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So "Game of Thrones" have finally hit the Hollywood in every meaning of this word in "Beyond the Wall". "Beyond the Disbelieve" - this is how this episode should have been named. As much as spectacular and at some points breathtaking this episode was, i was like "NO FUCXXX WAY THIS IS POSSIBLE" constantly during second half of this episode. I won't spoil it (although i would like to), but it is NOT possible any way it turned out here, even in a fantasy genre. I mean do they have like a GPS and teleport in that world? How much time it takes to simply travel in there?

Now for 4 seasons "Game of Thrones" was the only show that almost literally could shock my and pulled a rug from viewers - it was unpredictable like anything out there. But from last season and especially this one, i do believe we will see a happy ending in this show overall. Sure some side characters will die, but it won't be as effective as in the past, because they don't have time to properly show it! This season is rushed as hell and i do believe that future book / books will be even more popular by simply telling this story in non rushed way.

Overall, as much as spectacular "Beyond the Wall" was, i can not rate it any higher then 8 (and that is only because of great craftsmanship of the scenes) because of how unbelievably predictable it all turned out. And predictable in a most simple "Hollywood style", like we have seen in countless forgettable great looking movies. As it looks now, happy ending is not far away.

A raven can travel 100 miles in 1 day. There are 2,000 miles between Dragonstone and beyond the wall. That's 20 days just to get to Dragonstone. Somehow that and the added time of Dany and her dragons getting ready and flying back all happened in one night.

Top tier writing

Another masterful penultimate episode for game of thrones. No surprise there. There are however plenty of surprises within the episode itself and i trust any fan of the show will be absolutely thrilled. It's not without its problems, nor has this season or any season before it been. For example, season 7 has some plot lines I am not quite sold on. The Sansa and Arya line isn't hitting the mark for me. It just doesn't make sense up to now and unless it has me entirely fooled and all pays off to be some sort of masterstroke of epic proportions I'll be forever disappointed. It just makes no sense that there'd be this much bad blood over something that neither child could help at the time.

That being said, this season has been mindblowing thus far, save for those pacing issues everyone loves bringing up. And yes, this episode only makes those more prominent and will only enrage people more. I won't spoil the events of the episode in this review but there are a few things that happen that require you to suspend your disbelief a little more than usual. What i can say however is that I understand why it's happening this way. We are almost at the end of the show and can't expect too many filler episodes any more.

All in all, prepare for one of the most thrilling and action packed shockers the show has given us ever. It is truly fantastic TV rivalling anything put on the big screen in terms of scale and talent and effects. The team that go beyond the wall do not disappoint. Game of thrones will go down in history if it keeps these kinds of episodes coming for the rest of its air time.

Winter truly has come. My rating would be 9.5.

Great episode. This review posted to counter some of the more stupidly-nit-picking reviews. No indication was given how long they were on that rock. So all these timeline complaints are nonsense. Night King has a logical reason for going for a flying dragon, if he hits it, he still has time to go for a second, since a landed dragon is slower. It's logical to go for a landed dragon last in this situation. They got the chains from the giants, and from Hardhome. Try watching the show if you want background.

No spoilers included. In what is possibly the most thrilling episode of game of thrones to date (with exception to the masterful winds of winter) everything changes. Nothing will ever be the same. I can't rightfully say this episode was perfect but .5 increments aren't possible on IMDb. My true score would be 9.5, due to some pacing issues and plot lines I don't quite agree with. The fast travel has been taken to some new extremes here and I can almost understand people being a little dismayed by it. I can see the critics of the new pace only getting louder with the airing of this episode.

This episode on a whole, however, is truly thrilling. My heart was racing for 90% of the run-time and again we truly get to feel like nobody is safe. The visual effects have never been better and the dream squad did not disappoint. One more issue im taking with the show lately is how they have seemingly dumbed down the violence, I miss the graphic gut spilling combat of earlier seasons. To go back to what i mentioned earlier in this brief review, the fast travel is to be expected, we are nearing the end of this story and can't spend full episodes on traveling. So, not perfect. But absolutely thrilling and visually stunning.

Next week can't come quick enough.

*NO SPOILERS* AND DON'T READ ANY SPOILER BEFORE WATCHING THIS EPISODE When I watch a great episode of game of thrones, I always think what would it feels like when they will make a better episode even than this. I will not lie, sometimes I just lose sense what just happened and just get stunned….literally. Yes, this is one of those episodes, so before watching it, have your pop corns ready, keep bottle of water/cold drink near, take a leak or whatever because you will not want to leave your seat after it get started.

