WATCHING Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5 | The Bells | FIRST TIME | REACTION
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2022
- Well here we are
The penultimate episode of the entire series
This episode has highs
and boy does it have lows
But I knew this was coming and I'm just happy Addie doesn't hate the show haha
RIP Cersei Lannister
RIP Jamie Lannister
RIP Ser Gregor Clegane
RIP Daenerys Targaryen the character
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Dan: "I need Cersei's level of confidence."
Brutha thats not confidence. Its delusion.
Ah yes. When this first aired we shouted at the TV, one person walked out and two wine glasses got (albeit accidentally) smashed. Fun times
I like to think of the white horse as the spirit of The Hound taking Arya to safety. It reminds me of the time she got the white horse after they fought the men in the tavern. RIP Sandor...I hope your afterlife is full of chicken.
The white horse symbolized the last departed remnants of Daenerys' goodness and soul, because Khal Drogo gave her just such a gift as a gesture of love.
I agree. But on the non serious side, I believe the white horse was Jaqen H'ghar in Pony Face . . . .
RIP Sandor, one of my favorite characters next to Jorah, but I always thought the white horse was just Bran helping his sister out.
Sandor got to Heaven and said, "I'm gonna eat every one of these fucking chickens." And that is why there are no chickens in Heaven.
@@user-ee8yj4io3g I think that too - and take it a step further. "Death on a pale horse" is apocalypse symbolism, one of the 7 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. From the very beginning, Dany has been Death on a pale horse. And Arya is also death - she took that pale horse for herself.
"I have never known those bells to mean surrender." - Davos Season 2 Episode 9
This was the death of Daenerys the character. There is absolutely a means and path to turn her from revolutionary liberator to messiah savior who sees herself as the only true ruler of Westeros, but this was not it. This was Weiss and Benioff taking a huge dump on almost a decade's worth of some of the best story telling in TV history.
Exactly
@@kathiamartinez2586 you two might want to go back and watch the show again. Dani wasn't as balanced as you might give her credit for. She has always been a tyrant when pushed far enough.
@@TheWindcrow that doesn't mean that the show found a way to write her end game arc in a way that was compelling or emotional. this is absolutely the end grrm always had in mind with dany.... but because he dropped the ball in actually finishing his own story, we got some fanfiction, lazy, wikipedia version of it. And unfortunately, its the only version we will ever get, because he clearly wants to just work on easy money projects rather than finish asoiaf.
What you said...I also didn't like Cersei death she deserved so much worse.
Garbage take. D&D DID take a dump on everything. But Danys ending is one of the few GREAT parts of this season. They have ABSOLUTLY been setting this up for nearly the entire show. She is and has since season 2 been tempermental, ruthless, and violent.
But you can apply play that argument to the fact that they were setting something else up for most of the show. Only for those assholes to not follow through with it. And it would have been so amazing I think it might have completely salvaged the rest of that awful season. And that reveal would have been the fact that tyrion is also a targaryen. A while back Tywin made the argument that he is forced to watch tyrion Waddle round wearing his sigil because he CANT PROVE that tyrion is not his. And we know that tywin lannister was hand of the king to the mad king. Then they had a falling out and tywin packed up and went home. I believe it is entirely probable that the mad king was having an affair with Tywins wife. Tywin found out and bounced but she was already preggers with Tyrion.
Plus Tyrion is the only person besides Jon ( Until she she has to rescue the people North of the wall) That ever touch any dragon. And judging by the way Drogon Trotted up to John like a puppy. I believe those dragons can tell who is a member of that bloodline.
"Wow! I really thought we were all out of Dothraki. What a pleasant surprise!"
I laughed so hard at that because, yes, we were all out of Dothraki. I guess they either just respawned, or D&D just forgot about that...kinda like how D&D said: "Dany kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet". Like, Excuse me? 🤨😂😂😂
sure had a checkpoint
They said that half the Dothraki were gone in episode 4, during the council meeting
"If it weren't for you I would've never survived my childhood..". That scene. That's the one. It sucks that it's part of such a polarizing episode so it barely gets a mention. But both of them put so much into the feeling of two drowning men desperately trying to hold on to each other with both silently knowing it's their last moments together. It stares right into your soul. So much passion is put into the acting there. It's such an excellent scene. Same with the Jaime Cersei moment. You might've wanted to happen in a multitude of other ways but just acting wise that scene is outstanding. The pained expression in Jaime's eyes is uncanny.
Have to remember the flashback where the seer lady told Cersei that a new queen will come and bring her down, on top of her children dying. Cersei has lived her entire life fearing and growing to despise this queen, while becoming increasingly paranoid and power mad. This is why she treated Sansa and Marjorie the way she did and now she's seen the face of the true queen of the prophesy, and she fears/hates her even more because she recognizes her as a real threat. It's really not that surprising that Cersei would treat Dany this way, to her all the other queens are an amalgamation and her hate of them has steadily grown over 25+ years.
A round of applause to the commander of the Golden Company who, despite being perfectly aware there's a dragon on the enemy side, decided to leave the whole army just standing there like a practice target.
Although I was ultimately as disappointed as any and all with the ending, it was fun to rewatch with you guys. Thanks very much for the ride along. 👍
Sorry y’all didn’t see it coming with Danni but as Ramsey said, if you were expecting a happy ending… you haven’t been paying attention. Go back and rewatch, Danni has shown glimpses of this since the beginning but there was alway someone there to reel her in. Unfortunately there was no one on that dragon with her to talk her off the ledge.
