I think she understands, the original Bran would not treat her that way. So I think she is more baffled and overwhelmed, etc. But not really offended. She knows it's no longer Bran. Meaning her job is done. But they will probably meet again.
Master Volume I don't think she's offended, but I think she's definitely heartbroken. No one from her crusade is truly alive. She received almost no thanks and ended up alone with no one to share her horrors with.
Fun fact: If you go back and watch the scene where Jon and Dany were in the cave you can see that the lighting on Dany's face is red while the lighting on Jon's face is half blue half red... because Dany is a full-blooded Targaryen and Jon is half Stark and half Targaryen so that was cool.
No one alive is a full-blooded Targaryen. Even though her parents were incestuous siblings, up the family three, some of her ancestors were of house Arryn, Velaryon and some other minor houses.
Breno its like saying no one is full American because Americans originated from the UK. But we still say full american or what ever country. No one cares or gives a shit about specifics, she is full targarian
Mark Shanmugam American is a nationality. Targaryen is a house, but I think most people mean dragon blood. Daenerys is not pure dragon blood, nor were her parents.
Breno Muniz No, but both were Targaryens. Legally speaking she is a full Targaryen, while Jon is most likely a bastard. It's a brilliant stroke of subtlety, nonetheless.
I saw a lot of comments about the "jealous" look that Sansa gave Arya after her sparring session with Brienne, but I didn't interpret it that way at all. I think the look on Sansa's face reflected the sad realization that both her remaining younger siblings - Bran and Arya - have grown into completely different people and have none of the childhood innocence that she remembers. She hasn't seen either of them since season 1 when they were all kids, and now Arya's a cold-blooded killer while Bran is some sort of emotionless psychic tree whisperer. Sansa was probably so happy to be reunited with her brother and sister in Winterfell and hoped that they could go back to the happy lives they used to have together in their childhood home, but they've all changed so much and they have all lost parts of themselves that they can never get back.
I'm in almost the exact same boat, except I also watch Charlie over on Emergency Awesome, he's got a damn good channel too, if you get a free minute give him a view, he's worth it.
@@ozymandias3456 Not really, when you're weighed down with that much steel its basically impossible to move your limbs fast enough to lift your weight. That's why fighting at sea while in plate armor is really dangerous, if you so much as lose your balance near the edge of the vessel you are dining with the drowned god very quickly.
Some people over on the subreddit pointed out how Jaime's charge towards the dragon was VERY reminiscent to how Robert Baratheon's described his first kill: ''Mine was some Tarly boy at the battle of Summerhall. My horse took an arrow, so I was on foot, slogging through the mud. He came running at me, this dumb, highborn lad, thinking he could end the rebellion with a single swing of his sword.'' Jamie tried the same, charging at a far greater opponent, hoping that he could end the war with a single strike- in this case killing Daenarys. Robert was in open rebellion to the crown back then, just the way Daenarys is now. As a small request, at the end of the season, would you mind making a resume of season 7 in the way that you do episode explanations? Nice clips and pictures to illustrate what characters you are talking about. Little-to-no unnecessary joking or offtopic quips. My parents aren't the best at english and at their age they are having a hard time remembering what happened in the prior season(s). I'd love to be able to show them a single video, illustrating the coherent narrative that progressed a year before, to get them up to speed.
Robert's statement in that scene is one that makes no sense since he ended the war of the usurper with one swing of his warhammer (where he killed Rhaegar).
Tyrantofthewind It makes perfect sense. He's not saying the kid was stupid because killing him wouldn't end the rebellion, but that he thought HE could end the rebellion. It was a criticism of a dumb kid over his head.
Kreddi I saw Jamies charge as a brave move by a fearless man to put an end to this because of the carnage Danny is bringing to Westeros. He knows full well what a Targaryan can bring to Westeros, he slayed the Mad King to save the people of Kings Landing and here I believe he was thinking the same.
Ben Kusnierz, now you are making no sense. Either the statement is indicating that the kid was dumb for attacking him and trying to end the war, or he is being profoundly arrogant that the kid had no chance against him. In war, anyone is dangerous as can be seen when the greatest knight in Westeros dies by being stabbed in the back by Howland Reed. By your logic, anyone who approached Robert and died was being a fool because they thought they could end the war. Sounds like monday morning quarterbacking to the extreme.
I would just like to point out that Cersei actually gained from returning the gold to the Iron Bank because that stopped them from investing in Dany instead. So Cersei actually gained a monetary ally by doing this, had she just kept the gold she would have gained presumably the same amount of money the bank would give her but at the same time lose the banks support to Dany.
Nice shout out to Preston Jacobs. His videos delving into the possible sci fi connections in ASOIAF are really something else. I find myself hoping/thinking he has to be wrong, but, can't deny they're a hell of a good listen.
Nah, quick alliance. They need to unite to fight the WW. No time for that stuff - at least in the show. The books might draw this out more. In the show we are just racing through the main plot points. No time for anymore side plots in the remaining episodes of this show. It will all go pretty much straight forward in my opinion focusing only on the main plot points and resolve them. There aren't enough episodes in the show left - books (if ever released) will for sure have more subplots and less teleporting.
TwentyWasHere We'll have to see, I do agree that the show is rushing, but I think that's a good thing; subplots tend to postpone the main plot, and I don't see how the show can afford that at this point in the story.
Excellent summation and break down of the episode once again, Alt Shift. You approach your dissections with such methodical accuracy. Always look forward to watching your uploads! ❤️👌
Cannot believe you didn't cover how Jaime's past comes back to hunt him. Jaime killed the mad king for he wanted to kill his people, "burn them all". Here Jaime finds all his people being burned to death by another targaryen. Jaime expressed to Brienne that regardless of what others think of him, he essentially sleeps at night because he knows he saved westeros from an evil king. However, with his once heroic feat now blown away with the ash of his men, Jaime will be left with only the guilt of his families terrible actions. Seeing Danny stumble off her dragon and turn her back to the enemy was probably mind blowing to him. I'd bet the pause before his charge was due to shock rather than him making a risk evaluation. With Jaime holding a valyrian steel sword, his growing animosity toward cersei, Cersei willing to marry another, the learning of tyrion's innocence, everyone questioning him on Cersei as a good ruler, and the revelation that his previous acts of heroism no longer have any weight to them, will likely result in him supporting John later down the line.
My count was less than 8000 too. Tyrion did say there were 10,000 and some stayed in Casterly Rock. Takeaway lives lost in the reach now.. If Daeny has 100,000 Dothraki, then the recent collateral shouldn't be a problem, right?
I really don't think Visenya's strategy with the Eyrie would work on Kingslanding. First off, the Eyrie's only defenses were it's mountains and the castles on the way. Not an army had ever made it's way up to the actual castle, and it had zero anti-siege infrastructure. Kingslanding, on the other hand, has been shown to have hundreds of catapults and is now being outfitted with scorpion balistae that would make the "ride a single dragon to the center" plan a pretty idiotic suicide. Second, the Eyrie happened after a few massive displays of power by the dragons, with Harrenhall melted, the lords of the Stormlands defeated and right after Visenya burned and sunk almost the entirety of the Eyrie's naval fleet to the bottom of the ocean *by herself*. After *these* displays of power, she just showed up on the Eyrie with Vhagar and went "sup, wanna die too?". That really isn't a position in which Danaerys, after two defeats, is in. Lastly, there is the matter that she's been advised that Cersei is simply batshit crazy. She knows that Cersei blew up a third of the city and it's population to kill two of her political enemies, so there is no question that if she threatens Cersei with "surrender or the city burns" Cersei will just unleash her catapults and balistae on the dragons and from there is a no win position for Danys, either her dragons die, she flees and is proved a coward or melts Kingslanding to the ground and is proved a monster. I think using the dragons to kill soldiers and display their power is the perfect way for her to work up to a position where the mere presence of the dragons leads to peaceful surrender. If she's gonna have to destroy things to win the war, better it be soldiers who just finished annihilating one of her allies than peasants who had nothing to do with the fight in the first place.
