The most amazing thing about this show was how Bran spent so long developing super powers, yet still managed to contribute nothing useful to the story.
Bran : can see the future Bran : lets the events that lead to dany killing everyone in kings landing happen Bran : becomes king "why do you think i came all this way......" Bran earlier : i can't be lord of anything
@@Sandeepkumar-kk9nk that makes things a little better then.... Still personally don't like him but at least its less likely that he just decided to let so many bad things happen. Maybe he didn't see it coming at all....
George rr martin: "I don't like evil characters being evil for the sake of being evil." The way david and dan decided to end white walkers plot without explaining their true motives was really frustrating
@@bidhrohi12 please stop defending dumb and dumber. You’re stretching it very far by saying that they had a conclusion. I wouldn’t even call it a conclusion since they forgot about so many things and gave so many beloved characters a dumb and bad ending. Even many of the got youtubers predictions of the ending were better than this dumbster fire.
@@MrKelso85 What happens when your adapting an ongoing book series. Once you catch up to the source material you either have to make up an ending or fill for time till more source material to adapt comes out. George R. R. Martin probably didnt want to give away what was going to happen so people would buy his books still. Though I wouldnt be surprised if he never finishes the books its been like 10 years since the last one and 2 more planned. If he takes another 10 years to do the last one he would be like 80, and you dont see to many 80 year old fat guys in good health.
after a while they became 'weaker', because the suspense was lost. Thats a big reason why GOT has to stop. After a while they are just empty dumb zombies.. meh.
8:30 "Thanks to years of training as an assassin and with the element of surprise, Arya was finally able to put an end to the Night King." Oh, I didn't realize jumping and screaming was part of the element of surprise.
You guys seem hateful . Araya is a faceless men . She blended in with the crowd of the dead. I can name hundreds of books , movies , games , and even real life instances where a character was close to victory and ended up losing because they were caught in the bliss of winning. It's not that unbelievable. I get maybe the person you wanted to deal the killing blow didn't do it. I thought she would pretend to be bran and last moment slip her dagger into the night kings s neck as he went to grab her . It didn't happen that way . I was disappointed that doesn't mean the way she did do it , doesnt make any sense. It makes perfect sense. If you've ever been in a fight where theres so much going on . You would understand how easy it is to drop your guard and lose yourself when you think things have finally concluded
@@AskMeWhyYoureStupid No. The embodiment of death, composture, coldness and stoicism will never have "let his guard down". It's that unbelievable. Besides, he doesn't lower it, since he follows the dagger with his eyes when it falls, but Arya seizes it anyway to kill him... What's more, when he grabbed Bran's arm for the equivalent of a second, he inflicted a cold burn, but strangely, Arya, who had been grabbed by the throat, came out without her. slightest injury when she should have died instantly. Not to mention the fact that she managed to squeeze through literally the entire Night King's army and generals without even being spotted, jump from heights into a flat area, and not get instantly shattered the moment she opened her mouth... Even Sam is not dead, yet surrounded by dead... Not to mention the magnificent strategy of placing the siege weapons outside the castle enclosure, of charging light cavalry against an army in a serried and compact rank, of putting the women and children in the crypt while the enemy is a necromencer... No, there's nothing coherent or meaningful about the last season, let alone the battle of the long night, sorry.
@@vmaraninchi1 shit was like a week ago I lied I read it. Bruh . The night kings grabbed bran in a vision. That's how the link began . With araya it was different she was grabbed in the real world physically. There's no evidence his grip just freezes people secondly don't read into everything so deep just read the books the night king hasn't even arrived yet in them I could go on for hours but can't and won't
I think at this point we can be fairly certain that the reason the writers didn't say where all this was going is because they didn't know wtf they were doing.
It would of made much more sense if bran was the night king and he worged into the man who became the night king trying to stop him in the past and got stuck and the reason he is after bran and the 3 eyed crow is because he wants to stop it all from happening
Years...years I spent speculating, and super interested in Knight King. I just knew he had some ties to a main character...thought there would be some epic final fight scene...I was so hyped...then he was poked by a teenager and shattered...just like my hype for the entire series 😫😫
@@yetiefer6935 The thing is, the show is really good...up until the end (last season or two), and the books are excellent. I highly recommend all the books and the show until the final season. Much like LOST, where you can just watch and then skip the end and think about what you would have done (which would probably be better).
@@Beowulf45 thanks appreciate the tip sounds like a great idea honestly that definitely gives those shows some more appeal I'll be sure to try that out thanks
I felt like Bran was the most useless character of all time. By the time this episode had ended, I personally wanted to kill Bran just thinking about how useless and thankless he was the entire show. Edit: I just realised Bran gave Arya the valyrian knife because he knew she was going to kill the Night King
Useless to you maybe but NOT of his own making. When Jaime pushed him out that window it was a bad bit of luck but maybe preordained. Being the 3 Eyed Raven is far from a useless character. Much is yet to be revealed.
Bran: It didn’t happen as they though it would, did it? Meera Reed: I wouldn’t say so, but when did you learn all of this? Bran: As soon as I became the 3 eyed raven. Also Bran: I’m glad you brought me here beyond the wall, we couldn’t have done this in Winterfell... Meera: So you sure about doing this? Bran: You know what happened after the night king was defeated, don’t you? The same people who united to fight the common threat started to fight among themselves again. Meera: Can’t argue on that... Bran: The peace we have now is temporary, it will always for years to come... Only we know how to stop it. Meera: It will be years before the people stop needing the night king to unite themselves. Bran: Only we know the night king’s true purpose, so lets keep it that way and just get on with it. Meera: Are you sure about this? Bran: I am, this world needs the night king much more than it needs the 3 eyed raven. Meera (cries): Please go easy on them. Bran (smiles): the last one did, what makes you think I won’t? Meera ( stick dragonglass inside bran’s chest) Bran ( eyes begin to turn blue). THE END
Rosie, nope not exactly. I’ve started watching GOT again from the beginning in desperation to counteract, compensate & make up for the the disappointment of season 8, as well as to quickly re-capture & harness all that GOT greatness that it produced with all prior Seasons. If I didn’t act quickly with this course of action, then season 8 would have left a long term/permanent psychological damaging legacy towards what is otherwise phenomenal admiration for the GOT existence. I’ll only be re-watching up to the end of season 7. Possibly further into 8 but just “before” Arya Stark vaporises the Night King and certainly avoiding all else after, such as the desperately disappointing non existent battle at Kings Landing. Arghh......!
I think adding some simple lines from the original Three Eyed Raven, during the Night King’s attack that led to Hodor’s death, would have made it so much easier to understand the Night King and it would give him an actual goal. If the Raven would’ve just explained to Bran: “I’ve passed my powers, what he seeks, onto you. He has sought after our ability for ages. If he takes our ability, he will be one step closer to becoming truly immortal. He must also destroy the Weirwood Tree he was created upon, one that you know very well” (alluding to the Godswood). The Raven then senses that the Night King draws near. “Go, now! I will stay behind and hold him off for as long as I can.” Something like that would’ve allowed the seasons to play just as they did, but would’ve given the main antagonist a true goal that was known to the audience and some of the characters until they would all come together in the final seasons. Thus making better sense that the final battle with him taking place in Winterfell. I would’ve also had Daenaerys deal with Viserion after he and the Night King had been separated so that through the teamwork of Jon, Arya, and Bran the Night King would have finally fallen.
That would be nice, but I m afraid youd want too much from two such idiots as D n D. It takes unusual talent to absolutely ruin one of the best series ever made. They should have held the filming and wait for Martin. Letting those two useless good-for-nothings took the lead was the biggest mistake ever in cinematography.
Knight King was a weak as fool. The mountain is honestly a lot more terrifying. It was also a fucking joke when the Knight King suddenly showed emotion, and smiled(?!?!? Wtf !??!?!) after Dany tried to burn him 😂
Christian Andersen alright Mr T but he was pumped as the ultimate enemy throughout the las seasons, you know, what with an army of dead people, Giants, and a dragon, but anyway I agree with the smile thing
The biggest disappointment was not seeing Jon Snow on a sword fight against the Night King, Aria could kill others, but they missed a chance of an epic fight.
Arya should have killed Cercei! The way Cercei and Jaime died was as ridiculous as the entire last season. All so D n D could take on Star Wars then, losing the Star Wars deal. They needed at least two more seasons.
The children of the forest: Can you kill the humans so we can win this war? White Walker: _Must. Kill. Everything._ The children of the forest: Wait what.
I really feel like I'm alone, and I might as well be. But come on maaaaan I really wanted the NK to win lol. The last 3 episodes should have been of Cersei learning they lost and that he's coming for King's Landing. Last episode should be him sitting on the throne after the fight (which, without dragonglass would be short lived). And then the camera pans over Westeros and the dead are everywhere and the storm dies away.