I've brought this up to sooo many people who said Danny just "turned" crazy....They've been dropping hints on her going crazy since season 1....Remember Qarth when they wouldn't let her in? She threatened to burn the city down.
Jeffrey Morgan - yep, totally agree!
@@ryanhampson673 Me too! I saw it coming from way back, but I've given up trying to get others to see it!
@TheAuthorIsNotDead Her methods may differ from others, but Ned Stark, Robb Stark, and Jon Snow all executed people as well. Stannis burned many. Cersei blew up hundreds, had babies killed, and tortured many. The Hound killed innocents. Jaime killed innocents, pushed Bran out a window, killed his own cousin, killed his King. All of the main characters on the show killed people in cruel ways and many sent thousands to their deaths.
Because 5'2 Daenerys needs to use dragons to do it she's somehow "mad" or "crazy," and it was "always" going to happen. Your standards for her are ridiculous and not in line with the show canon or how all of the other main characters acted.
@TheAuthorIsNotDead Who does she torture...? The Wise Masters get crucified, a form of execution. Others she burns with her dragons - a quick death. And she doesn't ever do it "just because," it's always as a form of punishment, ie enslaving human beings, being a traitor, sedition, etc. These are the exact same actions that literally any Westerosi noble (or Essos Master) would do.
What I'm getting at is that it's only AFTER s8 that people are like "Ooh see she was crazy all along and ultra violent!" When in reality she's just doing what every other character is doing in orders to survive and ultimately have a shot at the Iron Throne. Look at the hundreds of reactions to GoT and find me people that aren't cheering Daenerys along the entire way and saying what she's doing is totally justifiable.
For some reason, everyone forgot after Daenerys' act that the people of King's Landing rejoiced when Ned was executed, the Golden Cloaks (on Joffrey's orders) cut out all Robert's bastards, spit and humiliated Cersei publicly, they even didn't care when they were saved by Tyrion from Stanis, no one even stood up for him at the trial, so I don't feel sorry for them most of it! And I think Denis's act is fair and justified, not counting all the pain that she has endured over the seasons and the loss of loved ones.
She purified the city !!! Like kinvara said !!!!!
You think it's 'fair and justified' to burn thousands alive, including babies and children? Well, if anything, morally depraved people like you certainly represent a powerful negation to any idiot who says Dany's turn 'came our of nowhere.'
As for the people of KL, they cheered for Ned's death because Ned literally told them he betrayed their king. What the hell were they supposed to think? They humiliated Cersei because they were encouraged to. What would be the reaction of the public if Donald Trump was forced to walk the streets of New York naked as punishment for his many scandals? Commoners always enjoy the sight of someone rich and powerful taken down a notch.
Well, I don't think the little kids did any of that or even all of the smallfolk, who wouldn't have been allowed to speak up for Tyrion at his trial if they wanted to--Tyrion was barely able to speak. :)
I think it makes perfect sense for Tyrion to free Jamie. It´s not the best tactical move for himself, but it´s his brother who´s always had his back. You can´t just watch your brother probably be executed when you have the power to stop it, no matter the cost.
Right. His brother also freed him in the same scenario, so it does make sense he'd put his life on the line.
"When you play the Game of Thrones you win or you die." - Cercei. I feel like at this point all of her actions are based on this logic. She has no reason to think Dany will spare her life just because she yields.
I think she just kinda forgot about all that
More likely than if she doesn't.
The saddest, most ironic thing about the Hound is... he died for revenge, but his brother was already basically dead so his death was in vain. The storyline is a warning to everyone: do not live for revenge.
Sandor played the part the fate gave him.Hate was the motivation to go forward when other people would lay down and die.
I loved Sandor since he left King´s Landing with his new slogan "fuck the king" and he mutated from a puppet of masters to a one man army.
And I never forget Sansas lying she wouldn´t had alternatives in her life. Sandor offered her tó bring her back to Winterfell-....but that wasn´t good enough for the little princess. And god laughed and sent her to the Boltens...
I am a llittle bit sorry about Sandor.....but this was the fate he chosed and so it´s ok.
Still the best death in fantasy history. Except maybe Gollum.
Possibly the only half-decent character arc in the entire series.
@@anonymously94 Disagree. I love the arcs that ended where they started, because people may change, but they don't change their core. Nice literary irony of a sort.
however.....Sandor often said only hate and revange kept him alive....so when Arya left him behind to die slowly in the mountains.
I laughed so much at Dan's eyeroll! 🤣🤣🤣
Everybody always cheers for all of Dani’s speeches about burning down stone castles and armored men and then when she does it everybody is pissed lol
Right when Addie started writing something I busted out laughing then you made a face I was dead 💀
That one visual towards the end where Arya is standing with rubble and ash in the backdrop with an eerie silence everywhere is really good
This has been so fun y’all as a New Zealander and starting with LOTR and the hobbit and then all the way till now.. wow what a fun trip it has been… ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful place.
"Nothing else matters only us" that was so melancholic but beautiful!! It was a poetic full circle. Can't xomplain against that.
