I have never seen a better reaction, you can’t help but admire what Cercei did and it comes off here. I also think she realized Tomnen was dead anyway too.
The two Freys that Arya baked into the pies, Black Walder & Lothar, both played key roles in the red wedding. Lothar is the one who stabbed Talisa to death. Black Walder is the one who cut Catelyn’s throat. Poetic justice doesn’t even cover it.
Tommen had the most subversive death ever. The whole show is about all these families commiting all types of murder and violence to get to the Iron Throne and the man who's sitting on it couldn't wait to give up. Crushed by the pressure. Brilliant! Reminds me of the old saying "heavy is the head that wears the crown".
And you could have a whole night's worth of discussion on the parallels between Bran being pushed out of a window and Tommen committing suicide out of a window.
You are half right. Emotional torture is still torture. You think she loved or even cared about Tommen? He was a means to an end. And to say Cersei didn't know how to play the game, well, I'm not sure you have been watching the same show as the rest of us.
The reveal of Jon Snow's parentage ALWAYS brings me tears, even after watching it for the 100th time! The North remembers no King but the King in the North, whose name is Stark! #TeamStark
@@IndianCalypso I've been watching your reactions, absolutely fab, I'm glad you agree with me that the winds of winter is the best episode, clearly number 1 for me, I'm just about to watch your review of 7x3 keep up the good work 👍
IMO the single best episode off TV ever produced and also a helping hand in making Season 6 my favourite season off GoT. Simply magnificent, starting with the brilliant piano score at the start off the episode to the awesome reveal after reveal. Perfection.
Ned asked sir Arthur Dayne (sword of the morning) why he wasn't in the battle of the Trident protecting his prince. Sir Arthur Dayne told Ned that his prince wanted him here... at the tower.
@@fordhouse8b - Except that, no, it's not the one and only reason. If the claim that Lyanna was kidnapped and raped was true, then she'd be a high value prisoner that big-time warriors would come to liberate, like Ned Stark, so they could be protecting a prisoner. The accepted narrative would still fit that scenario as well as what we later discovered.
@@AndyMatts44 High value to whom? Rhaegar, the alleged kidnapper and rapist, was already dead when Ned went to the Tower of Joy, so on who’s behalf would members of the Kingsguard be holding her? Of what value was she to the Kingsguard? How would they gain from holding her?
The pure power of the piano instrument. All those emotions would be impossible to convey without this insane amazing music piano piece. Its in cases like this, that music is proven to be everything.
Ned Stark's last words to Jon: "When we see us next time I might tell you about your mother." This made me sad when I watched the show for the second time knowing all the plots already. He never got the chance to tell Jon about his true parents :(
The one that always gets me is Benjen telling Jon not to join the Night Watch telling him he wouldn't be doing it "if he knew what it meant" which Jon took it to mean lands and titles which Jon mistakenly thought he didn't have anyway but Benjen's words were clearly loaded in that scene. So Benjen knew all along.
Rest in Peace my Queen Margaery. My favorite character in the entire series. Two of my top three favorite characters killed in back to back episodes (Ramsay and Margaery).
I also liked Margaery because she was the definition of kind yet cunning to me. Even though she was able to develop many facades to manipulate people along with being very intelligent and ambitious, I do believe that Margaery was genuinely kind, compassionate, and empathetic to certain people in a way. She did truly love her family very much and had good relationships with them all. She loved her brother Loras and was very tolerant of his homosexuality. As evidenced in this season she did everything she could to get him out of the High Sparrow’s clutches so he could be safe. Plus, before the sept exploded, Margaery also tried to guide Loras out of the building alongside her so they could escape right? In the end, she really cared for her brother. She also loved her grandmother Olenna very deeply and had a strong bond with her throughout this series. She even saved her life in the end because if she hadn’t have told Olenna to leave King’s Landing, then she would’ve gotten blown up alongside the rest of the Tyrells too. And it’s heavily implied that Mace Tyrell had a genuine loving relationship with his children so Margaery also loved her father as well. Despite her feigning a loyalty to many people, she was genuinely loyal to her house and family and loved them all. Not only that but Margaery also showed some genuine concern for Sansa at the Purple Wedding, with her trying to get Joffrey away from Sansa and Tyrion remember? And even beforehand, I could tell that her kindness and smiles towards the girl weren’t 100% fake because she knew that once Sansa had married Loras, she would’ve benefited greatly from the result as well as herself and her family at the time. Gay or not Loras would’ve treated her with respect, dignity and never mistreat her. He also seemed to have sympathy for Sansa too. And looking at the fact that she still chose to spend time with her even after the Tyrell plot failed, I believe Margaery genuinely cared about Sansa to an extent and really was an actual friend to her at the time. And although she was able to feign an attraction to Renly and Joffrey, I think Margaery genuinely cared for Tommen in the end because since he was a kind, sweet, and caring boy she probably grew to truly like him a little at the time. I don’t think she loved him but I do think she actually liked him well enough in the end because alongside her family, she also kept Tommen safe, happy, and allowed him to gain something from the results of her schemes and not just herself. I think she liked the kid more than her other two husbands.
i love how at the end of season 5 all the main characters, bad or good, were eating shit. Dany was lost in the dothraki sea, Jon was dead, Cersei and the walk of shame, Arya was blind, we didn't know if Sansa was alive from the fall. and by the end of season 6, it's quite the opposite for all the characters. Dany is with her armies and ships, returning to her home, Jon is king in the north, Sansa is safe, Arya has got her revenge, Cersei is queen.
How is it that Cersei is still of House Lannister, when she married Robert Baratheon? Joffrey was a Baratheon. Tommen was a Baratheon. Cersei was their mother, so how could the writers have messed up that she isn't a Lannister, but a Baratheon?
@@jeffburnham6611 apparantly when you marry royalty, you keep your original name. For instance, it was Elia Martell and not Elia Targeryan. In the books, Stannis' wife is also going by Florent rather than Baratheon due to her husband's claim to the throne.
‘The Winds of Winter’ (book 6, not yet published, after which this episode is named) was initially supposed to be called ‘A Time for Wolves’. GRRM dropped the idea because he felt it was spoilerish. The Starks are coming back strongly.
To me this is the best episode of the show! Some might not agree, but if not the best, it sure is the "biggest". Thanks Aish for your great reactions this season and good fortune for the seasons to come!
"Your words will disappear. Your House will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear". Sansa and Margaery's story is like that of The Tortoise and the Hare. The unlikeliest one has outpaced them all.
Now that you’ve finished season 6 and you know Leanna is Jon’s mother, you must watch the fan theory video “R+L=J WHO IS JONS MOTHER All scenes compilation video”. Someone else is trying to steal views with a video called R+L=J Who Is Jon’s Parents… which isn’t near as entertaining. Now there’s no spoilers because it only hints at Jon’s possible lineage. Love your reactions!! Keep it going!
@@AmericanMumReacts Love your reactions too by the way! Yes she’s reacted to History and Lore and Cold Play and so on but not R+L=J. I don’t see it in her play list and It would have been a spoiler video if she watched it before the end of Season 6. She’s a smart girl, if she had watched that before Winds of Winter, she wouldn’t still be confused about who Jons father is.
Gods, Light of the Seven(the song playing at the beginning) is hands down my favorite piece of music from this entire series! The slow build, the tension gradually rising as it moves ever so steadily to the crescendo and it's accompanying explosion. It's truly masterful and it was even better getting to see and hear it live!
winds of winter episode is a masterpiece. Can't fully appreciate just how cathartic it is until rewatch it a couple more times! Every segment is done to chef's kiss! Perfect balance of anticipation, buildup, explosion, action, emotion, intrigue, up and down they take you in for a dizzying ride. That camera cut from the tower to king in the north is what a decade worth of payoff looks like. This episode is in the all timer list for me, not just Thrones but in general.
