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The wight not being able to break out of a wooden box, is great foreshadowing for when the wights are able to break through solid stone walls a season later...
Jon and Dany's love story was that Hollywood trope where an attractive man talks to an attractive woman for a few minutes and then they decide they're in love.
@@possummagic3571 even in the books it can be argued that he doesn't love her but was using her to get what he wants as we know he is not stupidly honorabl like ned or robb
@@possummagic3571 I think it was young, but genuin love. And in many ways his expression of freedom. He talked to Sam about having had the chance to fuck a whore, but refused because he didnt want to get her pregnant with another Bastard. Well...There are no Bastards in Wildling culture. Ygritte didnt care he was a Snow. Maybe it was less love and more the freedom he felt, that Ygritte gave him.
@@belisarius6949 I understand what the relationship represents, and maybe it was done better in the books. But on the show, to me, the characters had no chemistry. Maybe because Kit Harrington never did it for me and Egret annoyed the hell out of me.
@@SmokeyEditsinnit I re watched that episode recently and was thrown off that there was no wii shop music. I can’t believe they didn’t make the wii cannon in game of thrones
@@shannond7437 They killed everyone off in six and hoped the spectacle would distract us - and it totally did, so from then on they figured we’re stupid and they can get away with anything. 7 and 8 are the awful end results of season 6’s baffling success.
Fuzzy Dunlop I didn’t have a huge problem with the other seasons. I let go of my book wanker side and just was along to be entertained. In season 8 I couldn’t hold the glamor together mentally to be entertained anymore.
@@shannond7437 For me it was the overwhelming feeling that they were just cleaning house. Ned’s death had build and sound reasoning, same with the red wedding. I didn’t get that from the Sept going green. I know it was spectacle for spectacle’s sake at the expense of a whole dang buncha characters because they had nothing for them but wanted to close things out in a couple seasons. I can’t overlook that and how drastically removed the mindset is from the first three or four seasons.
Song: In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn. -Petyr Baelish to Alayne Stone Thrones: if u culd just do what id like thatd be cool -Littlefinger to the smartest person ive ever met
@@VelocityReviews Eu não devo ter medo. Medo é o assassino da mente. Medo é a pequena morte que leva à aniquilação total. Eu enfrentarei meu medo. Permitirei que passe por cima e me atravesse. E, quando tiver passado, voltarei o olho interior para ver seu rastro. Onde o medo não estiver mais, nada haverá. Somente eu permanecerei.
Jon was worried that boots would be picked for the regional swimming competition instead of himself. It tortured Jon to have to lie, but he was so psyched to show everyone his new speedo swimming trunks that he justified the lie was worth it.
Littlefinger was actually very aware of Bran's powers and their potential to unmask him which is why he used his secret jetpack technology to create a time machine which sent him all the way back to season 1 where he hired some random guy to assassinate Bran in his sleep before he could become the all powerful Three-Eyed Raven. Unfortunately for Petyr Bran manages to survive the attempt on his life and as it turns out it was this incident which led him on the path to gain his powers in the first place. Littlefinger was greatest villain in the entire show, so much so that the only thing that could cause his downfall was in fact himself (and time travel). There, I saved the episode for you. You're welcome.
I forgot all about Robert's choice to hide dragons and Jon just finding an intact jaw bone on top of the dirt like some 11 year old's field trip to the dinosaur museum.
It's a bit like the South Park episode where despite there being nothing other than arrowheads, Cartman somehow finds the magic triangle that Barbara Streisand spent years looking for in just a few seconds.
You know what would have been cool? If Littlefinger won. If he somehow found a loophole and kill the Expositron 9000. But that would require good writing.
@@akrybion That would redeem a good chunk of the bullshit TV show. Bran not being there in S8 whatsoever cuz he's dead. Wouldnt be any less stupid than what we got.
@@akrybion Eh, I disagree. People may not like Bran in the show but his entire story is tied to the White Walkers. If he died before they even breached the Wall and he didn't get some kind of confrontation with the Night King (even a half-assed one like we got in Season 8), that would've been extremely shitty writing. Also, how would killing Bran translate to Littlefinger winning? He would be no closer to his ultimate goals, and he would be forced to flee Winterfell, abandoning his only allies (who at that point would be sending people out after him to arrest him and bring him back to justice), and pretty much losing any and all chance of him gaining new allies owing to his infamous reputation.
It's also really cool how Cersei has all those guards there, and Boots runs at her full sprint, none of those guards moves to protect her, and there's no scene with them being executed for not doing their job!