Sandor cleganes death is so poetic, he lived his whole life afraid of fire because his brother was a bully and left a permanent scar on him both physically and mentally, his whole life he avoided fire at all costs, it even put his life in jeopardy because he wasn’t able to do what he was supposed to do when there was fire around, then when he decides he doesn’t want to be afraid anymore, he goes to face the creator of his fear and in turn, dies by what he fears but before he dies, he no longer feared it, he just accepted it.
But why was he trying to kill this zombie? His brother is already dead. This monster was a husk, a vessel. It was odd how they reduced the hound to a revenge plot that in reality didnt mean anything anymore. Clegane Bowl was a fan meme that they took too far imo.
@@TheKillaShow tbh I don’t even remember what they did to the hounds brother, was he really a zombie? I thought the scientist brought him back with like chemicals and stuff and although he wasn’t 100% the knight he was before, there was some of him still left in there but just most was hatred and anger, and that’s because that’s what his brother had always been as we can see, that would make more sense
@@Randomyoutubecommenter the guys right, he was basically a zombie, he got poisoned and died and then got bought back to life
@@TheKillaShow I agree with this. It's like the showrunners saw Cleganebowl memes and said, "Let's go with that." I hate Cleganebowl. I'm glad some people found something poetic there. To each their own. :)
Cleganbowl in the burning Red Keep with death and apocalypse everywhere you look was pretty dope. I'm glad we got that.
Jon denying her wishes for silence, Jorah dying and Missande dying in such a short amount of time I think drew out the true Targaryen in her.
"These people do not care who wins."
... and that was exactly Dany's problem with them.
If one was clearly a better ruler then they would, but why would they care when one is a Lannister & the other is an unknown.
@@d3l3tes00n Well not totally unknown....also don't forget the dragon.
This has been such a fun journey watching you guys. So sad we are almost to the end.
57:00 Addie talking about the disappointment in the story sums up everyone's reaction after first watching this episode. D&D really destroyed one of the greatest shows ever made.
WHAT happened made sense with the plot. The buildup to this was way too rushed
@@rin68nyr90 Yeah. It's not the what that is the problem. It's the _how._
Don't add ME among that "everyone's reaction". I love the show as it is.
@@rin68nyr90 agree 100%. it wasnt really what happened that ruined this season and the previous season for me. It was how rushed it was and how little explanation for what is going on there was. Dani turning into the mad queen was foreshadowed all throughout the series but how she got there was so badly explained towards the end
I always felt there was a beauty amidst all the carnage and destruction that the 'good guys" subject the capital to. That's my type a vibe. Oh well freedom ain't cheap.
They should have hung a ''Mission Accomplished'' sign on what was left of the Red Keep. I guess the giant Targ banner also does the job.
@@SerbAtheist haha lmao
The Varys/Tyrion/Euron attack stuff was corny as hell, but so is all the virgin eyes who pretended to be surprised that Dothrakis pillage & Northmen commit atrocities. Remember Locke? "3 Quick Deaths"? Cringe is also being mad that dUh gOoD gUys didn't get the chance to heroically vanquish duH eViL qUeEn Cersei & give you a satisfying end. GOOD. That's the point. *Real wars rarerly have satisfying endings*. Why couldn't she just burn the Red Keep! Just kill Cersei! If only we could just kill Saddam & leave lmao. The reality is Dany was always gonna go off the rails without Jorah or Barristan. This wasn't Dragon Lady Bad Overnight, there's about 15 different episodes of her counsels begging & pleading her not to commit mass slaughter. If that wasn't hint enough all there was left to do was to knock the self-denial out of the viewer with a frying pan. GoT has always been about nihilism, not knights in shining armors. Good, nothing worse than a desensitized war. If only Jaime lined up with dUh gOoD gUyS, so you won't have to worry about cheering for mass murder. Cersei not getting an anime supervillain death was a stroke of genius, most disruptive way to do the Valonqar with Jaime's hands & eyes on Cersei. "Nothing else matters,until you & I are the only ones left" is the only arc Jaime needed.He kept his promise from S1. It IS the most righteous full circle of his character. Casuals never cared for book loopholes. The real gut punch was not getting a happily ever after, they couldn't believe the show would have the audacity to make them feel stupid for putting all their faiths on demagogic "liberators". Not being able to enjoy NPC slaughter as they're forced to feel bad for characters like Jaime. Almost like they took that "if you thought this has a happy ending you haven't been paying attention" philosophy seriously when they added it in Ramsay's line.
Euron went out exactly like he should. He didn't beg and scream. He remained maniacal up till the end. On that full on demon time.
Addie's reaction when the Mountains helmet comes off 😂
I think when y’all finally finish Game Of Thrones, y’all should watch Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, The Godfather Trilogy, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, Westworld, The Crown, The Sopranos, The Mandolorian, Vikings, Rome, The Tudors, and Gladiator
Vikings is sooo good! Westworld would be a good one too!
You expect them to watch 17 shows? Your a clown
Star Wars The Clone Wars and Avatar the last Airbender are missing in the list :D
ooh, Westworld, heck yeah!
Banshee.
After binging the reaction to this show, very curious to see Addies take on it...what a ride!
if you rewatch the show a couple of times, then you see it coming. danny has slowly been slipping away for a few seasons already. the gods fliped their coin.
This is the same woman who locked her dragons up for months when she learned they killed one innocent girl.
