What many D&D haters don't know is that Jaime not drowning was actually foreshadowed by his bath scene in season 3, where he doesn't actually drown. Careful viewers would have caught this.
He gets saved by Bronn in season 7, while he shares a bath with Brienne. See the similarities in their names! The difference is three letters, which is the episode number in which Jaime and Brienne almost drowned in a sea of undead. Such deep meaning in D&D's writing.
0:40 - I just love how Sophie Turner says "Bran has... visions" as if Sansa is talking about her drunk uncle who starts seeing shit after drinking his fourth can of paint thinner.
Pretty accurate honestly. Like "Yeah thats Uncle Jim, he has visions of impending death. And that's cousin Jenny, she thinks she can steal people's faces"
Good catch, when I was binge watching the show I missed a few details, including that the gold wasn't on the loot train, so I thought the wagons were full of gold.
@@davidhoffman6980 The gold was not there and her army needed food and she burned the food. Really D & D made sure this attack would be a 100% useless. lol
that line was totally a dig at Martin it was basically them saying to him, "you looked great the night we changed the story to have the character your wife said she would leave you for if you killed her in order to rape you." Nevermind the fact that Jeyne Poole was actually a character in the show in Season 1 so it's not like they just never had her in the story at all. That change was done maliciously like some of the other changes and it was extra creepy when you add in the fact that they had known since she was like 14 years old so the idea of them completely changing the story just to add in a sex scene for her (no matter how old she was at the time) is just weird.
@@Jaqen-HGhar, they clearly think of their audience as a bunch of lackwits, who'll never remember some girl from the first season, so it'll be better for them to just give her story to a well known character ('cause that's what they'd been doing for the last four seasons).
9:08-9:18. Can we all just agree that Qyburn is the most overpowered character in game of thrones. •He's reanimated the Mountain. •Created the scorpion weapons. •Shrunk Westeros down to half it's original size. •Teleported Kings landing closer to the north. •And could continue teleporting and rearranging objects and people, even from beyond the grave. That's what i call having the power of a god, screw the lord of light and the faith of the seven. Westeros should adhere to the new religion, the great lord Qyburn.
Jokes aside, he was indeed the most overpowered character in the series, conjuring any sort of magical or tech bullshit out of his ass with no explanation whatsoever.
Qyburn had a few decent cheat codes, but after the whytes reduced her army to around 68 disinterested extras, it was Dany who discovered the big one when she typed in "RESPAWN HALF".
Song: Eleven years of age, yet Missandei is as clever as half the men at this table and wiser than all of them. -thoughts of Barristan Selmy, comparing Missandei to the ruling council of Meereen Thrones: lol whats a bastard butterfly land is woke -The most important character
@@Svengali764 who cares about Howland when you have an omniscient Brandroid. That Meera dragged for hundreds of miles and gets no thanks. Made more galling by Tyrion's 'Bran the Broken' story not mentioning her (or even Hodor) - perhaps Tyrion thought Bran dragged himself 100s of miles persued by the Dead and that's why it's a great story!
@@sihollett bran doesn't volunteer any information. Instead of Sam just stumbling upon the information, Howland could've vouched that he was there and knows what happened. Also Reeds like Umberts and Mormonts was stark vassal. Logically he should've been there to fight. Entire Reed clan was done dirty. Maybe D&D didn't want a freaking floating castle in their midst.
"Isn't transporting loaded heavy artillery across bumpy ground an infathomably stupid idea?" No, Glidus, you don't get it- that's foreshadowing for how actions don't have consequences anymore and also how everything that proceeds that event is also infathomably stupid.
It is a part of human nature to commit mistakes and take risks, these things happen in real life to (even if real life is cliche in movies and series). Sometimes it works out (Hannibal crossing the Alps) and sometimes it doesn't (Nikolai Vashugin ordering tanks to go through a swamp).
@@clone3_7 This isn't about human nature- this is about D&D being bad at their job. No one was thinking about risk and reward- no one was thinking about anything, except the writers who were thinking "How can we make a Michael Bay movie look tame by comparison?"
@@Silburific Mistakes can be made, I don't understand why everyone expects millitary leaders, to not make mistakes on the screen, it happens in real life everytime and it happens in GoT, so what?
@The Nova renaissance You really want characters to waste precious screen time on these types of chit-chat? It would have just made season 7 and 8 worse.
Ballista is not heavy, or any other kind of, artillery. It is a spring loaded giant bow. Having it pre-loaded is totally fine, necessary even in case of a dragon attack.
Well to be fair, a proper spear-wall formation would have easily crushed the Dothraki in most situations. The only reason it didn't work here is because of the dragon.