Rose tinted glasses. Just wanting the best for something they loved. I even managed to stay positive up to the battle for Winterfel and did the necessary mental gymnastics to think it was an okay episode. Then the episode after happened... the unsullied regenerating its army, the dragon getting shot out of the sky by some hidden ships while Danni "forgot about the iron fleet" all shattered the illusion for me. That started the domino effect realizing its been terrible for quite a few seasons.
There’s a CLEAR drop off after season four. Season 5 has some good moments. Season 6 is good at times but it’s good for completely different reasons than the first four seasons.
Season 6 was better than Season 5 imo. Neither are very good but at least 6 had some intriguing stuff with Bran (Tower of Joy and Hodor had interesting implications). 5 had fewer redeeming qualities and ruined both Stannis’ and Dorne’s subplots.
You remember that petition to rewrite the last season some were mad that the person who started it said that they should have one for season seven to unbeleivebal
@@patrickkanas3874They are referring to Viserys calling her Dany. In reality anyone who knows her well calls her that. Like my brother's call me Shan instead of Shannon but so have boyfriends... Friends... Family... It's just a nickname... Plus it's easier to say for foreigners
Varys and Little Finger were the hallmarks of brilliant writing. Two enigmatic characters who always gave you enough to keep you interested, but retained mystery. Their scenes in season 1-4 were some of the best in the show, and even though they made very little sense the viewer you never felt cheated. To watch these fantastic characters fizzle out was such a shame.
No. They were brilliant because of the source material. The books. The show was always garbage. Also they made Baelish an OPEN BOOK! In the books Baelish is subtle and quite cunning....
@@niccolorichter1488 not sure what your saying with that grammar, but in the books nobody thinks Baelish is a threat or even ambitious... he’s always smiling and helping and good with humor. He’s very unassuming and you actually only get vague glimpses into his goals. It’s really only Sansas POV as she goes to the Eyrie that you begin to really see his genius.
I was always too annoyed by the actor to get invested in the character in the show, even in early seasons. I'm probably the only one would put something from season 3 to a top 10 worst moments of the show list (chaos is a ladder speech)
me : Listening attentively to everything Glidus says My mind: Why are they all wearing black? Is it a Council of metalheads? Why are they running out of colored clothes from now on? It's a minor detail, but I hate it so much
The trend towards darker colors later in the series pissed me off so much. Do they think medieval rulers also wore dark colors just because the seasons changed? What the actual fuck.
the one thing that annoys me the most is that they’re all black. it used to be quite striking when a character wore black because it either signaled they’re house, the nights watch or that they were in mourning. now everyone just forgets about house colours because black looks cooler i guess
The thing that annoys me about all the bran omniscience plot holes is that they're SO easy to fix. Have one scene explaining that maybe it's somehow dangerous for him to look back through time so he can't always risk it, or maybe he only sees possibilities for the future instead of what's defiitely going to happen, or maybe the past events that he sees are warped by whoever's perspective he's experiencing them through. There's literally so many ways to avoid the problem of having someone who can fix EVERYTHING with infinite knowledge yet chooses not to most of the time.
They never explained what bran's powers were we know that he can see the past and even change it like what he did to hodor other than that we are just guessing and it was a big mistake bran makes no sense as a charachter he was just theire because grrm told them that he was the futur king
At least show him doubting his abilities. Have him change the past, but make a mistake that results in a permanent change in his present he can’t undo. Maybe he can only see the past and future of places he’s been or people he he had met, even briefly. An actual explanation of his powers and giving them a hard limit would have helped too.
The Boots plot line just by itself shows how thick the writers are: they already tried bringing a Wight back in the very first book (Thorne takes the hand of the one Jon kills to Kings Landing) but it's already dead by the time he gets there.
Thorne's dead hand was fine. If it was anyone else from the Watch, Tyrion would have seen it move. But as it was Thorne, he decided to wait two weeks before seeing Thorne, because it's Thorne and he's a dick. (Song at least, can't remember show)
@@cashnelson2306 I wish that D&D were more humble, stepped down and allowed the show to go on for at least till Season 13 as George hinted at. If they showed us that wights can only "survive" for a few weeks this far south of the Wall, it could have established that not only there is still time to march North, but also that for now, the South will be safe
They should've just had Bronn walk off before Cersie arrives. It wouldn't draw attention to the fact the actors refuse to be in the same room together but also be there to explain why he's not in the scene. he walked off. Why? Where? Who knows? Maybe he's just off to the side out of shot because he has no business at the meeting. better than "I AM GOING NOW TO AVOID BEING IN THE SAME SCENE AS MY EX WIFE GOOD BYE"
Or, since it's a TV shows, you can still have Bronn in there and then film the angle where Bronn is still in there, and then you can make the actor who played Bronn leaves and then let the actor who played Cersei came and then film it. You can just cut it and then combine it.