You can call this episode game changer of entire series. The fight beyond the wall is epic. There hasn't been any better fighting scene in game of thrones than this one. Me personally was only shocked like this in episode Baelor (S01E09) and Rains of Castamere (S03E09).

So friends just watch and do not read any spoilers. I unfollowed Game of Thrones Twitter because of it.

Work this out. Our heroes are surrounded by the walking dead. Gendry runs to the wall, tells his story to the night's watch, a message is composed and sent by a raven over a thousand miles to Dragonstone, Daenerys Targaryen gets organized and flys back ... all in 1 night. That has to be the fastest raven ever.

I don't want to focus here on the large number of plot holes or the absurd level of suspension of disbelief necessary to take anything in this episode seriously. That's been done thoroughly by others already. Instead I want to emphasize how far from the earlier seasons this show has come.

A quick reminder, here are the things that made Game of Thrones an amazing and unique show that both hardcore fantasy fans and those not so much into fantasy could enjoy, for at least four seasons:

• Scheming, plotting and politics. There were so many layers of betrayal, intrigue, and loyalties (and lack thereof). How many times we were shocked to see key characters unpredictably turn on each other. How sophisticated the political relations that did not treat the audience as idiots.

• Truly gruesome violence and head-turning sex scenes. Few movies or shows have displayed such graphic deaths. Sure, there are splatter and gore movies that are "worse", but it's a completely different thing to see it realistically portrayed and happening to characters you're heavily invested in. GoT has on multiple occasions left me trembling from shock.

• Multi-layered, deep, interesting characters. None of the characters felt like stereotypes or flat. They were always surprising you with new depths and character development. They were smart, deep and interesting. Compare Tyrion in the first two seasons to the Tyrion in the last two. He's completely uninteresting, a shadow of his former self. Same thing with Jaime. And it's not because of their character arcs. They've just become bland, stupid Hollywood stereotypes, completely hollow.

• Unpredictability and sense of danger. There's been no other show where you always felt that anything could happen, any time, to anyone. And just when you thought that you'd hit bottom and surely a sweet revenge story would start and things would get better. Nope. Things get worse. And worse. And gruesome, heartbreaking and still surprising.

All of this is gone now. It's become totally predictable, stupid popcorn entertainment. There's barely any intrigue left, all characters are boring and one-dimensional, nothing really shocking. I started feeling it in the sixth season, but that still had its highs. Now this episode. Not only is it a bad episodes, it's actually so poorly written that it lifts the veil off the preceding episodes of the season as well. It was still possible to ignore the worrying signals, until now, but this episode actually manages to remind me of how far off the track this show has gone. It's really, really sad.

Amazing breathtaking and unexpected.Your jaw will drop to the floor.This episode perfectly sets up the nest season and what a thrilling way to dot it. The Actors specially Emilia Clarke Waooo she has outdone herself in this season I must say. A big shout out to Alan Taylor for his masterful direction and Imagination .Thank you to the creators of this show for giving us this Amazing Spectacle. Watch it drink it because you are going to be amazed.

Arya shows the letter she found and has an argument with Sansa at Winterfell. Jon Snow and his group capture Wight but ad horde of Wights hunt them down. The escape to a frozen lake and Jon sends Gendry to return to Eastwatch and to warn Daenerys. Jon and his group are under siege of the Wights that decides to attack them. Out of the blue, Daenerys come with her dragons to help Jon Snow and the hunting party. Will they succeed in escaping?

"Beyond the Wall" is another spectacular episode of "Game of Thrones". The segment of Arya and Sansa is promising, but the hunting of a Wight by Jon Snow and his team is magnificent. The attack of Daenerys and her "sons" is also great and the final plot point is totally unexpected. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): "Beyond the Wall"

despite what all people said and all the time jumping and that stuff. HBO and D&D surpasses themselves each time. what a great episode and i feel bad for HBO with all the recent events of leaks. i hope we have a better unexpected finale and season 8 (if there's better than that). it's the best show on TV recently and in the past long years. the plot is unexpected and the writing and the directing are just great. thank the gods for Geroge R R Martin and D&D for making this masterpiece.

First of all, i watched half of the episode by getting goose bumps. I think It was very satisfying episode in action.

I see other user reviews, they are mostly about bad writing. It seems that they want more time in character development and story development. I think they are paying the development costs so they want more time on character development. I also want to have 12 episodes or even 24 episodes for each season and to have more character development, but this is what you can get in 7 episodes for a season, especially almost before last season.

I find all these kind of reviews are absolutely ridiculous. Whoever needs for speech in last season, please go and read books.