@@marissasue319 lol yeah. Its something he would do. Book Euron is like a two-face villain between a charming, charismatic leader and an terrifying, demonic, and pure evil reeving sorcerer. Way better than Urine 'finga in da bum' Greyjoy on the show.
@@extremegrieferjesus8897 Even a veteran swordsman can be overwhelmed by an armed mob. Especially an older veteran that hasn't had a lot of serious combat time recently that is using a longsword in an enclosed space. Of all the shit Game of Thrones did to hurt me, Barristan's death is pretty reasonable in comparison.
@@makeway3080 Not true. Sure a kid can shoot and kill a seasoned combat veteran, much like a kid could stab Barristan Selmy with a sword. You may think one is more unlikely than the other, but they're both equally unlikely if the seasoned veteran and Selmy are actually fighting the kid.
The Hound was 50 feet away, had 5 kingsguard soldiers between him and Selmy and still had his hand on his hilt when Selmy raised his voice...thats how bad ass this guy is.
I loved these subtleties between warriors. Another of my favorites is when they bring the wight to Cersei. Jamie is sitting there with a smirk on his face because he's not taking the threat seriously - until he sees the fear on the Hound's face. Then his smile immediately melts away because he knows that if the Hound is afraid, they're all in deep shit.
Daenerys and the characters around her, had a incredible amount of potential and value in the storyline. Just her name and what she and her past stands for, already had so much value and affection. She was like the first person you would root for. She was the only different one in the whole story with the most unique character traits and a fabulous personality. I feel like they wasted 8 years of good writing on a TRASH ending >:(.
It's also been said that she's the series' true villain - as crazy, power-hungry, and merciless as any Targaryen, just more subtle about it and not aware that she's a monster.
The path to every throne leads through corpses; Daenrys was simply better at marketing herself - but the fact is she claimed to have the right to decide who lives and who dies without any supervision That's a tyrant I am really bemused that so many people actually like her; to me she's far worse than Cersei
He seems like that kind of fellow. He even has a similar intro to obi wan in a new hope. Both walk in seeming like a threat but you come to realize they are not bad.
Little known fact the Game of Thrones universe exists on a planet in the middle of the Galactic Empire. It was scheduled for destruction for being too primitive, but the Death Star assigned to the job was destroyed when its death ray reflected off D&Ds plot armour and blew itself up.
His death was pure bullshit. He was one of the greatest fighters ever and he was with the Unsullied who are literally game of thrones equivalent of special forces, there is no way they wouldn't wipe the floor with bunch of bums armed with fucking knives
In the books after hes kicked out by Jofferey, they order that he be captured because hes so pissed off. When they finally figure out hes long gone, one of the city gates is wide open and all the men guarding it are cut down and they know he did it. but btw, in the books they always talked about how fantastic a fighter Khal Drogo was but he never fought anyone there
J Jo A heavily modified version too. It was created to draw out the death so it was as agonizing as possible. The mountain will suffer for weeks before (if) he dies.
The reason I love Ser Barristan so much is he’s one of the only ones in the entire series who never breaks his oath; he defended a mad man, a bad king and a tyrant all out of oath, and when he was ‘released from that oath he found a new way to honour it in Daenerys. Only death would break his bond and I love it, apart form his death of course
Why glorify 'oath' like this when by definition it boils down to doing what people tell you in a medieval setting? Yeah, Barristan really did whatever everyone told him to do for the entirety of the show, what a badass? I'm confused by this post
He was never released of his oath of loyalty. He just went with whoever was convenient. He's no more honorable than Jaime. At least when Jaime switched sides it wasn't for his own selfish reasons.
Barristan's backstory is really incredible in the books; he is referred to once or twice as Barristan the Bold in the TV series but it's never revealed why. He earned the nickname after he rescued the mad king after he had been captured and held during the Defiance of Duskendale. Following the defiance, Aerys II had the houses who were involved executed down to the last child, except for one who was spared at Barristan Selmy's request.