Also saying Visenya didn't "fight anyone or burn anything" is just wrong, the Targaryen fleet was defeated trying to approach by the Arryn fleet, and Visenya completely destroyed the Arryn fleet before going to the castle. That's likely a few dozens of thousands of soldiers burned and drowned.
Zain Ali long episodes??? the latest was only 47mins and the other ones more or less the same as the episodes as in the other seasons??? i don't get how so many people say the episodes are longer when, in fact, they are not?
There's actually a very good reason that this season isn't 10 episodes. It's called $100 million dollars. The top billing actors got a pay rise from ~$300,000 to $1.1 million this season. By cutting down 20 episodes to 13, they've saved $40 million on the top five actors alone. It's incredibly weird that they've said that this is because there's not enough story left to tell, when this season's episodes are quite clearly rushing through the plot.
It's clearly monetary reasons, but that doesn't sound as good, so they just use the story excuse. There's plenty of story for two more seasons of 10 episodes, it's complete bullshit that there isn't, unless they can't come up with enough individual scenes like they used to. Budget is the reason as to why there are fewer episodes.
Context is everything. I don't even like Daenerys all that much but she's still justified. The Mad King burned innocent civilians. Daenerys burns Soldiers fighting in a battle. The Red Wedding isn't a good analogy, because the Starks and the Northern Army should have been protected by Guestright: they were invited by the Freys and betrayed, which is an egregious sin in Westerosi culture. If they were burned alive after being captured, it wouldn't have been NEARLY as horrible an action as the Red Wedding, because of CONTEXT. Is burning alive a horrible way to go for a Soldier? Sure. I'm a Soldier, I wouldn't want to go that way. But so is having your throat cut with a sword or being run through with a spear: you're talking about medieval warfare, and Westeros does not have anything like the Geneva Conventions determining what methods are and aren't acceptable for Soldiers killing Soldiers in war. Plus you're talking about a place and time where torture is perfectly acceptable, which is far worse than being burned alive on a battlefield.
>Dany burns Lannister ARMY with Dragon fire.. Everyone calls her the mad queen. >Cersei blows up Cept of Baelor with Wildfire like the Mad King intended.. No one bats an eyelid.
Davos could re-enlist the help of Salladhor Saan to revitalize Daenerys' navy. Besides, it'll give Euron some competition for Cersei. Recall that earlier in the show, Salladhor Saan told Davos he wanted Cersei for himself.
no he survived that, they got funding from the iron bank and they had the scene with him in a bath/hot tub with a few naked chicks. he declined davos' pleas for reenlistment until he sees the gold he can offer
Aristarchus of Samos if you don't want to read the world of ice and fire book you could just watch the animated series it will take you 6 hours to complete its really great.
Me watching this episode : OMG , please dany dont burn Jaime OH NO , please Bronn dont kill Drogon oh fuck , please Drogon dont burn Bronn NOOOO , please Jaime dont spear throw Dany and then ..... Fuck it , this is too much for my blood pressure
Dany. should be an easy decision cause the Lannisters ARE the bad guys (have been since S2). but I get where the confliction must come from (Jaime and Bronn)
The thing is that Dany's entire storyline has been built up to this point for the last 6 seasons. It is just not fair, not that GoT ever was fair, to root for the other side. What I mean is that it should really have been easy for her to defeat Cersei, if the show runners hadn't skipped a lot of parts and made her make some stupid decisions. Her entire story led up to this point, and currently it's really disappointing. On the other hand, I get why you would care for Jamie - I really like his character as well and wouldn't want him to die. But I totally disagree with what the show writers said in the inside the episode, or the BTS of the battle, that you should have no idea who to root for. Lannisters are evil, not every man ofc, but their whole concept has been built up as very pragmatic, who won't hesitate to do the right thing for their house and their survival whilst not giving a flying fuck about others. And that has lead to some terrible things that made them look like monsters and for many ppl, myself included, to root against them and want to see them defeated for a change :p
How have I not seen this channel before this was awesome! Thanks for showing pictures and recapping from old episodes and tying it together for us. Truly best GOT youtube coverage I've seen.
I was surprised you didn't talk about the idea that the dragons may die in similar ways to their namesakes. Drogon named after Drogo. He died to an infected wound to the shoulder. The balistas are called scorpion. I wouldn't put it past quiborn to poison the bolts.
Glad you nailed the point about the somber moments where a character is gazing shocked at the chaos of battle. One of my favourite parts of the book is where Tyrion was describing his first battle against the North with the hill tribes on his side (the one where he somehow was knocked out for the full thing without brain damage in the show.) Definitely makes you actually think of the implications of war instead of evoking a feeling of gratioutous violence for entertainments sake.
Doesn't seem to match either of those descriptions though. It's designed to be used against dragons, rather than walls, or troops. Although it could still be used in this manner.
Been a subscriber for years but I'm still amazed with the quality of this content. Really pleasant voice and very informative. And the editing is just superb. Way better than any other GoT channel I've seen. Just incredible. Very nice job. Thanks!
Am I the only one who noticed how deep the sea was just off the shoreline that Jamie got pushed into? He gets pushed into the sea just 2-3 meters from the shore and suddenly it's like over 15 meters deep. While that is possible and maybe more often where the water meets cliffs rather than sand. Look at how flat the shoreline is... To me it looked really stupid in the show when that happened and it just feels like they threw it in there to have as a cliffhanger to end the episode with. I'll start selling all my belongings if it turns out he drowned there.
if i remember correctly, we saw the horse charge through the shallows at one point towards drogon. How did the horse not become completely submerged???
because visual entertainment. If we devalue everything to ''this is weird or out of place or not realistic'' then fiction would be visually very boring. Suspension of disbelief for the benefit of great storytelling is in my eyes more than okay.
I'm still confused about how Dorne has been knocked out of the war. Sure, the Sand Snakes and Ellaria are gone, but weren't they on their way to pick up the Dornish troops when ambushed by Euron? Aren't all the Martell banners still just sitting in Dorne?
The Sand Snakes took power with a coup, with the coup makers incapacitated Dorn is now in a succession crisis. And most probably a few want to reestablish the old policies of Doran, and I many yet were probably outraged by the wipeout of the Martell line.(to revenge the death of a Martell) So the populist wind to go to war is probably ground to a halt.
“While Sansa’s only power is fiscal responsibility” hahaha. I love when you randomly sneak in a joke but don’t change your tone or how you speak. You just keep going. It’s hilarious lol
I'd just like to point out that Arya using Needle to block and deflect is absolutely ridiculous, because Needle is a weapon meant for stabbing and its thin blade is not sturdy enough to be handled in such a way, not to mention that Brienne is significantly older, stronger and heavier than Arya, meaning that she could have easily at least chipped Needle even with a sparring sword. Arya, according to her age and training, should depend on quick movements and evasion, not tanking. She is not built to withstand anything, she is built to dodge. I don't know why the fight was choreographed like this.