Finally someone brings up how bs it is that Arya seemingly easily defeats one of the best warriors in the seven kingdoms despite hardly ever training with a sword
The problem is Hollywood has confusion between soldier and assassin. I think it's because of ninja and spy movies. The fact is an assassin doesn't need to be a competent hand to hand or melee fighters. Even if she were a competent swordsperson, Brienne has the advantage of size, reach, and a much bigger, heavier sword made of magic metal. I blame Highlander for that one; giving the idea that all sword types are equal and don't have specific fighting styles.
@@carlrood4457 Not to mention Brienne has armor, meaning Arya would be limited to trying to hit her in the places her armor isn't covering, whereas Arya doesn't have armor, so Brienne can target Arya's entire body. Funny how the show sometimes correctly shows what a huge advantage armor provides, and other times they act like it's a total non-factor.
@@winterleia9027 Like, even just... I do not buy that a 5' tall, 100 lb. child with a year of stick-whacking training against a character literally called "the waif" is able to duel a 6'3" grown woman with years of experience fighting heavily armored adult men. Brienne conceivably should have been able to drop her sword and throw Arya around like Wun-Wun and that Night's Watch guy. Gwendoline Christie THE ACTOR should be able to defeat Arya Stark the Assassin in a duel. I'm know I'm starting to sound like the guy who you stop inviting to the MMA watch party, but you definitely start seeing a lot of fight logic evaporating around season 4. Areo Hotah instantly dying from a stab in the shoulder. Fully-armored Ironborn getting merked by a half-naked Ramsey. The Mountain and every other character wearing plate metal that can be stabbed through with no effort.
seeing that 2 second shot of margaery and sansa walking together reminds me how much i hate how they basically turned sansa into a mini cersei when it wouldve been much more impactful to have her keep her softness and kindness despite everything thats happened to her. its like they dont know how satisfying character arcs work
that would have been a great way to depict true strength of her character! Becoming emotionless and distant is in a way nothing but the consequences of having experienced great trauma. Having the ability to stay/become again loving, kind and emotional while still growing and learning out of these experiences is healing (e.g. strength). But D&D work with Blockbuster cliches and one of those is the badass 'strong' overpowerd lady giving one-liners that would do epic in a teaser and looking in the camera in a way that would make epic posters.
That's literally what Sansa is in the books. She's a good person DESPITE it all and breaks the wheel of violence and trauma on the micro level. On top of that her not having jeyne Poole's plotline strengthens theons redemption through him saving someone who was deemed someone not worth saving unless she took up the name of Arya stark. Theons tries to save her not because of the connection to stark, but through personal growth in seeing light in the world and trying to preserve it
@@wildercerrate7295 I love her in the books, and especially in the Wind of Winter preview. She's becoming a schemer like Cercei and Littlefinger but less chaotic.
Olivia Williams it was never the same after season 4, seasons 5 and 6 were up and down. But the last 2 seasons it just took a nosedive. Looking back, people really were overly optimistic about the last season. Season 7’s writing and logic was a mess.
@@maniacmasturbator2411 Man i did not understand people still enjoying the show after Season 5, that optimist for Season 8 did not surprise me much it was consistent with what came before
@@maniacmasturbator2411 I mean, what I said was just a joke but in my opinion up to season 4 was good. Then season 5 had good along with bad, then season 6 had bad with some good, then season 7 was like a poorly written cliché fantasy story and season 8 was just awful and when the writing hit rock bottom.
The entire show is not very good. You can trace back inconsistencies and plot holes all the way back to Season 1. However, what kept the story going imho were the characters.
@@witlessteam901 the show was very good, but no show is perfect. It's true they removed some book elements they shouldn't have and it would've been better with them, but it wasn't bad by any means. There's no show that hasn't had some issue somewhere.
The reunion scenes between Starks aren't nearly as emotional as they ought to be, frankly. Like there should be crying, running towards one another and embracing, loud tragic music.
I remember how satisfied I was when Sun and Jin reunited in Lost. And how glad I was when Maggie finally found Glenn in The Walking Dead. I didn't feel anything at the reunions in GOTs and I wasn't as excited to see Jon and Danny finally meet as I thought I was going to be in earlier seasons.
@@davidhoffman6980 With how much time they've had to get the audience invested in those characters, getting them to reunite for the first time since the beginning of the series should feel like 5 times more emotional than Red and Andy meeting again at the end of Shawshank Redemption. 7 seasons worth of build up. Jesus christ...
@@vallraffs Yeah that was a super emotional moment for me. I forgot about that. Even seeing Jim Coates return from a three week run of the mill cattle drive at the end of Old Yeller had a bigger emotional impact after just one film of seeing his family try to cope for a month without him.
The only one that probably lived up to the anticipation was the first one; Sansa and Jon's reunion at Castle Black was excellent. It was before they totally ruined Sansa (by turning her into Cersei) and Jon (by turning him into a doofus).