-Tyrells been cut off like this was just a horrid mistake... -Loras been there completly broken and god knows what they had done to him! He really looks like a scared little boy. Its funny how far Margaery went to try to protect him. Aside from the starks, Tyrells brothers were the best dinami -Margaery played well her game, her moves were so amazing. The way she put herself in the middle of the dangerous High Sparrow game! She even put her ambition a little aside to protect Loras! Even before dying she hold Loras. Something Cersei would never do. Remember when Jaime got caught by Rob, and Cersei complain about it! Margaery even figure it out something was going to up, longer then anyone could even think about it! They could even had survived if High Sparrow listen to her. In the End like Rob, this was the only way Margaery could had gone down. Cornered with the stupid of that shoeless. Cersei didnt take Margaery down, it was the stupidity of High Sparrow, who thought could play this game. what its clear, Margeary did had a plan to take High Sparrow down, if she had survived this
Robbie McD has a UA-cam video you should react to now that you know the truth about Jon. It shows all scenes from the show that hints to Lyanna being his mother and is very well done...I believe it's called "R+L=J-Who is Jon Snow's mother?".
One of the bestttttttt episodes ever! Everyone sealed their positions at every corner...and here comes Daenerys! The director on this......phenomenal work!!
"We know no King but the King in the North, who's name is Stark"! What an awesome insane balls to the wall experience this finale was! This one's up there as one of the best GoT episodes imo. The North and the Targaryen dynasty is reincarnated in the veins of the Bastard Who Lived. So much for the illusionary reign of the Boy King Tommen Baratheon. The moral is "power resides where men believe it resides" like Varys said. The whole edifice of the ruling power that was held together by so much bloodshed comes crashing down like a deck of cards. To watch it all go up in flames (literally) was as rewarding as watching it slowly being built up was irksome. Out of the wreckages of the North, the South and the East emerge the three contenders to the Iron Throne : the Bastard of Winterfell, the Lioness of Casterly Rock, and the Stormborn who intends to re-create what her ancestor Aegon the Conqueror had done three centuries ago.
"There’s a lot to discuss when talking about Game Of Thrones. Brilliant performances, incredible special effects, impressive writing, action, suspense, drama, comedy… there’s so much to take in that it’s very easy to forget about something when discussing episodes. However, music is one of the most important aspects to any television show or movie, and if you don’t believe me, then try watching a horror movie on mute and see if it has the same impact. Game Of Thrones opens up with a person putting on a crown, and ends with a person putting on a crown. Margaery, Tommen, the High Sparrow, Cersei… they’re all busy getting dressed. It’s trial day, and King Tommen has declared that trial by combat is no longer allowed, which means that Loras Tyrell is faced with a trial courtesy of seven septons, just like the old days. Also, just like in the old days, the whole of the court is ready to crowd into the sept of Baelor to watch the trial unfold. All throughout, music plays, slowly increasing in tempo and complexity to create tension. It is simply brilliant." - *Den of Geeks* "What makes Sapochnik’s direction so effective? Let’s look at the opening of “The Winds of Winter.” The episode, written by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, has a lot of loose ends to tie up as the show gets ready for its endgame, but it starts with more than 20 uninterrupted minutes at King’s Landing, where the trial of Cersei Lannister is about to get underway. We see the major players in the show’s King’s Landing strand getting dressed, as if preparing for a day at work: The High Sparrow slips on his woven cassock, Queen Margaery is laced into her dress, King Tommen puts on his pointed crown. In successive close-ups, the High Sparrow’s and Tommen’s hands slip through the sleeves of their robes, almost clasping despite the fact that they’re miles apart, suggesting the degree to which their interests, and their fates, have become linked. But Cersei stands apart, already dressed and staring from her balcony in the Red Keep, across the city to the Sept of Baelor, where her trial is to be held. When we last saw her, she was panicked and distraught, betrayed by her own son, who’d cast his lot with the Faith instead of his family. But now she’s calm, almost immobile as the others ready themselves. They have things to do and places to be, but she’s already done everything she needs to do. Sapochnik brings us into the Sept itself with an overhead tracking shot, which conveys a sense of majesty and scope but also highlights the metal grate in the Sept’s floor, a grate that presumably leads all the way down to the tunnels where Cersei has relocated the late King Aerys’ wildfire. (Attentive viewers may remember the unusually ostentatious shot from “No One,” where after Cersei’s undead henchman rips off a man’s head, we’re suddenly looking up through a grate in the ground as his blood oozes downward.) In the scene that follows, Sapochnik uses both high and low angles to emphasize the Sept’s towering grandeur and the power wielded by the High Sparrow but also to point out how the massive statues of the Seven Gods dwarf the human figures below them. (Height and its relationship to power also play a key role in another of the episode’s scenes, when Daenerys Targaryen steps down to the floor of her throne room so that she can look at Tyrion Lannister face to face.) The Sparrow’s attention is directed upward, toward the heavens, but the real threat will soon explode from underneath, set in motion by a woman he’s underestimated for the last time." - *Slate*
By the end of the episode some of the most powerful leaders in the world are all women. Daenerys, Olena, Elaria, Yara.. a huge change from the beginning of the series
Poor Ned. The only dude in the Seven Kingdoms that could keep a damn secret, and he dies for it lol. Also, there's a good video out there that's a compilation of all the clips from previously on the show about Lyanna and Jon. You should give it a watch.
One of the things that was part of the exposition in the early seasons of Game of Thrones (and, so far, also in House of the Dragon) was the mention, often in seemingly "thowaway" lines, of the passage of time... references to "a fortnight", or taking a month for the King's travel party to make the trip to Winterfell. In later seasons, they rarely, if even, gave us such references, giving no context for scenes that had to have taken considerable time, but were shown from one episode to the next, or even within a single episode (cases in point, Varys leaving Mereen on his mission, being present in Dorne meeting with the Ellaria, the Sand Snakes, and Lady Olenna, and being on the ship with Daenerys and Tyrion... and there were both Dornish and Tyrell ships in that fleet. Also the blowing up of the Sept, Lady Olenna in black mourning clothing in Dorne, Jaime having travelled from Riverrun to King's Landing). It was left to the viewer's imagination to factor in the passage of time, leading to so many references (often during Littlefinger's various travels) of "time travel" or "teleportation". The lack of that time passage context was one of the problems in the later seasons.
I've spent these past days (re)watching this serie alongside you, and I have to say you're so witty and observant, it's so cool, I almost feel like I'm watching for the first time again c: thanks for these reactions!
I was pretty satisfied with the ending. I wish they’d gone different routes with some characters, but it was the rush that took me out of it, not where everyone ended up.
@@lolmao500 They had no more source material - it was a question of can OTHER writers equal GRRM, which of course is impossible. The blame should be placed on GRRM solely who had years to complete the books but clearly became a totally different person with totally different motivations after global fame hit him. If he finished the books they could have pulled out all the best parts as they did for all 6 seasons. Book release dates: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2018. There is a big problem there - 7 years to write a book - could I do it faster? No chance in hell. Could GRRM have done it faster? Yes - 100%. Credit to the rest of GoT staff for doing the best they could with what little they had. Their expertise is ADAPTING books into shows, not writing shows from scratch.
Who would’ve thought the top of the new year I would’ve found you’re awesome reactions ! This episode left my mouth wide open in the first 15 minutes forsure lol 😅
The creators of GAME OF THRONES (A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE) are way ahead of today's era. This particular episode always gets me and leaves me shocked to the core every time i watch it.