I don't care how many times you watch the show, the turn doesn't make sense.
@@TheMontross She acted virtuous whenever it gave her political points. Though anytime somebody stood in the way of her entitled claim to the throne she would find some way to roast them somehow. She was warned early on that sacking a city results in massive innocent casualties yet she continued on as a hypocrite the entire show. I can't believe so many people didn't see her true colors since the first season.
@@joetyrant4713 She got no political points for locking those dragons up. She never publicized the fact that she did it, or her reason for doing it. In fact, IIRC, the slavers thought that the dragons died and that was what emboldened them to attack. So the decision actually hurt her politically. There's nothing in the show to lead the audience to conclude anything but that she did that for moral reasons.
Look, it's bad writing either way. If, as you claim, the writers intended to communicate that Dany was never actually compassionate or good-hearted, but was only pretending to be so. If they were trying to say that Dany was essentially morally identical to Cersei, they failed spectacularly to get that across to most of the viewing audience. As evidenced by the horrible reviews and reputation of season 8.
@@TheMontross I think that people got caught up on her charisma. Problem is even as far back as s1 you can see she was pretty crazy. When Drogo dedicated the speech to her to conquer Westeros for her she looked like she was getting off on it. So much so that she repeated it in the final season. Her advisors constantly had to steer her away from her impulse to destroy. The writing was always there. No denying it.
@@joetyrant4713 Got it. You're a troll. Appreciate you making it so obvious before I wasted any more time.
Danerys’s character arc always alluded to her more darker nature. She was the child of the Mad King after all. We saw the noble Aemon Targaryen and even he knew of that dark aspect of his bloodline. I couldn’t recommend the audiobook versions more, as they flesh out the Targaryan’s as with all of the main characters.
Exactly. It's what she was always going to do, but DnD deciding to shorten the final seasons didn't do it justice. Imagine how good this turn would've been if they had just let it breathe a little more in the end. The signs of her darkness are there from the beginning, though. They did a great job of sprinkling in little breadcrumbs for 6 seasons and then threw a whole ass loaf at us during the last 2 seasons.
@@MFBloosh I don't fully know what the reasoning was behind the decisions on the storyline past season five( pressure from HBO, budget, or a disconnect with GRRM ) and though I enjoyed most of what cam after the "death" of Jon Snow, I agree that they didn't do any justice to the story arcs of the main characters ( Jon, Dany, Brand, Arya, Jamie, Cersei, Tyrion). I can only hope the remaining books correct the mistakes made by the show runners and bring the saga to a worthy end.
@@domenicgalata1470 It's not that they weren't capable writers, they just gave up on the show which makes it worse. George and HBO both wanted more seasons and also didn't like the idea of shortening the seasons either. In a show like GoT where every little detail is thought out and placed perfectly, you can't just wake up one day and decide to only hit plot points without fleshing out anything in between. Thankfully House Of The Dragon wont have that problem seeing who the showrunners are. And the source material is finished which is always a plus.
This whole show needed to be a slowburn & it was up until the last few seasons. Rushing this really made everything feel like it wasn't earned yet, so there's zero payoff. Jamie & Cersei dying was the last time I felt any emotion towards these characters.
Cersei's expression after she realizes what Dany is doing will always kill me lol
"Um.. you realize you do need people to rule over..."
Foreshadowing and prophecy are not a substitute for character and plot development.
They're just crutches for lazy and terrible writers.
And that's besides the fact that that's not how mental illness works.
If you're the child of someone with mental illness, it doesn't follow that you'll also have mental illness, anymore than it's a genetic condition that's borne of incest or inbreeding.
I started watching with you guys on Ep 1, now im friggin sad you guys are about to be done! What am I gonna do 😂😂
watch the next channel that reacts to it 😂🤔
I have to say ... the conflict with jon,missandei dying, Varys betraying her , her Dragons (children) dying for the better good and not getting recognition for it and having the stress of war is enough reason for a person to loose touch to their values ... but thats only my opinion.
*recognition
Plus the mistrust her allies showing toward her not even being subtle about mistrusting her yeah more than enough for her to go nuts I don't blame her at all.
You missed her most loyal right hand man, Jorah, dying & Tyrion, her hand, betraying her. All in a small matter of time. All she had left was Grey Worm, loyal to the bone & he went off the deep end himself.
@@Steve-eh4db Yeah that is exactly what I meant.
it is to a certain extent. but is it really a compelling reason? the problem for me, is that the showrunners don't seem to have much of a grasp on how they wanted to frame Danys ending. was it a break from character caused by losing all her loved ones? or was it a continuation of character.... Its like they want to say she lost touch with her values, but also never had those values. then theres the issue of "targaryen madness" which is never really defined properly in the books or show. idk, theres a brilliant story here that i think got lost in the demands it takes to run a show of this magnitude. they needed dedicated writers. because iirc, they only spent a few weeks in a year putting these scripts together.... no where enough time to achieve what they were aiming for.
Why? She has been saying since season 1 that she would take what’s “hers” with fire and blood
The Tyrion Jaime goodbye hug always hurts the recesses of my heart. Not often I feel that much sadness for a fictional character. Same with when Arya says "Sandor, thank you." The sick knot in the stomach feeling I get in that second before the Hound prepares for the death plunge with his brother when you already know what's about to happen. The shot of Arya in the end covered by soot and ash in the middle of a funeral like silence...that was some breathtaking imagery.
