Game of Thrones fans know that sometimes new episodes are a bit more eventful than others. This week's "Battle of the Bastards," for instance, is expected to be pretty exciting, as we already know the HBO drama shot the largest sequence the series has ever attempted, and that includes "Hardhome." However, when there is a down week on Game of Thrones, there are fans on the internet and who are avid on social media who do tend to get disgruntled. Recently, series lead Nikolaj Coster-Waldau tried to appease those disgruntled fans, explaining why Game of Thrones has to give us some filler episodes. Here's what he had to say:

You know that there's a reason why. You can't hit the maximum volume each episode. Then you get numb to it. It has to build up. You have to tell a story, lay the seeds. Then hopefully -- and I believe -- the payoff is so much better and so much greater, instead of just getting everything at once.

Last week's episode of Game of Thrones was one of the slower episodes during Season 6, although looking back at it, there was quite a lot going on. The chase scene between Arya and the Waif was quite intense, and the siege on Meereen, although it didn't escalate to hand-to-hand combat, was still visually appealing. Plus, both The Hound and his brother The Mountain got particularly violent with members of the Brotherhood Without Banners and The Faith, respectively. Still, compared to the episode when the white walkers caught up with Bran and his companions or the episode when Dany took down a whole slew of misogynistic khals, there wasn't a whole lot of stuff going on.