Some say he's dead in the show due to the fact that the actor that portrayed him had some terminal disease and they didn't want to recast him for some reason.
You don't get nearly enough recognition that you deserve. I see so many other Game of Thrones channels make mistakes here and there but I have yet to hear you say anything inaccurate. You really take your time with these videos instead of rushing to put it together a day or two after each episode. You also pick up on things that others don't like Bronns comment about wealth weighing Jaime down in connection to him drowning at the end of the episode. Keep up the great work.
Why is no one talking about the Scorpion bolts? I think they're absolutely poisoned. First of all, the name Scorpion, like their poisonous sting, and secondly they're made my Qyburn who is notoriously shady. Thirdly, what;s the chance you'll actually hit a dragon in the eyeball from that far? It makes way more sense to poison the bolt and just hit it anywhere where it'll stick. I really hope not, but I think Drogon might actually die pretty soon :(
Naomi Dascal The Scorpions in the show are named after the real-world weapon called a scorpion. I wouldn't put it past Qyburn to poison the bolts but that's not a good argument in favour of it.
the actors on the show are great. their facial reactions tell so much without having to say a word. Dickon (heh), Jamie and Tyrions reactions to the devastation of war was perfect.
Just to point out, if people starve in the North, Sansa will open Winterfell to the people. That's why she did that, she said the peasants can't carry wagons load of food to Winterfell during winter so she's taking theirs as a precaution if people need to retreat to Winterfell. Cersei isn't letting anyone in to King's Landing, the peasants will starve that are even inside the city.
I would like to know this : why does no one in the North want to behead Jon for leaving the Night's Watch? Nobody knows he dies and was brought back to Melisandre. For almost everyone on Westeros right now except Davos, Melisandre, Tormund and a few members of the Night's Watch (and maybe Bran too), Jon broke his vows and should be beheaded for it.
Anthony Drouin maybe the legend of Jons resurrection is spreading throughout Westeros like the rumors of Jamie and Cerseis affair for years and no one dares question that?
Well everyone in Castle Black can attest to his death and resurrection, so the proof is there. It's still strange that no one questions it, and stranger still that he as a character hasn't changed much because of it. All the other characters who share this experience have been changed by it. Beric Dondarrion says he loses something every time he comes back, Cat in the books is nothing like her former self. Even if that didn't alter him for whatever reason, you'd think his outlook & approach to life would change in the same fashion as someone in the real world narrowly surviving a car accident or some other near death experience.
Davos doesn't seem to think it's a secret and has no problem telling Dany, so I wouldn't be surprised if the north already knows. They don't show every conversation or meeting in the show, as evidenced by some of the things people refer to they couldn't know about unless told off-screen.
@@femsff7090 sure but that's bad story telling something that critically important should be addressed on screen otherwise your list to assume. And if you have to fill in the holes for the story it's s*** writing. Everyone at Castle black might know but the rest of the Lourdes probably don't and they should all want him dead. That way they can marry Sansa and roll the North
Why should Daenerys apologize for being powerful? That's like saying a genius should intentionally mark wrong answers on a test so that everyone else in the class can get a curve. Tyrion had wildfire and he used it against Stannis. The Wildlings had giants and they used them in the battle for the Wall despite having more than enough men. Yet Daenerys is the one who has to apologize for using what she has. Why should she be labeled evil because she has a dragon and after HOLDING BACK is embracing this power instead of running from it?
Hunam I don't have the time to rewrite it but I just posted a comment arguing why cersei is better, at least as character we can root for, it should be one of the recent comments give it a read
Friend you are the true shaman of Westeros. Your videos are insightful, entertaining, thoughtful and I never truly think about anyones analysis until you weigh in. Thank you, congratulations, and good fortune in the wars to come..
2:10. The reason she must provide the gold first is to prove that she can pay the debt and not have to worry about interest. Hell, the guy even mentions this. Once the debt is paid, a new loan is negotiated from a much better stance. Did you learn anything in school?
You can tell the quality of the season from Alt Shift X's videos. All they can do in their videos is point out the obvious and lightly brush the many plot holes. Whereas the previous seasons touched upon the lore and almost every episode had depth.
Bran is No More only the 3 Eyed Raven remains. The 3 Eyed Raven is an ancient shapeshifter who took over Bran's body. The 3 Eyed Raven is hardly human.
+Theresa Steward You didn't understand shit if you seriously believe that. Bran is still Bran, he still retains his individuality, it's just that he has transcended humans and their petty interactions and emotions after all the information and powers he gained. He realized how his past self and everyone else he has known before his transformation are not important at all after the knowledge of past experience of everyone that has ever lived has been shoved into his head. If anything, it's Bran that absorbed the Three Eyed Raven and all the greenseers (Old Gods) who became one with the weirwood after their death.
No look again at the fight between the Night King and the 3 Eyed Raven. The 3 Eyed Raven shapeshifts from the Night King. He become incorporeal then wargs into the nearest Weirwood tree. Bran attached to the Weirwood now is taken over partially but the transfer is not complete. He has to touch a different Weirwood for the transfer completion. Once that occurred the 3 Eyed Raven now has complete control over Bran's body. Bran Stark is now one of multiple of memories controlled by the 3 Eyed Raven.
I think Game of Thrones messed up, big time. I would not be so pissed if it this was not Game of Thrones. If this was any other show, I would be like "that was a pretty cool episode, dragons and battle and shit". But no. This is a series that stood for vulnerability of characters. It drew tension from that very fact. Anyone could die. Most of the time it felt real. Not real in like real life, but in a way that you could not smell the written script behind it. It all made sense in the created universe. I was hoping for someone to die. I really did. They could've killed a dragon or even more. But the showrunners did not. The characters don't seem to die when they likely would, but more when the script says so. When I saw Jaime and Bronn, pretty much unharmed, surrounded by burned ground and men, it felt symbolic for my current opinion. I cannot really think about any likeable character that seems to be in danger. Most of them are holed up in some castle and even if everything around them is being burned to crisps, they still manage to survive by some ex machina. Sure, you could argue with the White Walkers being a constant threat to everyone in Westeros but it seems that for every foot they step closer to the wall, any other character in the show is likely to travel from one castle to another on the opposite side of the continent. I am not sure if anyone is going to read this, but hey, it sure felt good to post my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I still like the show. I would not be nitpicking if i would not love it. It just frustrates me sometimes. Greetings
A circle with a vertical line through it is the greek phi, the first letter of the word philosophy. It's also the symbol for describing the golden ratio, which might have some metaphorical meaning here.
He did not look scared, I suspect he understood, the consequences of his actions giving this to her, setting future events into motion that he has already seen. he already knows what she will do, and everyone else. nothing to fear, if anything, he is emotionally detached.
he's overloaded, he no longer just has his memories. He has the memories of literlly every person who ever lived, so obviously he is gonna have some disassociation with himself
I'd much rather Jorah switch sides and return to the North. Dany is just plain out a crazy, entitled asshole. I can't wait for her to die, and I guarantee that she will.
The dothraki would have easily taken that battle by themselves but would probably have suffered heavy loses penetrating the lannister shield wall. Losses Dany can't afford after losing half her allies already. Drogon breaking the lannisters formation made them easier prey for the Dothraki screamers.