He also ended the Fifth Blackfyre Rebellion by killing Maelys the Monstrous. But then in this show he dies to a group of untrained civilians with knives.
worse..... the small council knew jorah was spying on dany and usually the commande of the kingsguard sits on the council so under normal circumstances selmy would know that jorah wasn´t loyal to dany
I like Jorah's look when he understands it's barristan Selmy. If he has come on the orders of Robert, he knows there will be nothing he can do to defend Daenerys.
@@collaborativelearning1 doubt it. if that were the case he would have assumed a better stance immediately if he though dani was in danger. he clearly realised he was there to join them and not murder dani. otherwise why would he have knocked the thing out of danis hand and not just cut her throat?
I was thinking this, he takes a step forward to be infront of daenerys and he has that look like this is the end, the music also makes me feel like this.
Can we all just take a moment to admire Ser Barristan? Not only is he a great fighter but a good guy too. Once, Dany jokingly tells him her butt was numb from sitting so long during an audience and the next time she holds audience he's piled her bench with cushions for her. Really, AWWW! 'Ser Grandfather' is such an underrated character in a world full of such cruel people.
I also think Selmy could just straight up tell Daenerys... "I've been keeping an eye on your for a while to make sure you weren't crazy like your father was at the end."
There is a small mistake in this scene. When Jorah first stops Selmy, he grabs him pretty good, thinking that he is a threat to Danearys. But in the next shot Selmy is free completely when he kills the scorpion. I mean Jorah won’t just leave a threat like this in a couple of seconds.
This was a good change from the books. In the book they don't realize who Selmy is until much much later. But in a movie, the audience can recognize the actor. So they avoided that old soap opera cliche of having the characters be oblivious to what the audience already knows by having Selmy declare himself from the get go :)
I don't think it is a good change. We may know who Selmy is, but we won't know why he is there. If we saw him there and hear him tell obviously false stories of why he's there it and then go on to build trust, while we know he is lying and we don't know if he's there to support dany or to kill her. It would have created a lot of tension and suspense.
Danny had so much potential and they threw it out the window. Up until season 8 she was shown to be merciful and fair, saving the lives of innocents even if it didn’t benefit her. “How many slaves are there in Yunkai?” “200,000, if not more.” “Then we have 200,000 reasons to take the city.” Only for season 8 to roll in and have her burning thousands of screaming men women and children out of revenge on the people who did no harm to her. “Let it be fear.” They absolutely annihilated her character..
Thats a little unfair. The show (and the books make this clear) showed her to quite vindictive, and as her power grew much more draconian in her punishments.
One thing. The men who earlier moderated her behavior were dead. That and it's my understanding - that what Happened when she burned King's Landing - was her inner ... tyrant ..... ?? ... coming out. I think a lot of her fans wanted she and Jon to get married and live happily ever after but they had decided that wasn't going to happen. So they had her happily burn Kings Landing and say she was going to do that to the rest of Westeros as well. .
@@akashgarg9776 Yes, but there is a massive difference between deciding to kill the slavers, and taking pains to avoid loss of innocent life, and deciding to burn a city indiscriminately.
@@Rougarou99 True, but she has been building to that for some time. It started with clearly evil slavers, then indiscriminate slavers, then slaves she thought were evil, then really anyone against her, even bringing back sport killing tournaments, and so on. The show doesn't do a good job with this escalation of violence, but the books do, and its probably where she ends up.
@@MegaParrotMan I have watched the show, it was several years ago, I only watched it once and I have watched hundreds of other shows since then and Khal Drogo died in season one after a only handful of scenes, a thousand apologies if my memory about one of the show’s less important characters is a little askew.
0:48 I love how Jorah, younger and in armor, tries to overpower the unarmored Barristan from behind, but evidently Barristan gets free in just a few seconds.
New character unlocked: BARRISTAN SELMY Stats: Swordfighting: 10 Blending-in while using incredibly suspicious black cloak: 8 Insect stabbing: 9 Standing beside throne: 10+ Longevity: 2,5 Bonus abilities: Provides convenient exposition about long lost relatives.
I think even though we saw Ser Barristan save the day here, if it was just Jorah he'd have seen something was not right and killed it pretty quickly too!