I believe it is most fine hour in the history of television 🔥this episode of the series is shocking yet satisfying, suspenseful. For the first time, getting to know about Leyyna being the mother of John shocked me, and then the feeling that Ned fucking stark was honourable as hell ❤️ gives me chills.
I said it during episode one of this season. The last two episodes are great. The tower of Joy reveal is sooooooo good and possibly the peak of the series for me. The Sept of Baelor scene is a masterpiece of score and atmosphere. It’s too bad the rest of this season had to be so lackluster and contrived to get the characters in place for such a great finale. I know you’ve finished the series by now, looking forward to your reaction to the train wreck that is seasons 7 and 8.
@@pulpficti No the new take seems to be that because the last two seasons were bad, the entire series was bad. I don't feel that way. But I see the internet is full of whiners who do.
@@NovaLena22 that’s not the take. The take is that seasons 1-4 were consistently incredible and that the writing suffered a gradual decline from season 5 on. Season 6 had all-time great episodes in 5, 9 or 10 that elevated an otherwise ok season. Compare season 6 to season 2 for example. Season 6 had a handful of payoffs and climaxes that REALLY hit more than anything in season 2 other than Blackwater but moment to moment, scene to scene, episode to episode season 2 was consistently well written and consistent in its logic, unlike season 6.
*PROMISE ME NED* In the 1st book there's a very somber sequence where Robert in his deathbed is pleading with Ned to take care of Joffrey. Before he dies last thing Robert says is " *PROMISE ME NED* ". But Ned hears that sentence in a female voice. It's so well written, it's hard to do justice. That was my first vague inkling. All through the 1st book Ned has a crisis of faith looking at Robert deteriorating on the throne, and asks himself if Robert really was a better alternative to the Targaryen Crown Prince. It kills Ned cause he starts to second guess everything he had fought for. In the process of winning the war he lost the Brother he knew. There's times when Ned is walking through the castles and wherever he goes he comes across these relics left by the Targaryens, which reminds him of Prince Rhaeger. The greatest dynasty is gone, but their imprint is still everywhere. Even as absolute masters of King's Landing, it's Ned and Robert who felt like outsiders there. It's all beautifully written and Ned's constant inner torment is impossible to do justice on screen. But that's when you start to wonder why is Ned feeling so guilty all the time? Maybe everything is not what it seems? It's that "chaos, a gaping pit" line from Varys. The victors kept telling lies about the vanquished so many times, they themselves forgot what the truth was. People say ASOIAF is the tragic love story of Rhaegar and Lyanna. But it's really A Tragic Love Story of Eddard and Robert. Back in the day ASOIAF forum had a funny thread where they listed every suggestive moment between Ned and Robert, including just the sheer number of times Ned thinks of Young Robert as "muscled like a maiden's fancy" and "every inch a king". Dude slick left his wife home to be with King Bob 😅
Obviously GRRM can and might go in a different direction now all these years later as he has little choice but to do certain things differently. But regardless, the dilemmas of Ned around Robert, Rhaegar Lyanna and Jon is pure thematic excellence : *He found himself thinking of Robert more and more. He saw the king as he had been in the flower of his youth, tall and handsome, his great antlered helm on his head, his warhammer in hand, sitting his horse like a horned god. He heard his laughter in the dark, saw his eyes, blue and clear as mountain lakes. “Look at us, Ned,” Robert said. “Gods, how did we come to this? You here, and me killed by a pig. We won a throne together…”* 😢
Speaking about the haunting music at the beginning, called "Light of the Seven" - a few months ago I called Whirlpool customer service about a broken washing machine and that is the music you hear when they put you on hold. (Made me worry my washing machine was going to explode in a burst of wild fire. LOL.)
On the opposite end of the Jon Sansa "sinter is here" scene is the godswood scene. People have been asking Baelish "what do you want" since S1 and Baelish has been answering "Everything, dear. Everything." since S1. This was as close to seeing the inner Baelish as it will get. That conversation seemed to lay down the foundation for a power struggle in the North between Zombie Jonathan Targ and Dark Phoenix Sansa. That was the speculation going into the next season and the trailers played heavily into it.
What an amazing end to an amazing series! Its a truly masterful decision to end this series at this point of the story so everyone can end it in their own way. The producers wanted to give everyone the chance to build the story to their liking as the mind is the maker of the best stories. Or maybe they wanted to wait until GRRM ends his story in the last 2 books? Anyway, Game of Thrones is the greatest TV series with the best unfinished story there is. Thank you!
@@pulpficti Yeah but this season, particularly last few episodes were also from beyond the book. Only difference is that makers cared and they still made some masterful episodes
"Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes. Ned remembered the way she had smiled then, how tightly her fingers had clutched his as she gave up her hold on life, the rose petals spilling from her palm, dead and black. After that he remembered nothing." - A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4. Right from the start it was there.
What an episode! I was left speechless too. When Glover plants his sword we all join in on the king in the north chant 🤣🤣😩. It's almost customary. Such a moment of catharsis. Usually with a water bottle or the remote. Unless you're the lucky ones to have a light saber lying around close by 😂. The bastard of winterfell has come a long way!
Your reaction to Jon's reveal actually made me cry! lol. Its one of the most beautiful scenes in the series in my opinion. This is a perfect episode, the music, the weight of it, the first scene - every second. Love your reactions :)
All of your reactions have been top tier but when the whole baby/Jon reveal happened the look of realisation on your face was perfect and although I've seen this scene several times I still got chills. Thankyou for the work you put in keeping us entertained and as always blessings
The thing about Cersei's prophecy is it's self fulfilling. He actions lead directly to the deaths of her children, with (maybe) the exception of Joffrey, but thats arguable.
Rhaegar and Lyanna were in love. Rhaegar is Jon’s father. Robert was going to “kill every Targaryen can get his hands on”. “If Robert finds out, he’ll kill him”. This is why, Ned kept his vow and protected Jon.
Coming out of this episode everyone had the same reaction. Even when I watch it now I'm still in awe of just how many shocking turn of events is packed in a single episode! Each one hit like a brick wall. In one stroke it gives you a resolution to the powder cegs that have been built up for so long, and leaves you with an answer you never thought about. This is like a multiple watch episode cause the first time you're in a shell shocked state! It keeps on giving! At the beginning of last episode Tyrion foreshadows by telling Dany the story of Mad King hiding caches of wildfire in King's Landing. By the end of Bastards that's the last thing on your mind! Hats off to Ramin Djawadi's music. The music alone is better than pretty much every finale of every show. The way it adds to the suspense of the Sept scene is unreal. Who else is unreal? Liam Cunningham as Davos berating Mellisandre. Battle episodes are always crazy but this is fantastic in a different kinda way. Deserved every accolade it got. This might be my fav GoT episode, it's in the top three.
I don't know if anybody has already put this in the comment section but it's kind of a thing that most reactors watch and react to immediately following the season six finale. It is called R + L =J. It is short but powerful. It is an edited compilation of hints throughout the six seasons alluding to who Jon's parents are and in turn who he is.:ua-cam.com/video/3xaspBsfgRg/v-deo.html
My favorite episode in all of Game of Thrones. So chilling. "Please, Grand Maester. I bear you no ill will. Please forgive me if you can." The rest that follow is jaw dropping.
