People being stabbed, shot with crossbow bolts, and getting their throats slit? We've obviously never seen anything like this before. And in a show where people were being beheaded in the first scene of the entire show? Totally uncalled for. There should be a petition never to air this episode again until the ending is fixed. In all seriousness, I thought the violence made it alot more emotional. You could really feel it more. It's kind of sad that the main character that we root for in the war, and one of my favorite characters personally, got killed off so early. Also now there will never be any closure between Catelyn and Jon Snow.