*Spoiler Alert: If you are not caught up on Game of Thrones, go watch it before reading. You have been warned.*
Game of Thrones season 6 featured some of the best episodes in the entire series, and, in my opinion, one of the most uneven ones. Episodes like “Book of the Stranger” and “The Door” provided both intense suspense and a multitude of emotions. So when I saw that the ninth episode, “The Battle of the Bastards” was going to feature an epic battle between Ramsay Bolton, my favorite villain, and Jon Snow, one of my favorite heroes, I was stoked. How, I wondered, could the writers possibly screw this up? It seemed impossible, and yet, they did it.
I’ve always felt there were bits of feminist pandering in this show, particularly surrounding the character of Brienne of Tarth. Until this episode, however, it was always subtle enough that it…