Maybe this incident is the reason that Daenerys "kind of forgot" about the Iron Fleet. She was operating under the assumption that once you deliver a setback to a group that's opposing you (foiling the assassination attempt and killing the Warlock's bug for example) that they completely disappear from the story, never to be heard from again.
This scene is a classic device of introducing characters. At the beginning we are presented with two characters: A young girl and a mysterious man in a hood. The young girl looks innocent and the man looks threatening. At the end, we find out it was the exact opposite: The girl was the dangerous one and the man was the one who was trying to protect the character. A similar device of introduction of characters can be seen in Terminator 2. We're introduced to Arnold's character who we assume wants to kill Sarah because he did try to kill her in the previous movie, whereas the other character is even dressed as a Police man.... only to find out it's the other way around.
A pretty big theme of the books is that the generation in power is starting to age. Cersei feels threatened by Margaery, King Robert and Ned Stark focus more on politics than fighting in battles and tournaments, and in the books Jaime reminisces of Rhaegar Targaryen, Arthur Dayne and young Barristan and how all of them were greater knights than any young ones currently alive. I like it, personally - not every piece of fiction has to only star teenagers and twenty-somethings.
The March of Time. It stops for no one, and tomorrow's young stars become yesterday's dying old men in sure order or they die too young to know time's bitter truth.
Jorah proclaiming Ser Barristan as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard makes him sound like part of Robert’s Rebellion and actively supporting Robert. In fact, Robert respected Ser Barristan’s skill so much he pardoned him for his loyalty towards the Targaryens and even fighting alongside Rhaegar in the Battle of Trident AGAINST Robert himself. It reminds you of the fact it wasn’t the Targaryen ended the Blackfyre Rebellion (at least through the male line), it was young Ser Barristan, even before he became Kingsguard through Aerys, it was in Aerys’ father’s reign.
santiago sancho Yeah, and with that little girl it was like they were trying to show: "These guys will bother them heck of a lot in future episodes." ´They have yet to be mentioned
His story is not over by a long shot. Look at some of the Arya/Gendry scenes. If they don't meet up again that would be a hugely wasted relationship that was built over the course of many episodes. ''you would be my lady'' is quite an emotional scene. It would be a terrible mistake to just throw him out the window for good
Ned Stark should have gone to see Ser Barristan when he found out Cersei's secret instead of telling her he knew. Ser Barristan is big on honour like Ned and Jon Arryn, he would have helped Ned and since everyone knows Ser Barristan, Ned might have had a chance of beating the Lannisters.
People are forgetting that at this point in the series Jorah is still a spy for the Baratheons/Lannisters. His reaction isnt that of awe, he is terrified that Barristan Selmy will out him as a traitor
Yeah but we still would have had a garbage ass ending because David and Dan are awful writers. The only reason the first 5 seasons were good was because they had the books as reference. Post 5 they had to make their own shit up. But yeah there were sooooo many storylines they didn't touch. Never touched on Lady Stoneheart (Kat after her throat got slit at the red wedding), The one person from Qarth or whatever it was with the crazy face mask thingy. Oberyn wasn't supposed to die as quickly as he did. That one jester guy i think patchface or something like that. Super lit so i can't remember all of it, those are the only things that come to mind.
@@chrisarbour They said they didnt use Lady Stoneheart because they didnt want to ruin the surprise effect of John being resurected. Because in their opinion if they used her, ppl would have known he wouldnt die and all but yes, they are still awfull writters who ruined the entire series.
@@kevinlpe68 Lady Stoneheart was always more hype than Jon Snow. People would've LOVED the vengeful corpse of Catelyn...one of the many mistakes by D&D
@@boblazer9586 True. Stoneheart's introduction was one of the fan favorite moments in Storm. I wondered where they thought they were taking Brienne and Jaime's characters if LSH wasn't there. And then I saw, and despaired.