Agreed. It's been a while that I felt like this over a GoT episode. And, yes, it's hard to avoid spoilers for episode 6 in general. There are a ton of video thumbnails I've seen that spoil all the biggest moments. My advice for anyone who doesn't want to get spoiled is, swallow your ethical principles this time a and just watch it (this one is in HD and good sound quality) before some idiot spoils everything for you.
People hating Dany make no sense at all, burning your enemies alive is no different than choping heads or legs and letting them bleed for days, war is war, after all how mercifull Lannisters were slaughtering the people in High Garden???
How about burning supplies, when she could just burn troops, or just VIPs for that matter. Then keep the supplies for herself. She was just talking about being low a scene or so earlier.
Dany is unlikeable person, wearing valyrian steel plot armor. Even Cercei is more interesting, whan this Maria De Sueberg (half-dragon, half-princess, half-elf, half-god, breaker of chairs, mother of miserable old shit, Khaness of Mongols). GRR Martin surely loves Mary Sues and love triangles.
She has no reliable way of knowing what was in the convoy so even though we know food is in there Dany does not and she was most likely trying to make sure that Cersei would not get any of those resourses by destroying them.
"Probably wiping Bran's ass because he's paralyzed."
That Bran and Meera farewell feels even more shitty now! Poor Meera.
I feel sorry for Meera but if Bran can see the future, maybe by acting the way he did, protects her, by not giving her reason to stay,
agriperma He should have told to get her father up to Winterfell asap!
I think she understands, the original Bran would not treat her that way. So I think she is more baffled and overwhelmed, etc. But not really offended. She knows it's no longer Bran. Meaning her job is done. But they will probably meet again.
Only quaddies require ASSistance.
Master Volume I don't think she's offended, but I think she's definitely heartbroken. No one from her crusade is truly alive. She received almost no thanks and ended up alone with no one to share her horrors with.
Correction! 2:50 Bran isn't the eldest living Stark - he's just the eldest living male Stark #AltShitX
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Never clicked a video so fast! Love your videos man!
Off to the dragons for you!
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Fun fact: If you go back and watch the scene where Jon and Dany were in the cave you can see that the lighting on Dany's face is red while the lighting on Jon's face is half blue half red... because Dany is a full-blooded Targaryen and Jon is half Stark and half Targaryen so that was cool.
No one alive is a full-blooded Targaryen. Even though her parents were incestuous siblings, up the family three, some of her ancestors were of house Arryn, Velaryon and some other minor houses.
Breno its like saying no one is full American because Americans originated from the UK. But we still say full american or what ever country. No one cares or gives a shit about specifics, she is full targarian
Mark Shanmugam American is a nationality. Targaryen is a house, but I think most people mean dragon blood. Daenerys is not pure dragon blood, nor were her parents.
Breno Muniz No, but both were Targaryens. Legally speaking she is a full Targaryen, while Jon is most likely a bastard. It's a brilliant stroke of subtlety, nonetheless.
Breno Muniz You just have to ruin every sensible comment.
I saw a lot of comments about the "jealous" look that Sansa gave Arya after her sparring session with Brienne, but I didn't interpret it that way at all. I think the look on Sansa's face reflected the sad realization that both her remaining younger siblings - Bran and Arya - have grown into completely different people and have none of the childhood innocence that she remembers. She hasn't seen either of them since season 1 when they were all kids, and now Arya's a cold-blooded killer while Bran is some sort of emotionless psychic tree whisperer. Sansa was probably so happy to be reunited with her brother and sister in Winterfell and hoped that they could go back to the happy lives they used to have together in their childhood home, but they've all changed so much and they have all lost parts of themselves that they can never get back.
Knowing for D. B. Weiss and David Benioff tend to write female characters, it probably was intended to be a jealous look.
*"While Sansa's only special power is fiscal responsibility."*
*me:* deader than dead XD
Scrotie McBoogerball what is dead may never die
Now I'm imagining Sansa attempting to kill White Walkers by showing off her money skills and them just staring
Cutting White Walkers' social security left and right.
My life has been 3 things lately :
- The GoT episode
- The trailer for the next episode
- Alt Shift X video
What a sad empty existence.
ZetxQ I already know that
I'm in almost the exact same boat, except I also watch Charlie over on Emergency Awesome, he's got a damn good channel too, if you get a free minute give him a view, he's worth it.
ZetxQ Still better than depression and substance abuse.
you should check out nerd soup. Two guys chatting about the episode basically. They're funny dudes
try ozzymanreviews too his ones are fucking class
For anyone who is scared that Jamey might drown, always remember: Plot armor doesn't weigh much
Also I'm pretty sure people can swim in armor
@@ozymandias3456 old, but no you can’t swim with armour like that, you’d sink because of the weight
@@ozymandias3456 Not really, when you're weighed down with that much steel its basically impossible to move your limbs fast enough to lift your weight. That's why fighting at sea while in plate armor is really dangerous, if you so much as lose your balance near the edge of the vessel you are dining with the drowned god very quickly.
Correction - Arya took the Hound off the list mentioned in early season 6.
"A girl lies".... she didn't really want to kill the hound.
@@HabzTheMovieGuy lmao
Some people over on the subreddit pointed out how Jaime's charge towards the dragon was VERY reminiscent to how Robert Baratheon's described his first kill:
''Mine was some Tarly boy at the battle of Summerhall. My horse took an arrow, so I was on foot, slogging through the mud. He came running at me, this dumb, highborn lad, thinking he could end the rebellion with a single swing of his sword.''
Jamie tried the same, charging at a far greater opponent, hoping that he could end the war with a single strike- in this case killing Daenarys. Robert was in open rebellion to the crown back then, just the way Daenarys is now.
As a small request, at the end of the season, would you mind making a resume of season 7 in the way that you do episode explanations?
Nice clips and pictures to illustrate what characters you are talking about. Little-to-no unnecessary joking or offtopic quips.
My parents aren't the best at english and at their age they are having a hard time remembering what happened in the prior season(s). I'd love to be able to show them a single video, illustrating the coherent narrative that progressed a year before, to get them up to speed.
Kreddi just letting you know a lot pf channels do recaps for the seasons. Just have to search.
Robert's statement in that scene is one that makes no sense since he ended the war of the usurper with one swing of his warhammer (where he killed Rhaegar).
Tyrantofthewind It makes perfect sense. He's not saying the kid was stupid because killing him wouldn't end the rebellion, but that he thought HE could end the rebellion. It was a criticism of a dumb kid over his head.
Kreddi I saw Jamies charge as a brave move by a fearless man to put an end to this because of the carnage Danny is bringing to Westeros. He knows full well what a Targaryan can bring to Westeros, he slayed the Mad King to save the people of Kings Landing and here I believe he was thinking the same.
Ben Kusnierz, now you are making no sense. Either the statement is indicating that the kid was dumb for attacking him and trying to end the war, or he is being profoundly arrogant that the kid had no chance against him. In war, anyone is dangerous as can be seen when the greatest knight in Westeros dies by being stabbed in the back by Howland Reed. By your logic, anyone who approached Robert and died was being a fool because they thought they could end the war. Sounds like monday morning quarterbacking to the extreme.
