Breaking News – Jim Shelley reviews Game of Thrones

AutoNews- No programme has ever understood this better, or had more of them, than Game Of Thrones but this week’s episode ‘˜Death Is The Enemy’ still represented the show’s new Personal Best.The shocking death of Daenerys’ youngest dragon Viserion followed by its horrifying resurrection were arguably the most sensational scenes in GoT’s spectacular history.Even Jon Snow and his gang of veteran tough guys (Beric, Thormund, Ser Jorah, and The Hound) watched in silence, as stunned as we were, as the magnificent creature plummeted from the sky, struck by a spear thrown by the Night King, and plunged into the water, sinking under the ice.Sadly, strangely, none of them thought to hang around to see (or stop) the White Walkers’ leader then turn the corpse into the Army of The Dead’s most lethal weapon: the episode’s beautifully chilling finale. (Jon Snow knew they had horses and mammoths and they just witnessed the savagery a bear was capable of.)The sweet sight of Daenerys and Jon finally falling for each other, holding hands, was certainly ‘˜Death Is The Enemy’s most positive moment but paled in comparison. Not least because the spectre of the show’s pin-ups committing incest made it somewhat less romantic. Did we still want them to get together? Maybe not’¦Creating such moral dilemmas and debates is another of GoT’s gifts. ‘˜Death Is The Enemy’ certainly left us with plenty of questions.Jon Snow’s foray North of The Wall may have been unbearably, impeccably, gripping and visually breathtaking ‘“ with a showdown that even upped the ante on ‘˜The Spoils Of War’, which many fans hailed as GoT’s best yet.But otherwise ‘˜’¦Enemy’ was far from perfect.The show’s Continuity Department seemed to have been sacked, judging by the timelines covering various characters (and ravens) travelling between the Seven Kingdoms.The exchanges between Arya and Sansa Stark that interrupted the action beyond The Wall were meant to be an intriguing diversion but instead descended into irksome, inexplicably adolescent, sibling rivalry. (Even when Sansa pointed out ‘˜do you know how happy Cersei would be if she saw us fighting?’ neither considered the possibility they were being played by Littlefinger. So much for Arya’s ‘˜training’ with the Faceless Men.)As for Jon Snow, the scriptwriters resorted to increasingly tenuous, desperate, measures to save him from ‘˜certain death.’ He and his men managed to run across the icy lake onto a conveniently placed island away from the massed ranks of wights. Later Dany and her dragons arrived just in time (again).Like Jaime Lannister Jon Snow also miraculously avoided drowning before the elusive Benjen Stark appeared out of nowhere to see off the hordes of zombies, charging in at the last minute like Ghost Rider on horseback instead of a motorbike or The Lone Ranger without a mask.Where had he been all this time and couldn’t he have turned up a bit sooner and helped with the fighting? Why didn’t he simply scoop up his nephew and ride off w
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