I need an Addie in my life….not just gorgeous, but the personality to go with it! ❤️
The perfect accessory. LOL dude come on.
She didn't promise. In that scene, she only nodded her head to greyworm.
When you watch the first couple episodes. You wouldn't think by the end of the show. The Hound would end up being one of your favourite characters ever.
Daenerys: One day your great city will return to the dirt as well.
Hizhadar: At your command?
Daenerys: If need be.
Hizhadar: And how many people will die to make this happen?
Daenerys: If it comes to that, they will have died for a good reason.
Hizhadar: Those men think they're dying for a good reason.
Daenerys: Someone else's reason.
Hizhadar: So your reasons are true and theirs are false? They don't know their own minds, but you do?
Harry Strikland went out sad. I thought he was faceless Daario lol.
It still baffles me how blind people are to all the signs that Dany is a power hungry tyrant who wants to rule because she believes it's her right. And even when she finds out it's actually not her right, she still wants everyone to shut up and accept her by force or she'll burn them alive. She doesn't want to break the wheel. She just wants to sit on the top.
It was the execution of her descent that people hated. D&D were hacks without George R R Martins writing. Characters story arcs were thrown in the shitter like with Jamie who was on a 6 season redemptive arc then he just becomes a dick like in season 1 nevermind that he said he killed the mad king to save the people now he suddenly doesn't care about them? WTF? Oh and i love how the Mountain was more unkillable then the Night King.
Everyone on the show was a power hungry tyrant. But Danny is the evil one, because Jon Snow wouldnt fuck her anymore. She went from freeing slaves to burning peasants in the blink of an eye. Yeah okay buddy.
@@dsfddsgh But it wasn't a descent. That's the problem, people misunderstood the story. She didn't become her father, she decided to rule by fear because she couldn't get the love of the people. That's what her story is all about, to embrace her Fire&Blood side, not to become insane.
By the way, Jaime wasn't on a redemptive arc, he threatened to catapult a baby into a castle in S6. He stayed with Cersei after she blew up the Sept of Baelor in S6. Jaime of S8 was a better man than he was in S1, but his arc was never about Cersei, it was never about stopping to love her. He spent the entire show saying that you don't chose who you love, the things I do for love, I want to die in her arms, etc. He went North because he wanted to keep his word, but he never stopped loving Cersei, he never wanted to stop loving her.
It's the same thing for Daenerys and Jaime, people thought they knew where their stories were going, so they ignored all the hints pointing toward a different outcome. Both ending make perfect sense if you're willing to accept that your expectations were wrong.
@@dsfddsgh I'm not buying that at all. People wanted "their queen" to win so badly they were willing to constantly turn a blind eye to all the warning signs. She was threatening to burn cities to the ground since s1, she was burning people alive, she was always willing to use the "nukes" and force her power. And she always needed someone by her side to keep her on check so she wouldn't turn "mad". Anyone with any sense understands these are not "good ruler" material. This is tyrant 101. And when left unchecked, it all went down exactly as expected.
Exactly! It's unbelievable how people are willing to turn the world upside down in order to force the characters and the story to fit their "my queen" image of Dany. "Just kiss the girl and make her happy"... Jon is supposed to make out with his aunt now so Dany won't get mad. I hate to break it to you, but if incest is the way to keep you calm so you don't go and commit genocide, you deserve a knife in the heart.
“I thought they were all dead.” - Addie on Dothraki. Yes sweetie… but writers “kinda forgot.” ☹️😞 Dan eye rolling and staring at camera when Addie was writ g good things about Army surrendering 😂😂👀gold.
No, the writers point blank showed the meeting after the war where GW took half the pieces off table stating they lost half their men, Jon did the same. Addie wasn't paying attention.
@@pjfsr7024 He was clearly stated that the dothraki were only half lost? So where were they during the battle?
@@Ashley_e Now the writers not explaining or at least showing a reserve of some kind...that you can hang on them, but they did clearly state half survived.
I really thought we were out of Dothraki lol. Yeah the respawn is real.
When she said that she's NOT happy with this episode, we ALL felt that, right? LOL
When Dany finally turned away from the light....🏙🔥🐲
Arya calling the Hound Sandor is when my composure shakes. Going into the fire with the Mountain was very fitting I'll say.
Saw you uploaded a new video and im like "No! Dan! Why today?" I had to stop preparing for my 4th of july party im hosting and have to watch :P
Jaime bringing back the "nothing else matters only us" in such a poignant fashion is good storytelling actually, and better than every single anime supervillain valonqor kill scenario.
Him killing the mad king is portayed as a selfless moment in s3. Him loving the mad queen makes no sense and is real character assassination
I think the simplest way to put it in terms of Cersei’s actions, especially towards the end of the show, is that generally speaking, she acts out of fear. She fears for her life, her crown, and her home, and Tyrion’s little attempt at convincing her otherwise by bringing up her pregnancy completely backfired- she did not think about peacefully running away and starting over and that acting would endanger her and baby, she thought the opposite, that if she didn’t act there was a greater chance of not surviving. So she chose what to her was the obvious path. It was 100% nothing more than a power move killing Missandei (however you spell it lol)
They gave Dany the opportunity to save missandei if Dany surrendered, but Dany cared more about being the queen than her own friend. That was 10000% on Dany
@@tsxtina2919 wow! you must be the first person to state that on a comment section. I agree 100%. Misandei meant NOTHING to Cersei and on her part she played the game with the cards she had. It was on Dani to save or sacrifice her.