I still can't get that melancholic piano music out of my head. The camera panning out to Cersei's coronation is my favorite shot, waited the whole series for that moment! The King in the North chant lives, once more after all this time! With Jon and Sansa at the table as throwback to Robb and Cat from the end of S1. Very evocative score and visuals. This is one my favorite GoT episodes.Through hell and highwater we keep hoping for all these outcomes, and at last the floodgates open up! Remember how we do the winter is coming drinking game quip in early seasons as Ned keeps saying it every 5 mins? Who would've thought when that time did come for the Starks, it'll be under these circumstances! To quote Ned as Sansa does in Winter is Here trailer, "when the Snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives." There's that one badass teaser for next season called Long Walk which shows the two queens and the one king walking to their respective thrones and subconsciously you just know that this is it, we've peaked it's a spiral from here. Well at least for an awesome moment it did feel like a time for wolves!!
That my girl is the secret: Ned never betrayed Cat - his wife, his honor is unbismirched, in Jamie's words.🤗 Even more so, to keep Jon's chances to live, he purposely denounced his honor, lieing about having a misstress even to his wife, risking their relationship. That takes ballz, man!
The so-called Wylla Ned mentions to Robert in S1E2 did exist, but she never had a romantic relationship with Ned. She was Jon’s wet nurse, probably one of the women who helped Lyanna to give birth.
Lyanna whispered Jon's real name "Aegon Targaryen" and she begged Ned to keep it a secret because if Robert found out, Robert would kill Jon. At this point, Rhaegar was dead and the war was pretty much over. She made Ned promise that he would protect Jon, which are her last words. Ned keeps the promise and tells Robert that Jon is his bastard son, not the truth that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son.
people plz, it was all revealed this episode. and she asked people to tell her what Lyanna whispered. she knows Jon is Lyanna's kid now,...the show made it obvious. she even states it in the outro. don't you guys watch all the way to the end?
@@svt80221 It's not just "Jon is Lyanna's kid". You revealed things that weren't revealed in the show until later. It was very explicitly *not* revealed in this scene; the camera cuts away. Sam and Gilly figure a crucial part of it out at the Citadel (although they didn't know the relevance of it at the time, but the audience does).
Tyrion being named Hand of the Queen had me all misty eyed🥲. Tyrion without hesitation …kneels before The Dragon Queen🐉🧝🏼♀️🐉🐉. That’s something King JerkJoffrey could never get Tyrion to do……no matter how loud he commanded him to.
This is where Cersei became Tywins' daughter. Unfettered, unrestrained from the shackles of being a daughter, a mother or a wife. Tywin created a monster by using his daughter as a broodmare.
Did you notice that when the wildfire cache beneath the Sept of Baelor went off, the flaming green explosion roaring through the tunnels was one of the things that Bran saw in his weirwood visions. Not only has he been able to see events from the past, apparently, he can also see the future!
When Dany names Tyrion "Hand of The Queen" and he kneels....that is the FIRST time Tyrion has knelt for ANYONE he actually wanted to, in his whole life. He was always under obligation but not with Daenerys. He believes in her!
These reactions are filled with emotion, passion and energy. She deserves EVERY view she gets.
Thank you so much my friend♥️
I have never seen a better reaction, you can’t help but admire what Cercei did and it comes off here. I also think she realized Tomnen was dead anyway too.
This episode is a masterpiece in TV history.
It's all downhill from here
@@smackthatfemale For you maybe, and your pack of trolls. A speck of spit in the ocean.
@@smackthatfemale the last best ep in TGoT
This episode is probably the finest hour of television I've ever seen.
Well said
The two Freys that Arya baked into the pies, Black Walder & Lothar, both played key roles in the red wedding. Lothar is the one who stabbed Talisa to death. Black Walder is the one who cut Catelyn’s throat. Poetic justice doesn’t even cover it.
Preach 👏🏻
@@IndianCalypsoyou should read the books also because there's so much stuff that happens in the book that's left out in the show
Tommen had the most subversive death ever. The whole show is about all these families commiting all types of murder and violence to get to the Iron Throne and the man who's sitting on it couldn't wait to give up. Crushed by the pressure. Brilliant! Reminds me of the old saying "heavy is the head that wears the crown".
And to follow his suicide by Frey's "For House Lannister!". I love that simple edit.
Gives the name of the city, “Kings Landing” a whole new meaning 😂
@@anndruh Hahaha nice 😂
@@anndruh oh nooo 😂😂
And you could have a whole night's worth of discussion on the parallels between Bran being pushed out of a window and Tommen committing suicide out of a window.
Rest in peace, Margaery Tyrell. She was the one queen who knew how to play the game, yet did not torture any innocent people.
True that♥️
You are half right. Emotional torture is still torture. You think she loved or even cared about Tommen? He was a means to an end. And to say Cersei didn't know how to play the game, well, I'm not sure you have been watching the same show as the rest of us.
The reveal of Jon Snow's parentage ALWAYS brings me tears, even after watching it for the 100th time! The North remembers no King but the King in the North, whose name is Stark! #TeamStark
R+L=J Still my favourite scene of the show!
This😭
@@IndianCalypso I've been watching your reactions, absolutely fab, I'm glad you agree with me that the winds of winter is the best episode, clearly number 1 for me, I'm just about to watch your review of 7x3 keep up the good work 👍
I waited a good 10 years for the R+L=J reveal, I literally cried for like a day straight 😂
In my humble opinion, the last good episode of Game of Thrones
Agreed. There are some great scenes in s7 though, but few and far between.
Agreed, season 6 was a mixed bag but episode 10 was great
Agreed, and one of my favourites of the whole series
Thanks for the insight, Peggy Hill!
yeah no cap this was the end of good GOT
IMO the single best episode off TV ever produced and also a helping hand in making Season 6 my favourite season off GoT. Simply magnificent, starting with the brilliant piano score at the start off the episode to the awesome reveal after reveal. Perfection.
100%
Breaking Bad, third to last episode is one of the best of all time also.
So true friend 👏🏻
Ned asked sir Arthur Dayne (sword of the morning) why he wasn't in the battle of the Trident protecting his prince. Sir Arthur Dayne told Ned that his prince wanted him here... at the tower.
Yes true💕
Well, yeah, as everyone saw on the video. Not sure what the point of telling us what we saw, and what they said, out loud is.
@@AndyMatts44 To make her think about the one and only reason for a Kingsguard to be guarding the tower.
@@fordhouse8b - Except that, no, it's not the one and only reason. If the claim that Lyanna was kidnapped and raped was true, then she'd be a high value prisoner that big-time warriors would come to liberate, like Ned Stark, so they could be protecting a prisoner. The accepted narrative would still fit that scenario as well as what we later discovered.
@@AndyMatts44 High value to whom? Rhaegar, the alleged kidnapper and rapist, was already dead when Ned went to the Tower of Joy, so on who’s behalf would members of the Kingsguard be holding her? Of what value was she to the Kingsguard? How would they gain from holding her?
The pure power of the piano instrument. All those emotions would be impossible to convey without this insane amazing music piano piece. Its in cases like this, that music is proven to be everything.
the music score during the begining is one of my favorites in a long time!
The first use of piano in GoT
Chills everytime
Love it.
Agreed♥️
I wish they made more seasons after this! Anyway, what a phenomenal ending to a phenomenal series.
Ned Stark's last words to Jon: "When we see us next time I might tell you about your mother." This made me sad when I watched the show for the second time knowing all the plots already. He never got the chance to tell Jon about his true parents :(
However the next time Jon saw Ned was when he visited the winterfell crypt in season 8, where Samwell came and told Jon who his parents were
The one that always gets me is Benjen telling Jon not to join the Night Watch telling him he wouldn't be doing it "if he knew what it meant" which Jon took it to mean lands and titles which Jon mistakenly thought he didn't have anyway but Benjen's words were clearly loaded in that scene. So Benjen knew all along.
