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This whole video had me gripped!! I can't express how much I loved listening to that Adam and who ever came up with this genuinely hats off because it was amazing, it gave Arya her kill it gave Jon his moment and it brought a full conclusion to Night Kings narrative and arc. LOVED IT!
yes that’s so good the whole show they made valyrian steel seem so important “they can kill white walkers we are gonna need them” and they didn’t even use them
Bran not warging into thousands of northern animals and helping during the battle is bullshit. Homie needs to block out the sky with ravens when deny attacks kings landing or I’m gonna spaz..
Dragonstone the1st and 2nd most ppl have , the people saying it’s bad are just Brain washed sheep I have no idea why media is pushing so much hate on the show but all these haters are just reading someone else’s opinion and agreeing
This was unbelieveble, listening to this just felt like the experience that I got when I watched the battle of Winterfell, chills man, literally chills
JerichoSteele if you watch the episode where old nan talks to bran In bed right after he’s paralyzed, he asked her to tell him a scary story and she talks about the undead and how they rode ice spiders, so he’s referring to that piece of call back
The others in the books actually ride giant ice spiders, but in the show, they just chose horses because they'd rather their CGI budget goes to the dragons.
Wait! You left out how the Northmen would respond to Daenerys emerging from Viserion's fire unhurt but naked _again_, and after they had left her behind and after she had shielded their retreat, would they respect her for that?
I was hoping for more historical references and payoffs to the prophecies... something like: Someone hiding the in crypts discovers a sword in Lyanna's tomb (Dawn, right where Ned left it). Jon gives Long Claw to one of the Mormonts and takes Dawn for himself. When Melisandre shows up, rather than allow her to help, Jon executes her as promised. To everyone's surprise, her spilled blood ignites Dawn (mirroring Nissa Nissa & Lightbringer). In the Godswood, Arya takes her best shot at the Night King to save Bran, but fails to kill him with her Valyrian steel dagger (much like Daenerys with dragon fire), showing that he cannot be defeated by the same means as his White Walker generals and the wight army. Finally, Jon reaches the Godswood and is able to defeat the Night King in a duel by killing him with the flaming sword (he succeeds because Dawn is "forged from the heart of a fallen star", not regular Valyrian steel).
@@JoseChavez-bh5bb - Of course, BUT, Ashara Dayne isn't introduced as a character in the show, which leaves Dawn as yet another unresolved loose end (and seemingly a very significant one). I expect the sword will resurface in the books eventually, but the show needed to contrive a different explanation. Since Ned was the last person seen with it, and we know he took baby Jon and Lyanna's dead body back to Winterfell with him, it would fit nicely into the story if he decided to hide the legendary sword in his sister's tomb, out of sight and mind, until it is rediscovered by a bunch of refugees forced to take shelter in the crypts. If the showrunners have to change elements of the story for TV, the changes should at least add up to something meaningful.
I always figured the flaming boulders was supposed to light the field upon impact... but the wights being controlled by the literal embodiment of ice simply snuffed the flames out
What bothered me most about that episode, was total, unmitigated incompetence of their putative battle plan. It was so utterly asinine that it has completely blown my suspension of disbelief. People this incompetent have no business running any kingdom, let alone seven of them. The following episode was even worse. At this point, if I even bother to watch the last two episodes, I'll be rooting for Cersei out of spite. It is absolutely incredible that the show runners could take a show so good, and in the last season, run it into the ground this way with complete dreck.
Tormund kills the giant completing his character ark and Jon and Arya fight the night king together in a star warsesk fight scene lasting 5-10 minutes and then both stab the night king moments apart, Arya hitting first but the audience only being shown this by the camera showing her dagger piercing his armour first still keeping the Azor Ahai prophecy intact but having us (the audience) question who will fulfill it
I think they should have just travelled to the Netherrealm, and convince the klassic Scorpion that the Night king is actually Subzero pretending to be undead. Then just sit back, put the MK techno music on, chill n watch as Scorpion tears through the Night King n his generals. Boom. Plot line fixed. 😂
I swear most RU-vidrs who have had no/very little experience of writing anything like GoT have proposed a better episode than 'professional' writers D&D did.
@@tattie.b8594 Ironically, doing drastic things is how they gained fans in the first place. They killed major, fan favorite characters all the time and in surprising ways. The last two seasons have felt so rushed. I just hope Martin lives to publish the real ending.
See that’s the problem, due to how popular the show is the writers are less able to kill off fan favourites. As if they kill off someone like Brienne there would be an outrage, due to her popularity. Unfortunately it’s popularity has damaged possible story lines due to the reason that fans may not like the outcome and will stop watching. Now the writers have something to loose, they don’t want to loose viewers by killing of big names. It’s sad really...