@@tsxtina2919 trueeeeee !!
I like to think The Hound didn’t kill Cersei because he was saving her for Arya
Lena Headey even wanted Arya to kill Cersei.
This episode is about how even in the most noble war, people die randomly, without any reason or justification. It's about how wars take a life of their own and cause indiscriminate chaos and destruction. Dani has always been associated with the dragon and its breath of fire. Fire doesn't care if you're good or evil; it just burns. Her destructive nature has been shown in glimpses throughout the whole show. There are multiple occasions where she had the choice to choose compassion, forgiveness, compromise, and consensus-building, and she turns away. When she feels that everyone around her is either dead or turned against her, she gives into her fiery nature and becomes a force of pure destruction. That's why we don't see her face once she makes the choice to ignore the bells; she's just pure destruction after that.
Danny a.k.a Anakin!!!! LOL
Oh wow.. i almost wasted My Lil bitty weed on something else..
You guys are so clutch.
why is this me 😭😭
Her reaction to some of the goodbye especially the Arya Sandor goodbye and split screen between the two had me balling like a mf too. The Bells definitely takes a toll on the pshcye and leaves a macabre impression.
18:59 So did everybody else. But apparently we had a reserve army of Dothraki just chillin.
At least Qyburn getting his wig pushed back feels good man.
Tyrion is the one you feel sorry for the most. The only person that really mattered to him was Jaime, and the Mad Queen just razed Kings Landing to the ground, slaughtering anything in her path together with her psychotic Commander of the Unsullied, Grey Worm.
But everyone had their hate for the city! Even Tyrion in season 4 when he was on trial he said he should’ve let Stanis killed everyone.
@@Tyler-hy9wg He only meant that he would have let it happen knowing that everyone against him would die. A lot of people weren't against him in king's landing
I thought the residual wildfire igniting was kind of cool. Nice attention to detail.
Not the first time Daenerys killed people who had surrendered. Not the first time she's killed the innocent. And you cheered. Like father, like daughter-it's the Targayen madness. You might have WANTED to believe in Daenerys, but this is who she is. Who she has always been. It was expected.
The Hound vs the Mountain in the pile of rubble formerly known as the Red Keep as Drogon spits fire over head? That is super based. And everything I wanted from the penultimate episode.
There are other examples throughput human history of beloved revolutionaries ending up committing atrocities in the long run. In the name of building a new, better world.
Yup. WW2 teaches us about the atrocities of nazi germany. But they hide the atrocities the US and UK did during that war. Stuff they blamed Germany for and in the end everyone believed thanks to propaganda.
Best part of the episode was the Arya & Sandor's final interaction. He took care of her till their final moments together.
Do remember Varys served Aerys, like Jamie he had to watch the atrocities happen and try to steer things with a madman at the wheel tearing the kingdom apart RIGHT before the right guy (Rhaegar) was going to take the wheel and that time it missed, He's starting to see some Aerys in Dany and Rhaegar in Jon. I mean you have to root for the one that wants whats best...sanity, on the thrown. Dany has been kowtowed to and accepted it as her rightful place. It's technically Jon's and he doesn't want it which is exactly the guy you want for the job.
The Jaime Tyrion final goodbye scene was so emotional like bruh I don't usually cry for tv shows but I could not hold back tears. Dinklage deaerved one more Emmy for that moment alone.
It was explained of why Dany went nuts but the main issue that it was rushed.
Not a spoiler: recall dany’s vision in the warlock’s tower in qaarth. This trajectory was set in motion a long time ago.
True. the snow falling in the throne room turned out to be ashes
The problem is not that she blew up the city. Tyrion spent two seasons begging her not to do it, meaning that was always a possibility.
The problem is the Daenerys we know would never actively target the civilians esp after the city surrendered. Yea we know Varys betrayed her, she lost her closest friends, the North mistrusts her and Jon didn’t denied her advances. But it would have made more sense for Daenerys to burn civilians because they stood between her and Cersei or because the civilians chose to fight her. They all surrendered. And even then, Daenaerys specifically targeted them and not Cersei or even the army. Not even the Mad King was that bad; he was going to blow up the city because he was defeated, and prior to that only burned his enemies. This scene turned Daenerys (one of the most heroic characters and a messiah-figure) into the most evil character in the show.
Dany always WAS the most evil character on the show. From the start she had designs on the soul of every person she came in contact with. 'They can live in my new world or die in the old world.' Not even Joffrey or Ramsey ever had that much of a reach. As such, she didn't even care of Cersei. Her biggest goal was getting adoration from her subjects. Them fleeing from her even in her moment of triumph only served to trigger her narcissistic rage. She was gonna make them pay for not flocking to her rifght away and her losing Missandrei and two of her children as a result.
