User blog comment:Gcheung28/Fan vs. Critic: Game of Thrones - The Watchers on the Wall/@comment-88.81.84.140-20140629165219

I really don't know what is with the issue that the episode didn't how the other plotlines. I mean, there is a battle going on and you can't just randomly jump into a Kings Landing or elsewhere and then just return back! Even an idea of it is ridiculous - imagine they would do the same in the battle on Blackwater, how stupid that would be! I get it, people wants to know what will happened to T, but they didn't really expected they get the answers right the next episode, right? I mean, seriously... Anyway, this is one major battle - come on, if the Wall defences fall, the wildlings are going to screw the North, the biggest part of the original Seven Kingdoms! Sure, there is not much politics (so far) going on, no Tyrion, not much violence (er...) or sex, no dragons (even though Dany has basically did nothing past two seasons- yeah, she frees slaves, then goes to another city, does the same and tries to learn to rule... I love her, but there were just great moments, not scenes - but nobody says she's boring, huh?) Anyway, I would say that the battle described in the books is better (yes, it takes days instead of one night and the duration is perhaps a little more monotonous, but the defences are much more smarter and the consequences are more intriguing. BUT the show made a good job of it and the added scenes are cool, even though sometimes confusing for the no-reader. Though Yggrite's death was much better in the books (Really? In the middle of the fight you just going to hold your girl and nobody notices? I mean that would be a big red target, right there!), Jon didn't play as important role as he did in the books and so on, it was still one of the best episodes - yes, there was no major character development (though Sam seriously mans up and gets the girl), no devious scheme, betrayal or intrigue, BUT it's one night and fight for survival with the minimal chances of that! Damn, there are giants and  mamoths - the thing that the Crows probably saw for the first time as they couldn't believe they actually existed and then that speech Thorne said? Seriously, I think it would be much better received if it was not a follow up after the Viper and the Mountain episode - for non-readers, at least.