Luiz Fernando Cavalcanti dos Santos Because he knows Barristan could kick his ass with a walking stick sideways even though Jorah is in full armor haha
+Emil Bæk Mogensen Not only that, but he's afraid Selmy knows about him spying on Dany--why do you think one of the first things he said about Selmy was that he was head of King Robert's kingsguard? He wanted Dany to mistrust him.
I really wanted to see more of the warlocks in later seasons. The warlocks we saw were evil but had some extraordinary powers like illusions. They just kinda forgot about it.
They didn't. They just forgot to introduce euron like in books. Because euron captured them warlocks and enslaved them. Euron is the biggest villain in the books for now (there's no night king)
i enjoy this scene so much, at first for the fear on jorahs face to see selmy, then the utter shock as selmy declares himself to deny. all while jorah kept hand on hilt, aware selmy would know everything about jorahs work for varys. brilliant! he thought he finally had to face the music and dance with selmy and steel than have to sing for danny and forgiveness. just so much happening.
to be fair, varys need not let anyone know who his mole was; Varys could've totally been treating Selmy like mushrooms, feed em shit and keep em in the dahk
Kinda is in his young ages one of the best fighters in the world and as old man mentoring someone....I just hope Daenerys wont become super great warrior than pursuaded on the side of white walkers....and than they fight Dany and Barristan beside lava......
I like how Manticores seem to be legitimately evil for an insect. It goes for Daenerys even though it has no reason to, it could've scuttled away but instead it tried to kill her.
Yiasss!!! I thought I was the only one thinking and hyping so much about this!! I really wanna see who the fuck killed Rhaegar, cause it sure as hell wasn't Robert!
It was Robert. He got injured after that and that's where Stark comes in. (you know the story) Thats' why he got weaker, and became fat. (GOT season 1)
It was also known that Ned defeated Arthur Dayne and it turned out that he got stabbed in the back and then was killed by Ned. It could be some plot twist that Robert won by some favorable circumstances, and not simply by being a better warrior. But that's just wishful thinking from a Rhaegar fanboi
This scene shows that Ser Jorah was quick enough to apprehend Barristan to protect Dany, then had a good enough grasp of his surroundings that he saw the Scorpion, added up the situation in his head fast enough to figure out what was going on and had the faith to let Ser Barristan go to save his Queen. That or Barristan got out of the hold, which he probably could, but that is a little less cool.
It is for me, because I dislike Daenerys, ALOT. Most of her chapters in the books are really boring aswell. Sure, I read all of them first time reading the books, but as I'm reading the first book again, I skip every chapter with her.
***** Yeah it's because Essos is so boring and disconnected to the main plot at Westeros. When I reread the books I tend to skip her chapters too excluding the important ones (i.e. Viserys & Drogo's deaths, hatching the dragon eggs, House of Undying, conquering Astapor, etc). I do like Dany as a character though and it's going to be awesome when she finally hits Westeros.
le krieg why would he put himself in that situations. Answer : D&D wanted to cut plot lines so instead of Barristan running the city they had Tyrion’s journey sped up so he ran it. It’s a dumb way to end his plotline would have been nice if he killed some assassin after her and died to poison or something. He’s still alive and well in the books
Barristan Selmy, IMHO, is for whole time targaryen loyalist, however his pride and duty ordered him to serve even under Baratheon reign. But now, he found his best way to serve someone who he can trust.
@@Ethan-uo4fr - Actually, Martin had a very great influence on how the show turned out. It was D&D's job to adapt Martin's novels into a TV series lasting 7 seasons. Before Season 1 had gone into production, Martin had started writing Winds of Winter. Now, ten years later, the book still hasn't been finished, and the final book, A Dream of Spring, has not even started to be written. Most authors who take their writing careers seriously manage more than two books in a decade, and Martin couldn't finish ONE. It should have been a safe assumption that Martin would have delivered the sixth book and be nearly done with book seven by the time Season 6 would go into production. As it was Seasons 7 and 8 tackle the subject matter of what the final 2 books cover. It didn't matter that HBO was going to grant D&D 10 full seasons. At the time Season 8 went into production, AFTER taking a YEAR on hiatus, Martin had managed to miss yet another deadline... Considering how long he had already taken, it was no longer realistic to assume that the final book would be out before Season 10 would need to go into production. I can only speculate, but as disjointed as Season 7 was compared to the seasons that had come before, D&D likely only had detailed notes on the Winds of Winter content and only a list of Bullet Points for A Dream of Spring. It was they job to ADAPT Martin's story, not FINISH WRITING it for him. When the book content was exhausted, the writing of the show began to decline. There's a video here on UA-cam where Martin and Stephen King appear together. Martin asks King how he can write so many books... He actually WRITES them.
