Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9 Battle of the Bastards – BEST EPISODE EVER! Review

Watched it last night via streams. I did not expect it to be this epic. When done I was breathless.

Breaking Bad has always been my favorite series, but by the time this series is over, that might not be the case.

Braveheart also has some pretty epic battle scenes, this episode reminded me of that!

My favorite part was when the sons of harpy's were killing people at the gates and then they hear the Dothraki war cries and see all of them on horses running around the mountain at them

It's kind of similar to the battle sequences from "The Revenant" with Leo DiCaprio. Same style.

ramsay is dead yes he will be back season 7

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This is the best episode ever…. after 5 minutes still this is the best episode..
i better watch it lol

when tormond bit small john umber i thought rick season 4 when he bit joe's throat out

Trev…Jon Snow and Daenyrs are first cousins and both did a "rebirth" scene. Him crawling out of the soldiers and her when she freed the slaves. GOT G Ave them the same overhead shot.

hey trev, where did they get the stark banners from? the attic or the basement?

this was the best episode ever.. i had to watch it again there was so much going on.. and that battle was the best battle scene I ever seen in TV or Movie, and the Dragon scenes were equally as good.. what a masterpiece!!!

i can't come close to believing that this episode was the best… this is not a show about action; the action is not why I watch it. I don't care about huge fights, though this one was amazing, but the parts I like are the small conversations, the climaxes of the series that aren't in plain battles. Like when Sansa feeds Ramsay to his own dogs – that's a huge moment, better than the battle for me. I liked the conversation between Tyrion and Dany, and how her dragons just burned down everything. The drama and the characters are what make this show great

I didn't like Jon Snows army. Totally not prepared. Also, Rickon is retarded. To run in a straight line was stupid and he paid for it. Back to Jon's Army. First, The Army should not of been lured in like that. It was so predictable. Lots of people killed for nothing. Also, Sansa needs to tell Jon about the Knights of the Vale. He could of waited until they got there. No communication there…………. Also, the giant. Total waste of a 'resource' there. Giant should of had a huge bow and arrow and shot up Bolton's archers. One arrow would of went through several people before stopping not to mention Jon's army would of been out of range for Bolton's archers but not vice versa with the Giants bow. Not only that, but the Giant should of worn armor to deflect the small arrows flying about. Also the giant should of gotten a huge tree and used to as a club. Could of stayed back with his bow/arrow and when the time was right, came running in, swinging. oh well.

Why were they all piled on top of one another and how? If people are killed via arrows, they won't pile up in a huge heap like that.

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The writing of this episode is highly questionable. There are a ton of sloppy decisions that made the story in the North less than satisfying. It should have been the best episode ever, but they didnt deliver.

Rickon had a reckoning. BOTB nearly gave me a heart attack. I don't know how I watched the whole ep.

melisandre!!!! bring back wun wun

i love listening to this guys reviews w his enthusiasm. he acts like he's busting a nut on himself when discussing GOT.

it was good, very good… but i wouldnt call it the best episode of the show

lamest episode .
seriously…everyone knew the Vale was gonna ride in or you werent paying attention.
Sansa getting all hot and heavy but forgets even to mention the Vale is out there somewhere to John?
A huge cavalry force near winterfell, but no one scouted them out?
the amount of bodies piled up would have suggested an army 20 times bigger then was on the field fighting for days in a static battleline. not even during WW1 with machineguns bodies got stacked that high and dense
 Wunwun still couldnt forge some basic kind of weapon or shield? no wonder the giants got extinct…
the whole of Johns army is fighting on the equivalent of 4 basketball courts when suddenly they find themselves surrounded?
…. yeah, the cavalry clash was epic but thats about it …
the producers seem to go for the usual hollywood laziness…" story doesnt need to make sense as long as there's lot of action'…and so does the general public apparently…sad
and for fucks sake… when getting shot at while running away .zigzag people zig and fuckin' zag, its that simple….

What a lot of people seem to have missed is how Sansa ruined the Northern armies, including the "free folk" and in the process helped solidify Little Finger's control over the North. Hear me out. Sansa either totally f…ed up because of stupidity and arrogance or she knew exactly what she was doing. Meaning, she knowingly allowed the death of thousands of northerners and 'free folk' as well as the almost complete destruction of the northern army to take place, when she could have prevented it. In other words, allowing the fight to take place and not telling Jon that Little Finger with the army of the Vale were about to get there. Now, because of what she did, Little Finger has the upper hand. The Vale is by far the strongest force in the North courtesy of Sansa. If Jon does not ask Sansa some serious questions about this very fact we in the next episode, then the writers are asleep! After all they did kinda screw up Arya's storyline with her irrational behavior prancing about in the bazaars, in daylight, and knowing assassin(s) were after her. Sansa is not the strategist people believe she is. She literally was willing to sacrifice Jon and the Northern Army so that she could claim Winterfel. If I were Jon, I would be so pissed off at her. I would let her have it, verbally speaking of course. This issue has to come up in episode 10, otherwise the show needs new writers. Everyone wants to root for Sansa without realizing what a major fuck up she really is. Yes, she has been used, abused and raped by a psychopath. But those things do not give her the right to sacrifice thousands of men so she could get Winterfel. She obviously does not trust Jon and is unfortunately dumb enough to be played by Little Finger. And Jon is too naive and nice to have figured out how badly Sansa f***ed him over!!!

Fuck off

i agree this battle tops alot of movies like braveheart and in alot of ways the battles in the lotr trilogy. just 100% gritty, brutal , and epic. i also thought that jon snow might die again after melisandre said she would have to try and bring him back again if he died. you never really have that thought in most movie battles you know that the main hero is not going to die.

You talk too much, just play the video.

are the free folk dead now? their was like 200 people left on jons side so id be amazed if more were alive

I like your reviews BUT stop laughing so much in your reviews especially at your own comments. Yes it's exciting.. stop the dork out.

It was an incredible episode!!! It IS the best episode of Game of Thrones yet!!! It was one of the best on-screen battles I've ever watched!!!

Funny how one high budget episode is enough to make everybody flip their shits. So little memory they have of the lazy and lame writing generally since the start of season 5? 'Best show ever' lmao not even worth the effort to put fanboys in shame.

why didn't a black smith custom make a sword and sheild for won won the giant and maybe a suit of armor and a helmet .he would be unstoppable. and still alive

i totally agree: no movie or any other tv show ever made me feel this way b4. my body started trembling so hard my body was coming off the floor with my teeth chattering as if i was cold or something. an extreme rush of energy coursing through my veins. i felt so alive as if i was there

Wow is right! The opening scene was fantastic, the battle was fantastic! One of the best episodes!

Lol @ George RR Martin being the cruel God in Game of Thrones xD

This episode was well directed… but written so badly… everything was predictable and some stuff was ridiculous… Rickon, Petyr and Sansa, Wunwun… but it was good for the eyes

I have a few very important questions.
One,can the Red Woman bring back Rickon? Why the hell no one suggest that? Jon immediately said,we gonna bury him next to our father,like no one gives a shit about the poor kid.
And two,why is no one amazed by the creatures they see? Boltons saw a giant no one even mentioned something about this,and the slave masters saw the dragon and they still think Daenerys will surrender and they will kill her two dragons,come on really?