Honestly, I don't even know if this was my favorite episode of this season. Obviously the production values were off the charts for a TV show, but the actual story unfolding wasn't as good as some of the other "big" episodes in prior years. The battle of the bastards itself was somewhat anti-climactic as it would have made zero narrative sense to have Jon Snow brought back from the dead only to die at the hand of Ramsay a few episodes later. Jon Snow's stupidity on the battlefield made his subsequent victory less of a triumph and more of a case of his having been a dumbass and was only bailed out by additional forces arriving at the last minute, forces Sansa kept from him for... reasons unknown. It's also annoying that they went with the surprise cavalry trope twice in the same episode. Don't get me wrong, the effects, staging, and cinematography were spectacular, and I loved seeing Ramsay finally get his, but overall I probably wouldn't put this in my top 3 episodes for GoT.