“I have returned to you now, at the change of the Tide…” Actually this tide started changing as soon as they ran out of books to work from. Benioff and Weiss seem adept at picking and choosing what to extract from source material, but have difficulty building material themselves.
That said, I hadn’t really hated much about this season until Episode 4; I understood the battle of Winterfell in a budget context, they had to cut corners to keep things tidy, but as the youtube video by “Hello Future Me,” points out, there is a lot they could have changed to make it a more interesting and worthwhile episode while not exceeding the budget or time constraints.