Tattie . B those are the last episodes of the last season. fans would still watch two more, writers didn’t need to concern themselves with ratings at this point. and I trust that they didn’t.
freckleKaren I hoped that it wouldn’t effect anything, but bare in mind I think that they are considering spin off series. The plot twists is what people loved originally. However we didn’t see many drastic deaths. And now we only have 2 episodes for those to happen. 🤞
Holy shit?!?! They needed. You to write this! Wow man i was on the edge of my seat the entire time, you literally had me enthralled the whole video. Great work, brotha!
😂😂 This is just as bad, if not worse actually, and if it had gone down like this everyone would be crying just as much. There were almost as many last minute saves and cheesy “how did he survive” moments, although damn right about just killing people without the bullshit story arc completion deaths. Jon killing the Dragon, Dragon recognising Danny... Jesus! The Bran as the Night King theory is an interesting theory, but I genuinely just don’t think the story needs it. Also, people would still cry about Arya being able to sneak up on the Night King etc.
AJ Vlogs I don’t want set up. I don’t want characters to only die once they have nicely completed their story arc or die saving their love interest/best friend... it’s cheesy, contrived and it has taken the tension out of the show. Theon, Beric, Jora, Melisandre, Ed and that’s just from this season; they all died either defending someone or having completed their mission. The show was at its best when no-one was safe at any point; Ned, Oberyn, Tywin, Drogo, Renly, Rob & Catelyn etc. They were brutal and cut their respective story arcs clean in half. That is much more important to my enjoyment of GOT than cheesy soap opera deaths and the forced bickering for tension’s sake (Sansa vs Arya, and now Danny, for example)
I know alot of people like the theory but i honestly hate the theory that Bran is the night king i always thought it was kind of dumb and am glad they didn't do it on the show though i did like some of your other changes
I like the rewrite, but the Bran thing becoming the NK doesn't make much sense, since Bran already saw how the NK was created and he saw that first man turned, if the NK was Bran, he would have seen himself turning in that moment.
Why the stupid shit are you not writing GOT?! I’m just gonna proceed with life assuming THIS is what really happened So much credit - this is fanbloodytastic
The undead were scary in Thrones bro other zombies don’t follow a leader and use swords Plus every person who ever died fighting walkers before was a walker
5:55 maybe include a scene where the unsullied escort her into winterfell... its like a call back to the dance of dragons episode where they surrounded her and killed the sons of the harpy... "protect your queen" as theyre slowly killed off by wights. Reduces plot armour dany has, visually cool and plus it shows how devoted her fighters are
This just makes me realise how much potential this episode had. I would bet money, if this is how the episode actually played out, it would be considered one of the best got episodes. I’m genuinely sad this isn’t how the episode played out
Bran is still alive, his story has finished. Why would he still be alive if the night king is now Bran Stark remember "he had to go now", where did he go?
Goddamn I clicked this before realizing it was WhatCulture. These are so cringy. You can't even write comedy on your own channel, nay, you can't even pronounce character names correctly IN A FAN FICTION ABOUT A TELEVISION SHOW IN WHICH THESE NAMES ARE SAID ALOUD.... Holy shit.
This is better than the episode lmao... it’s such a shame that the finale of the greatest show in the world can be re written and improved by a RU-vid channel
It should still be 10 episodes. Its like they know what the outcome of the battle needs to be (most Dothraki dead, approximately half Unsullied dead, certain characters such as Theon), but they don’t know how they’re supposed to cram it in one episode. Not to mention cover an entire season, and wrap up the series within 6 episodes. With 10 episodes, it could be: 1&2: the same, I enjoyed them, final peaceful moments with the characters we love. 3&4: a more compelling, realistic Battle of Winterfell that can do more with more time. 5: Winterfell aftermath, Dany prepares to go south. 6: Dany begins journey south, Bran actually serves a purpose and warns her of the Iron Fleet, Rhaegal dies with a purpose. 7: Beginning of a King’s Landing battle that isn’t incredibly one sided, as the power of Cersei’s army was built up so much. Episode ends with bells, Dany loses her shit, cut to black. 8: Dany losing her shit, and practically the second half of episode 5, where Jaime and Cersei get a more satisfying ending. 9: Aftermath of Dany massacring The Red Keep, sets up for finale. 10: Finale, everything comes to an end. What sucks is that its not the major story elements, its the rushing of the storytelling thats an issue. You simply can’t cover this much ground within 6 episodes.
