I’m just gonna say that this was the best ep the show has had in years. It wasn’t perfect, there’s stuff I can nitpick, but my major takeaway from this ep is that it was actually about the characters. It actually made me feel something because I believed what the characters were feeling. And that’s a feeling I haven’t had after an ep of this show in a good long while.
I’m kind of annoyed that they haven’t been writing this well the whole time. Why did they have to put us through the last several seasons of nonsense plots and stupid random magical watzits and people acting woefully out of character, when they had the ability to write something like this instead?