Episode has grown on me in my mind since last night. "Lame" was the wrong word. I do appreciate a couple of those technical achievements, and I did think that Ygritte's death was pretty powerful.
It's just that Oberyn's death has me on tilt, so bad. It fucked me up for this show a little bit. It's the only thing I really care about right now and I'm itching to get back there.
I still hate Jon and The Night's Watch, though. Don't get me wrong. They're the worst.
And, yes, peef doggy, the Stannis/Melisandre stuff is also in the running. I've probably mentioned it in here before, but all of that Melisandre/Dark And Full Of Terrors/God Of Light shit would fit RIGHT IN on fucking True Blood. And as much as I have a fondness for that show, you do not want to be reminiscent of True Blood. At all. Unless you are True Blood. It's awful, silly, badly acted, B-movie horror shit.