I would just like to point out that Cersei actually gained from returning the gold to the Iron Bank because that stopped them from investing in Dany instead. So Cersei actually gained a monetary ally by doing this, had she just kept the gold she would have gained presumably the same amount of money the bank would give her but at the same time lose the banks support to Dany.
"Jon and Dany are starting to look like they'd like to *come* together"
Naughty, naughty Alt Shift X.
I really hope Meera comes back into play. Her parting was just too bitter. And Ellie Kendrick is a fantastic actress and I'd love to see more of her 😄
I agree. I also have this weird feeling that she'll end up with Jon after the story concludes (if Jon makes it out alive).
I would also love to "see more of Ellie" if ya get my drift ;-)
Don't you mean Anne Frank?
And I wouldn't mind seeing her dad too
Hopefully won't be, "the last for us"
Nice shout out to Preston Jacobs. His videos delving into the possible sci fi connections in ASOIAF are really something else. I find myself hoping/thinking he has to be wrong, but, can't deny they're a hell of a good listen.
Hitting a flying target with a single-shot, heavy projectile, and no gyroscopic stabilization, is a godly feat.
Bronn is Azor Ahai.
"Sansa's only special ability is fiscal responsibility," - Alt Shift X
oh laaawd lol
Maybe daenerys will hold jamie prisoner and tyrion will free him. You know, a Lannister always pays his debts.
I wonder if she will send Jamie's golden hand to Cersei.
JonCombo That would be awesome. Like the Sand snakes sent Myrcellas necklace, back in season 5.
Nah, quick alliance. They need to unite to fight the WW. No time for that stuff - at least in the show. The books might draw this out more. In the show we are just racing through the main plot points. No time for anymore side plots in the remaining episodes of this show. It will all go pretty much straight forward in my opinion focusing only on the main plot points and resolve them. There aren't enough episodes in the show left - books (if ever released) will for sure have more subplots and less teleporting.
TwentyWasHere yah good point everything is being rushed now
TwentyWasHere We'll have to see, I do agree that the show is rushing, but I think that's a good thing; subplots tend to postpone the main plot, and I don't see how the show can afford that at this point in the story.
Everyone discussing the story while im just blown away with this guy's analysis.. great quality content mate.
"Sansa's only power is fiscal responsibility." Haha good one.
Excellent summation and break down of the episode once again, Alt Shift. You approach your dissections with such methodical accuracy. Always look forward to watching your uploads! ❤️👌
Cannot believe you didn't cover how Jaime's past comes back to hunt him.
Jaime killed the mad king for he wanted to kill his people, "burn them all". Here Jaime finds all his people being burned to death by another targaryen. Jaime expressed to Brienne that regardless of what others think of him, he essentially sleeps at night because he knows he saved westeros from an evil king. However, with his once heroic feat now blown away with the ash of his men, Jaime will be left with only the guilt of his families terrible actions. Seeing Danny stumble off her dragon and turn her back to the enemy was probably mind blowing to him. I'd bet the pause before his charge was due to shock rather than him making a risk evaluation.
With Jaime holding a valyrian steel sword, his growing animosity toward cersei, Cersei willing to marry another, the learning of tyrion's innocence, everyone questioning him on Cersei as a good ruler, and the revelation that his previous acts of heroism no longer have any weight to them, will likely result in him supporting John later down the line.
I was bored and counted less than 8000 Lannister and Tarly soldiers marched on Highgarden.
Can you do the rest of the math up to now please? Im bored too but lazy.
Ella Setyo less is grammatically correct in this case.
no it isn't.
My count was less than 8000 too. Tyrion did say there were 10,000 and some stayed in Casterly Rock. Takeaway lives lost in the reach now.. If Daeny has 100,000 Dothraki, then the recent collateral shouldn't be a problem, right?
I counted fewer than 8000..
I really don't think Visenya's strategy with the Eyrie would work on Kingslanding.
First off, the Eyrie's only defenses were it's mountains and the castles on the way. Not an army had ever made it's way up to the actual castle, and it had zero anti-siege infrastructure.
Kingslanding, on the other hand, has been shown to have hundreds of catapults and is now being outfitted with scorpion balistae that would make the "ride a single dragon to the center" plan a pretty idiotic suicide.
Second, the Eyrie happened after a few massive displays of power by the dragons, with Harrenhall melted, the lords of the Stormlands defeated and right after Visenya burned and sunk almost the entirety of the Eyrie's naval fleet to the bottom of the ocean *by herself*. After *these* displays of power, she just showed up on the Eyrie with Vhagar and went "sup, wanna die too?". That really isn't a position in which Danaerys, after two defeats, is in.
Lastly, there is the matter that she's been advised that Cersei is simply batshit crazy. She knows that Cersei blew up a third of the city and it's population to kill two of her political enemies, so there is no question that if she threatens Cersei with "surrender or the city burns" Cersei will just unleash her catapults and balistae on the dragons and from there is a no win position for Danys, either her dragons die, she flees and is proved a coward or melts Kingslanding to the ground and is proved a monster.
I think using the dragons to kill soldiers and display their power is the perfect way for her to work up to a position where the mere presence of the dragons leads to peaceful surrender. If she's gonna have to destroy things to win the war, better it be soldiers who just finished annihilating one of her allies than peasants who had nothing to do with the fight in the first place.
Also saying Visenya didn't "fight anyone or burn anything" is just wrong, the Targaryen fleet was defeated trying to approach by the Arryn fleet, and Visenya completely destroyed the Arryn fleet before going to the castle. That's likely a few dozens of thousands of soldiers burned and drowned.
Well-said. You make some great points. Valar Morghulis.
Spot on.
Mordirit Especially because Cercei wouldn't surrender
a third of the city???
Still doesn't make sense that this season is almost over...
Ryan Craig well 3 very long episodes...
Zain Ali long episodes??? the latest was only 47mins and the other ones more or less the same as the episodes as in the other seasons??? i don't get how so many people say the episodes are longer when, in fact, they are not?
Fraenzy Episode 6 is 71 minutes long and episode 7 is 81 minutes long...
There's actually a very good reason that this season isn't 10 episodes. It's called $100 million dollars. The top billing actors got a pay rise from ~$300,000 to $1.1 million this season. By cutting down 20 episodes to 13, they've saved $40 million on the top five actors alone.
It's incredibly weird that they've said that this is because there's not enough story left to tell, when this season's episodes are quite clearly rushing through the plot.
It's clearly monetary reasons, but that doesn't sound as good, so they just use the story excuse. There's plenty of story for two more seasons of 10 episodes, it's complete bullshit that there isn't, unless they can't come up with enough individual scenes like they used to. Budget is the reason as to why there are fewer episodes.
DANY SAYS "DRACARYS" AND NO ONE BATS AN EYE
MAD KING SAYS "BURN THEM ALL" AND EVERYBODY LOSES THEIR MINDS
jaredthecarrot yes it matters you have a chance against other soldiers but no chance against a fokin dragon
jaredthecarrot if the method doesn't matter so there's nothing wrong with the red wedding
Context is everything. I don't even like Daenerys all that much but she's still justified. The Mad King burned innocent civilians. Daenerys burns Soldiers fighting in a battle. The Red Wedding isn't a good analogy, because the Starks and the Northern Army should have been protected by Guestright: they were invited by the Freys and betrayed, which is an egregious sin in Westerosi culture. If they were burned alive after being captured, it wouldn't have been NEARLY as horrible an action as the Red Wedding, because of CONTEXT.
