Game of Thrones recap for Season 8 - everything you need to know 

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I can't believe the younger beautiful queen was Jon snow all along

”His powers will be important in the fight against white walkers” lmao

That Cleganebowl horn never fails to crack me up

Loving the dry humor & super informative, structured recap. This is just what I needed to prepare for the new season. That part about Brienne made me tear up, she's my favorite. Hope she'll live.

Alt-Shift X puts his duty to his people first. He will lead us safely through Season 8 without fear or favor. So, I hereby bend the knee to Alt Shift X and pledge my allegiance to him, The One True Nerd King of Westeros! (And I genuinely thank him for all his hard work that has come before and is yet to come.)

“I really wanted those elephants.....”

“Damaged hodor with some timey-wimey stuff” Accurate

ASX: "So how did everyone get here? What are their motivation, conflicts and relationships?" D&D: Whofuckingcares, we're out biatches! XD

"which might be cool, or dumb." great line

".. he can swing a hammer good. He`s got a decent rowing form, excellent cardio, and possibly a crush on Arya.." Lmao this and the cleganbowl sound had me laughing. Its the small things that makes it brilliant.

This video made me realize how Jamie’s trip to winterfell is like Zuko coming to join the avatar.

Cersei wins but hot pie serves her a poison pie and he ends up sitting on the throne. cue music.

Without exaggeration I'm as excited for your upcoming S8 videos as for the actual season, you're the greatest man

I like this video's sense of humor. Perfectly informative too

“Hot pie wins the throne u gise are just stupid” - J. R.R. Martin

When is the episode analysis coming out?

Trending #5. Congrats! I’m happy for all of your success. You and your team do such amazing, detailed work. Keep it up!!!

Great job man, that’s a well done recap 👌🏼

"....helped Gilly flower into a bright and more confident woman." ISWYDT

Hot Pie is actually Young Griff and will be the last king standing come spring. Calling it now.

The amount of correct predictions is amazing. Keep doing what you're doing bro.

Jorah AKA "Sir Friendzone" HAHAHAHA

This is the best of all the GOT Season 1-7 recaps currently circulating. The touches of tongue-in-cheek humour among the droll commentary are a nice touch. Also, no deafening or inappropriate musical accompanyment, just commentary. Well done.

Very much appreciate this video, thanks man! It's just in time for me to revise before I go to bed and watch it in the morning (it's on at 2am in the UK).

Dude, thank you so much for all the amazing content. You are one of my all time favorite content maker. I am almost as excited for the show as I am for your follow up videos. Please keep up the amazing work!

you're awesome. this was so thorough. and i love how you've always related book references in your vids yet left possible theories open to the viewer as well as give your own opinion. TX!

This video is now turning into a waiting room for Alt Shift X's Recap of Episode 1 S8.......

When Qyburn interrupted Bronn at the brothel. 😢

Prediction. Hotpie is secretly both R'hllor and The Smith. He's a god of creation who uses fire to rid food of impurities. Also, browning butter like he does releases a delicious nutty flavor.

I swear I was just searching for a good recap on your channel´s playlists. Thx for coming clutch in the last minute.

There's hundreds of Game of Thrones breakdown/discussion channels on RU-vid, but this is probably the best channel out of all of them!

We did it boys 595 days, Cheers.

7:38 love the fact you play jaqen and syrio at the same time since they're the same person

Best recap ever. Amazing how you packed in everything and it all made sense.

Thanks for making this vid. A great recap of characters from the past seasons and needed some backstory to remember

I clicked off an Alt Shift X video for this new Alt Shift X video.

I hope you reach a million subs before the end of this.

This was the best thing ever. Thank the gods for AltShift X!

I'm literally SHAKING bro! :D I am as much hyped for the new season as I am hyped for your recaps and explanations! 👌 👏 👏

Its friday today. Havent seen the Breakdown of E01!! When are you uploading the same?

I think I like your GoT videos more than the show itself.

Constantly refreshing for Season 8 Episode 1 Explained! No one does it better than Alt Shift X! Even though it takes you a while longer than other channels. It's worth the wait!

WE'RE FINALLY BACK, MAN! I love all your videos! MAD PROPS!

Gendry POSSIBLY has a crush on Arya? I think that's a bit understated

3 hours, I'm more excited than a doggo near a steak.

This video scratched an itch I didn't know I had. After watching some other recap videos, I was in dire need of something more "meta" and zoomed out. Perfect recap! Thanks.

By far, the best recap I've seen. Everything you need to know, nothing else... at all.

Congrats on 1mil subs! Quality over quantity!

JUST A FEW HOURS GUYS WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT FOR SO LONG IT DOESN'T EVEN FEEL REAL!!

I just binged most of your game of thrones videos, bravo man. I'm glad to hit that subscribe button for you, hope you hit 1 mil soon! Winter is here!!!

I can't wait for the new episode tonight! And then, your Q and A! Brilliant!

