The Children

This is how you do a season finale! It started off good, but only got better and better as the episode went along!

To me season four is the best season from begining to end, in terms of storytelling! There is not a single bad episode, amd the amount of great moments are insane!

This season was the pay off of rvery storyline we have seen so far! Everything has been building towards this! Therefore it was not just a season four finale, but a finale to storylines set up all the way back in season two or maybe even one!

This was an emotional rollercoaster! I was either on the edge or felt with tears! The actors did an outstanding job, and the visuals and directing was on another level!

This was when the excitement for this show reached a new level!

Game of Thrones closes out this season with a stellar episode, but like any good finale leaves some massive plots unresolved and teases us with whole new mysteries.

It's always the ninth episode that is the "most epic," or at least usually it is, when talking about Game of Thrones, but episodes like this prove that their endings to a season can be as good. The Fourth Season of Game of Thrones might actually be my favourite. There are lots of great episodes and there are arguably better seasons all round but this is a personal highlight for me. I loved this episode. The action alone makes it an engaging and evoking view. I enjoy this episode and it's one of my personal favourites, the Hound being my favourite character in this episode. I don't mean to sound too vague but I just wanted to write a couple lines after rewatching this one. Great season conclusion and nicely sets up what would be my second best season, Season Five.

I don't like to compare shows that are entirely different, but G.O.T is like Breaking Bad was for me. The first season was great, but each of the following seasons (or novels) progressively gets better and better as the story goes on. This episode (and really the entire series) has perfect pacing in the way they present and tell their story.

There were a few characters that were in quite dangerous predicaments last time we saw them. From what I saw last week and previous weeks, I didn't think a particular character was going to make a huge play this early, which was a nice surprise. I love how this show has such attention to detail with minor characters and (seemingly) minor side stories, very early on in the series. The show plants a seed here and then one there, I think nothing will come of it or maybe forget the person, place, old myth, past stories, history etc…. , then boom, old stories and people appear, taking things in an unseen new direction. I kind of saw one or two things (generally) happening this episode, but two of the characters heavily featured in this episode really caught me off guard in the way they reacted to situations they were in. One character has been on a journey for quite a while, after seeing this episode I really feel he might find something another main character acquired in past seasons, very useful to him/her (and perhaps others) in the future. Like many G.O.T episodes, you will laugh, get angry, think wtf is going on, perhaps yell in joy at your TV, possibly at how bad a$$ a particular character is becoming; I believe I did most of these tonight.

This episode was longer than normal, (66 minutes) but it felt like twenty minutes to me while I was watching it. This really set up Season 5 perfectly with tying some things up, making drastic changes to others and but shouldn't torture you with too many cliff hangers. This was a perfect finale, to the best season yet, but with how things went and appear to be going now, I can't see how season 5 won't be even better.

The Children does a great job tying up some loose ends left in the previous episodes and sets up the fifth season perfectly. There's nothing I have to fault this episode since I have so much to praise about it.

The storyline/script continues to be well-written, the performances are great and makes the characters even more relatable including Tyrion, Sansa, and Arya who set off on separate paths to different directions to see what's in store for them. The directing and editing are smooth, the pacing, once again, never drags and the relationships continue to be interesting. The scenery, sets, and costumes are still fabulous and the music score from Ramin Djawadi continues to be beautiful.

The scene where Arya leaves the Hound to die after he got wounded was nice since in the previous episodes, they started to bond with another, but it doesn't change the fact that they're different people since the Hound was a complete jerk to her and Arya wanted revenge on King Joffrey for what happened to her father. So, Arya heading off on her own was really cool.

So, overall, another masterpiece of an episode and a great set-up for the fifth season. :)