But wait, what about the prophecy of Azir ahei the prince, who is promised you forgot to give Jon snow Longclaw/Lightbringer the valerian, steel, sword, infused with dragon fire and give them a epic fight between John Snow and the night King I mean I don’t care if the army or dead only gets destroyed in the long night episode and we still get a shitty season. Just give us the full prophecy.
So jon is lost in the snow storm but Dany, somehow, can see well enough to land drogon right in front of the army. Come on now, you're falling into the same traps as the actual writers. Also, beacons!? What do you think the launching fireballs were for? And you can't get rid of the library scene, that was amazing. Also, Bran being the Night King was something EVERYONE thought was going to happen so that's nothing new.👎🏽👎🏽
I like how many of these great rewrites don't try to change Arya being the one to strike the blow, cuz that was fine. That was good even. What wasn't fine was Arya apparently having trained as an long jumper for the past years instead of as an assassin and ending the threat independently from anyone deeply involved with the White Walkers storyline. It would be like if the red wedding happened at a random dinner. The subversion needs to 1.Follow a plotline that really seems to be fulfilling the tropes and 2.Make narrative and logical sense outside of the trope it's refusing Not letting Jon cross blades with the NightKing isn't subversion, it's blueballing and burning your build up. Letting Jon lose to the NightKing and be saved by the little sister inspired to pick up a sword, that's subversion. Basically I guess Subversion isn't good unless the story would still be satisfying to someone who wasn't aware of the tropes.
1. You don't know if Bran has some other narrative purpose that will be revealed in the finale and would contradict any "Bran=NK" story 2. So you are telling us that Night King-Bran wants to kill Bran. To what end? If Night King-Bran wants to undo him becoming the Night King all he has to do is never go south. Never force Bran to warg back to Night King's creation. Too much of plot story here. You want to re-do the thing without altering the plot.
When you compare a high budget grand piece of a television spectacle to this twenty-minute youtube video of a man talking... I do have to say I almost did enjoy the latter more than the first. I liked the Battle of Winterfell, don't get me wrong. But there are just way too many things that could have made this season a lot better (and far less annoying) that I just can't ignore them at this point. This is just like when Adam, first of his name corrected Suicide Squad back in 2016.
Pre-watch: His solution is more lore, because that seems to be the biggest problem people had with it. The lack of lore. Post-watch: Called it, it was more lore. What thematic point is there to making Bran and The Night King into the same person? And we already had The Night King origin, so why do we need more lore?
Biggest disappointment was the lack of variety in zombies. Why are all the wights human?! Where are all the mammoths, giants, direwolves, shadowcats, polar bears and ect?!
Enter a dark room. Candles light a mess of a desk, full of crumpled papers. There is an old computer atop it...poor speakers, an old 2.0 set that were a throw in for the buy from years ago. An old CRT monitor illuminates a heavy set, grizzled, procrastinating author, who is frantically taking notes to the narration from his speakers, after changing the "quality" of the streaming audio and video to 480p, due to his poor connection speed. He looks up at the completion of the video and smiles..."I'm glad someone did the heavy lifting for me"
Dany in this scenario passes off as a useless woman who is killed in the 3rd episode? Where is her combativity? She is a Tagaryen on her mother and her father's side, not a half Tagaryen like her nephew. She overcomes tremendous odds, crosses the sea with a huge army and 3 dragons, leads the combat and then does everything contrary to her character? Jon's fight with the Night King only satisfies personal expectations. Why should Tormund or Brienne die? Tormund could be Jon's final destination if he doesn't want to rule whatever the outcome of the final battle. . Brienne could be the one to save the Lannister line if ever House Lanniser is destroyed. It wasn't a one night's stand. Why did Jaime stay with her when the army left and was only shocked back to his former self when Sansa rejoiced over Cersei's coming death? Sansa destroyed Brienne's idyll with him. Sansa's story line could make her either a potential monarch of the north or Tyrion's queen if he lives. After all, that was supposed to be her destiny as Joffrey's wife. The only characters who are court savvy are Dany, Tyrion and Sansa in a Littlefinger kind of way.