Nah, I hate Cersei even more than I hate the direction the show went lol. That's why I wanted her to be last for the NK, just seeing the undead fking rip her apart woulda been such a nice scene.
Youre not alone. I wasnt "rooting" for the night king, but it would have been much much more like game of thrones than this fanservice we are getting now.
They built up the Night King so much only to have him fall so easily. Frankly, it was a mean tease. I'd have preferred a last battle of all of Westeros vs the Nights army, and then when Aria kills the NK, the remaining soldiers of each house start to fight each other.
Just laziness, like the ease of killing Dragons lmfao utter hogwash and I'm still mad about it. Anything after the fifth season and ESPECIALLY after 6 is total hotdog water trash.
The whole video becomes bogus because GOT made the Night king arc look like a Naruto filler episode.......... i mean too tell you how horribly they screwed up, they never should have build night king this much if they weren't going to use him correctly
Imagine, the night king being bran, and actually coming for his self, to kill himself before he goes back in time again and become night king himself, thus the night king actually wanted to destroy the chances of white walkers being created again by bran and he is the good guy, but Arya killed him before he could kill bran and so bran does travel time again and becomes night king that could travel trough time and again atacks winterfell and this time wins. that might be too far off but i dont buy it all this build up, for nothing, and bran hasnt done a thing in the past 2 episodes, i think in 6th epsidoe bran will do something that will cost the life of most people.
How the long night should have happened: -All soldiers behind the walls -Dragon fight that we could see -Jon Snow and the Night King fighting on screen for 5-10minutes straight in a one on one sword fight that rivals Anakin vs Obi Wan -Daenarys cast dracarys on both Jon and the Night King, but they both keep fighting in the flames -Finally the night king decides to raise the dead around Jon Snow, forcing him to retreat -Night King decides to move past winterfell and move south for kings landing -Bran convinces Jon to have dragonglass put into his chest and become a new night king -The night king sacks kings landing and takes cersei as his ice queen -Night King Jon fights the night king, beats him, Jaime kills cersei ice queen -Night King Jon takes the white walkers back up to the north, never to return until the next long night. -Daenarys is the new queen of the seven kingdoms. -The end.
I just realized how stupid and unfinished the white walkers and Brans storylines are. So much potential there and they decided to keep it all unsolved. They never actually showed what Bran was doing as the Three-Eyed-Raven and they also didn't explain the connection between him and WW. Very disappointing.
@@skrimdog6151 That's just false. That was Bran's theory but he doesn't know jack shit. If he wanted to end the world why'd he wait so long? If he was just a monster hell-bent on killing everything, why was he making deals with Craster for his babies? Why didn't he kill every single human North of the wall? The Night King clearly had hidden motives.
@@travz21 he killed people north of the wall so he could make an army. An army of the dead doesnt reproduce. He couldn't pass the wall because it was enchanted.
@@travz21 The Babies grew into the White Walkers that dudes with no shirts and long white hair who rode horses...the army of the dead...the zombies are actually called Wights!
It's a shame that The Night King's character was wasted after 8 seasons of build up. The cheap Beast Master last stand was weak, and too bad the Beast Master did it better.
I hate when one presents a really decent, provocative and scary character, but not enough substantial background, especially after patiently waiting for it.
how can you call him a character? He doesnt talk, he has no motivation. All he does is destructing stuff and staring. He is as much a "character" as Jason vorhees or Michael myers XD
I honestly can’t stand the stupid people that are saying the Night King shouldn't have won because that would "be boring". They clearly have never read any of George R.R. Martin's life's work. The series this show is (loosely) based on is called 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. 'Game of Thrones' was merely the title of the first book in the series that the show runners decided to use for the TV series, but the intention was never supposed to be about who won the throne up until the last minute "subverting expectations" bullshit thrown in by D&D SOLELY for shock value. They confirm this when they directly stated in a recent interview after S8Ep3 aired that they read many fanfictions and fan theories about what was going to happen and instead of going with what logically made sense, changed the entire plot and completely ignored all established foreshadowing ever shown in the show just to create something the audience wouldn't expect. That is the very definition of awful writing, making something shocking solely for shock value's sake, which Martin himself made fun of when he said he could "subvert expectations" by making aliens invade Westeros in his novels. If the title of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' isn't already obvious enough, I wish people that still blindly love the lack of payoff would actually pick up one of GRRM's books and learn that the main point was never about the Iron Throne but the pointlessness of war. This was not a show aimed to please fans at its beginning, it was meant to show the very real and very intense sacrifices of war amidst fantastical elements a-la the Red Wedding. In the lore of the ASOIAF universe, Azor Ahai had to kill his wife to create Lightbringer to fight off the threats presented by the Long Night, which went well beyond the White Walkers but also the cruelty of mankind. It was heavily hinted that Jon or Daenerys were Azor Ahai, meaning that either one of them would have to kill each other, the person they loved, in order to fend off the Night King. In the show, the Night King was himself once a man, cursed against his will by the Children of the Forest into being a monster, and traces of humanity could be seen in him during the Battle of Hardhome when he witnessed the death of a White Walker and again when he smiled at Daenerys after her failed attempt to burn him, indicating some type of personality beyond just being a two-dimensional villain who was evil simply for the sake of being evil. In Martin's novels, the White Walkers are much more complex than how they are portrayed on the show and were never created by the Children of the Forest as a weapon of war, but rather their own distinctive species separate from humans that felt slighted by humanity's greed and corruption, and longed to start the world anew to bring peace where there wasn't any. There was no point for the show runners to show the audience the creation of the White Walkers or the humanity of the Night King though because ultimately, they chose to make them pointless malevolent creatures. The penultimate ending of MARTIN'S version would have showed that the Night King did not simply stand for mindless destruction but had a deeper purpose for his motives to make the audience empathize with him, and Jon or Dany (as well as any of the surviving main characters) would have lost many people they cared about in order to face against him. If the White Walkers had a deeper motivation and the audience had been made privy to this, it would have made knowing who to root for that much more difficult, especially since Dany has exhibited sadistic tendencies unlike the traditional hero. Both sides would have been morally grey, and thus whoever won wouldn't have won without paying dearly for it. You don't spend 8 years hyping up Azor Ahai prophecy and White Walkers and the Night King only to have him go down quickly and easily in a battle that never made any logical sense anyway; 8,000+ years beyond the wall just to get killed by a little girl jumping off a trampoline with a butter knife made of Valyrian steel that the Night King KNEW was his weakness and KNEW that the people in Winterfell had. The show's VERY FIRST OPENING SCENE, in Season One, Episode One, were the White Walkers, long before Cersei or the Lannisters or any character that was integral was even introduced; it started with the White Walkers, it should have ended with the White Walkers. Instead, we go from all these threats that "Winter is Coming" and that the royals needed to put aside their petty feuds in face of "The Great War" to then having the Great War really not be that big of a threat after all and go back to the petty feuds between royals. The point of the White Walkers was to show that all humans, good, bad or indifferent, share the same inevitable outcome - death.
Well to be honest I wanted the night king to win that would have been actually unexpected too bad they fucked the night king the most non climatic end to an endgame villain.
If only the children and the first men 12000 years ago knew that all they had to do was kill ONE FUCKING GUY and then all this could have been avoided.
He turned viserion into a white walker (not a wight), as the show confirms. He didn’t need to tame it, it was one of them, part of him..hence it finally perished when he did, along with all the others.
The night king could have had a terminator moment. Landed solo at kings landing, killed a few people and raised them up, let the undead kill more and repeated. Without the means to kill him, kings landing would have lost. Wouldn't have fitted any character development or the story but would have been good to watch.
Thanks the Gods Arya learned how to teleport in Essos. That way she could easily jump over thousands of wights and a dozen of White Walkers to kill the NK in like...5 seconds.
The Knight's King/13th commander of the Watch was a Stark and probably named Brandon from the stories of Old Nan that were told to Bran before he became the 3 Eyed Raven...and the Knight King is hinted at...possibly being a Stark...my theory was the knight King was going to attack Winterfell and go down into the crypts to retrieve the Knight Queen....because Bran the Builder and his allies entombed her....and chained her....since Winterfell was possibly built over Hot Springs or some natural occurence that keeps the crypts warm...at first , I thought a dragon was down there.....according to Old Nan, the 13th Commander and Bran were Brothers, some people have said that they might have been half Brothers and the 13th Commander was the Bastard born to the Stark girl from the Tale of the Bard story and his name was Jon Snow....his half Brother being Bran The builder...but all of this elaborate theorizing has been for naught....one of the most mysterious and intriguing characters was taken down by someone who is barely 5 foot tall ...not Jon Snow, the Hound, Jaimie Lannister, or Brienne...even the dude with the flaming sword got taken down ....Arya Stark killed the greatest threat to Westeros humanity other than Cersi...it felt like a premature ejacualation !