My god😭
@@rssspt How do we know Benjen knew? For sure. Not interpreting something into his words.
Rest in Peace my Queen Margaery. My favorite character in the entire series. Two of my top three favorite characters killed in back to back episodes (Ramsay and Margaery).
What a contradiction of personalities for your favorites. 😄
I also liked Margaery because she was the definition of kind yet cunning to me.
Even though she was able to develop many facades to manipulate people along with being very intelligent and ambitious, I do believe that Margaery was genuinely kind, compassionate, and empathetic to certain people in a way.
She did truly love her family very much and had good relationships with them all. She loved her brother Loras and was very tolerant of his homosexuality. As evidenced in this season she did everything she could to get him out of the High Sparrow’s clutches so he could be safe. Plus, before the sept exploded, Margaery also tried to guide Loras out of the building alongside her so they could escape right? In the end, she really cared for her brother. She also loved her grandmother Olenna very deeply and had a strong bond with her throughout this series. She even saved her life in the end because if she hadn’t have told Olenna to leave King’s Landing, then she would’ve gotten blown up alongside the rest of the Tyrells too. And it’s heavily implied that Mace Tyrell had a genuine loving relationship with his children so Margaery also loved her father as well. Despite her feigning a loyalty to many people, she was genuinely loyal to her house and family and loved them all.
Not only that but Margaery also showed some genuine concern for Sansa at the Purple Wedding, with her trying to get Joffrey away from Sansa and Tyrion remember? And even beforehand, I could tell that her kindness and smiles towards the girl weren’t 100% fake because she knew that once Sansa had married Loras, she would’ve benefited greatly from the result as well as herself and her family at the time. Gay or not Loras would’ve treated her with respect, dignity and never mistreat her. He also seemed to have sympathy for Sansa too. And looking at the fact that she still chose to spend time with her even after the Tyrell plot failed, I believe Margaery genuinely cared about Sansa to an extent and really was an actual friend to her at the time.
And although she was able to feign an attraction to Renly and Joffrey, I think Margaery genuinely cared for Tommen in the end because since he was a kind, sweet, and caring boy she probably grew to truly like him a little at the time. I don’t think she loved him but I do think she actually liked him well enough in the end because alongside her family, she also kept Tommen safe, happy, and allowed him to gain something from the results of her schemes and not just herself. I think she liked the kid more than her other two husbands.
that's just exactly like mine, I completely agree with you, Ramsey and Margaery are my favorite characters😭
i love how at the end of season 5 all the main characters, bad or good, were eating shit. Dany was lost in the dothraki sea, Jon was dead, Cersei and the walk of shame, Arya was blind, we didn't know if Sansa was alive from the fall.
and by the end of season 6, it's quite the opposite for all the characters. Dany is with her armies and ships, returning to her home, Jon is king in the north, Sansa is safe, Arya has got her revenge, Cersei is queen.
How is it that Cersei is still of House Lannister, when she married Robert Baratheon? Joffrey was a Baratheon. Tommen was a Baratheon. Cersei was their mother, so how could the writers have messed up that she isn't a Lannister, but a Baratheon?
@@jeffburnham6611 apparantly when you marry royalty, you keep your original name. For instance, it was Elia Martell and not Elia Targeryan. In the books, Stannis' wife is also going by Florent rather than Baratheon due to her husband's claim to the throne.
Yea. This episode is very emotionally gratifying. At every level, every scene.
Yesss
The parallels between Sansa's smile after the hounds and Arya's smile after Wilder Frey is beautiful
‘The Winds of Winter’ (book 6, not yet published, after which this episode is named) was initially supposed to be called ‘A Time for Wolves’. GRRM dropped the idea because he felt it was spoilerish. The Starks are coming back strongly.
there is a parallel with Indian Calypso since she is laughing a lot when a bad person dies... :)
@@fernandof.2225 lmao I noticed that also!!! I've noticed this show has that effect
@@ccispahan7514
the Winds of Winter falls in line with Winter is Coming so i feel like it works out better that way
Omg ♥️♥️
To me this is the best episode of the show!
Some might not agree, but if not the best, it sure is the "biggest".
Thanks Aish for your great reactions this season and good fortune for the seasons to come!
I think it’s also the best episode of any show I’ve ever seen.
This is the best episode of TV in general. Always go back and forth between WoW and Ozymandias, but WoW takes the cake.
is the best realyy fantasticin music i all
Yes its the best episode in tv shows history
100% The Best!
"Your words will disappear. Your House will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear". Sansa and Margaery's story is like that of The Tortoise and the Hare. The unlikeliest one has outpaced them all.
This💗
The transition from the baby's face and eyes to a similar shot of Jon Snow was one of the great "reveal" moments in the show.
Even watching a reaction on a 4 inch screen that transition doesn’t fail to give full body chills
So true 😭
@@AL-fl4jk Same! Tuned into this reaction on a random Thursday and here I am bawling again lol.
Now that you’ve finished season 6 and you know Leanna is Jon’s mother, you must watch the fan theory video “R+L=J WHO IS JONS MOTHER All scenes compilation video”. Someone else is trying to steal views with a video called R+L=J Who Is Jon’s Parents… which isn’t near as entertaining. Now there’s no spoilers because it only hints at Jon’s possible lineage. Love your reactions!! Keep it going!
@@Edwin.X Yes, I realized that afterwards. I stand by my opinion on which is better though. It’s much more theatric thus more entertaining.
She’s already reacted to that; also Jon Snow Dinner, Westerosi Rhapsody, Beginners Guide etc… 👍🏼
@@AmericanMumReacts Love your reactions too by the way! Yes she’s reacted to History and Lore and Cold Play and so on but not R+L=J. I don’t see it in her play list and It would have been a spoiler video if she watched it before the end of Season 6. She’s a smart girl, if she had watched that before Winds of Winter, she wouldn’t still be confused about who Jons father is.
@@PainIsALie She was already well into Season 7 when I had her watch them 👍🏼
@@AmericanMumReacts I don’t understand, is she posting her reactions long after because she just posted S6E10 yesterday.
This really is one of the top 5 episodes of television of all time.
top 1
@@timwenger7750 ''ozymandias' in breaking bad is a good shout for top spot as well
Agreed♥️
Gods, Light of the Seven(the song playing at the beginning) is hands down my favorite piece of music from this entire series! The slow build, the tension gradually rising as it moves ever so steadily to the crescendo and it's accompanying explosion. It's truly masterful and it was even better getting to see and hear it live!
So true 😢
winds of winter episode is a masterpiece. Can't fully appreciate just how cathartic it is until rewatch it a couple more times! Every segment is done to chef's kiss! Perfect balance of anticipation, buildup, explosion, action, emotion, intrigue, up and down they take you in for a dizzying ride. That camera cut from the tower to king in the north is what a decade worth of payoff looks like. This episode is in the all timer list for me, not just Thrones but in general.
Call me a sap but just seeing Jon smile... so beautiful.
@@chefskiss6179 he really has one of the purest smiles in cinema history 😭
So true 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
-Tyrells been cut off like this was just a horrid mistake...
-Loras been there completly broken and god knows what they had done to him! He really looks like a scared little boy. Its funny how far Margaery went to try to protect him. Aside from the starks, Tyrells brothers were the best dinami
-Margaery played well her game, her moves were so amazing. The way she put herself in the middle of the dangerous High Sparrow game! She even put her ambition a little aside to protect Loras! Even before dying she hold Loras. Something Cersei would never do. Remember when Jaime got caught by Rob, and Cersei complain about it!
