Game Of Thrones: Every Episode Ranked From Worst To Best

20. Fire And Blood (S1E10)

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Written By: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed By: Alan Taylor

With the unenviable task of following the death of Ned Stark, Fire and Blood provides a great end to a superb first season of Game of Thrones.

Arya takes the first of many identities, setting up her entire arc of the show thus far, and we get the first chest-thumping KING IN THE NORTH scene, with Robb Stark crowned by his fellow Northerners.

If Ned's death was game-changing, so too was this episode's final moments, and arguably in a bigger way. Daenerys enter's Khal Drogo's funeral pyre, and emerges unburnt, with three baby dragons. Magic is back in Westeros.

19. And Now His Watch Has Ended (S3E4)

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Written By: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed By: Alex Graves

"Dracarys."

Do I need to say more? Probably not, but since we're here...

Olenna Tyrell gets a couple of excellent moments here, engaging in conversations with both Cersei and Varys, and that's always going to a highlight. Theon's escape is revealed to simply be a sadistic game being played by Ramsay Snow. And with the mutiny at Craster's Keep, the watch of Lord Commander Mormont comes to a close.

But really, it all comes back to Dracarys.

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