This is not a "I hate what they did" rating...this is a "more blood does not equal a better episode" rating. I knew a little of the "red wedding" and had deduced that many beloved characters would die (I was worried that it was going to be at Tyrion's wedding)...but not that we would lose almost all of our connection to the series' original family. It is a great risk to cut ties to most of your original characters...and considering that GoT continued to be recommended to me gives me hope that the series will make it through it, but to me, a 9+ rating on IMDb means wall-to-wall greatness...not a rating on how much gore there was. It was a pivotal episode, but not a great one...and I don't need a bunch of throat-cutting to like an episode.
Review of The Rains of Castamere