This should never have been put into their contracts. They broke up. Boo hoo. Deal with it by working together or simply not being in the same show. Plenty of ex couples have to work together. It's called real life.
the jon/dany thing is so hilarious to me they're like 'two pretty people have eye contact yes yes they are very in love', without compensating for the lack of time and lack of screen chemistry. It's so awkward because there was more heat with Ygritte and Jon, more subtlety with Dany and Drogo and more tension with Dany and Jorah, and all these previous relationships just makes this attempt at a love plot sooooooo pitiful, which would have just been by the by if it wasn't pivotal to the season's narrative lmao
I think Dany and Jon could and should work, but like everything else it was rushed. They make a lot of theoretical sense, but poorly written. And the lack of chemistry is probably because Emilia is friends with Rose and it was awkward af. That couldn't really be fixed but maybe it could've been worked around.
@@BriarPatchNyra they don't even need chemistry or love. this is the middle ages man, arranged marriages for political gain were a major thing for nobility. jon or dany could have just proposed an alliance and sealed it with marrriage. come to think of it, why did they even make an alliance? if ck2 had thought me anything than that there is no alliance without a marriage ;)
When the winter is coldest, when the night is darkest and all hope seems but a bitter joke, the editing boi is there as a beacon of goodness in this sea of despair.
I blame conventions. Conventions have become big business for shows like this, and D&D seem so money and fame focussed they probably attend them all. Sadly it’s often the more ‘special’ type of fans that attend cons which caused D&D to mistakenly believe all viewers are rabid, obsessed, exceptionals that would cheer anything. I’m only half joking here and think quality is at least slightly affected by the loudest, most ‘passionate’ fans.
'Trauma only makes you strong if you're a woman' is an excellent take on Theon's story. I'd love to see you cover his arc in one of your review videos at some point!
Ugh...they tried so hard to make her seem smart..by making everyone else around her total nitwits. Which just made her extremely unlikable. Seriously, Jon is completely incompetent, Petyr Baelish is moronic. But the most insulting was what they did to Tyrion. Sansa can figure out that Cersei was lying about sending her army, but Tyrion who knows Cersei better than anyone else, just blindly trusts her about the army?? Give me a break
@@janhavi1977 They tried so hard to make her look badass. Remember season 8 when Daenerys arrived with the largest army and two dragons and Sansa acted bitch like since day one. A clever person would at least pretend she was pleased with Daenerys presence.
Listening to how much this show has broken Glidus by the way he sings the theme shows more emotional range than the entire 8 seasons of Kit Harrington.
How to ruin an episode in 3 easy steps: 1) Round up all the "unimportant" characters and make them do nothing 2) Throw all the "important" characters into a pit (literally), mix in some bad lines and make the outcome indistinguishable from the income 3) Kill the most mysterious character 4) Top it all of with some cool looking CGI Wait that's four! I guess I messed up the numbers as well...
these are my sons aegon and aegon... i was so mad when they pulled that one out of their asses. it would be easy to make him a daemon, jahaerys or any of the other established names but aegon? thats just so lazy
He was going for the 3-headed dragon family names of Aegon the Conqueror and his two sisters, but then the first boy died. It *had to* be Aegon, really.
The point about Jon 'Sand' is extra weird since it assumes the official explanation up to now was that Jon was born in the north? But as we know, Ned's story was that he fathered Jon while he was fighting Robert's rebellion, so he was almost certainly not born in the North but somewhere else, the Riverlands probably. And yet he was still called Snow.
Yeah, Catelyn says that "He went south to the fight the war, and he returned with the Bastard" so it implies that Jons Mum must have been a Whore from the Riverlands, Crownlands or Dorne (Which are the places Eddard Stark went to during the war. Riverlands to fight the battle of the Trident, Crownlands to watch Jaime kill the King and Dorne to go to the Tower of Joy and bring Arthur Daynes sword back to his Family). So theres no way Jon is a snow if we use that kinda system for naming Bastards. And how is he a Sand anyway? Didnt Rhaegar and Lyanna marry in the Tower as well? You know, unoficially but...Still.
@@belisarius6949 Even then, he's not a Sand, which is a Dornish noble bastard but thought to be a Valarean bastard, and so a Waters, if going by family, or Snow if going by where raised.
