Every Game of Thrones Episode Ranked — The Wojcicki Cut

GoT is eating the greatest tub of ice cream you have ever had and then finding a dead rat at the bottom.

"Hodor had remained a fan favourite this far into this series in no small part due to the writer's inability to make him say terrible dialogue." I love Glidus

I think that too often, Charles Dance is given the undisputed title of "Best character performance in GoT", and while I don't deny it's an amazing performance, Mark Addy's short-lived, bombastic, and memorable performance as Robert Baratheon deserves more than an honorable mention; he should be a damned contender. He had 7 episodes to work with, and he made brilliant use out of every second. He could be jovial, brotherly, argumentative, proud, wrathful, sympathetic, vulnerable, pensive and belligerent. As a character, he hit more emotional beats than most characters do in the entire show, and did so in less time than most of them had. And Mark Addy nailed every scene of it. GoT's portrayal of Robert Baratheon is one of the most fully realized, well-rounded characters in the show.

People don't like Ygritte's death? Damn, it definitely makes my top 5. That shot of Jon cradling Ygritte as the camera pans away, the battle continuing on behind them as no one even notices whats happened, gets me every time. And the fact that Olly was the one who killed her, a kid who neither Jon nor the audience can even be mad at considering his established motivation, showcases that nuance the first couple seasons did so well.

im glad Ned's death is appreciated for how shocking it was. When I first saw the episode, I remember thinking, "alright, this is stupid. I know we want the stakes to be high, but how can he possibly get out of this situation without it being super forced?" and then he just... doesn't, and it changed the way I saw the show completely.

By saying, “why do you think I came all this way?’l in the last episode, Bran exposed himself as a sadistic, twisted, psychopath who sat on crucial information that could’ve saved millions of lives, all so he could become King. All of this despite the fact that he clearly stated he couldn’t be Lord of anything in previous episodes. Seriously, the writing is SOOO bad it had to be intentional.

"Robert's Rebellion is built on a lie" Yeah, or maybe you know, it's built on the fact the King burned the Warden of the North alive, murdered his son, then ordered the heads of the new Warden of the North and the Lord Paramount of the Stormlands. Nah, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

The thing I love about Blackwater is that, at its core, it's a story about the two most likeable characters in the show trying to kill each other, for completely understandable, completely honourable reasons. It's why Davos treating "last time I was here you killed my son with wildfire" as a bit of banter later on is so fucking insulting.

Red Wedding is so powerful every show started copying it and none reached the level of impact Red Wedding had.

The way they did Meera will forever scar me. She did so much and they just threw her away.

"Ned's death may be the defining moment of game of thrones, it's either that or..." I love how literally every single person watching this knew what was coming as you said that. Well played.

The thing that's incredible about the Red Wedding is how rewatchable it is, i watched it 3 times and it made me shocked everytime, how they made the wedding so fun, so wholesome and heart warming seeing chadmure being happy about his wife and the jokes they told eachother sometimes even make you laugh, Until that door is closed..... And then it turns into an absolute fuckfist of a wedding, you can see how robb got broken from the betrayal, the last scream of caitlyn haunts some of us to this day

Regarding the Red Wedding, I have to praise the book-reading community for not giving up the game beforehand.

This is like watching the series backwards on fast forward...

1:33:17 GRRM talked about this scene in an interview once. He said Meereen was supposed to very multicultural and wasn’t meant to come off as this white saviour scene, but the scene was filmed in Morocco, so all the extras were Moroccan.

"No One" is the episode that snuffed out any remaining hope I had for the show. Specifically Arya's storyline. The whole point of the faceless men's training is to erase any personality of the trainee, creating "no one," a person that can become anyone. All of that had been clearly established at that point, so it was extremely fucking baffling when Arya, despite literally blatantly rebelling against the training, is declared to have "become no one" by Jaqen H'gar. What makes it even more insulting is that when she walks out on him (despite apparently succeeding in her "no one" training) he literally just *lets her*. She has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of one of the most powerful and secretive organizations in the world AND HE JUST LETS HER GO ON HER MERRY WAY WITH NO REPRECUSSIONS. What a fucking joke.

This video changed more after its resurrection than Jon Snow.

In case anyone was wondering here are some fun facts about Glidus' list: Best Season (By Average Rank): 1: Season 1, Average Rank 13.6 2: Season 3, Average Rank 19.2 3: Season 2, Average Rank 22.7 4: Season 4, Average Rank 27.5 5: Season 5, Average Rank 46.3 6: Season 6, Average Rank 55.7 7: Season 7, Average Rank 63 8: Season 8, Average Rank 68.3 Best Season Opener: 1: Season 3, Rank 18 2: Season 1, Rank 19 3: Season 4, Rank 28 4: Season 2, Rank 30 5: Season 5, Rank 39 6: Season 6, Rank 49 7: Season 7, Rank 59 8: Season 8, Rank 68 Best Penultimate Episode: 1: Season 4, Rank 1 2: Season 2, Rank 3 3: Season 3, Rank 4 4: Season 1, Rank 5 5: Season 5, Rank 50 6: Season 6, Rank 62 7: Season 7, Rank 66 8: Season 8, Rank 73 Best Season Finale: 1: Season 1, Rank 2 2: Season 2, Rank 11 3: Season 3, Rank 23 4: Season 5, Rank 41 5: Season 4, Rank 43 6: Season 6, Rank 51 7: Season 7, Rank 69 8: Season 8, Rank 72 Biggest Gaps in Rank Between Consecutive Episodes: 1: Season 4 Episodes 9 and 10, Difference of 42 (Rank 1 and Rank 43) 2: Season 4 Episodes 2 and 3, Difference of 37 (Rank 7 and Rank 44) 3: Season 3 Episodes 4 and 5, Difference of 28 (Rank 36 and Rank 8) (Smallest Gap is 1 and happens multiple times) Each Seasons Best and Worst and Gap Between: Season 1: Best: Episode 10, Rank 2 Worst: Episode 4, Rank 33 Difference: 31 Season 2: Best: Episode 9, Rank 3 Worst: Episode 6, Rank 35 Difference: 32 Season 3: Best: Episode 9, Rank 4 Worst: Episode 4, Rank 36 Difference: 32 Season 4: Best: Episode 9, Rank 1 Worst: Episode 3, Rank 44 Difference: 43 Season 5: Best: Episode 8, Rank 38 Worst: Episode 6, Rank 67 Difference: 29 Season 6: Best: Episode 1, Rank 49 Worst: Episode 5, Rank 63 Difference: 14 Season 7: Best: Episode 3, Rank 57 Worst: Episode 7, Rank 69 Difference: 12 Season 8: Best: Episode 2, Rank 56 Worst: Episode 5, Rank 73 Difference: 17

