I didn't think so. I think it massively glorified Ned in a role that his character neither fulfils anymore nor needs and makes people's later fear of Jaime and in fact most of his future character arc a bit silly. Bed doesn't need to be an amazing swordfighter in the story. Jaime does. It's a huge part of his character and some people have actually thought that Ned was winning the fight, no matter what the writers tried to put across. Which will either involved demonstrating that Ned is a ridiculously awesome fighter, which they can't do, showing Jaime kill a lot of very skilled warriors, which they will struggle to do, or have Brienne and Jaine seem ridiculous, and Jaime's interactions with characters later seem ridiculous and generally involve a lot of suspension of disbelief or new scenes to make up for the fact they wanted Ned Stark look good with a sword. Other than that I thought it was fantastic. But that is a huge point with consequences that will occur books later.