I just realized how much I miss Got, almost from season 7 😔 Although I must say that I loved that Arya killed the white walkers, but then, the rest.... And I fear that there will never be characters like those in that series, and so well achieved and acted. I think one of the best merits of this series is how well the physical appearance of each actor fits each character.
I too loved that Arya was the end to the Night King. And her knife trick was perfect. It would have played better is she snuck up on him (no screaming) with him still catching her in flight, the NK just KNOWING she was there, cause he’s the NK, but the rest of that part was perfect. What needed to happen before he died was MORE BACKSTORY between him and Bran’s exchange.
Such a let down. From the beginning, the story alluded to a mysterious, dangerous, ancient, and particularly different magic behind the Wall. This was supposed to be THE threat, the "thing" that threatened the entire of civilization so much that one King dedicated all the kingdom's resources and magic to create a deterrent, a literal magic Wall to keep them out. At the end, "winter is coming" meant absolutely nothing. It was the stupidest resolution to have the King not only have a stupid weakness, stupid to have the King die when his obvious power was to "bring the dead to life" lol (stupid that you think you can kill something that is not alive), and stupid to make invest in a story where "killing" such King automatically destroys all its dominion (seen this so many times in anime, movies. The concept of the hive queen. Never liked it and stupid to include it here).
Well everyone keeps saying that White Walker had been around for a thousand years before Daemon, yes that is true and they are a slave to the children of the forest, so this is my theory and it might sound crazy to all of you, but I think Daemon is the night king, remember white walker is leaderless and a puppet to the children of the forest, what I think is the children of the forest saw the battle between the uncle and nephew at "God Eyes" and they recovered their body then turned them into a white walker, but Daemon did not lose his memories instead he is conscious and aware to what happened so he became the leader of the leaderless White Walker and started the rebellion against the children of the forest. Daemon is the first Night King and his right hand is Aemond "I might be wrong about Aemond because they recovered his body later on", but as you can see all the long-haired White Walkers resembled Targaryen, probably those are his sons to Rhaenary and Nephews, Cousins. He turned their corpse into white walkers. Do no forget that In the book, they never mention that Children of the forest created a Night King but they mention creating the 1st White Walker as a weapon. My suspect is they fuckedup creating Daemon as a White Walker because his will to become a king one day is very strong, and that his consciousness remains even after dying and turning into a White Walker. Being aware of the situation he started the rebellion against the children of the forest and finally become the King of the north "His dream". It is funny because Daemond wanted to become a King and unites the kingdom, he kinda did it, in GoT series, he successfully united everyone against him. 100% Daemon is the Night King, why would the creator of this series jump into HOTD instead of going back to the "The Conquest" Aegon I story. Because GoT left us so many questions and plotholes and HOTD will answer all of that! they left us with questions like who the fuck is the Night King? Yep, "Daemon".
The problem with purposely being unpredictable is that it ended up being predictable almost felt like they didn't have the money to do things like azora high and his flaming magic sword or return of the Starks from the crypts and used the unpredictability as an excuse to save money the night kings death was a perfect example .
The night king and white walkers should have defeated everyone at winter fell, made it to kings landing and then Cersei would have had to help Danny and John. Aria would have killed Cersei and John defeats the night king. Danny takes the thrown. Happy ending for us all.
The episode when we are first introduced to the Night King, he turns a baby into a White Walker, and it just occurred to me, who does it fall upon to raise this brand new White Walker? Does this person have the patience to deal with an infant White Walker's 'terrible twos'? Or their adolescence? That's got to be a handful having to deal with a hormonal 13 year old White Walker. I'm just curious about this...
He had dark hair when he was human. Even if he is a bastard like Jon Snow, the whole story about the Night King and the Children of the forest and the First men began LONG before Targaryan and other families appeared
@@balen7555 or because scientifically blonde hair is a recessive trait and dark hair is dominant so its immediately less likely, tho not impossible, for dark haired parent(s) to have blonde chileren
@@Red-fs1jw I read somewhere that it’s because the Stark blood is more dominant than Targaryen blood. Other Targs who married outside of the family often still had the blonde hair and purple eyes because usually the Targaryen blood was stronger. It’s just different with the Starks
@@shaysplanet a quick Google search will show there have been several targarians (or bastards) with darker hair including but not limited to three of rhaenery's sons and one of elia martell's children. It appears targarian is not always dominant against dornish
Thank you for giving the significance of the actor who played the NK's previous roles. Could you give me a backstory on the actor who played the mad king too?
Could have at least let John reached the Night King just when he is about to strike Bran.. they have a epic climatic Duel.. but just as Jon is losing and Night King getting his absolute upper hand, arya came in and did her thing. I could have lived with that. Not the immediate shift as like what ep04 did.
I think the Night King warged into Bran and controlled him around cave time. The dark side of Bran warged into Hodor to do his bidding. He killed the boy and became the biggest threat to the 7 kingdoms. Jon Snow was spared for a future showdown, for an unrevealed purpose. He was exactly where he was supposed to be says creepy Bran. Ayra didn't 'kill' the night king like a boss - he reached Bran in time to warg. Whatever direction GRR takes the story will be fine by me. I hope he's secretly finished the book and HBO is plotting an Epic return to continue the series GRR style.
Thanks to the amazing writing of D and D, we will never know. I suppose they went for keeping the mystique. I mean the writing for this villain is on par with Snoke from star wars, of whom we know nothing. Amazing writing. So glad I followed all those seasons of GoT . /s
everything in the show that happened to arya prepared her for the killing of the NK. Although i like her killing the NK, it is disappointing to have the most powerful character in the show wandering for 8 seasons just to get killed by a girl without doing a real damage to the humans. let's see what the last episode will tell us, maybe everything has a reason and is well written and we aren't able to see it yet.
He definitely isn't a Targaryen since they weren't one of the first men. I suspect as you said that he is part of the Stark family, and I think there was an untold pact between the Starks and the night King, I think there's more meaning behind their saying that there always must be a Stark in Winterfell. I do hope the last two books are a lot better than the show, and I hope George has a chance to write and publish them before he either gets too old or passes away
Nightking killed Theon with ease. And Theon had just killed loads of wights and maybe White Walkers. It wasn't a good fight because Theon was nowhere near a match. And Arya surprised him. He even stopped the first surprise (which looked like one more easy fight for him), he fell for his arrogance, underestimated the opponent. Maybe he wasn't such a fighter, because he had never really needed to. He usually just pulled those power moves, was OP in any confrontation. And his captains did the most hand to hand fights where their fudder couldn't overrun the enemies. So paradoxically, because he had never much needed them, his skills didn't evolve :)
I think that Night King was once 3eyed raven. If children of the forest pick strongest candidate for Night King, that can only be 3eyed raven in their minds. That would explain Night Kings knowledge of importance Weirwood trees had, and his strong connection with Bran. And the magical abilities of 3eyed raven could be perfect for Night kings magic.
The First Men didn't have these abilities at the time, I guess they got it after the Pact when they prey the Old Gods and were allies with the Singers.
I honestly hope to to see the following in the next few (yeah right hahaha) years: 1. GRRM finishing the books. 2. A proper reboot following the books (maybe animated)
The creation of Night King parallels the Terminator storyline. Children of the forest represents the robots, which was used and abused by the Humans (First men) and the robots retaliated but creating the Terminator aka Night King. Creating Night King and White Walkers by using the humans and altering them with augmentation. Even Bran tried to go back in time to alter the past.
The actor that played the night Kings role gave some explaination about what night king wanted but it was just a statement which was not at all enough but I did came up with a fan theory that the bird like girls (I don't remember if those were the children) who made the night king for the purpose to kill men ( this much is in the story ) so he doesn't have any reason just like an Android he is programmed to wipe out humanity and he chose the way for it to be a never ending winter.(done) I know this doesn't give a back story but if they would just some how convince this through the show it would be enough. Also they could have killed him in a better way. Like many amazing warriors of the show fight him together ( a bit cheesy but still better ) like Jon snow, Jorah and a dothraki warrior with Arya and the dothraki warrior would die ( as he is not main character ) with Jorah going to rescue khaleesi and Jon losing to him in sword fight then Arya kills him from the back if needed.
I have a theory on Daenerys Targaryen's story Arc end.... I think it is legit. In season 1, when khal Drogo dies Daenerys asks when Drogo will be as he was, and Mirri Maz Duur mockingly says, "When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves" (a Dothraki pledge). See Mockingly! Now this is what Dany promised him before choking him "Daenerys tends to Drogo, but seeing him like this breaks her heart. She holds him through the night. In the morning she speaks to him, claiming that when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, they shall be reunited. She tearfully smothers him with a pillow to end his suffering." In context, it is not at all possible for the sun to rise in the west and set in the east. Not literally ofcourse, but, That's exactly what happened. When Jon stabbed Dany, there was no sun in the sky, the sky was grim. But, killing her, brings a final liberation to the seven kingdoms. The sun rises in WESTEROS, it is free from ambitious rulers. So the sun rises in the west. And after that Drogon burns the iron throne. And we see the clear sky with the sun rising over the horizon. And he takes his mother's body and took off.. later in the end, when asked about his whereabouts, Ser Davos says that he was last spotted flying East. EAST means towards the great Grass lands, thus Drogon(named after khal Drogo) makes the effort to reunite her mother with his Father. And the sun sets in the East. I hope you like this theory of mine.😁
D&D already explained in the commentary that it didn't affect him because his ice magic counters the dragons. He's an ice demon lol who had a pathetic ending due to bad writing.