Is burning alive a horrible way to go for a Soldier? Sure. I'm a Soldier, I wouldn't want to go that way. But so is having your throat cut with a sword or being run through with a spear: you're talking about medieval warfare, and Westeros does not have anything like the Geneva Conventions determining what methods are and aren't acceptable for Soldiers killing Soldiers in war. Plus you're talking about a place and time where torture is perfectly acceptable, which is far worse than being burned alive on a battlefield.
>Dany burns Lannister ARMY with Dragon fire.. Everyone calls her the mad queen.
>Cersei blows up Cept of Baelor with Wildfire like the Mad King intended.. No one bats an eyelid.
joker reference horribly placed
Davos could re-enlist the help of Salladhor Saan to revitalize Daenerys' navy. Besides, it'll give Euron some competition for Cersei. Recall that earlier in the show, Salladhor Saan told Davos he wanted Cersei for himself.
The war for Cesei's cunt still lives!!
think they killed him off in the Blackwater, at least he's not been seen since then
no he survived that, they got funding from the iron bank and they had the scene with him in a bath/hot tub with a few naked chicks. he declined davos' pleas for reenlistment until he sees the gold he can offer
liamash141 no he survived the Blackwater. He was the very same guy who rescued Davos. Did you even watch the show?
Never got how people can be so confident while clearly not knowing jack shit about the topic..
Can you do an video on the history if the iron bank?
Just read the torah
Kaezer Musik Heh racist stereotypes are funny. What's next, Holocaust jokes? You can work something out I'm sure.
Aristarchus of Samos if you don't want to read the world of ice and fire book you could just watch the animated series it will take you 6 hours to complete its really great.
Tycho has a big nose...
Me watching this episode :
OMG , please dany dont burn Jaime
OH NO , please Bronn dont kill Drogon
oh fuck , please Drogon dont burn Bronn
NOOOO , please Jaime dont spear throw Dany
and then .....
Fuck it , this is too much for my blood pressure
Snake I would have used a bow and killed the queen, war done and her annoying acting gone.
Nah, you could firmly be on the Blackwater's side since it wasn't like Jaime and Bronn were going to die if they failed.
aku remix You are fake news.
aku remix I don't think the episode itself was leaked, however the entire script for episodes 5-7 were all leaked
ikr I was a mess too lolol
I've never been so confused since the Blackwater in which side to root for lol
Dany. should be an easy decision cause the Lannisters ARE the bad guys (have been since S2). but I get where the confliction must come from (Jaime and Bronn)
is that a real question or are you telling me the Lannister cause is truly superior to Dany's?
"It's tempting to see your enemies as evil, all of them, but there is good and evil on both sides of every war ever fought."
Jorah Mormomt
Including Tyrion then?
The thing is that Dany's entire storyline has been built up to this point for the last 6 seasons. It is just not fair, not that GoT ever was fair, to root for the other side. What I mean is that it should really have been easy for her to defeat Cersei, if the show runners hadn't skipped a lot of parts and made her make some stupid decisions.
Her entire story led up to this point, and currently it's really disappointing.
On the other hand, I get why you would care for Jamie - I really like his character as well and wouldn't want him to die. But I totally disagree with what the show writers said in the inside the episode, or the BTS of the battle, that you should have no idea who to root for. Lannisters are evil, not every man ofc, but their whole concept has been built up as very pragmatic, who won't hesitate to do the right thing for their house and their survival whilst not giving a flying fuck about others. And that has lead to some terrible things that made them look like monsters and for many ppl, myself included, to root against them and want to see them defeated for a change :p
This is the best recap of all the TH-cam channels. Thanks as I'll be supporting you on Patreon. Keep up the great content.
How have I not seen this channel before this was awesome! Thanks for showing pictures and recapping from old episodes and tying it together for us. Truly best GOT youtube coverage I've seen.
Just wanted to let you know I look forward to these videos every week! Keep it up!
Your voice is so soothing how much for you to create a bedtime story for us? :)
He has a channel just for that. Alt Shift ZZZ
We are all just here watching game of thrones before ww3 begins
Let's hope it doesn't start before the season is over. I don't care what happens after.
Pretty sure Dany was symbolic of Trump this episode lol
Nuclear winter is coming.
What are you scared of? The North Korea scare bullshit is all kayfabe. It's a TV show. Just like Game of Thrones. Nobody is in any danger.
These videos make it so much easier to get the full scope of the events in each episode.
I was surprised you didn't talk about the idea that the dragons may die in similar ways to their namesakes. Drogon named after Drogo. He died to an infected wound to the shoulder. The balistas are called scorpion. I wouldn't put it past quiborn to poison the bolts.
Then what? Cersei gonna melt gold over Viserion? Gendry kills Rhaegal with a giant hammer? xD
God, that'd be awesome to watch.
The amount of times I refreshed your page is actually embarrassing
Remember the last time Jon entered a cave with a woman.
Bran Stark Remembers
STOPPED EVERYTHING TO WATCH THIS
Dat subtle nod to Preston Jacobs ;) ... awesome job as ever Mr. ASX!
Glad you nailed the point about the somber moments where a character is gazing shocked at the chaos of battle.
One of my favourite parts of the book is where Tyrion was describing his first battle against the North with the hill tribes on his side (the one where he somehow was knocked out for the full thing without brain damage in the show.)
Definitely makes you actually think of the implications of war instead of evoking a feeling of gratioutous violence for entertainments sake.
That's a ballista. Scorpions are smaller, man-sized standing crossbows. Ballistae were siege weapons and much larger.
Doesn't seem to match either of those descriptions though. It's designed to be used against dragons, rather than walls, or troops. Although it could still be used in this manner.
He is right. It is a ballista. Scorpions was much smaller, but the name probably just sounded better.
TheBarser *were
In the episode, Brown and Jaime refer to it as "The Scorpion."
'Scorpion' is used in the books as a description for the bolt that's being fired, not the bastilla that shoots it.
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Harry Gassis 😂😂😂
Your mom must be proud
You actin like you've never beat ya meat to an alt shift x video?
HAHAHA, so true.
I did it before
Did you just forget half of Arya's list? Melisandre, Thoros and Beric are on there as well, for selling Gendry to Mel.
I like how serious this guy is an casualty putts in epic jokes every now and then. Love it
Been a subscriber for years but I'm still amazed with the quality of this content. Really pleasant voice and very informative. And the editing is just superb. Way better than any other GoT channel I've seen. Just incredible. Very nice job. Thanks!
AT LONG LAST, ALT SHIFT X HAS COME
It's funny how Dany went from being one of the most beloved characters of the show to one of the most hated, same with Jaime but vice versa.
Bronn's story is totally tv fan service. His motivation and actions make no sense
How else will he get his castle?
I agree Bronn's motivation makes no sense. I think the writers lean on Bronn more as a wildcard, plot-hole-filler rather than fan service.
Daniel Fish. Definitely for the sand snakes storyline, what a huge plot hole!
Only Jaime will give Bronn his castle. I can't imagine Cersei would if Jaime dies.
He is a fan favourite fair enough but his motivation for killing the dragon where because he woulf die if he didn't
Great video as always! Very cool of you to give a shout out to Preston's work in particular analysis how ASOIAF is informed by GRRM's other 20+ books.
Love your videos dude! Great job as always!
Episode 6 was leaked but I'm still here patiently waiting for episode 5's review.
