Quote Originally Posted by Ouch! View Post
Here's the thing, though. Most of the best episodes in the season happen when they pick a few characters and just stick with them for a good chunk of time. It's when they try to do too much exposition for too many disparate groups that the episodes get slow. It's when you get a little bit from here then jump to get a little bit from there that things start to fall apart. What was great about this episode was that it had a complete narrative arc on its own.
Pretty much this. The best episodes are the character centric ones with only three or four characters actually getting a spotlight. They are very good.