@@valaxius I only believe what GGRM will say not the trash D&D came up with. Night King being an targaryen/valyrian is morw exciting and interesting than just say "hes a ice demon" thats why hes not affected with fire, lol what a lame writing
@@fishlivesmatter He couldn't be a Targaryen. He was part of the first men. The NK isn't in the books. At least not yet. Him not being affected by dragon fire makes sense. He was created by having dragon glass shoved into his heart so. But yeah the writing for season 7 and 8 was shit. Dumb and dumber can't make a good story on their own.
The last season and ending of the story sucked but it isn't their fault really. They ran out of source material and had no idea what Martin had in mind about any of it. If he'd stopped playing celebrity and finished the next book it would have been different. And here we are how many years later and he STILL hasn't finished it?
Auwal Muhammad Abdullahi, I watched one looper video after watching endgame and now my shit is full of fucking looper videos on the smallest things that don’t need to be covered, and it’s kind of a meme now that looper keeps posting endgame videos.
The knight king is a victim of magic. He has no choice. He is not evil. He is like the terminator, in the sense that they are following their programming/purpose.
The whole night's kings and nightking confusion things has always made me wonder why he wasn't just called the whiteking? He's a white walker and the king of the white walkers so if anything its actually a better fit plus the whiteking sounds cooler in my opinion
The night king was a stark. That's why there must always be a stark in winter fell. The white walkers slept as long as a stark was in winter fell. When theon took winter fell he kicked out all the starks and woke up the walkers. Theon was the last guy killed by the night king.
Interesting, Jon snow uncle in season 1 was lost beyond the wall. He was killed by the white walkers but his eyes weren’t blue. He stayed fighting against the dead. Even though he was dead. ?
D and D turned the Night King into a Scooby Doo villian of the week.
fuck.. that's really really true.
Lmfao
And he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky Snow kids...
😂😂😂😂
The most amazing thing about this show was how Bran spent so long developing super powers, yet still managed to contribute nothing useful to the story.
Bran : can see the future
Bran : lets the events that lead to dany killing everyone in kings landing happen
Bran : becomes king "why do you think i came all this way......"
Bran earlier : i can't be lord of anything
@@jordanrayne4779 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@jordanrayne4779 Bran can't see complete future. He can see some glimpse of future.
However he can see entire past and current present.
@@Sandeepkumar-kk9nk that makes things a little better then.... Still personally don't like him but at least its less likely that he just decided to let so many bad things happen. Maybe he didn't see it coming at all....
@@jordanrayne4779 p
The hype surrounding the Night King that spanned 7 seasons, and then. He just became nothing but a MID-SEASON VILLAIN lmaoo!!
Seauxphie Sanders Right! We needed more history and I would have liked for him to say something before he died
seriously! I was expecting NK to March into landing and have an epic fight. Ugh.
In the books things will be better.
@@THOF-Sam But that means that they don't really have a leader then? Okay I see. Seems strange but whatever.
@@THOF-Sam Yeah I have heard of that. Okay well hope the 2 last books shed some light.
Years of training as an assassin just to scream as you're sneaking up on someone
Plus I must have missed it but where did she jump from??
God thanks. Was angry at that
@@NadiasCloud and Knight kind didn't immediately break her neck when he grabbed her, he was waiting to be stabbed. What loads of crap.
Flawless writing
@@NadiasCloud the famous winter fell Whitewalker emergency trampoline
The fact that there was no additional back story for the night king just pisses me off
Curtis Theres a prequel coming out explaining the origin of him
@@mi_-lt4ws unacceptable the show has to be exactly how every one wants.
@@mi_-lt4ws that would require more episodes
Thats what happens when you add a character that never existed in the original story.
It's called bloodmoon
"untold thruth"
learned nothing new about the NK
D&D would be so proud of you
What’s d&d mean?
@@vietthenguyen21 dungeons and dragons
@@vietthenguyen21 Dan Weiss and David Benioff
Only that there is a difference between the Night King and the Night's King. . . .
"After episode 3, The audience kind of forgot about the Night King" - D+D
Night king:
Bad writing: Im about to end this man's career
Lol
idiotic comment
siege1cj1 idiotic response
@@nickstudios268 Yeah most of you cry babies have nothing but an idiotic response. Cry more
siege1cj1 are you talking about yourself?
The Starks have their wolves
The Targaryens have their dragons
Where are the Lannister’s lions?
Cersei: WHERE ARE MY ELEPHANTS?!!
And the Greyjoy's krakens
@@Ying13280 And the Night King's ice spiders
@@CrniWuk D&B kinda forgot about them
Lmao🤣
😂😂😂
George rr martin: "I don't like evil characters being evil for the sake of being evil." The way david and dan decided to end white walkers plot without explaining their true motives was really frustrating
And they're frustrated he abandoned writing his books. At least their version of the story has some kind of conclusion.
@@bidhrohi12 please stop defending dumb and dumber. You’re stretching it very far by saying that they had a conclusion. I wouldn’t even call it a conclusion since they forgot about so many things and gave so many beloved characters a dumb and bad ending. Even many of the got youtubers predictions of the ending were better than this dumbster fire.
Pure dog shit wasn’t it
@@MrKelso85 What happens when your adapting an ongoing book series. Once you catch up to the source material you either have to make up an ending or fill for time till more source material to adapt comes out. George R. R. Martin probably didnt want to give away what was going to happen so people would buy his books still. Though I wouldnt be surprised if he never finishes the books its been like 10 years since the last one and 2 more planned. If he takes another 10 years to do the last one he would be like 80, and you dont see to many 80 year old fat guys in good health.
@@exiaR2x78 what relevance does this have to my comment? 🤷🏻♂️
Sauron fighting for 10 seconds will be more remembered than 10 years of Night King. Well played D&D.
I miss the army of the dead. They were cool as hell.
(No pun intended)?
after a while they became 'weaker', because the suspense was lost. Thats a big reason why GOT has to stop. After a while they are just empty dumb zombies.. meh.
Mitch Williams The Night King was obviously the most chilling of them all
@@avatrembley2117 wow dats good to know
@@Stoney-Jacksman hhhhhh
At this point who cares? We arent going to find out anything about him. All that build up for Nothing!!!
Apparently, he comes back episode 5.
@@AlchemistOfHecate really? Is that true? Where did you hear that from?
@@04hutchn not really. It's just a theory. But just Google "night king returns" or sth
@@04hutchn script was leaked on reddit but got taken down.
worst villian or antagonist ever created in any type of literature ever
8:30 "Thanks to years of training as an assassin and with the element of surprise, Arya was finally able to put an end to the Night King." Oh, I didn't realize jumping and screaming was part of the element of surprise.
And not getting immediately killed for it after seeing Theon getting immediately killed for it.
You guys seem hateful . Araya is a faceless men . She blended in with the crowd of the dead.
I can name hundreds of books , movies , games , and even real life instances where a character was close to victory and ended up losing because they were caught in the bliss of winning. It's not that unbelievable.
I get maybe the person you wanted to deal the killing blow didn't do it. I thought she would pretend to be bran and last moment slip her dagger into the night kings s neck as he went to grab her . It didn't happen that way . I was disappointed that doesn't mean the way she did do it , doesnt make any sense. It makes perfect sense. If you've ever been in a fight where theres so much going on . You would understand how easy it is to drop your guard and lose yourself when you think things have finally concluded
@@AskMeWhyYoureStupid well said
@@AskMeWhyYoureStupid No. The embodiment of death, composture, coldness and stoicism will never have "let his guard down".
It's that unbelievable.
Besides, he doesn't lower it, since he follows the dagger with his eyes when it falls, but Arya seizes it anyway to kill him...
What's more, when he grabbed Bran's arm for the equivalent of a second, he inflicted a cold burn, but strangely, Arya, who had been grabbed by the throat, came out without her. slightest injury when she should have died instantly.
Not to mention the fact that she managed to squeeze through literally the entire Night King's army and generals without even being spotted, jump from heights into a flat area, and not get instantly shattered the moment she opened her mouth...
Even Sam is not dead, yet surrounded by dead...
Not to mention the magnificent strategy of placing the siege weapons outside the castle enclosure, of charging light cavalry against an army in a serried and compact rank, of putting the women and children in the crypt while the enemy is a necromencer...