I know it’s been two years but the insane accuracy of the “the only good thing that came out of this shot stain of an episode was the huge number of people who realized they could write a better story than this major studio production” line is genuinely off the charts

SPOILERS (...i guess) 3:23 - 73 - The Bells (S08E05) 5:11 - 72 - The Iron Throne (S08E06) 8:10 - 71 - The Long Night (S08E03) 11:00 - 70 - The Last of the Starks (S08E04) 12:51 - 69 - The Dragon and the Wolf (S07E07) 15:36 - 68 - Winterfell (S08E01) 18:11 - 67 - Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken (S05E06) 20:04 - 66 - Beyond the Wall (S07E06) (with Alt Schwift X) 24:21 - 65 - The Spoils of War (S07E04) 25:53 - 64 - Stormborn (S07E02) 27:43 - 63 - The Door (S06E05) 30:16 - 62 - Battle of the Bastards (S06E09) 32:43 - 61 - Eastwatch (S07E05) 34:21 - 60 - Book of the Stranger (S06E04) 36:33 - 59 - Dragonstone (S07E01) 37:53 - 58 - No One (S06E08) 39:31 - 57 - The Queen's Justice (S07E03) 41:37 - 56 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (S08E02) 43:40 - 55 - Home (S06E02) 45:04 - 54 - Blood of My Blood (S06E06) 46:38 - 53 - Oathbreaker (S06E03) 48:18 - 52 - The Broken Man (S06E07) 49:52 - 51 - The Winds of Winter (S06E10) 52:53 - 50 - The Dance of Dragons (S05E09) 54:38 - 49 - The Red Woman (S06E01) 56:12 - 48 - Sons of the Harpy (S05 E04) 57:40 - 47 - High Sparrow (S05E03) 59:12 - 46 - The Gift (S05E07) 1:00:34 - 45 - The House of Black and White (S05E02) 1:01:56 - 44 - Breaker of Chains (S04E03) 1:03:35 - 43 - The Children (S04E10) 1:06:01 - 42 - Kill the Boy (S05E05) 1:07:27 - 41 - Mother's Mercy (S05E10) 1:09:13 - 40 - Oathkeeper (S04E04) 1:11:11 - 39 - The Wars to Come (S05E01) 1:12:42 - 38 - Hardhome (S05E08) wtf glidus 1:14:57 - 37 - First of His Name (S04E05) 1:16:17 - 36 - And Now His Watch Is Ended (S03E04) 1:17:47 - 35 - The Old Gods and the New (S02E06) 1:18:36 - 34 - Garden of Bones (S02E04) 1:19:42 - 33 - Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things (S01E04) 1:20:45 - 32 - The Night Lands (S02E02) 1:20:52 - 31 - Mockingbird (S04E07) 1:22:22 - 30 - The North Remembers (S02E01) 1:23:21 - 29 - Dark Wings, Dark Words (S03E02) 1:24:28 - 28 - Two Swords (S04E01) 1:26:06 - 27 - A Man Without Honor (S02E07) 1:27:33 - 26 - The Climb (S03E06) 1:29:01 - 25 - The Prince of Winterfell (S02E08) 1:30:27 - 24 - The Laws of Gods and Men (S04E06) 1:31:40 - 23 - Mhysa (S03E10) 1:33:26 - 22 - Second Sons (S03E08) 1:34:27 - 21 - Lord Snow (S01E03) 1:35:23 - 20 - The Mountain and the Viper (S04E08) 1:36:53 - 19 - Winter is Coming (S01E01) 1:38:13 - 18 - Valar Dohaeris (S03E01) 1:39:21 - 17 - The Ghost of Harrenhal (S02E05) 1:40:43 - 16 - The Kingsroad (S01E02) 1:41:49 - 15 - The Pointy End (S01E08) 1:42:47 - 14 - The Bear and the Maiden Fair (S03E07) 1:44:08 - 13 - What is Dead May Never Die (S02E03) 1:45:35 - 12 - Walk of Punishment (S03E03) 1:46:58 - 11 - Valar Morghulis (S02E10) 1:48:48 - 10 - You Win or You Die (S01E07) (with RedTeamReview) 1:50:43 - 09 - A Golden Crown (S01E06) 1:51:45 - 08 - Kissed by Fire (S03E05) 1:53:40 - 07 - The Lion and the Rose (S04E02) 1:54:48 - 06 - The Wolf and the Lion (S01E05) (with Alt Shwift X) 1:57:27 - 05 - Baelor (S01E09) the actual best episode ok 1:58:35 - 04 - The Rains of Castamere (S03E09) 2:00:23 - 03 - Blackwater (S02E09) 2:02:09 - 02 - Fire and Blood (S01E10) (with Preston Jacobs) 2:05:30 - 01 - The Watchers on the Wall (S04E09)