I love your dry humor "if Petyr had half a brain he'd leave...now" "missandei and dany talk about boys"
Am I the only one who noticed how deep the sea was just off the shoreline that Jamie got pushed into? He gets pushed into the sea just 2-3 meters from the shore and suddenly it's like over 15 meters deep. While that is possible and maybe more often where the water meets cliffs rather than sand. Look at how flat the shoreline is... To me it looked really stupid in the show when that happened and it just feels like they threw it in there to have as a cliffhanger to end the episode with. I'll start selling all my belongings if it turns out he drowned there.
Yup. Was there a hidden chasm just off the shore? It looked like him and Bronn fell into a big puddle...
if i remember correctly, we saw the horse charge through the shallows at one point towards drogon. How did the horse not become completely submerged???
have you ever heard of suspension of disbelief? why then aren't you intrigued about the existence of a, I don't know... dragon?
because visual entertainment. If we devalue everything to ''this is weird or out of place or not realistic'' then fiction would be visually very boring. Suspension of disbelief for the benefit of great storytelling is in my eyes more than okay.
Bogdan Honciuc - because it has been firmly established that dragons exist for like 5 seasons now. What a dumb argument.
I appreciate that you alternate which side you put the character on the thumbnail each review
And the blue x in Explained
You're the only content creator on TH-cam whose videos I always seem to watch multiple times.
I'm still confused about how Dorne has been knocked out of the war. Sure, the Sand Snakes and Ellaria are gone, but weren't they on their way to pick up the Dornish troops when ambushed by Euron? Aren't all the Martell banners still just sitting in Dorne?
The Sand Snakes took power with a coup, with the coup makers incapacitated Dorn is now in a succession crisis.
And most probably a few want to reestablish the old policies of Doran, and I many yet were probably outraged by the wipeout of the Martell line.(to revenge the death of a Martell)
So the populist wind to go to war is probably ground to a halt.
ohhhh how I have waited for this video!❤️❤️
"Sansa's only special power is fiscal responsibility." Burn of the season.
“While Sansa’s only power is fiscal responsibility” hahaha. I love when you randomly sneak in a joke but don’t change your tone or how you speak. You just keep going. It’s hilarious lol
So proper and well spoken then all of the sudden "that's hella impressive" lol
Ser Bronn the Dragon Hunter for the Iron Throne!!! #TeamBronn
bronn can go die
I prefer ser Bron Dragon maimer myself
Ser Hotpie the Real Targaryen! for the Iron Throne!!! #TeamHotpie
Bron will die
bronn the dragon slayer
(Knocking on Cersei's door) "Who is it?" "Ben." (Opens door - Drogon outside) "Ben' Da Knee."
Gami Cross Cersei "That's a worse pun than when Ten Goodmen showed up. And his brother Twenty. Also AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
I'd just like to point out that Arya using Needle to block and deflect is absolutely ridiculous, because Needle is a weapon meant for stabbing and its thin blade is not sturdy enough to be handled in such a way, not to mention that Brienne is significantly older, stronger and heavier than Arya, meaning that she could have easily at least chipped Needle even with a sparring sword. Arya, according to her age and training, should depend on quick movements and evasion, not tanking. She is not built to withstand anything, she is built to dodge. I don't know why the fight was choreographed like this.
Your voice makes this videos a million times better.
These are so incredibly thorough and well-done. Keep it up! Off to Patreon I go.
I still don't get how the water could be that deep where Jaime fell in.
One of the best ever episodes of GoT.
Isn't Ilyn Payne on Arya's list as well? By the way, where is he, have I forgot something? :D
Some say he's dead in the show due to the fact that the actor that portrayed him had some terminal disease and they didn't want to recast him for some reason.
Maybe we'll get answer in next episodes, who knows...
Dostigo the actor who plays him has cancer, he's too sick to be in the show.
I heard he was in remission
good lets hope he dies then... in the show.
You don't get nearly enough recognition that you deserve. I see so many other Game of Thrones channels make mistakes here and there but I have yet to hear you say anything inaccurate. You really take your time with these videos instead of rushing to put it together a day or two after each episode. You also pick up on things that others don't like Bronns comment about wealth weighing Jaime down in connection to him drowning at the end of the episode.
Keep up the great work.
Still the very best weekly episode breakdown series on TH-cam, hands down.
Why is no one talking about the Scorpion bolts? I think they're absolutely poisoned. First of all, the name Scorpion, like their poisonous sting, and secondly they're made my Qyburn who is notoriously shady. Thirdly, what;s the chance you'll actually hit a dragon in the eyeball from that far? It makes way more sense to poison the bolt and just hit it anywhere where it'll stick. I really hope not, but I think Drogon might actually die pretty soon :(
Naomi Dascal The Scorpions in the show are named after the real-world weapon called a scorpion.
I wouldn't put it past Qyburn to poison the bolts but that's not a good argument in favour of it.
Because it isn't a scorpion it's a balistae
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'Ballistae' is plural, you mean it's a 'ballista'. Also, in both the books and show it is called a scorpion
I love the Preston Jacobs shout out
Preston King!
Your channel has grown immensely! Great job man
the actors on the show are great. their facial reactions tell so much without having to say a word. Dickon (heh), Jamie and Tyrions reactions to the devastation of war was perfect.
Just to point out, if people starve in the North, Sansa will open Winterfell to the people. That's why she did that, she said the peasants can't carry wagons load of food to Winterfell during winter so she's taking theirs as a precaution if people need to retreat to Winterfell. Cersei isn't letting anyone in to King's Landing, the peasants will starve that are even inside the city.
I would like to know this : why does no one in the North want to behead Jon for leaving the Night's Watch? Nobody knows he dies and was brought back to Melisandre. For almost everyone on Westeros right now except Davos, Melisandre, Tormund and a few members of the Night's Watch (and maybe Bran too), Jon broke his vows and should be beheaded for it.
Anthony Drouin maybe the legend of Jons resurrection is spreading throughout Westeros like the rumors of Jamie and Cerseis affair for years and no one dares question that?
Well everyone in Castle Black can attest to his death and resurrection, so the proof is there. It's still strange that no one questions it, and stranger still that he as a character hasn't changed much because of it. All the other characters who share this experience have been changed by it. Beric Dondarrion says he loses something every time he comes back, Cat in the books is nothing like her former self. Even if that didn't alter him for whatever reason, you'd think his outlook & approach to life would change in the same fashion as someone in the real world narrowly surviving a car accident or some other near death experience.
His oath to the Night's Watch was forfeit upon his death
Davos doesn't seem to think it's a secret and has no problem telling Dany, so I wouldn't be surprised if the north already knows. They don't show every conversation or meeting in the show, as evidenced by some of the things people refer to they couldn't know about unless told off-screen.
@@femsff7090 sure but that's bad story telling something that critically important should be addressed on screen otherwise your list to assume. And if you have to fill in the holes for the story it's s*** writing. Everyone at Castle black might know but the rest of the Lourdes probably don't and they should all want him dead. That way they can marry Sansa and roll the North
Why should Daenerys apologize for being powerful? That's like saying a genius should intentionally mark wrong answers on a test so that everyone else in the class can get a curve. Tyrion had wildfire and he used it against Stannis. The Wildlings had giants and they used them in the battle for the Wall despite having more than enough men. Yet Daenerys is the one who has to apologize for using what she has. Why should she be labeled evil because she has a dragon and after HOLDING BACK is embracing this power instead of running from it?
thedifferent14
I don't get the Dany hate. She's a liberator. Baratheons and Lannisters are usurpers. Fuck the queen.
