of a structural problem with 'Battle of the Bastards' - the fact that it begins with an awesome, high-budget action sequence in which Dany climbs aboard Drogon, enlists the other dragons and attacks a fleet off ships in a badass show of death and destruction.

As a self-contained sequence, this is mind-blowing stuff; the visual work is crazy good, and, yes, we finally got to see Dany firmly commanding her dragons to wreak flaming havoc upon her foes. People got burned; ships got blown apart. Great.

But why put this sequence here, where it's doomed to be overshadowed by an even bigger sequence thereafter? Why did the writers decide to include both of these epic sequences - two of the show's biggest action sequences - in the same episode?

To my mind, the whole Meereen dragon sequence would have been better placed at the end of the previous episode, 'No One,' leaving audiences to wonder how the hell the writers were ever going to top it (and subsequently doing so with 'Battle of the Bastards'). Structurally, it just seems odd to have this sequence as part of the same episode; as the rest of the episode plays out, it's quickly forgotten.