They really had to do a lot in this episode to bring the story back towards where it should be. I don't mind it but many of the scenes didn't have a lot of time to breathe.
It wasn't as good as the other episodes , but I still think it wasn't as bad as some people are saying.
I don't really mind them.Killing mat's mom since she didn't really do anything in the book to begin with and can be used for motivation for mat later on.