Thrones Fans: Non-fans shouldn't bother watching Season 8 because they'll have no idea what's going on and there's no way to catch up. Alt Shift X: Hold my wine.

Hopefully the put the full bit in for ghost he should be enormous

This is the best recap in a long, long list. Thumbs up!

Perfect timing for tonight! Love your videos!

Only one reveal matters this season: What is Podrick's secret to making love?

Since season 8 premiers at 3am european time, this is perfect for passing the time!

I knew you'd release a recap today. Thanks!!

I'm way more hyped for Alt Shift's breakdowns than i´m for the normal episodes xD (Oh and btw. Congrats on the 1Mil. !!!)

Man, AltShiftX, you are SO good at this! The ever-so-sarcastic slant to your prose and their delivery coupled with perfectly staggered quips of the most clever kind makes for a highly entertaining presentation each time. Let alone your masterful editing skillzes! Best RU-vidr covering this content, hands down, sir!! Thank You!

It's always amused me that those who violated their own oaths to the Mad King give Jamie so much grief for doing the same.

OMG 5k subs away from a million. So pumped for you!

"He barely ever mentions that Tyrion blew up his son" buddy I just about busted a gut. Incredible work as ever, stoked to watch your analyses almost as much as the episodes themselves!

18:20 Wrath of The Lich King vibes, anyone?

THE EPISODE WAS SO GOOD!!! nothing really happened though, I think it was just preparing us for the future episodes...

“Jon also has a special doggo, called ghost. who we almost never see because he’s tricky to film.” Damnit if that isn’t one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard

This was the best recap and putting things together

I know all of this but because its Alt Shift X I'm gonna watch it anyways (plus I'm trying to kill time until 9:00)

Watching this exactly 20 mins before the episode release

Almost 1M subs! Damn son, I remember the days of the sub count in the low tens of thousands. Congrats on the impending milestone!

Thank you for the recap. As a fan I have to say this was needed after a two year break! I am now ready for more trauma.

I wonder if there will be some kind of interaction between lyanna mormont and ser jorah, could be interesting.

its funny you should mention Davos' love for shireen and to a lesser degree Gendry over his son who became fully indoctrinated into Melissandre's bs about Stannis

So glad to see this trending, great job.

Timely vid dude, well done.

Watching old videos on repeat waiting for S08E01 recap, still no news? :(

It finally here! CleganeBowl!!! Get hype!!!

Never watched this show, but this looks awesome and cool. Great video.

I'm just happy to hear Hot Pie is still chillin....

@altshiftx Are you working on a review for the latest episode? Would love to hear ur thoughts!

Boom baby now we're getting hyped shifty style 😊

Love the chill commentary

Good video! Wish you wouldn't have included footage and info from the teaser trailers for S8 for the recap but other than that it was the most jam-packed and most informative GoT recap on youtube :)

Can't wait for the reunion between Arya and the Hound.

Where’s the episode 1 breakdown??

Congrats for a million subscribers!!

I love you and I love your dedication to keeping us updated on Hot Pie

"helped Gilly flower" ... well played sir, well played

WE👏🏼NEED👏🏼SEASON👏🏼 8👏🏼EPISODE👏🏼 1👏🏼EXPLAINED👏🏼

Congrats on the one million subs!

Your balance of humor in your videos is perfect. Most youtubers are sometimes cringy or go on too far with their humor, but the way you put in "hotpie" and calling ghost "doggo" makes me laugh.

Hot pie sits in the iron throne /the end

You know a dragon can’t blow out his candles on his birthday cake

Congrats for 1 million!!!

Congrats on reaching a million today!

Lyanna is Jorah's cousin, not niece. Her mother, Maege Mormont, was Jeor's sister

I don't think Bran can see, "visions of the future and past." He has said he can see, "everything that has ever happened, and everything that's happening right now, anywhere in the world," but I've never seen it said anywhere, (in the show,) that he has the ability to see into the future. Besides, If he could see into the future, he would already know everything that's going to happen, which would make trying to change it a pointless exercise. Because he would have already seen the outcome of that effort. "The past is already written, the ink is dry," he was told. And, the future is nothing but blank paper and a freshly inked quill. Nothing to, "see." Oh, and; The supposed Maggy the Frog "prophecy" everyone's always bangin' on about said that Cersei would have, "no more than three children," but, (as people are so annoyingly forgetting,) including the, "little Black-haired beauty," she told Catelyn about way back in Season 1, and mentioned to Robert a couple episodes later, "who tried to beat the fever that took him," Cersei has already had FOUR children. That essentially renders the, "prophecy," completely null and void. (I feel like I'm taking crazy pills) The, "Valonqar," thing wasn't even mentioned in the show, only the books, and, whether Cersei is actually pregnant or not going into Season 8, (and whether or not she actually ever even has the baby,) is completely irrelevant because the day Cersei gave birth to her fourth child, Tommen, whatever else some homeless vampire lady in the woods told her when she was a kid is meaningless.

So hyped for your analysis of S08E01.... can’t wait

Summed up 7 seasons so expertly. Well done!