It’s even incorrectly designed, with the Eyrie itself sticking out like a giant turd in a desolate landscape, whereas the novel makes clear it’s meant to be a series of towers built along the side of a mountain. The Eyrie, for example, gets crapped on, with less than five minutes I’ll only talk at length about the worst of them, but there are easily fifteen minutes of unnecessary nonsense in this episode, all of which take away from some of the more interesting aspects of this stretch of A Game of Thrones. While there is much to love about the episode (Arya chasing cats more of the tournament more of Eddard Stark and the mysteries of King’s Landing the Eyrie (sort of) and many sword battles and gruesome deaths), its greatest flaws lie in its addition of scenes which have no direct bearing on the story-lines that matter. Episode Five is, thus far, the only poor episode this season.