Hunam I don't have the time to rewrite it but I just posted a comment arguing why cersei is better, at least as character we can root for, it should be one of the recent comments give it a read
She was right to use her dragon and battle, I don't have a problem with that. I'm only questioning her execution of prisoners
Friend you are the true shaman of Westeros. Your videos are insightful, entertaining, thoughtful and I never truly think about anyones analysis until you weigh in. Thank you, congratulations, and good fortune in the wars to come..
Ayy, that play on "..knights are dark and full of terror" quote by Thoros
Eldest living 'male' Stark. Both Sansa and Arya are older than Bran.
Finally... my drug
2:10. The reason she must provide the gold first is to prove that she can pay the debt and not have to worry about interest. Hell, the guy even mentions this. Once the debt is paid, a new loan is negotiated from a much better stance. Did you learn anything in school?
You can tell the quality of the season from Alt Shift X's videos. All they can do in their videos is point out the obvious and lightly brush the many plot holes. Whereas the previous seasons touched upon the lore and almost every episode had depth.
I am so glad you mentioned Meera wiping Bran's arse. You ASX are the only one I have heard say this. I was thinking the same thing. Bravo!
Do you think bran will become more human again or is he fucked?
Of cause he is totally ***ked.
Bran is No More only the 3 Eyed Raven remains. The 3 Eyed Raven is an ancient shapeshifter who took over Bran's body. The 3 Eyed Raven is hardly human.
Nah fam surely not i thought the old man just downloaded all the data into Brans brain that is why he is brain dead
+Theresa Steward
You didn't understand shit if you seriously believe that.
Bran is still Bran, he still retains his individuality, it's just that he has transcended humans and their petty interactions and emotions after all the information and powers he gained.
He realized how his past self and everyone else he has known before his transformation are not important at all after the knowledge of past experience of everyone that has ever lived has been shoved into his head.
If anything, it's Bran that absorbed the Three Eyed Raven and all the greenseers (Old Gods) who became one with the weirwood after their death.
No look again at the fight between the Night King and the 3 Eyed Raven. The 3 Eyed Raven shapeshifts from the Night King. He become incorporeal then wargs into the nearest Weirwood tree. Bran attached to the Weirwood now is taken over partially but the transfer is not complete. He has to touch a different Weirwood for the transfer completion. Once that occurred the 3 Eyed Raven now has complete control over Bran's body. Bran Stark is now one of multiple of memories controlled by the 3 Eyed Raven.
Bend the knee
Bend da knee
Bend a knee
End a nee
Danee
Dany....
I think Game of Thrones messed up, big time.
I would not be so pissed if it this was not Game of Thrones. If this was any other show, I would be like "that was a pretty cool episode, dragons and battle and shit".
But no.
This is a series that stood for vulnerability of characters. It drew tension from that very fact. Anyone could die. Most of the time it felt real. Not real in like real life, but in a way that you could not smell the written script behind it. It all made sense in the created universe.
I was hoping for someone to die. I really did. They could've killed a dragon or even more. But the showrunners did not. The characters don't seem to die when they likely would, but more when the script says so.
When I saw Jaime and Bronn, pretty much unharmed, surrounded by burned ground and men, it felt symbolic for my current opinion.
I cannot really think about any likeable character that seems to be in danger. Most of them are holed up in some castle and even if everything around them is being burned to crisps, they still manage to survive by some ex machina.
Sure, you could argue with the White Walkers being a constant threat to everyone in Westeros but it seems that for every foot they step closer to the wall, any other character in the show is likely to travel from one castle to another on the opposite side of the continent.
I am not sure if anyone is going to read this, but hey, it sure felt good to post my opinion.
Don't get me wrong, I still like the show. I would not be nitpicking if i would not love it. It just frustrates me sometimes.
Greetings
Nice shout-out to Preston! You, Preston and Red Team are what I look forward to after every episode! Thank you!
A circle with a vertical line through it is the greek phi, the first letter of the word philosophy. It's also the symbol for describing the golden ratio, which might have some metaphorical meaning here.
Did anyone noticed Bran's reaction (conserne, fear) once he gave the dagger to Arya, why is noone talking about this :(
ncdub 9623 I thought he looked sad. Dagger is light bringer confirmed?
He did not look scared, I suspect he understood, the consequences of his actions giving this to her, setting future events into motion that he has already seen. he already knows what she will do, and everyone else. nothing to fear, if anything, he is emotionally detached.
Its not Bran anymore...
he's overloaded, he no longer just has his memories. He has the memories of literlly every person who ever lived, so obviously he is gonna have some disassociation with himself
I'm waiting for Bran to mutter "Wubba-lubba-dub-dub"
Anyone hope Jorah will intercept the golden company cause he came from their group, bring them to danys side?
he didnt tho.
Not in the books, but in the show he tells danys he was part of the company before working for Danys bro
In the show, Jorah is JonCon. If anyone is going to bring the Golden Co. to Dany's side, it will be Jorah.
I'd much rather Jorah switch sides and return to the North. Dany is just plain out a crazy, entitled asshole. I can't wait for her to die, and I guarantee that she will.
isaac berry I don't get where all the Dany hate is coming from lately. What makes her crazy and entitled?
Watch out for spoilers from the leaked episode (episode 6) below
AltShiftX as always has the best Thrones breakdowns
Are you using a processor to remove breaths when you record your audio, or are you going back and removing them in post-production?
Why do people think the Dotharki are so unstoppable the dragon did most the work
The dothraki would have easily taken that battle by themselves but would probably have suffered heavy loses penetrating the lannister shield wall. Losses Dany can't afford after losing half her allies already. Drogon breaking the lannisters formation made them easier prey for the Dothraki screamers.
I get why sahe used the dragon just saying the dothraki as a army i don't think would have won as easily
/holy shit the 6th episode is lit
I won't give spoilers but it's fucking incredible. Be careful though as there are a lot of spoilers down below
Agreed. It's been a while that I felt like this over a GoT episode. And, yes, it's hard to avoid spoilers for episode 6 in general. There are a ton of video thumbnails I've seen that spoil all the biggest moments. My advice for anyone who doesn't want to get spoiled is, swallow your ethical principles this time a and just watch it (this one is in HD and good sound quality) before some idiot spoils everything for you.
People hating Dany make no sense at all, burning your enemies alive is no different than choping heads or legs and letting them bleed for days, war is war, after all how mercifull Lannisters were slaughtering the people in High Garden???
MrFantocan Thank U
How about burning supplies, when she could just burn troops, or just VIPs for that matter. Then keep the supplies for herself. She was just talking about being low a scene or so earlier.
Dany is unlikeable person, wearing valyrian steel plot armor. Even Cercei is more interesting, whan this Maria De Sueberg (half-dragon, half-princess, half-elf, half-god, breaker of chairs, mother of miserable old shit, Khaness of Mongols).
GRR Martin surely loves Mary Sues and love triangles.
Dany is just an unlikable charecter imo. She is a hypocrite.
She has no reliable way of knowing what was in the convoy so even though we know food is in there Dany does not and she was most likely trying to make sure that Cersei would not get any of those resourses by destroying them.
Dying for faster videos...... I adore your accounts of episodes! Great job!
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