Daniella croaking was a top 3 moment. I enjoyed it so much lmao.
i can remember being so nervous for Dani in the beginning and absolutely gleeful when the Iron Fleet and Scorpions started to burn, and then Ding Dong, Cersei's karma came knocking... r.i.p kings landing.
thank you, Sandor 😭
if you thought Game of Thrones was going to have a happy ending then i think we've been watching two different shows 🤭
The remaining Starks all got pretty happy endings, so I don't know why people still quote this.
@@HuntingViolets you think Jon was happy to kill Dani. ah well, to each their own.
@@ignisraendl3721 No, but I think he was happy to go back North and not be King.
Varys, that's what I appreciates about you. Varys always said that what he does, he does for all the people of Westeros. He was true to the end ♥
Do you think there was a writers meeting where they all agreed, Let's do an episode that will piss off every single one?
Daniel Reacts. You better give that girl a heavy pour for the last episode.
to be fair in her defense varis wouldnt have known about Jon if Tyrion didnt tell him. So the fact that Varis was going to attempt to kill Dani is in fact Tyrions fault and he did play a roll in the plot to kill dani even if he wasnt acttually a part of the plan. Then you have to see that Jon telling his siblings about who he really is was what caused all this in itself. He doesnt tell Sansa then she doesnt tell Tyrion who doesnt tell Varis
Dany out here doing some Great Replacement lol. All great dids comes at a iron (cross) price!!
Why? She remembered the last word Missandei said with her last living breaths…..Dra-car-YES! 🔥🐉🧝🏼♀️🐉🔥
The One Where in the Span of One Episode a Character goes from Saving Thousands of Humans to Burning Thousands of *CHILDREN* Alive. Also The One in Which A Story Became the Greatest Example of Writing Failure for all Film Schools to study. Wanna go dark? Awesome. Take time to tell it. Give actual reasons in a psychological profile that makes sense. See Cersei s4-6. Perfect writing to her blowing up the sept. So good you could argue her POV. Think this has like grade 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. You should watch some reactions. The anger for rushing this plot was visceral.
R.i.p
Dany’s arc was there all along. But the last season was so rushed that it makes no sense. That needed to be at least 3 more seasons.
ouuu also DEATH RODE IN ON HER WHITE HORSE, arya & the ending
They weren’t trying to steal chickens from the 43:27
She didn't head for the Red Keep to kill Cersei she just killed random civilians, there was no catalyst, nothing in the moment to make her turn like that. If Missandei had died in that noment maybe that's understandable. And they could have delved deeper into her descent into madness with the death of Jorah and her dragons, but they just rushed the fucking show and so suddenly its like "yeah I wanna destroy a city"
You've never had rage and anger stew inside you? There was a simple catalyst: she won! And it didn't satiate her! All those years of sacrifices, losing two of her dragons and best friend, just for some chair, castle and a bunch of ungrateful ingrates.
@@SerbAtheist "oh the very moment I achieved victory I knew that I would hate being queen anyway, better kill thousands of innocent civilians, people I have always been trying to protect. Better not focus my wrath, as i have consistently, and just go get revenge by killing the queen and then find some meaning to life other than assuming my birthright." You're right that's a mindset totally in line with her character and effectively established by the narrative
"When people surrender you don't slaughter them anyways."
Spoken from a comfy living room couch in a first world country.
What's that supposed to mean
@@saxonkush2376 It's supposed to mean it's easy to expect tropey nonsense and absolute moral purity of the 'good guys' (TM) when you have never been close to a war and watched friends and family die. When an enemy that has ravaged you for years and taken countless lives is finally on their knees, this is usually what happens in real life.
@@SerbAtheist ok
Do you guys realize that Robb Stark saved Qyburn early in the show?
"What do you want [Varys]?"
"All I've ever wanted; the right rules on the throne"
_some old decaying magician with his mouth sewn shut stuffed into a box has entered the chat_
I was really happy when she finally burned everything thought she should’ve done that a while ago
Highly recommend, after the finale, Supercuts Delights' Game of Thrones season 8 being devoid of logic video. To react to or not, they're fun
What will you guys watch after GOT?
Jamie from a young age wanted to be a king's gaurd , a position of great honour and was respected for his abilities , He sacrificed all that knowingly that people will judge him by killing the Mad King and saving millions of people , And in this episode he says " I never really cared for the people " . Total charector assassination by Dumb and Dumber .
It's called talking shit... you know, the thing men do all the time when the feels are too strong.
@@SerbAtheist That's bullshit and YOU know it.
Let us really look into Tyrion's intelligence. That much ridiculed topic. The poor outcome of his decisions does not diminish the internal struggle that Tyrion has to go through.Tyrion hedged his bet on Dany to make the world a more just place. He knew she was an imperfect vessel & still in his misplaced hubris, he believed he could mold her into a better one. The first conversation Tyrion had with Dany was him telling her "stopping the wheel, it's a beautiful dream" and Dany replying "I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel". From then on it's a constant pattern of Tyrion counselling Dany to be moderate, even at military costs (like losing Casterly Rock). Cause despite himself, Tyrion always knew he's made a deal with the devil and all his focus was in averting the impending disaster. It's hard to be portrayed as charming and witty when the point of your character is a slow and painful disillusionment. You can look at it as "Tyrion lost his wits. It's not the same Tyrion who was dunking on Cersei & Slynt". Or you can look at it as a broken man's losing but honorable battle to prevent the inevitable. Tyrion tries his best to stop a demagogue from taking power, a demagogue he himself had enabled, & in the course Tyrion dies a moral death. But I guess as one of my favorite GoT posters once said "who needs nuance when you can have drunk Tyrion entertain us by tactlessly putting powerful people down & nearly getting himself killed in the process."