No, there's nothing coherent or meaningful about the last season, let alone the battle of the long night, sorry.
@@vmaraninchi1 shit was like a week ago
I lied I read it. Bruh . The night kings grabbed bran in a vision. That's how the link began . With araya it was different she was grabbed in the real world physically. There's no evidence his grip just freezes people secondly don't read into everything so deep just read the books the night king hasn't even arrived yet in them I could go on for hours but can't and won't
I think at this point we can be fairly certain that the reason the writers didn't say where all this was going is because they didn't know wtf they were doing.
“The night king actually forgot that he was the main villain” 🥲
It would of made much more sense if bran was the night king and he worged into the man who became the night king trying to stop him in the past and got stuck and the reason he is after bran and the 3 eyed crow is because he wants to stop it all from happening
They were creating a projection implant in the collective, with the hopes of killing the Anti Christ
Years...years I spent speculating, and super interested in Knight King. I just knew he had some ties to a main character...thought there would be some epic final fight scene...I was so hyped...then he was poked by a teenager and shattered...just like my hype for the entire series 😫😫
Man I feel your pain glad I never started off with the show from the start
@@yetiefer6935 The thing is, the show is really good...up until the end (last season or two), and the books are excellent. I highly recommend all the books and the show until the final season. Much like LOST, where you can just watch and then skip the end and think about what you would have done (which would probably be better).
@@Beowulf45 thanks appreciate the tip sounds like a great idea honestly that definitely gives those shows some more appeal I'll be sure to try that out thanks
@@Beowulf45 show starts going down hill after season 4 tbh and then just completely drops the ball in the last season
Sorry bro
I felt like Bran was the most useless character of all time. By the time this episode had ended, I personally wanted to kill Bran just thinking about how useless and thankless he was the entire show.
Edit: I just realised Bran gave Arya the valyrian knife because he knew she was going to kill the Night King
So was he useless ?
He knows only past and present, not the future.. so your edited thing is incorrect
@@RakeshRaj18 he can see a glimpse of the future
Such a great twist… here have knife… uga uga
Useless to you maybe but NOT of his own making. When Jaime pushed him out that window it was a bad bit of luck but maybe preordained.
Being the 3 Eyed Raven is far from a useless character. Much is yet to be revealed.
NK was my fav character.
I wish Tywin Lannister was alive for the battle of winterfell. Would be interesting to see his strategy.
Prob not suicide the cavalry and dont make the unsuly be a wall when there is an actual wall behind them...
Well one thing's for sure, tyrion wouldve been at the vanguard leading the dothraki XD
He would just glare them back to the north.
Cenotaur1 probably wouldn't put everyone in the cript
It's not strategy its tactics -Tyrion ;)
Bran: It didn’t happen as they though it would, did it?
Meera Reed: I wouldn’t say so, but when did you learn all of this?
Bran: As soon as I became the 3 eyed raven.
Also Bran: I’m glad you brought me here beyond the wall, we couldn’t have done this in Winterfell...
Meera: So you sure about doing this?
Bran: You know what happened after the night king was defeated, don’t you? The same people who united to fight the common threat started to fight among themselves again.
Meera: Can’t argue on that...
Bran: The peace we have now is temporary, it will always for years to come... Only we know how to stop it.
Meera: It will be years before the people stop needing the night king to unite themselves.
Bran: Only we know the night king’s true purpose, so lets keep it that way and just get on with it.
Meera: Are you sure about this?
Bran: I am, this world needs the night king much more than it needs the 3 eyed raven.
Meera (cries): Please go easy on them.
Bran (smiles): the last one did, what makes you think I won’t?
Meera ( stick dragonglass inside bran’s chest)
Bran ( eyes begin to turn blue).
THE END
This was it.
RIP GOT
killed by season 8
You GOT that right
So you’re going to throw 7 great seasons away just because you didn’t like the ending?
Rosie, nope not exactly. I’ve started watching GOT again from the beginning in desperation to counteract, compensate & make up for the the disappointment of season 8, as well as to quickly re-capture & harness all that GOT greatness that it produced with all prior Seasons. If I didn’t act quickly with this course of action, then season 8 would have left a long term/permanent psychological damaging legacy towards what is otherwise phenomenal admiration for the GOT existence.
I’ll only be re-watching up to the end of season 7. Possibly further into 8 but just “before” Arya Stark vaporises the Night King and certainly avoiding all else after, such as the desperately disappointing non existent battle at Kings Landing. Arghh......!
@@mihaiflorea1928 well, season 6 is also shit except last two episodes which saved that season
Yep they fucked it up it should have been Barn Stark who ruled the land.
I think adding some simple lines from the original Three Eyed Raven, during the Night King’s attack that led to Hodor’s death, would have made it so much easier to understand the Night King and it would give him an actual goal.
If the Raven would’ve just explained to Bran: “I’ve passed my powers, what he seeks, onto you. He has sought after our ability for ages. If he takes our ability, he will be one step closer to becoming truly immortal. He must also destroy the Weirwood Tree he was created upon, one that you know very well” (alluding to the Godswood). The Raven then senses that the Night King draws near. “Go, now! I will stay behind and hold him off for as long as I can.”
Something like that would’ve allowed the seasons to play just as they did, but would’ve given the main antagonist a true goal that was known to the audience and some of the characters until they would all come together in the final seasons. Thus making better sense that the final battle with him taking place in Winterfell. I would’ve also had Daenaerys deal with Viserion after he and the Night King had been separated so that through the teamwork of Jon, Arya, and Bran the Night King would have finally fallen.
truly underrated comment
That would be nice, but I m afraid youd want too much from two such idiots as D n D. It takes unusual talent to absolutely ruin one of the best series ever made. They should have held the filming and wait for Martin. Letting those two useless good-for-nothings took the lead was the biggest mistake ever in cinematography.
I learned nothing here. Everything was previously explained already. The Night King was the coolest character in GoT in my honest opinion.
Nothing new you're right
No pun intended?
Knight King was a weak as fool. The mountain is honestly a lot more terrifying. It was also a fucking joke when the Knight King suddenly showed emotion, and smiled(?!?!? Wtf !??!?!) after Dany tried to burn him 😂
Thank you for saving me 10 minutes.
Christian Andersen alright Mr T but he was pumped as the ultimate enemy throughout the las seasons, you know, what with an army of dead people, Giants, and a dragon, but anyway I agree with the smile thing
The biggest disappointment was not seeing Jon Snow on a sword fight against the Night King, Aria could kill others, but they missed a chance of an epic fight.
Arya should have killed Cercei! The way Cercei and Jaime died was as ridiculous as the entire last season. All so D n D could take on Star Wars then, losing the Star Wars deal. They needed at least two more seasons.
I agree, many plot is not good
And Belarion, Jaime, Mormon, Tormund, Clegane and others fighting the white walkers comanders at the same time.
The children of the forest: Can you kill the humans so we can win this war?
White Walker: _Must. Kill. Everything._
The children of the forest: Wait what.
White Walker hears a sound..."Peace in our time"
ROFL
White Walkers are just Westerosi Reapers.
white walkers are magic ultron.
It's the same story as World of war crafts Lich king.Demons create an entity to wipe out Azeroth and then it gets out of hand.
More effort
Was the most mysterious guy in the series... and then all of a sudden was killed by Arya. Very unspectacular.
Didn’t Bran kill him? Arya tried to, dropped the knife, Bran caught it and stabbed him in the kidneys region…shattered him.
@@mtscott yea he launched out of his wheelchair.. I remember now…
Honestly even that bs wouldn’t be worse then what D&D came up with
The final war should have been between the night king and the living
Rather then the climax
I really feel like I'm alone, and I might as well be.
But come on maaaaan I really wanted the NK to win lol. The last 3 episodes should have been of Cersei learning they lost and that he's coming for King's Landing. Last episode should be him sitting on the throne after the fight (which, without dragonglass would be short lived). And then the camera pans over Westeros and the dead are everywhere and the storm dies away.
meeran haq you’re not alone my friend. I was also rooting for the night king.
Nah that ending sucks
you’re not alone, i thought i was the only one!
Nah, I hate Cersei even more than I hate the direction the show went lol. That's why I wanted her to be last for the NK, just seeing the undead fking rip her apart woulda been such a nice scene.
Youre not alone. I wasnt "rooting" for the night king, but it would have been much much more like game of thrones than this fanservice we are getting now.
This was literally 10 minutes of stretched out stuff we all know. Is this entire channel like this?
Yes
Yes. All of the untold truth videos are like this. Absolutely useless.
Yes
No. Its even worse.
Yesss
Im sure the NK is a Stark. Who knows maybe his real name is Winter and this is why the Stark words are Winter is Coming.