It kind of irks me when people act like the show was perfect until Season 8. All these video essays on how "Season 8 ruined everything" are so blind to how the show declined in quality so much starting with season 5.
Season 7 was worse than season 8 due to being boring on top of everything else. #boatsex saved it in the fandom though - everyone was too distracted by the hypetrain.
It's because there were moments of really good television in there. The beginning of 6x10 is really beautiful, and still one of my favorite bits of television. It's shot and paced beautifully. The music tells the story without needing much dialogue to push it along. Hardhome was likewise good and fit into the story we all thought we were watching. It ended establishing dread and the stakes with the war in the North. People seem to have enjoyed the Battle of the Bastards way more than I did, but there you go. It was well-received. Little sprinklings of good things. Personally, I've been saying for some time that I'll rewatch GoT someday...but I'll stop at the end of S4. Good resolutions that way.
some parts of it were fucked way earlier, like stannis being a fanatical prick with no involvement in discovering the truth about cersei's kids, and robb being just an idiot marrying a random girl for love instead of a young honorable idiot marrying a random girl because he already fucked her
The tyrells are by far my favourite house - season 7 just crushed me. They just killed “all” of them and then trampled on their graves. Their murder didn’t even have that much impact on events anyway. I guess nobody actually cared about them or the reach or highgarden huh
And remember in s8 how Bronn suddenly gets highgarden without doing anything to earn it? I mean after Margeary and Olenna worked so hard to get their house where it was. They just shat all over house Tyrell
@The Nova renaissance After Bronn leaves Tyrion an Jamie in season 8: J:"Did you really just give him Highgarden?" T:"Are you mad? Do you think I'm stupid? Dothraki, cease the man that just left. You can do with him as you please." J:"Sad really, I though he was a friend." T:"To be fair, he always was a cunt."
The fact that House Tarly both decided to support Cersei AND not start a war over the Lannisters destroying House Tyrell is just so dumb, and considering Randyll Tarly was the ONLY commander to defeat Robert Baratheon during his rebellion, I'm sure he would've been a threat.
The people making the show didn’t care about the show in the end. No one was safe. It was just a lucky dip which characters ended up with power lol. Like, nothing was resolved.
It’s funny because medieval banks had almost no power and were constantly closing because the king decided to take all their money and had the right to do so lmao
@@ProjectEkerTest33 I suppose you’re right, kind of wish George did some actual research into medieval banking. In the real world a bank would have a few branches and a runners would transport gold and notes between them and would lend gold to monarchs, who then would not usally pay and force the bank into closing and seize their assets....banking really sucked back then
@@itnotmeitu3896 Well I think the idea of the Iron Bank is that because they can operate out of the republic, a republic with plentiful access to the very best mercenaries and assasins, they can actually casue significant problems for anyone who crosses them. This way they've set a very profitable precedent that no matter who you are you have to pay the Iron Bank what you owe.
@Vasilijan Nikolovski it was so bad people didn't even know Jamie and Cercie were siblings because that was never communicated in Dialog. They had to reshoot it.
@@wisdommanari6701 I kind of blame George for not pulling the plug right there. In fact George should have never green lit the show before finishing all the books.
@@rockomax4284 would have saved us all a lot of frustration and probably he would have been done with the books by now hadn't he been so distracted by the show
"Which Lady Stark?" ... She has been hanging out with the Freys for an extended amount of time, and I'm pretty sure she's known her mother is dead for years. What does she mean, 'which' lady stark, that could literally be only one person other than her.
To be fair, he's not contradicting himself. He wasn't enamored with the special effects that went into the prequels - directors who are truly enamored with special effects actually use them effectively and innovate with them, like David Fincher - Gorge here used special effects merely as a tool. To tell a story without having to film on location and without having to get up and move around much if he can help it. Sometimes the tool is a recliner.
Fun fact, George Lucas directed a scene in S8:E1. It's the one where Danny goes on her dragon date with Jonny boy. Since, you know, GL is well known for his fine direction of romantic scenes... I don't know the whole story, but apparently GL just dropped by the set while they were filming without any real heads up. Since he's George Goddamn Lucas, for better or worse, they let him sit in. And as mentioned, they asked him to direct a scene. Perks of being famous!
...and not sure they even got "superhero" part right. I mean, Arya reached like... Frank Castle tier, at best. And only if you imagine Punisher tying up drug dealers and slowly administering overdoses instead of just shooting them.
And they have her walking around cosplaying as Ned Stark, hands behind her back, acting like she's a badass and better than everyone else, somehow has more sword skills than a two handed Jaime Lannister, thinks she's cool and intelligent when she's just sadistic and cringey, infinite amounts of plot armour and acts like she's Arthur Dayne.
