'Game Of Thrones' Stuns Audiences With Season 5's Episode 9 [Spoilers]

HBO's 'Game Of Thrones' has been getting a lot of criticism this year for it's massively dramatic departures from the book series 'A Song of Ice and Fire', upon which the show is based. While series creator George R. R. Martin stated on his official blog "there has seldom been any TV series as faithful to its source material" and reiterated how the show and the books are entirely separate stories, albeit with the same intended ending.

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People watching at home appeared to appreciate the rest of the episode, however, which earned a rating of 9.5 from over 9,000 votes on IMDB. This rating places the episode third best, following the infamous 'The Rains of Castamere' (9.7) from the end of Season Three, and 'Hardhome' (9.9), the episode preceding this one. It seems as though fans are beginning to appreciate deviations from the novels - no matter how shocking they are.