LordAnestis we’ll never know now (have to wait for the next book)
that was probably the biggest reach i ever read. pretty sure they mean winter as in the season & no nothing further more lmfaooo
YONDU VIBES He reached so hard I could have landed 50 jabs by the time he recovered. 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
He’s an unburnt like Danny. Likely a Targaryen. Immune to all fire including dragons.
Does the same spiral symbol as Targaryens did in Dragon Stone, Immune to Fire, & Can Ride A Dragon. The Night King is obviously a Targaryen
My question is.. Where the hell Night King procured those giant metal chain to get out Dany's dragon.
Ace Hardware
@@residentrump3271 😂😂😂😂😂
Found myself wondering the same!!! Guess he's the "maker of chains"
@@luckycarter536 lol I saw what you did there...very clever!
Who knows lol
They built up the Night King so much only to have him fall so easily. Frankly, it was a mean tease. I'd have preferred a last battle of all of Westeros vs the Nights army, and then when Aria kills the NK, the remaining soldiers of each house start to fight each other.
Just laziness, like the ease of killing Dragons lmfao utter hogwash and I'm still mad about it. Anything after the fifth season and ESPECIALLY after 6 is total hotdog water trash.
The whole video becomes bogus because GOT made the Night king arc look like a Naruto filler episode.......... i mean too tell you how horribly they screwed up, they never should have build night king this much if they weren't going to use him correctly
Exactly. That deeper motivation should have been the conclusion of the war.
They should make a spin-off series for the night king!!!
Nah…enough zombie rubbish out there. Best bit about GOT was all the political movements.
I am from Slovakia and i am so proud for this actor.
Cause i love GOT....
I'm so sorry that Ultron dropped your country and all those people died.
@@keith3819 Pretty sure that was Sokovia.
@@jozefmasny8349 Yeah, it was a joke...
Imagine, the night king being bran, and actually coming for his self, to kill himself before he goes back in time again and become night king himself, thus the night king actually wanted to destroy the chances of white walkers being created again by bran and he is the good guy, but Arya killed him before he could kill bran and so bran does travel time again and becomes night king that could travel trough time and again atacks winterfell and this time wins.
that might be too far off but i dont buy it all this build up, for nothing, and bran hasnt done a thing in the past 2 episodes, i think in 6th epsidoe bran will do something that will cost the life of most people.
Your theory is much more sensible & not at all far off. D&D are just plain stupid, who wanted to end the show abruptly.
Lmao
Wouldn't that be cool but wouldn't that just end up as a paradox / loop?
How the long night should have happened:
-All soldiers behind the walls
-Dragon fight that we could see
-Jon Snow and the Night King fighting on screen for 5-10minutes straight in a one on one sword fight that rivals Anakin vs Obi Wan
-Daenarys cast dracarys on both Jon and the Night King, but they both keep fighting in the flames
-Finally the night king decides to raise the dead around Jon Snow, forcing him to retreat
-Night King decides to move past winterfell and move south for kings landing
-Bran convinces Jon to have dragonglass put into his chest and become a new night king
-The night king sacks kings landing and takes cersei as his ice queen
-Night King Jon fights the night king, beats him, Jaime kills cersei ice queen
-Night King Jon takes the white walkers back up to the north, never to return until the next long night.
-Daenarys is the new queen of the seven kingdoms.
-The end.
Now that's interesting
WTF. why didn't u get the rights
I am just gonna belive that's what happened
Jon needs to sacrifice his life! He should assign Arya to kill him with her dagger
Nah not that good. Pretty bad.
Untold truth about the Night King- He was a dud thanks to shoddy writing and now no one cares.
I just realized how stupid and unfinished the white walkers and Brans storylines are. So much potential there and they decided to keep it all unsolved. They never actually showed what Bran was doing as the Three-Eyed-Raven and they also didn't explain the connection between him and WW. Very disappointing.
.....he wants to end the world...bran is the memory of the world. Try listening to the dialouge instead of jerking it to the sex scenes dork.
@@skrimdog6151 That's just false. That was Bran's theory but he doesn't know jack shit. If he wanted to end the world why'd he wait so long? If he was just a monster hell-bent on killing everything, why was he making deals with Craster for his babies? Why didn't he kill every single human North of the wall? The Night King clearly had hidden motives.
@@travz21 he killed people north of the wall so he could make an army. An army of the dead doesnt reproduce. He couldn't pass the wall because it was enchanted.
They will make a prequel series I think.
@@travz21 The Babies grew into the White Walkers that dudes with no shirts and long white hair who rode horses...the army of the dead...the zombies are actually called Wights!
It's a shame that The Night King's character was wasted after 8 seasons of build up. The cheap Beast Master last stand was weak, and too bad the Beast Master did it better.
I don’t think they did the knight king justice, he literally brought a winter storm with him
When all the theories are more complex, well thought and satisfying than the actual story...
HBO: what do we say to good writing?
D&D: Not today
I hate when one presents a really decent, provocative and scary character, but not enough substantial background, especially after patiently waiting for it.
how can you call him a character? He doesnt talk, he has no motivation. All he does is destructing stuff and staring. He is as much a "character" as Jason vorhees or Michael myers XD
I honestly can’t stand the stupid people that are saying the Night King shouldn't have won because that would "be boring". They clearly have never read any of George R.R. Martin's life's work. The series this show is (loosely) based on is called 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. 'Game of Thrones' was merely the title of the first book in the series that the show runners decided to use for the TV series, but the intention was never supposed to be about who won the throne up until the last minute "subverting expectations" bullshit thrown in by D&D SOLELY for shock value.
They confirm this when they directly stated in a recent interview after S8Ep3 aired that they read many fanfictions and fan theories about what was going to happen and instead of going with what logically made sense, changed the entire plot and completely ignored all established foreshadowing ever shown in the show just to create something the audience wouldn't expect. That is the very definition of awful writing, making something shocking solely for shock value's sake, which Martin himself made fun of when he said he could "subvert expectations" by making aliens invade Westeros in his novels.
If the title of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' isn't already obvious enough, I wish people that still blindly love the lack of payoff would actually pick up one of GRRM's books and learn that the main point was never about the Iron Throne but the pointlessness of war. This was not a show aimed to please fans at its beginning, it was meant to show the very real and very intense sacrifices of war amidst fantastical elements a-la the Red Wedding. In the lore of the ASOIAF universe, Azor Ahai had to kill his wife to create Lightbringer to fight off the threats presented by the Long Night, which went well beyond the White Walkers but also the cruelty of mankind. It was heavily hinted that Jon or Daenerys were Azor Ahai, meaning that either one of them would have to kill each other, the person they loved, in order to fend off the Night King.
In the show, the Night King was himself once a man, cursed against his will by the Children of the Forest into being a monster, and traces of humanity could be seen in him during the Battle of Hardhome when he witnessed the death of a White Walker and again when he smiled at Daenerys after her failed attempt to burn him, indicating some type of personality beyond just being a two-dimensional villain who was evil simply for the sake of being evil. In Martin's novels, the White Walkers are much more complex than how they are portrayed on the show and were never created by the Children of the Forest as a weapon of war, but rather their own distinctive species separate from humans that felt slighted by humanity's greed and corruption, and longed to start the world anew to bring peace where there wasn't any. There was no point for the show runners to show the audience the creation of the White Walkers or the humanity of the Night King though because ultimately, they chose to make them pointless malevolent creatures.
The penultimate ending of MARTIN'S version would have showed that the Night King did not simply stand for mindless destruction but had a deeper purpose for his motives to make the audience empathize with him, and Jon or Dany (as well as any of the surviving main characters) would have lost many people they cared about in order to face against him. If the White Walkers had a deeper motivation and the audience had been made privy to this, it would have made knowing who to root for that much more difficult, especially since Dany has exhibited sadistic tendencies unlike the traditional hero. Both sides would have been morally grey, and thus whoever won wouldn't have won without paying dearly for it.
You don't spend 8 years hyping up Azor Ahai prophecy and White Walkers and the Night King only to have him go down quickly and easily in a battle that never made any logical sense anyway; 8,000+ years beyond the wall just to get killed by a little girl jumping off a trampoline with a butter knife made of Valyrian steel that the Night King KNEW was his weakness and KNEW that the people in Winterfell had. The show's VERY FIRST OPENING SCENE, in Season One, Episode One, were the White Walkers, long before Cersei or the Lannisters or any character that was integral was even introduced; it started with the White Walkers, it should have ended with the White Walkers.
Instead, we go from all these threats that "Winter is Coming" and that the royals needed to put aside their petty feuds in face of "The Great War" to then having the Great War really not be that big of a threat after all and go back to the petty feuds between royals. The point of the White Walkers was to show that all humans, good, bad or indifferent, share the same inevitable outcome - death.
Well to be honest I wanted the night king to win that would have been actually unexpected too bad they fucked the night king the most non climatic end to an endgame villain.
If only the children and the first men 12000 years ago knew that all they had to do was kill ONE FUCKING GUY and then all this could have been avoided.
