I loved this episode. I don't understand how 09 comes close to compare. Yes it fell into the usual trappings of driving the story at the cost of on-screen awesome but the on-screen awesome of 09 weighs so little compared to the story driven by 10.

The only thing I felt disappointing is how much of the story followed the groundwork already laid. Jon Snow, Harrenhall, everything in King's Landing, the wedding, the dragons overpowering the Qarth magicians. It seemed to me only Theon and the young lords didn't follow a, in hindsight, capable expectation.