Danys turn was never my biggest grievance in this episode, I feel like this was foreshadowed in the series and ppl just ignored it because it was often against ppl whose name we didn’t know and who we had no connection with. The thing I hate about this episode is how, Cersei, the biggest antagonist in this show since episode one, no matter if you love or hate her character, had such an anticlimactic death. Might as well have been an offscreen death for all the weight it held
They could've stepped 10 feet in either direction and avoided the bricks, too. Lmao. Jamie and Cersei are still 2 of the best characters ever, though.. But man...
I felt the same about Jamie's death. I expected to be like sobbing when he died. Instead I felt like nothing but irritation.
I still can't believe this is the ending they gave to Lena Headey. An entire season of nothing.
So you're angry at the show for not catering to your bloodlust when it comes to Cersei?
@@SerbAtheist no I just wanted a more fitting end to one of the top 3 characters in the show and a main staple since episode one other than dying crying and alone with her brother in a tower and never mentioned again, even her dialogue for the episode before her death was in my opinion lackluster compared to the usual dialogue you can expect from her character. I like how you tried to manipulate that into making me sound like a savage in a show that has highlighted savagery from the very beginning
How did Tyrion go from 'I should have let Stanis kill you all' in season 4.. to caring about nothing except the safety of every resident of kings landing?
I think Tyrion literally became the worst hand of all time... Dannii biggest mistake was to name Tyrion hand instead of Daario... a great warrior who would never betray her.
I ended up feeling the same way about that Jaime Cersei reunion. I felt really bad for them. I didn't want to trust me. But I couldn't help it. I've thought about it and doing a humiliating miserable villain death would've been the cheapest and easiest fanservice.
I absolutely love addies thoughts on how this episode went. Very disappointing what D&D did to the characters. Loved the reaction! Can’t wait for the finale 🤍
Yeah...we've seen hints along the way, that Dany was capable of doing something like this...and they've made us aware at a few points that Targaryens are known to lose their minds and go crazy, but i would've liked too see it happen slower. Then it would seem fitting that she ended up this way. She is the daughter of The Mad King afterall...it isn't a stretch for her to go mad, but it is a stretch for it to happen so abruptly.
Yeah, they hinted at it all through the series. She had Jorah, Barristan, Tyrion and Jon constantly holding her back from her authoritharian and violent side. They had to talk sense into her on multiple occassions. When Jorah and Barristan died, and she distanced herself from Tyrion and Jon, she had no one holding her back anymore, and she finally became the mad queen.
After watching House of the dragon I kinda disagree. They ruled Westeros all those times and everything pretty much okay. The only part I agree is that D&D should've build Danny mental issue, like at least make the bell like her traumatic moment when she left kingslanding or something. Yes the show showcased her to be this kinda ruthless when she punished people. But at the same time the show also showcased that she is such a people queen. She built her reputation and her power from scratch. The whole season 8 is so painful too watch.
@@afiefswift5403 She can be rutheless and certainly made mistakes learning to rule (as Jon did, and every other person who learned to rule on the show). Was she more ruthless than people who are defended by the fanbase for being tough and making the hard but necessary decisions? Prior to season 8, I don't think so.
@@HuntingViolets yup. I just simply worded my words that way because there's a lot of people think season 8 is fine when it's so messed up. Danny is one of my favourite character, and obviously that ending is a major disappointment. But I can see the vision of how they were trying to portray the final season. It just needs a proper build or at least give us the make sense situation. Tbh I feel like a clown or maybe an entire circus already when I watch the season 8. There are so many foolish scenes left and right.
To be fair, Euron would have killed Jamie if the rocks hadn't. When he left the fight he was a dead man walking.
The thing with Daenerys is just that, despite of her bloodline they totally ignored the moral side of the girl who refused to leave the slavers bay because there were still slaves. I think it's completely acceptable (as a character) that she lost her mind but I think they could've done it better. I mean, she could be out of control trying to find cersei, and accidentally burning tons of buildings (because of the Wildfire her dad left under those buildings). Because that would make her moral side make sense, but also her targaryen side. Her dad would still get to burn them all. Cersei would still have had something up her sleeve and probably Dany would end up being killed as a tyrant, the whole world would think she became the mad queen (pretty much like they thought Rhaegar was a r*pist who kidnapped Lyanna) but we as viewers would know that it was just a mistake made by that girl that grew up being told that the throne belonged to her family and that the people in westeros were all waiting for her to take her throne back, and the moment she gets there, everyone betrays her despite the fact that she risks it all (including her children) for them
And for whoever is heartbroken because of how they made Dany dirty in the ending of the show (cough cough Addie) I'd recommend you to watch a video by David Lightbringer called "who is the real Dany (show vs books)". Probably not as reaction but definitely watch it on your own. It will certainly make you make sense on why you started loving dany in the first place, and at least it gives you some hope on how she will end up being in the books 😊
That wildfire is definitely Chekhov's gun in the books and on the show.
@@andyfern8923 I'll check it out.
Arya's always been my favorite character. It's kinda like the attack on king's landing was told thru her eyes.