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This was the episode Game of Thrones died for good, and although people weren't able to see how atrocious their writing was in 2015, thankfully D&D got what was coming to them after season 8.

Some may read this and roll their eyes, because I'm about to say what has been said about this show a million times before - the books are better.

For me and many others, Stannis is one of the most compelling characters in the entire series. A man who breaks before he bends, fights his own wars, and most importantly, would die for his daughter. A quote from Stannis himself:

"I was told you would die, or worse, the Greyscale would go slow and you'd grow just enough to know the world before taking it away from you. Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the stone men before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell."

If you've watched the episode you should now know all that's wrong with it and how it is a complete assassination of the most interesting character in favour of Jon 'muh queen' Snow and Daenerys 'let's kill a million people for Missandei' Targaryen. Read the books, or just listen to some of Stannis' speeches, like Renly's Peach, and you'll understand although this episode was the nail in the coffin for Stannis' character, he had been wronged for the entire series.

I know GRRM loves Stannis and will give him the ending he deserves, if the books are ever released.

The little actress is good.

5/10.

Just when I thought the show was eclipsing on a point of no return, this episode swoops in as a lifeline. The overarching story in this show is absolutely brilliant; shrouded in mystery. As long as this story continues (with the familiar morty ;)) I will be watching.

I won't spoil the episode. The animation is stunning, probably the best the series has seen yet. The story is brilliant. The ending is gut-wrenching. Give it a watch, even if you havent yet watched the beginning of season 7.

There's no doubt this show has been experiencing its ups and downs lately, but I fully trust the process. We have 3 more seasons at least and seems they've had it all planned for a while, so I am excited for what's to come.

I'm just thinking about this seasons finale now. This show doesn't have a great track record when it comes to season finales, typically throwing the most important episodes halfway through the season (like this one) but I really hope it goes out with a bang.

10/10!!!

The first 3 seasons of this show were spectacular; a triumph in storytelling. But after the story was taken outside the walls, which I know was inevitable, the show lost a lot of its charm for me.

Season 4 obviously had its moments, Eren being the one to force Grisha into taking the Attack Titan, seeing more of interesting characters like Floch and Zeke, and just some brilliant animation.

But from this point onwards the story just felt incredibly overblown, many characters nullified due to there being too many characters, no sense of fear or horror anymore and horribly predictable fight scenes. There's far too many deus ex machinas in this season, and it seems a certain character, who started as an interesting foil to Eren, was introduced purely for the purpose of unexpectedly saving our heroes (Gabi!)

As for this episode, the animation was great, voice acting is great, and some brilliant character moments (Zeke and Armin). But, however you think the rumbling will play out is exactly how it plays out. I don't want to give spoilers, but the ending of the rumbling may catch you off guard until... you'll see. It feels like the aftermath of The Long Night from Game of Thrones. There's plenty of moments where our friends were saved at the last second, of course once by Gabi (Why was the 10 year old girl brought to the rumbling???) I felt the character conclusions were a bit lacklustre too, but can you expect anything else when there are so many characters and the creator was so reluctant to kill any of them off?

You'll probably enjoy it. It is Attack on Titan after all, but it could have been so much more.