Ranking All 50 Game Of Thrones Episodes From Worst To Best
16. The Wolf And The Lion (Season 1, Episode 5)
We rarely got to see Jaime Lannister fight at his very best in this series. The Kingslayer spent all of Season 2 in chains, fought Brienne while tied up early in Season 3, and then lost his hand an episode later. The Wolf and the Lion is really the only episode where we see an uninhibited Jaime go to work with his sword, in a duel with Ned Stark that ends prematurely when one of the guards spears Ned in the leg. Before this duel, there's a great scene where Ned refuses to take part in the assassination attempt on Daenarys, prompting King Robert to scream after him that hell have Neds head on a pike (how prophetic that it would be his son that would fulfil that threat). This episode also features a jousting match between Loras Tyrell and the Mountain, which the Mountain loses, and then subsequently decapitates his horse before getting into a fight with the Hound.