You know the Lannister vs Dothraki and Drogon fight could've ended really quickly if Daenerys just said to Drogon "Hey you know that MASSIVE line of soldiers ye let's just go from the side and burn like a 1000 men and easily cut the time for this battle in half but no wagons are more important."
Omfg yes!!! I remember watching that scene thinking 'why tf doesn't she just torch the line of soldiers? They're literally lined up for burning, like a fucking kebab. Why go for the wagons when you just said that you don't have food????' Christ, if she'd attacked the army from the rear, while the Dothraki charged them head-on, the whole thing would have been over in literally 10 seconds.
3:40 I could not have put it better myself. It’s such a shame how everyone worked SO hard on the production of these final two seasons but the two most important people in the team just couldn’t match up. In every behind the scenes interview they sound like they’re trying to justify and excuse their writing, not explain or build on it.
Glidus, I know this takes a lot of time and effort and looking at your subs and views it probably doesn't pay off but mate, your videos are hilarious, your delivery is impecable and your editing is one of the best I've seen. Keep grinding and your time will come.
I heard "Arya arrives at Winterfell even though we already saw her in the godswood earlier" and for a second I legit took it as just another continuity error within the show. Looks like the *A M N E S I A* is still spreading.
I'm saddened by the lack of subs this man has. Also, if you're reading this Glidus, what do you think of Stannis the Mannis? (note, any answer other than THE ONE TRUE KING will get you immolated)
Stannis is not the one true king.... Except for he is the One true God! Stannis the Mannis lord protector of all realms of men and the Leader of the Grammar Nazis!
@@thedeadnightking9975 ............................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................ ..................................................................................dracarys........................... ............................................................................................................ **spoken in the nonchalantdontgiveafuck way Dany said it to Varys**
The dagger that some assassin used attempting to kill Bran and had a expose in some ancient book is what killed the Night King. I can't wait to find out why???
I appreciate you taking time to give props to the production and VFX teams, because for as fucking stupid as all of this is in terms of plot, dialogue and character development, those people are the real heroes of the later seasons, the battle in this episode being an absolute highlight post-Battle of the Bastards
Personally, I liked the scene where the Dothraki dismounted and took down a few Lannisters before his death. He was giving off some big dick energy by showing that he can beat the soldiers on foot as well as on horseback. You have to remember that combat is a sport to the Dothraki and he ended his life with a positive KDR.
Fun fact: cavalry does not intact break infantry formations with a head on charge, especially if the infantry are stationary and ready for a charge, hit the infantry in the flanks or rear with cav never in the front!!
Yeah, LOTR has everyone believing that charging into an infantry with cavalry always works but it's far from the truth. But ngl, who the hell cares, those LOTR scenes are pure art
Cerseis scene with the Iron Bank actually does make a lot of sense, for one she wants to secure the Iron Bank for the long run and 2nd she wants to prevent them backing Dany and she is the obvious victor that the Iron Bank would put their money on. Yeah shes trading gold for gold but shes also trading gold for """loyalty""" and securing her future.
Furthermore, this is about Cersei demonstrating her ability to *finally get some gold* . That's how she secured herself another loan - by proving she was competent in getting money, so there was a solid chance of her repaying a debt in the future. And not just competent - she proved she was willing to pay back. Not arrogant enough to tell Iron Bank to stfu or desperate enough to immediately hire EVERRRYYYYONE in Essos. People in desperate position are not a good investment. Projecting confidence always has its merits. Also, Iron Bank has to physically transport gold to Braavos and Cersei could conclude any business about mercenaries in Essos using their very branches. If Cersei was to transport that gold on her own, then she would assume additional risk. If Iron Bank ships get destroyed, because dragons appear and perform "A-10 with napalm" maneuver? Tough shit, Tycho. I paid up. Now... about that other credit you promised? If mercenaries are hired with Iron Bank as a middleman AND Cersei gets melted before they reach King's Landing, then there's a fair chance Iron Bank can recover every coin, since they were the ones dealing with companies and would definitely insert a legal contingency into a contract. But what if Cersei does the hiring and then gets drogoned *before* mercs arrive? From Iron Bank's POV that had to be a constant possibility, since they were not privy to everybody being lobotomized by D&D.
For someone who’s supposed to be predicting every possible situation everywhere with everyone Peter really should have known what was coming around the bend smh
The dagger came into Littlefinger’s possession in season 1, when Catelyn gave it to him. He had no prior knowledge of the weapon, it was just a dagger in Robert’s armoury that Joffrey gave the assassin.
I cannot stress how much I love your pisstake videos. HBO should have replaced season 6 to 8 with them and the series would be infinitely better. I hope season 5 pisstakes are on your to do list because that would be fucking awesome