Asif you even bothered to write that much you weirdo
I love you ! I wrote a song about my disappointment with Episode 3 I put zero effort in it too only seemed fair.
I’m curious to know your thoughts on episode 5 cuz I thought they almost reeded themselves with the horrors of wars snd classic fuck my life moments.
The knight king being a Targaryaen would also explain why he didn't get burnt by the Dragons Flame.
Now that you mention it, and how he was able to tame the undead dragon
He turned viserion into a white walker (not a wight), as the show confirms. He didn’t need to tame it, it was one of them, part of him..hence it finally perished when he did, along with all the others.
Targaryens can be burned.
Targaryens are not immune to fire
The Knight King were created b4 the targaryaens came to westeroes
The night king could have had a terminator moment. Landed solo at kings landing, killed a few people and raised them up, let the undead kill more and repeated. Without the means to kill him, kings landing would have lost. Wouldn't have fitted any character development or the story but would have been good to watch.
"The UNTOLD truth" - The show _literally_ tells it. ¬_¬
So by "Untold", you actually mean "as told in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones?". There's no new information in this video.
Making a whole new world with its own histories, cultures, languages and beliefs etc.... Hats off to G. R. R. Martin 👏
I think that we are just seeing past events through Bran's eyes. I think that the whole show was just him showing us all what happened.
Thanks the Gods Arya learned how to teleport in Essos. That way she could easily jump over thousands of wights and a dozen of White Walkers to kill the NK in like...5 seconds.
Lol. That scene is beyond me. So fake. The Night king was totally surrounded by walkers and Arya comes from no where... Smh.
Vaika Stash maybe she used the face of a wight?
@@ryancadman7427 or maybe they're trying to push some bullshit agenda......
They should have at least had Arya disguised as a white walker. She does have that ability!
The Knight's King/13th commander of the Watch was a Stark and probably named Brandon from the stories of Old Nan that were told to Bran before he became the 3 Eyed Raven...and the Knight King is hinted at...possibly being a Stark...my theory was the knight King was going to attack Winterfell and go down into the crypts to retrieve the Knight Queen....because Bran the Builder and his allies entombed her....and chained her....since Winterfell was possibly built over Hot Springs or some natural occurence that keeps the crypts warm...at first , I thought a dragon was down there.....according to Old Nan, the 13th Commander and Bran were Brothers, some people have said that they might have been half Brothers and the 13th Commander was the Bastard born to the Stark girl from the Tale of the Bard story and his name was Jon Snow....his half Brother being Bran The builder...but all of this elaborate theorizing has been for naught....one of the most mysterious and intriguing characters was taken down by someone who is barely 5 foot tall ...not Jon Snow, the Hound, Jaimie Lannister, or Brienne...even the dude with the flaming sword got taken down ....Arya Stark killed the greatest threat to Westeros humanity other than Cersi...it felt like a premature ejacualation !
I just realized how much I miss Got, almost from season 7 😔 Although I must say that I loved that Arya killed the white walkers, but then, the rest.... And I fear that there will never be characters like those in that series, and so well achieved and acted. I think one of the best merits of this series is how well the physical appearance of each actor fits each character.
I too loved that Arya was the end to the Night King. And her knife trick was perfect. It would have played better is she snuck up on him (no screaming) with him still catching her in flight, the NK just KNOWING she was there, cause he’s the NK, but the rest of that part was perfect. What needed to happen before he died was MORE BACKSTORY between him and Bran’s exchange.
Such a let down. From the beginning, the story alluded to a mysterious, dangerous, ancient, and particularly different magic behind the Wall. This was supposed to be THE threat, the "thing" that threatened the entire of civilization so much that one King dedicated all the kingdom's resources and magic to create a deterrent, a literal magic Wall to keep them out.
At the end, "winter is coming" meant absolutely nothing. It was the stupidest resolution to have the King not only have a stupid weakness, stupid to have the King die when his obvious power was to "bring the dead to life" lol (stupid that you think you can kill something that is not alive), and stupid to make invest in a story where "killing" such King automatically destroys all its dominion (seen this so many times in anime, movies. The concept of the hive queen. Never liked it and stupid to include it here).
💀 and yet still you watched it all 😉
@@djornybeats8637 doesn't mean we can't be annoyed with the ending 😉
Well everyone keeps saying that White Walker had been around for a thousand years before Daemon, yes that is true and they are a slave to the children of the forest, so this is my theory and it might sound crazy to all of you, but I think Daemon is the night king, remember white walker is leaderless and a puppet to the children of the forest, what I think is the children of the forest saw the battle between the uncle and nephew at "God Eyes" and they recovered their body then turned them into a white walker, but Daemon did not lose his memories instead he is conscious and aware to what happened so he became the leader of the leaderless White Walker and started the rebellion against the children of the forest. Daemon is the first Night King and his right hand is Aemond "I might be wrong about Aemond because they recovered his body later on", but as you can see all the long-haired White Walkers resembled Targaryen, probably those are his sons to Rhaenary and Nephews, Cousins. He turned their corpse into white walkers.
Do no forget that In the book, they never mention that Children of the forest created a Night King but they mention creating the 1st White Walker as a weapon. My suspect is they fuckedup creating Daemon as a White Walker because his will to become a king one day is very strong, and that his consciousness remains even after dying and turning into a White Walker. Being aware of the situation he started the rebellion against the children of the forest and finally become the King of the north "His dream". It is funny because Daemond wanted to become a King and unites the kingdom, he kinda did it, in GoT series, he successfully united everyone against him.
100% Daemon is the Night King, why would the creator of this series jump into HOTD instead of going back to the "The Conquest" Aegon I story. Because GoT left us so many questions and plotholes and HOTD will answer all of that! they left us with questions like who the fuck is the Night King? Yep, "Daemon".
The problem with purposely being unpredictable is that it ended up being predictable almost felt like they didn't have the money to do things like azora high and his flaming magic sword or return of the Starks from the crypts and used the unpredictability as an excuse to save money the night kings death was a perfect example .
Night King: I want to kill everyone.
Daenerys: Hold my beer
You mean starbucks...
night king: ''where in the seven summer did i learned to ride a dragon''
Night King story line has ended, and we still know barely anything about him.
The night king and white walkers should have defeated everyone at winter fell, made it to kings landing and then Cersei would have had to help Danny and John. Aria would have killed Cersei and John defeats the night king. Danny takes the thrown. Happy ending for us all.
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The episode when we are first introduced to the Night King, he turns a baby into a White Walker, and it just occurred to me, who does it fall upon to raise this brand new White Walker? Does this person have the patience to deal with an infant White Walker's 'terrible twos'? Or their adolescence? That's got to be a handful having to deal with a hormonal 13 year old White Walker. I'm just curious about this...
You have a very curious mind.... 😅
The Night King was evil because of all the child support he owed.
The Night King was a crazy homicidal maniac who could ride dragons and was immune to dragon fire. Why is there any doubt he was Targaryan?
He had dark hair when he was human. Even if he is a bastard like Jon Snow, the whole story about the Night King and the Children of the forest and the First men began LONG before Targaryan and other families appeared
Aegon Targeryen VI (Jon Snow) is not a bastard. He isn't born out of incest though which might be the reason why his hair is black.
@@balen7555 or because scientifically blonde hair is a recessive trait and dark hair is dominant so its immediately less likely, tho not impossible, for dark haired parent(s) to have blonde chileren
@@Red-fs1jw I read somewhere that it’s because the Stark blood is more dominant than Targaryen blood. Other Targs who married outside of the family often still had the blonde hair and purple eyes because usually the Targaryen blood was stronger. It’s just different with the Starks
@@shaysplanet a quick Google search will show there have been several targarians (or bastards) with darker hair including but not limited to three of rhaenery's sons and one of elia martell's children. It appears targarian is not always dominant against dornish
Thank you for giving the significance of the actor who played the NK's previous roles. Could you give me a backstory on the actor who played the mad king too?
IMDB is an amazing source. Google it.
No one :
Looper : Why the Night King's breathing is more important than you think
Lol
Don't you mean
Everyone:
@@asleeperj lol
In my opinion, the Night King should've flown the dragon directly to the King's Landing to kill Cersei..
Why, his objective was to kill the Three Eyed Raven, not Cersei...
@@juliazieve9862 bcoz he is the night king 👑👑..
@@juliazieve9862 In the series his objective is to kill the three eyed raven, but not in the books.
@@Kishan-pv3ub ohhhh ok
@@Kishan-pv3ub what's his objective in the books?
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Could have at least let John reached the Night King just when he is about to strike Bran.. they have a epic climatic Duel.. but just as Jon is losing and Night King getting his absolute upper hand, arya came in and did her thing.
I could have lived with that. Not the immediate shift as like what ep04 did.
Whoa..."Bran got branded" just gave us the hidden meaning behind Bran's name. Mind blown....
