Game Of Thrones: Every Episode Ranked From Worst To Best

64. Oathkeeper (S4E4)

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Written By: Bryan Cogman Directed By: Michelle MacLaren

The One Where A Baby Becomes A White Walker. The end of this episode takes a strange turn, and expands the mythology considerably, as we see just what the Walkers do with the babies sacrificed to them.

The rest of the episode is mid-season plodding though: there's no follow-up to Jaime's rape of Cersei, Brienne begins her quest for Sansa, and Jon and Bran both get wrapped up in the rape-den at Craster's Keep.

63. Garden Of Bones (S2E4)

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Written By: Vanessa Taylor Directed By: David Petrarca

Yay: Dany's journey through the desert comes to an end. Nay: Dany arrives at the gates of Qarth.

Meanwhile in this Season 2 outing, Robb meets Talisa (and begins his eventual downfall), Joffrey gets to show his crazy side by killing a couple of prostitutes, and of course, this is the episode where Melisandre gives birth to a shadow baby. Even now it remains one of the show's weirdest and most enduring images, and the standout from this episode.

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