@@stuartsviews1565 it's also not were they were raised, it's were the father is from. most of oberyns bastards were not raised in dorne, but are still named sand. so yeah he would be jon waters
Anyone else hate the new Kingsguard armor? Sure the earlier Kingguard armor was obviously pretty clunky, but it looked badass and the actors could actually move. It’s painfully obvious that the actors in the new black armor literally can’t move their arms lol
@@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 I think he went with the technicality that the Night's Watch oath is until death - and he died and was resurrected, so oath fulfilled. Plus they also kinda betrayed him first.
11:00 Yet another fail of this scene is how Dany should be absolutely itching to torch Euron and his fleet. She might've restrained herself while they were striking a truce, but once Euron "abandoned" Cercei and lost that protection, what excuse did she have NOT to burn his ships?
I think I figured out why Euron is the way he is. Salladhor Saan was actually a faceless man, and in Season 4, when Euron went to try and hire a Faceless Man to kill Balon, Salladhor just killed him and took his face to do it. It all makes sense now. This also accounts for Salladhor’s disappearance.
Right from the start D&D showed that they didn't understand the character of Littlefinger. When he was introduced you had people saying he was creepy, untrustworthy, someone to watch, etc. ie the complete opposite of how the character should actually be. He's a great conman, a confidence man. The hint is in the name, in order to do what he wants he need to gain people's confidence. So he'd act nice, be the sort of person people like and trust, or at the very least be innocuous and not someone you'd suspect. He didn't get where he is by being openly sly and manipulative, he got there by being openly friendly and trustworthy, all the manipulation is done in secret. So it didn't take them 7 seasons to destroy the character, they'd done it by the end of season 1.
Many deaths in the Books are poetic in some way. I believe Littlefingers death might be him dying in combat against a Stark, paralleing his loss against Brandon Stark which made him decide to scheme in the first place. Or he gets outschemed himself, not like in the show. Hell no. Or maybe he even survives. Most bad people survive in this story.
@@iangonzalez6476 book lf is very bad. like i felt like the show tried to make varys and him equal but in the books, varys is always (imo) a better person.
"Other family members who didn't really do anything to you" Lancel is the one who confessed to sleeping with Cersei, and is the singular reason she got deposed, imprisoned, thrown into the streets naked, and almost put on trial, which would certainly have resulted in imprisonment or death. In a lot of ways, Lancel did nearly as much harm as Cersei _thinks_ Tyrion did to her, and far more than he _actually_ did. And unlike Tyrion, Cersei actually _knows_ how Lancel slighted her and, unlike Tyrion, Lancel and Cersei were not at odds with each other, at all. He just slammed for no reason, he didn't even get anything in exchange for his confession.
Glidus That would be incredible! Honestly I think Ramin’s score is one of the best modern examples of leitmotifs and thematic construction and development so I’d love a video analysing the music.
Anyone else find it strange how chill the hound and brienne reunion was? I mean she only beat the guy half to death and chucked him off the side of a cliff
Dany lamenting about the Dragonpit always bothered me SO much. The pit was pretty much finished in the years following Aegon’s reign, so unless she’s implying her entire dynasty was steadily falling downhill (which would still be wrong, since greats like Jahaerys were yet to rule) this sentiment is completely ignorant of pre-established timelines.
I feel bad for Ellaria Sand. One quarter of Daenrys supporters & nobody even thinks to ask about her. Is Dorne not a good army? According to Cersei’s threats, they’re keeping Ellaria alive in the dungeons to watch her daughter turn into a skeleton. So... probably still down there until the series finale.
Everything the show did with Dorne was garbage. On the books Doran is fucking brilliant and one of the best masterminds, Arrianne gets the sand snakes in tow and they are poised to absolutely be crucial to the coming invasion subsequent to Young Griff / Faegons...
I like how no one's decides to look for her or even just ask about her, like how hard is it to remember a character you just write about this season, if you can't be fucked about her just say she died in the destruction of the red keep and not mention it again
I've said this before, and I'll say it again, killing Jamie at Cersi's command would have been better than whatever the hell they did with him the last few episodes
Their relationship in the books is much more interesting anyways. Because Varys had no idea Littlefinger orchestrated the war of the five kings, but Littlefinger has no idea about Young Griff aka Aegon Targaryen/Blackfire invading.
