Adorable.

That was one of the joys of watching Blake's 7 years after it first aired. Our PBS station just ran all four seasons straight through, and given the number of cast members who were killed at the end of a season the tension really increased as you got the feeling you were getting close to that episode...

Still think they dropped the ball by having the Stannis arrival in this episode instead of episode 9. I always pictured it as a "Gandalf saves Helms Deep in the last inning" moment. The way it ends up playing out in this finale, it's almost a non-event, instead of the "fuck yeah Stannis" moment it should be.

Rest of the episode was great though. I haven't seen a classic 60s-style stop-motion-looking skeleton fight like that since Army of Darkness.

Wait'll you see what they do for Mother's Day next year... 

Ya that kinda stuff doesn't bother me, but the Stannis thing is a clear place to me where they screwed up the execution of the moment. Like, even if they wanted to have this scene with Mance and do the attack in episode 10, they should have at least milked the moment, make it look like this is it, Jon is about to get stabbed and then bam, horns. They try and fail in my opinion, the way the film grammar is used (combined with how early in the episode it is), I don't think even a casual audience will actually think that Jon is going to die right then and there.

It bums me out because that was my favorite moment from Book 3, but I guess when you're juggling 200 steak knives at the same time, you're bound to drop one every now and then