Margaery even figure it out something was going to up, longer then anyone could even think about it! They could even had survived if High Sparrow listen to her. In the End like Rob, this was the only way Margaery could had gone down. Cornered with the stupid of that shoeless. Cersei didnt take Margaery down, it was the stupidity of High Sparrow, who thought could play this game. what its clear, Margeary did had a plan to take High Sparrow down, if she had survived this
Here you can see that Ned has always been honorable. He never cheated on Kat. He has made a promise.
Honorable, yet a bit thick. Littlefinger was right in season one.
That is why Game Of Thrones was an absolute history making series. Genuine TV phenomenon.
Lots going on but I love how Margarey was still so concerned and protective of her brother. Right until the end.
Robbie McD has a UA-cam video you should react to now that you know the truth about Jon. It shows all scenes from the show that hints to Lyanna being his mother and is very well done...I believe it's called "R+L=J-Who is Jon Snow's mother?".
Please tell me she reacts to it
Too soon for this…?
Yes! This is the best R+L= J video on UA-cam.
Dude it's still too soon for that. Not all has been revealed yet.
Agree to soon.
Hands down my favorite episode of the entire show!
100%
Same here🫶🏼
You without a doubt have the greatest reaction to the Tower of Joy scene. Just a flood of emotions 😭 love it!
Omg thank you so much friend ♥️🙃
9:30 first time Djawadi used the piano is the show. The piece is called Light of the Seven :)
Omg ♥️
Well this was easily my favorite reaction of an episode of yours. :) Joy and smiles throughout.
Yeah, it was fantastic.
This is why all us nerds recommend watching the Histories & Lore. It really pays off for episodes like this one.
Thank you so much friend 🥰
For me this is the best episode. So many goosebumps and highlights for many characters. And that magnificent music takes it to a whole new level. ❤
For the first time in the show Piano was used in this episode that stresses that something strange is about to happen.
The piano used for the first time… it’s a character by itself
One of the bestttttttt episodes ever! Everyone sealed their positions at every corner...and here comes Daenerys! The director on this......phenomenal work!!
The best
For me
Agreed♥️
THE MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE ALONE >>>>>>>MUSIC OF ENTIRE SERIES. 😭 ❤️🔥
"We know no King but the King in the North, who's name is Stark"! What an awesome insane balls to the wall experience this finale was! This one's up there as one of the best GoT episodes imo. The North and the Targaryen dynasty is reincarnated in the veins of the Bastard Who Lived. So much for the illusionary reign of the Boy King Tommen Baratheon. The moral is "power resides where men believe it resides" like Varys said. The whole edifice of the ruling power that was held together by so much bloodshed comes crashing down like a deck of cards. To watch it all go up in flames (literally) was as rewarding as watching it slowly being built up was irksome. Out of the wreckages of the North, the South and the East emerge the three contenders to the Iron Throne : the Bastard of Winterfell, the Lioness of Casterly Rock, and the Stormborn who intends to re-create what her ancestor Aegon the Conqueror had done three centuries ago.
"There’s a lot to discuss when talking about Game Of Thrones. Brilliant performances, incredible special effects, impressive writing, action, suspense, drama, comedy… there’s so much to take in that it’s very easy to forget about something when discussing episodes. However, music is one of the most important aspects to any television show or movie, and if you don’t believe me, then try watching a horror movie on mute and see if it has the same impact. Game Of Thrones opens up with a person putting on a crown, and ends with a person putting on a crown. Margaery, Tommen, the High Sparrow, Cersei… they’re all busy getting dressed. It’s trial day, and King Tommen has declared that trial by combat is no longer allowed, which means that Loras Tyrell is faced with a trial courtesy of seven septons, just like the old days. Also, just like in the old days, the whole of the court is ready to crowd into the sept of Baelor to watch the trial unfold. All throughout, music plays, slowly increasing in tempo and complexity to create tension. It is simply brilliant." - *Den of Geeks*
"What makes Sapochnik’s direction so effective? Let’s look at the opening of “The Winds of Winter.” The episode, written by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, has a lot of loose ends to tie up as the show gets ready for its endgame, but it starts with more than 20 uninterrupted minutes at King’s Landing, where the trial of Cersei Lannister is about to get underway. We see the major players in the show’s King’s Landing strand getting dressed, as if preparing for a day at work: The High Sparrow slips on his woven cassock, Queen Margaery is laced into her dress, King Tommen puts on his pointed crown. In successive close-ups, the High Sparrow’s and Tommen’s hands slip through the sleeves of their robes, almost clasping despite the fact that they’re miles apart, suggesting the degree to which their interests, and their fates, have become linked. But Cersei stands apart, already dressed and staring from her balcony in the Red Keep, across the city to the Sept of Baelor, where her trial is to be held. When we last saw her, she was panicked and distraught, betrayed by her own son, who’d cast his lot with the Faith instead of his family. But now she’s calm, almost immobile as the others ready themselves. They have things to do and places to be, but she’s already done everything she needs to do. Sapochnik brings us into the Sept itself with an overhead tracking shot, which conveys a sense of majesty and scope but also highlights the metal grate in the Sept’s floor, a grate that presumably leads all the way down to the tunnels where Cersei has relocated the late King Aerys’ wildfire. (Attentive viewers may remember the unusually ostentatious shot from “No One,” where after Cersei’s undead henchman rips off a man’s head, we’re suddenly looking up through a grate in the ground as his blood oozes downward.) In the scene that follows, Sapochnik uses both high and low angles to emphasize the Sept’s towering grandeur and the power wielded by the High Sparrow but also to point out how the massive statues of the Seven Gods dwarf the human figures below them. (Height and its relationship to power also play a key role in another of the episode’s scenes, when Daenerys Targaryen steps down to the floor of her throne room so that she can look at Tyrion Lannister face to face.) The Sparrow’s attention is directed upward, toward the heavens, but the real threat will soon explode from underneath, set in motion by a woman he’s underestimated for the last time." - *Slate*
Love this!!!
Rest in peace, Margeary Tyrell, a true queen
Truly♥️
i watched like thousands of reactions! Yours are the most sincere one! I LOVED ITTT!!!!
By the end of the episode some of the most powerful leaders in the world are all women. Daenerys, Olena, Elaria, Yara.. a huge change from the beginning of the series
Poor Ned. The only dude in the Seven Kingdoms that could keep a damn secret, and he dies for it lol. Also, there's a good video out there that's a compilation of all the clips from previously on the show about Lyanna and Jon. You should give it a watch.
The music in the first part of this episode is everything. The organ really drove home the tension of what was about to happen.
Yes my dear, your emotions were all over the place. Outstanding reactions.
Thank you friend ♥️
Thank you for the upload & giving me something to watch on my way home from work
You are most welcome friend 💕
I just love your excitement! I felt everything you were feeling too. GOT is truly the greatest series ever made! 👑🐲❤
Aww thank you friend ♥️
One of the things that was part of the exposition in the early seasons of Game of Thrones (and, so far, also in House of the Dragon) was the mention, often in seemingly "thowaway" lines, of the passage of time... references to "a fortnight", or taking a month for the King's travel party to make the trip to Winterfell. In later seasons, they rarely, if even, gave us such references, giving no context for scenes that had to have taken considerable time, but were shown from one episode to the next, or even within a single episode (cases in point, Varys leaving Mereen on his mission, being present in Dorne meeting with the Ellaria, the Sand Snakes, and Lady Olenna, and being on the ship with Daenerys and Tyrion... and there were both Dornish and Tyrell ships in that fleet. Also the blowing up of the Sept, Lady Olenna in black mourning clothing in Dorne, Jaime having travelled from Riverrun to King's Landing). It was left to the viewer's imagination to factor in the passage of time, leading to so many references (often during Littlefinger's various travels) of "time travel" or "teleportation". The lack of that time passage context was one of the problems in the later seasons.