Theon should say in response to Jon "when I came to my father, he considered me as a Stark spy and he refuse my alliance proposal with Starks. He decided to attack you and he obligated to me to do so. I am not proud of it but I just did my duty. What would you do if you were me, Jon? Then Ramsay captured me and I suffered unimaginable tortures for years. I lost my humanity under this tortures. I used to fear Ramsay more than death. Howbeit, I saved your sister risking my life and I am here in order to help you. But you are still blaming me, tell me Jon what did you suffer and be tested as much as having authority to judge me".
The "Theon and Jon" scenes make me wheeze so hard every time I'm on the floor. The whole thing is just a lot of weird half-sentences and awkward eye contact I can't. 😭
Jon was acting out of charachter in this sceane his entire story is about him being one of the few people to realise that all these wars for power are pointless in front of such a thereat but now hi is like nah i'm with danny now screw all this plus the fact that he bend the knee for no reason at all 🤦♀️🤦♀️
I wish they'd just made Tyrion betray Danny. It would have helped so much shit make a bit more sense. Sure it wasn't what the bar fans would have liked, but it was very clearly set up
"rendering the whole season pointless" - they wrote about 7 hours of plot, which they could bloat to 10 with moody shots, but about 15-16 hours of show over two seasons. The idea it was rushed is nonsense given how much bollocks and filler they had to put in. The fact that the dragon pit takes more than half an hour just shows how much wheel spinning padding they needed (though they didn't have time to have the scene they cut with Family Stark and their plot to destroy Littlefinger that changes it from absurd nonsense to slightly less absurd nonsense) - it's not rushed at all - it's teeth pulling painfully slow as they make through the threadbare plot nonsense.
that scene does not exist because they wanted you to be shocked and surprised by the twist. to bad in order to be good, a scene like this need development.
I love how no one asks how and why the Mountain is alive after they all see him for the first time. The Mountain is a big deal and news of his death was surely spread across the kingdom but everyone sees him and they are like "yeah lol, everyone just has zombies now, hey, here's Boots".
It bothers me that Theon never mentions Robb when he talks about his regrets. You know, his best friend/basically brother, who he actually betrayed? Like it would be so good if he said he should have died with Robb at the Red wedding, like he did in the books. Instead the whole Stark family gets reduced to Ned, because everybody talks only about him.
Plus they're always pushing the Ned was a father to Theon that isn't particularly true. Yeah, Balon was a shitty dad but Ned, despite being kind, never engaged anything further than a lord/ward relationship. It is Robb who loved Theon like family, and it is he who Theon betrayed and misses
"Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie..." - Cut to every piece of testimony by characters who were alive, or passed on their accounts of the reign of The Mad King. How in the cat flying fuck did anything in this shows seventh season get green lit.
@@angelfire1987 ive studied millions of channels. Videos with 0 dislikes stay that way when no one mentions thw "0" dislikes lmao Humans are contrarian they like to play opposite day for their own cynical amusement. Learn this secret and you can rule the world. Trust me.
I really can't take any of the Winterfell conflicts this season seriously knowing that Bran is just sitting in the garden like a mannequin when he could resolve them at any time, its so stupid that it literally feels obnoxious when he shows up, like the writers think we're too stupid to wonder where he's been all this time
These Glidus-Pisstakes are a little bit like Dany sailing to Westeros: You wait like 6 years and when they are finally published... Nah actually I take it back, they are NOTHING like Dany sailing to Westeros.
Finally! It's been a month... Just kidding. Art takes time that's why Game of Thrones Season 7 and 8 suck for the majority and your rants don't. As always, great video
Fam, season 7 and 8 took longer to make even though they both had fewer episodes. Also we didn't see winter except in the North where it's kind of winter all the time there anyway
Goddamn dude you definitely deserve more subscribers, the amount of work that must’ve went into this is staggering, well edited and absolutely hilarious, I’ve subbed and I hope your channel blows up cus of this series it really deserves to.
I have never watched Game of Thrones in my life, I was waiting for it to end and then marathon it, bullet dodged there, and yet I still love every one of these pisstake videos.
I still recommend watching it. Seasons 1 to 4 have the best writing I have ever seen on television, and Seasons 5 and 6 - while definitely a lot poorer - still have some standout episodes that are incredible. Seasons 7 and 8 are where it becomes an absolute train-wreck, but even they have some great moments in them. Maybe watch the first four seasons in their entirety and then just watch the highlight episodes after that. By the way, it's only the writing that plummets towards the end. The music, cinematography and special effects are phenomenal throughout.
@@samwatson-tayler2805 fair enough, but id still recommend watching (i am aiming to trap another person into both loving this show and hating it above everything else as i was trapped)