"Bound to cause few issues"
Aegon VI: u kiddin me
I think the Night King warged into Bran and controlled him around cave time. The dark side of Bran warged into Hodor to do his bidding. He killed the boy and became the biggest threat to the 7 kingdoms.
Jon Snow was spared for a future showdown, for an unrevealed purpose. He was exactly where he was supposed to be says creepy Bran. Ayra didn't 'kill' the night king like a boss - he reached Bran in time to warg.
Whatever direction GRR takes the story will be fine by me. I hope he's secretly finished the book and HBO is plotting an Epic return to continue the series GRR style.
Thanks to the amazing writing of D and D, we will never know. I suppose they went for keeping the mystique. I mean the writing for this villain is on par with Snoke from star wars, of whom we know nothing. Amazing writing. So glad I followed all those seasons of GoT . /s
they kept it secret, because they were unable to come up with some weird, cool sh1t
everything in the show that happened to arya prepared her for the killing of the NK. Although i like her killing the NK, it is disappointing to have the most powerful character in the show wandering for 8 seasons just to get killed by a girl without doing a real damage to the humans. let's see what the last episode will tell us, maybe everything has a reason and is well written and we aren't able to see it yet.
This aged well🥲
How come the Night's King touch had no effect on Arya??? Plot hole at its finest!
Why didn't he just catch her and break her neck instead of just watching himself get stabbed?
@@highgamer240 He could of turned her into a white walker !!!! That would of been freakish with her talents !
Because girl power!!
He definitely isn't a Targaryen since they weren't one of the first men. I suspect as you said that he is part of the Stark family, and I think there was an untold pact between the Starks and the night King, I think there's more meaning behind their saying that there always must be a Stark in Winterfell. I do hope the last two books are a lot better than the show, and I hope George has a chance to write and publish them before he either gets too old or passes away
Night king : I'm the army of death.
Corona: hold my beer.
the WW general gave a better fight versus jon at hardhome than NK himself at winterfell.
Nightking killed Theon with ease. And Theon had just killed loads of wights and maybe White Walkers. It wasn't a good fight because Theon was nowhere near a match. And Arya surprised him. He even stopped the first surprise (which looked like one more easy fight for him), he fell for his arrogance, underestimated the opponent.
Maybe he wasn't such a fighter, because he had never really needed to. He usually just pulled those power moves, was OP in any confrontation. And his captains did the most hand to hand fights where their fudder couldn't overrun the enemies. So paradoxically, because he had never much needed them, his skills didn't evolve :)
we need a separate show dedicated to The Night King history
No we dont. HBO does not deserve to make money off a spin-off after the trainwreck that is season 7&8.
The Knight king is what kept the show on its edge 🔥They didn’t do the character justice in the final season. Such a disappointment
The show really went to shit after is passed the books... I really pray to god that GRRM finishes his books
The fact that there is so much mistery makes the character better
I think that Night King was once 3eyed raven. If children of the forest pick strongest candidate for Night King, that can only be 3eyed raven in their minds. That would explain Night Kings knowledge of importance Weirwood trees had, and his strong connection with Bran. And the magical abilities of 3eyed raven could be perfect for Night kings magic.
Lets hope the Winds of Winter will give us a better explanation
@@marcodevries5001 lol good one
The First Men didn't have these abilities at the time, I guess they got it after the Pact when they prey the Old Gods and were allies with the Singers.
I honestly hope to to see the following in the next few (yeah right hahaha) years:
1. GRRM finishing the books.
2. A proper reboot following the books (maybe animated)
The creation of Night King parallels the Terminator storyline. Children of the forest represents the robots, which was used and abused by the Humans (First men) and the robots retaliated but creating the Terminator aka Night King. Creating Night King and White Walkers by using the humans and altering them with augmentation. Even Bran tried to go back in time to alter the past.
The actor that played the night Kings role gave some explaination about what night king wanted but it was just a statement which was not at all enough but I did came up with a fan theory that the bird like girls (I don't remember if those were the children) who made the night king for the purpose to kill men ( this much is in the story ) so he doesn't have any reason just like an Android he is programmed to wipe out humanity and he chose the way for it to be a never ending winter.(done) I know this doesn't give a back story but if they would just some how convince this through the show it would be enough. Also they could have killed him in a better way. Like many amazing warriors of the show fight him together ( a bit cheesy but still better ) like Jon snow, Jorah and a dothraki warrior with Arya and the dothraki warrior would die ( as he is not main character ) with Jorah going to rescue khaleesi and Jon losing to him in sword fight then Arya kills him from the back if needed.
I have a theory on Daenerys Targaryen's story Arc end.... I think it is legit.
In season 1, when khal Drogo dies
Daenerys asks when Drogo will be as he was, and Mirri Maz Duur mockingly says, "When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves" (a Dothraki pledge).
See Mockingly!
Now this is what Dany promised him before choking him
"Daenerys tends to Drogo, but seeing him like this breaks her heart. She holds him through the night. In the morning she speaks to him, claiming that when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, they shall be reunited. She tearfully smothers him with a pillow to end his suffering."
In context, it is not at all possible for the sun to rise in the west and set in the east. Not literally ofcourse, but,
That's exactly what happened.
When Jon stabbed Dany, there was no sun in the sky, the sky was grim.
But, killing her, brings a final liberation to the seven kingdoms. The sun rises in WESTEROS, it is free from ambitious rulers. So the sun rises in the west. And after that Drogon burns the iron throne. And we see the clear sky with the sun rising over the horizon. And he takes his mother's body and took off.. later in the end, when asked about his whereabouts, Ser Davos says that he was last spotted flying East. EAST means towards the great Grass lands, thus Drogon(named after khal Drogo) makes the effort to reunite her mother with his Father. And the sun sets in the East.
I hope you like this theory of mine.😁
Still mad Jon didn't kill him the whole series that's what Jon was working towards but D&D had him screaming at a dragon seriously what a shame
THE STREAK HAS BEEN BROKEN 😱🥳
Looper: “Up next, we’re back to End Game and how Twilight inspired 4/5ths of the entire movie.
I believe the night king is a Targaryen. He was unburnt when dragon Flame used to him,
D&D already explained in the commentary that it didn't affect him because his ice magic counters the dragons. He's an ice demon lol who had a pathetic ending due to bad writing.
@@valaxius I only believe what GGRM will say not the trash D&D came up with. Night King being an targaryen/valyrian is morw exciting and interesting than just say "hes a ice demon" thats why hes not affected with fire, lol what a lame writing
@@fishlivesmatter He couldn't be a Targaryen. He was part of the first men. The NK isn't in the books. At least not yet. Him not being affected by dragon fire makes sense. He was created by having dragon glass shoved into his heart so. But yeah the writing for season 7 and 8 was shit. Dumb and dumber can't make a good story on their own.
Endgame - GOT content. Looper office must be in chaos right now
The last season and ending of the story sucked but it isn't their fault really. They ran out of source material and had no idea what Martin had in mind about any of it. If he'd stopped playing celebrity and finished the next book it would have been different. And here we are how many years later and he STILL hasn't finished it?
yeah man that sucks , but they could have stopped producing new episodes after season 7 and could have waited to r.r.martins new books
I think this video made me learn more about the Night King and the White Walkers than the show ever did.
Immune to dragon fire, because he is just so damn COLD!
There was a lot of possibility and potential for good storytelling with the Night King, and in their rush the writers pissed it all away.
Looper: [doesn’t upload an endgame video]
Me: wait... that’s illegal
Why is dat
And guys remember dis is for GOT not marvel studio are we clear
Looper uploads _at least_ four videos per day, about half Avengers, half GoT.
-, tell that to my recommendations
Auwal Muhammad Abdullahi, I watched one looper video after watching endgame and now my shit is full of fucking looper videos on the smallest things that don’t need to be covered, and it’s kind of a meme now that looper keeps posting endgame videos.
Arias story was the best part of the show for me. She’s the reason I decided to rewatch the entire show again.
The knight king is a victim of magic. He has no choice. He is not evil. He is like the terminator, in the sense that they are following their programming/purpose.
The whole night's kings and nightking confusion things has always made me wonder why he wasn't just called the whiteking? He's a white walker and the king of the white walkers so if anything its actually a better fit plus the whiteking sounds cooler in my opinion
Well looper fails to upload anything that is not GOT or endgame related...
Looper I think you’re in the endgame now
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Nightking: "I'm HowToBasic"
Night king went from a story boss to a mini boss
The night king was a stark. That's why there must always be a stark in winter fell. The white walkers slept as long as a stark was in winter fell. When theon took winter fell he kicked out all the starks and woke up the walkers. Theon was the last guy killed by the night king.
Interesting, Jon snow uncle in season 1 was lost beyond the wall. He was killed by the white walkers but his eyes weren’t blue. He stayed fighting against the dead. Even though he was dead. ?