This episode of such a beauty!! The music, the action everything was just phenomenal ❤️
Ramin Djawadi's music is on another level ❤️
Agreed😭
I've spent these past days (re)watching this serie alongside you, and I have to say you're so witty and observant, it's so cool, I almost feel like I'm watching for the first time again c: thanks for these reactions!
Jaime however was not on Arya's list. You can say she was waiting for him to leave, to carry out her plans with Frey.
The expectations raised beyond all barriers after this episode.
But the results left everyone unsatisfied
Its all (mostly) downhill from here because they rushed the end like morons. It could have been the best TV show ever but HBO let DB ruin it all.
I was pretty satisfied with the ending. I wish they’d gone different routes with some characters, but it was the rush that took me out of it, not where everyone ended up.
At least we got an end. Martin will never finish
@@lolmao500 They had no more source material - it was a question of can OTHER writers equal GRRM, which of course is impossible. The blame should be placed on GRRM solely who had years to complete the books but clearly became a totally different person with totally different motivations after global fame hit him. If he finished the books they could have pulled out all the best parts as they did for all 6 seasons. Book release dates: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2018. There is a big problem there - 7 years to write a book - could I do it faster? No chance in hell. Could GRRM have done it faster? Yes - 100%. Credit to the rest of GoT staff for doing the best they could with what little they had. Their expertise is ADAPTING books into shows, not writing shows from scratch.
@@pulpficti he really last very long 🌚
Who would’ve thought the top of the new year I would’ve found you’re awesome reactions ! This episode left my mouth wide open in the first 15 minutes forsure lol 😅
The creators of GAME OF THRONES (A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE) are way ahead of today's era. This particular episode always gets me and leaves me shocked to the core every time i watch it.
I believe it is most fine hour in the history of television 🔥this episode of the series is shocking yet satisfying, suspenseful. For the first time, getting to know about Leyyna being the mother of John shocked me, and then the feeling that Ned fucking stark was honourable as hell ❤️ gives me chills.
incredible episode, the most powerful season and amazing reaction! Thank you!
Thank you friend 💕
I said it during episode one of this season. The last two episodes are great. The tower of Joy reveal is sooooooo good and possibly the peak of the series for me. The Sept of Baelor scene is a masterpiece of score and atmosphere.
It’s too bad the rest of this season had to be so lackluster and contrived to get the characters in place for such a great finale.
I know you’ve finished the series by now, looking forward to your reaction to the train wreck that is seasons 7 and 8.
Is this the new take in the Got fandom now? Season 6 was good.
@@pulpficti No the new take seems to be that because the last two seasons were bad, the entire series was bad. I don't feel that way. But I see the internet is full of whiners who do.
@@NovaLena22 that’s not the take. The take is that seasons 1-4 were consistently incredible and that the writing suffered a gradual decline from season 5 on. Season 6 had all-time great episodes in 5, 9 or 10 that elevated an otherwise ok season.
Compare season 6 to season 2 for example. Season 6 had a handful of payoffs and climaxes that REALLY hit more than anything in season 2 other than Blackwater but moment to moment, scene to scene, episode to episode season 2 was consistently well written and consistent in its logic, unlike season 6.
@@AdriaNicoo I am sorry but despite nitpicks I don't see anything wrong with season 6
@@pulpficti really? Nothing wrong? Ok
*PROMISE ME NED*
In the 1st book there's a very somber sequence where Robert in his deathbed is pleading with Ned to take care of Joffrey. Before he dies last thing Robert says is " *PROMISE ME NED* ". But Ned hears that sentence in a female voice. It's so well written, it's hard to do justice. That was my first vague inkling. All through the 1st book Ned has a crisis of faith looking at Robert deteriorating on the throne, and asks himself if Robert really was a better alternative to the Targaryen Crown Prince. It kills Ned cause he starts to second guess everything he had fought for. In the process of winning the war he lost the Brother he knew. There's times when Ned is walking through the castles and wherever he goes he comes across these relics left by the Targaryens, which reminds him of Prince Rhaeger. The greatest dynasty is gone, but their imprint is still everywhere. Even as absolute masters of King's Landing, it's Ned and Robert who felt like outsiders there. It's all beautifully written and Ned's constant inner torment is impossible to do justice on screen. But that's when you start to wonder why is Ned feeling so guilty all the time? Maybe everything is not what it seems? It's that "chaos, a gaping pit" line from Varys. The victors kept telling lies about the vanquished so many times, they themselves forgot what the truth was. People say ASOIAF is the tragic love story of Rhaegar and Lyanna. But it's really A Tragic Love Story of Eddard and Robert. Back in the day ASOIAF forum had a funny thread where they listed every suggestive moment between Ned and Robert, including just the sheer number of times Ned thinks of Young Robert as "muscled like a maiden's fancy" and "every inch a king". Dude slick left his wife home to be with King Bob 😅
Obviously GRRM can and might go in a different direction now all these years later as he has little choice but to do certain things differently. But regardless, the dilemmas of Ned around Robert, Rhaegar Lyanna and Jon is pure thematic excellence :
*He found himself thinking of Robert more and more. He saw the king as he had been in the flower of his youth, tall and handsome, his great antlered helm on his head, his warhammer in hand, sitting his horse like a horned god. He heard his laughter in the dark, saw his eyes, blue and clear as mountain lakes. “Look at us, Ned,” Robert said. “Gods, how did we come to this? You here, and me killed by a pig. We won a throne together…”* 😢
My heart 😭
Speaking about the haunting music at the beginning, called "Light of the Seven" - a few months ago I called Whirlpool customer service about a broken washing machine and that is the music you hear when they put you on hold. (Made me worry my washing machine was going to explode in a burst of wild fire. LOL.)
On the opposite end of the Jon Sansa "sinter is here" scene is the godswood scene. People have been asking Baelish "what do you want" since S1 and Baelish has been answering "Everything, dear. Everything." since S1. This was as close to seeing the inner Baelish as it will get. That conversation seemed to lay down the foundation for a power struggle in the North between Zombie Jonathan Targ and Dark Phoenix Sansa. That was the speculation going into the next season and the trailers played heavily into it.
Ohhhhh🤔🤔
What an amazing end to an amazing series! Its a truly masterful decision to end this series at this point of the story so everyone can end it in their own way. The producers wanted to give everyone the chance to build the story to their liking as the mind is the maker of the best stories. Or maybe they wanted to wait until GRRM ends his story in the last 2 books?
Anyway, Game of Thrones is the greatest TV series with the best unfinished story there is. Thank you!
That was never gonna happen. Martin still hasn't published WoW. Coward should have stayed on and help finish
Season 7 had a lot of great moments, though. I would say you should've saved this comment for the season 7 finale.
@@MFBloosh No.
GREAT! I feel the same way.
@@pulpficti Yeah but this season, particularly last few episodes were also from beyond the book. Only difference is that makers cared and they still made some masterful episodes
"Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes. Ned remembered the way she had smiled then, how tightly her fingers had clutched his as she gave up her hold on life, the rose petals spilling from her palm, dead and black. After that he remembered nothing." - A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4. Right from the start it was there.
