Game Of Thrones: 8 Reasons 'Battle Of The Bastards' Is The Show's Most Overrated Episode
4. It Was Too Easy To Predict What Was Going To Happen
The moment I first realised that I loved Game of Thrones occurred when Jaime Lannister, the arrogant b*stard that he once was, got his hand chopped off; I never expected in a million years that this character, the greatest swordsman in Westeros, would wind up lacking his most infamous limb. I relished how unexpected it was; how utterly shocked it left me feeling in the aftermath as the episode cut to black.
Nowadays, though, Game of Thrones isn't quite so unpredictable and these moments feel few and far between; "Battle of the Bastards," what with its completely predictable plottings, is proof of that. More than any episode in recent memory, audiences were able to guess exactly what was going to go down.
As such, Game of Thrones has started to feel like more conventional fare. Wouldn't the show have been more interesting if the Knights of the Vale hadn't shown up? Or if Ramsay had met his end in a far different, dog-less fashion?
I'm not saying that these happenings made the episode bad, exactly, it's just that Game of Thrones feels a lot less dangerous; it used to be a show that threw audiences a curve ball whenever they felt safe; in its current form, it seems like a lot of the plotlines are being foreshadowed far too heavily.