Two things though 1. It's uncharacteristic for the Red Woman to respond "I think I can" when asked whether she can keep the flames up. She is merely carrying out the will of the Lord of Light, so she knows that whatever she is doing, it's because the Lord of Light wants it to be done. It also does not make sense for her to be killed while carrying out her task, as the Lord of Light wouldn't have chosen her for the task if she was simply going to fail 2. Bran turning into the NK is a nice concept, but it is uncharacteristic for Bran to try something that he thinks is futile. Ever since becoming the Three Eyed Raven, it's as if he has transcended mortal life, he doesn't seem to fear death, or even care about the deaths of those around him. Remember, he told Meera to just go, as he doesn't need her anymore, and not once do you see him inquiring about Meera's wellbeing in all of this. He's just really zen, like he's achieved nirvana or something by this point. Desperately trying something that is futile is a mortal thing to do, which doesn't fit with Bran at this juncture Oh and one more thing, about Sam fleeing like a coward, again, it doesn't really fit with his character at this point. He willingly left the crypt to join the defenders, meaning he's probably already made peace with the fact that he's likely to die. Also, when confronted with a white walker in the past, although he was scared shitless, instead of cowering, he stabbed the white walker. So no its strange for him to turn coward and run at the sight of ice spiders, however horrifying it is
Holy crap, for most of this I was like "meh, none of these changes seem that interesting or important" but that ending was a hundred times better than what we got. Why, oh why did Game of Thrones had to become so... bland in its final season? They take no chances, it doesn't surprise anymore, it's just a mess of plotholes and fan service. PS: Extra points for the ice spiders!
Glad he finally gave props near the end of this video to Hello Future Me for his very similar rewrite he published a few days ago. I was watching this whole video thinking, "Did WatchCulture just straight up rip him off?".
Good until the end. Time travel is dumb. Better would be better if Jon makes it to the God's wood and the night King allows a 1-1 fight because he knows he will win. The fight starts off well for Jon but over the course of the fight Jon begins to realize the night King is toying with him and Jon cannot win. The night King beats Jon to his knees and for the first time ever, Jon gives up. The night King begins to turn Jon when he suddenly turns around to catch Arya leaping in the air. She drops her dagger to the other hand and kills the night King.
The episode was a FAIL on so many levels. Any military commander would have had fits of rage if their military made those same asinine decisions. They sent in their cavalry with zero support, they stopped using the trebuchets (the machines that hurled the fireballs) too soon and never used them again, they hid their women & children in a crypt knowing that the Night King raises the dead, they sacrificed their Unsullied armies, and I could go on and on. And how the heck did Arya get past all those undead to get to the NK? It was cringe.
The only problem with this story is that Brienne doesn’t get her moment with Jaime in the episode after. But I’m not a great fan of that moment anyway and it can easily be sorted by having Jamie just give a speech about being hateful and having nothing left in wintefell to someone like Tyrion maybe. That would also help for their scene in episode 5 I guess. Another thing I really like about this rewrite is since Tormund is dead Jon will have to just state matter of fact that the wildlings won’t go back past the wall, thus giving time for him to have a send off with Ghost.
Melisandre isn't magic. She's clearly said before she just asks the Lord of Light and he answers. So she couldn't hold the walls burning and weaken as it's using all of "her" magic.
Hindsight and fandom aggregation. {un?}fortunately this might be the future of media. Lets see how GRRM's take turns out. Star Wars has already shown that art doesn't belong to the artist and that technology allows for more fan interaction. Give it a hundred years, if that, and media will be crafted by fans in real time despite what the author intended.
If you worked for HBO and dumb and dumber, they wouldn't be getting all this hate they are now. Such small deviations from the actual story but so much more respectful to the characters and story
I would add Arya still getting grabbed and flipping hands on him before she stabs him. But then because that's too easy it turns out the touch of the Night King branded Arya same as Bran, but maybe he can crown a new Night King and Arya turns into a wight over the next episode that's how it sneaks south before a final battle erupting in King's Landing so that the show doesn't end squabbling over a chair where it started.
Dotraki is skirmishers they shouldn't have get into fight , they should ride around enemy army and use their mount archers tactic, Only idiot puts infantry outside castle when siege started , that ditch they made should be 5 on 5 meters, All walls must be full of archers , siege weapons like trebuchet should be inside the castle and fire at will not one time Why dragons didn't burn the ditch this last minute magic is stupid And great idea about hiding defenseless women and children in the graveyard posible respawn point of enemy That battle was miracles of idiotism
Mine was better tbh, this was certainly better than the episode itself but if you have the freedom to create something way better HOW are you still coming out with something mediocre... fuckin hell
5$ says this is the way the book will go...... and if it is then thats y TV did what they did, to insure they dont ruin the last books cuz this incorporates A TON of book stuff we didn't get in the show (like ice spiders)
What I thought would be a good twist, John has an epic battle with the knight king and just about kills him but he’s really wounded, dying even, then dani is on a dragon, she could save him, but after some epic slo mo emotional split between two minds she leaves him
It's really quite pathetic how so many RU-vidrs can come up with a superior story than what we actually saw. Why were the highly paid show writers unable to come up with something like this?