Possibly the greatest episode of TV ever made imo
Agreed👏🏻
The best season finale to any season of Game of Thrones
The best episode of GOT by far
Agreeed👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
She whispered his actual name can’t wait for you to see the next season😊
What an episode! I was left speechless too. When Glover plants his sword we all join in on the king in the north chant 🤣🤣😩. It's almost customary. Such a moment of catharsis. Usually with a water bottle or the remote. Unless you're the lucky ones to have a light saber lying around close by 😂. The bastard of winterfell has come a long way!
Episode 6x9 and 6x10 are my fav episodes from GOT all seasons.
Agreed♥️
10:30 that bgm is amazing especially when winter comes
So true 😭
So much epic in one episode.
Yess🥰
34:21 Best expression of shock I've ever seen!
👏🏻😍
Your reaction to Jon's reveal actually made me cry! lol. Its one of the most beautiful scenes in the series in my opinion. This is a perfect episode, the music, the weight of it, the first scene - every second. Love your reactions :)
Omg thank you so much friend ♥️
Tommen gives a new meaning to "Kings Landing"
Hahahah😂
She whispered his name was aegon targerion
This is definitely my favourite episode of the entire series!
Agreed 🥰
All of your reactions have been top tier but when the whole baby/Jon reveal happened the look of realisation on your face was perfect and although I've seen this scene several times I still got chills.
Thankyou for the work you put in keeping us entertained and as always blessings
Omg my friend thank you so much♥️
One of the best episodes in TV history imho❤
The thing about Cersei's prophecy is it's self fulfilling. He actions lead directly to the deaths of her children, with (maybe) the exception of Joffrey, but thats arguable.
So true 🤦🏽♀️
now go and watch R+L=J Who is Jon Snow Mother
Hi friend please my message in the community page🫶🏼
RIP Tommen. 💔 You were too sweet for this world.
the maniac laughter during all the epic scenes, good all memories
Your energy reminds me of what I felt when I watched those episodes lol.
Rhaegar and Lyanna were in love. Rhaegar is Jon’s father. Robert was going to “kill every Targaryen can get his hands on”. “If Robert finds out, he’ll kill him”. This is why, Ned kept his vow and protected Jon.
Coming out of this episode everyone had the same reaction. Even when I watch it now I'm still in awe of just how many shocking turn of events is packed in a single episode! Each one hit like a brick wall. In one stroke it gives you a resolution to the powder cegs that have been built up for so long, and leaves you with an answer you never thought about. This is like a multiple watch episode cause the first time you're in a shell shocked state! It keeps on giving! At the beginning of last episode Tyrion foreshadows by telling Dany the story of Mad King hiding caches of wildfire in King's Landing. By the end of Bastards that's the last thing on your mind! Hats off to Ramin Djawadi's music. The music alone is better than pretty much every finale of every show. The way it adds to the suspense of the Sept scene is unreal. Who else is unreal? Liam Cunningham as Davos berating Mellisandre. Battle episodes are always crazy but this is fantastic in a different kinda way. Deserved every accolade it got. This might be my fav GoT episode, it's in the top three.
I don't know if anybody has already put this in the comment section but it's kind of a thing that most reactors watch and react to immediately following the season six finale. It is called R + L =J. It is short but powerful. It is an edited compilation of hints throughout the six seasons alluding to who Jon's parents are and in turn who he is.:ua-cam.com/video/3xaspBsfgRg/v-deo.html
Except our dear friend hasn’t figured it out yet. 😬
Hi friend I have watched it and will be uploading after season 7 finale 😉
My favorite episode in all of Game of Thrones. So chilling. "Please, Grand Maester. I bear you no ill will. Please forgive me if you can." The rest that follow is jaw dropping.
I still can't get that melancholic piano music out of my head. The camera panning out to Cersei's coronation is my favorite shot, waited the whole series for that moment! The King in the North chant lives, once more after all this time! With Jon and Sansa at the table as throwback to Robb and Cat from the end of S1. Very evocative score and visuals. This is one my favorite GoT episodes.Through hell and highwater we keep hoping for all these outcomes, and at last the floodgates open up! Remember how we do the winter is coming drinking game quip in early seasons as Ned keeps saying it every 5 mins? Who would've thought when that time did come for the Starks, it'll be under these circumstances! To quote Ned as Sansa does in Winter is Here trailer, "when the Snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives." There's that one badass teaser for next season called Long Walk which shows the two queens and the one king walking to their respective thrones and subconsciously you just know that this is it, we've peaked it's a spiral from here. Well at least for an awesome moment it did feel like a time for wolves!!
So true 👏🏻👏🏻
This right here is absolute peak GoT.
That my girl is the secret: Ned never betrayed Cat - his wife, his honor is unbismirched, in Jamie's words.🤗 Even more so, to keep Jon's chances to live, he purposely denounced his honor, lieing about having a misstress even to his wife, risking their relationship. That takes ballz, man!
The so-called Wylla Ned mentions to Robert in S1E2 did exist, but she never had a romantic relationship with Ned. She was Jon’s wet nurse, probably one of the women who helped Lyanna to give birth.
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Love your reactions as always. So many amazing emotions and moments I'm loving to relive.
Thank you so much friend 🫶🏼
Lyanna whispered Jon's real name "Aegon Targaryen" and she begged Ned to keep it a secret because if Robert found out, Robert would kill Jon. At this point, Rhaegar was dead and the war was pretty much over. She made Ned promise that he would protect Jon, which are her last words. Ned keeps the promise and tells Robert that Jon is his bastard son, not the truth that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son.
"Lyanna whispered..."
Don't they tell us what she whispered in a later episode? Isn't this a spoiler? Or am I just misremembering?
Spoiler! Thats not nice! Please, delete your comment and let her watch without spoilers.
people plz, it was all revealed this episode. and she asked people to tell her what Lyanna whispered. she knows Jon is Lyanna's kid now,...the show made it obvious. she even states it in the outro. don't you guys watch all the way to the end?
@@svt80221 Jon’s actual name is revealed much later, during season 7.
@@svt80221 It's not just "Jon is Lyanna's kid". You revealed things that weren't revealed in the show until later. It was very explicitly *not* revealed in this scene; the camera cuts away. Sam and Gilly figure a crucial part of it out at the Citadel (although they didn't know the relevance of it at the time, but the audience does).
Tyrion being named Hand of the Queen had me all misty eyed🥲.
Tyrion without hesitation …kneels before The Dragon Queen🐉🧝🏼♀️🐉🐉. That’s something King JerkJoffrey could never get Tyrion to do……no matter how loud he commanded him to.
This😭😭😭
This is where Cersei became Tywins' daughter. Unfettered, unrestrained from the shackles of being a daughter, a mother or a wife. Tywin created a monster by using his daughter as a broodmare.
Yeah😭
Did you notice that when the wildfire cache beneath the Sept of Baelor went off, the flaming green explosion roaring through the tunnels was one of the things that Bran saw in his weirwood visions. Not only has he been able to see events from the past, apparently, he can also see the future!
Omg I have to watch that vision frame by frame!!
@@IndianCalypso Back when it originally aired, many of us did exactly that.
That's why it's called Kings landing 🤣 and I laughed too when she leveled the Sept, it cemented her as one of my favs
Hahah😂
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When Dany names Tyrion "Hand of The Queen" and he kneels....that is the FIRST time Tyrion has knelt for ANYONE he actually wanted to, in his whole life. He was always under obligation but not with Daenerys. He believes in her!
My heart😭
See how that bloody bell went down? Long may she reign!
I just noticed they play the Targaryen music during the "king in the north" scene
That end scene still gives me chills.
to this day, this episode is my absolute favorite ever.
Same here🥰
That wildfire explosion was in Bran's vision (6x6).