@@anormaldudewhowasattackedb9864 because they're a bunch of greedy cunts who really are not good at writing unless they have someone else's work to copy. The show started to go to shit after they passed the books and they just lazily finished the show because they wanted to go make star wars
How is it that Jorah gets the boot, after saving and protecting Dany for 1000000 times. But Sir Barristan just comes along from years of betrayal and gets his pardon. Fucked up.
It's different in the books. In the books he tried to pass himself off as a man named Arstan Whitebeard, a servant of Ilyrio (the rich guy in Pentos from Season One). Just as they are about to lay besiege Mereen, Jorah, out of jealousy of the favor "Arstan" is getting, outs him as Ser Barristan. And in return, Ser Barristan outs him as Robert's informer. Dany is furious with both of them, but Barristan begs her forgiveness while Jorah stubbornly insists that he was not in the wrong. So she feels she has no choice but to banish him. Hope this helps.
Thanks. But i can see why they changed it in the show. That makes even LESS sense. Because if Barristan AS WELL lied on top of betraying her by having supported rRobert for 17 years.... OH WELL!
maximumhate666 The kingsguard serve for life, no matter which king sits the Iron Throne. It is not for them to judge who should be the king, only to serve and protect once a king has come forth. Aerys died, so he served Robert, Robert died so he served Joffrey. He got the boot so he went to serve Dany. There was no betrayal, he did what kingsguard do and then once he was kingsguard no longer he went to find someone else to fight for since it was all he knew.
He served in the "Kings" guard, in which another "kings guard" was the Kingslayer, namely Jami Lannister, who killed .... oooops her DAD! So yeah, all forgiven because REASONS. Dany reacts only emotionally towards Jorah but towards Barristan, we follow rational thought. This scene is just badly developed and not very convincing. Unless they wan to make Dany look like a douche. That worked really well.
Jorah spied on her and told varys about her unborn child and Barristan fought honorably until he was defeated by Robert and Robert had him spared because he put up such a good 1v1 duel. Later he bent the knee after he believed his king and their family all dead. Jorah is much slimier. Barristan is the man, read the books
Can they just give him a REAL fight scene already?!?! i know he's supposed to be a great warrior but its kinda hard to believe when I've only seen him fight a little girl and a bug
The show can't just leave out Daenerys for one season in the way she was left out of a book. So I think they'll likely catch up or add lots of filler to extend her story. Hard to say though, her season could end with the dragon in the pit, leaving Selmy's fight for season 6.
The show also missed out on one of barristan's fights... Remeber the 2 guys daario killed for dany in season 3...out of the 2 the one in charge was named Mero aka the titan's bastard. One of the most feared warriors in essos. In the books Barristan killed him with a fucking walking stick. Thats how badass he is. He is an all time top 5 fighter.
In the books a character who is associated with Selmy has a pretty well described fight scene, let's hope that Barristan fills in that role for Season 4.
Damn this came up in my feed, it’s making me tear up a little, memories of when this show was great, of when I had hope for the Winds of Winter. Sniffle
Barristan is honourable but a pretty average advisor, he even attempts to rule in AWDW to little avail. Jorah is a skilled warrior but also lacks an astute political mind
1:55 There's something about the title "Lord Commander" that I just love. I think this is an invention by GRRM and not found in medieval history (though I could be wrong). Strictly speaking, it's kinda redundant since 'Commander' itself should be enough to know what that person's position is but I just love the sound of 'Lord Commander' too much.
I love how the author gives him a different name in the books until Jorah remembers him later to give you a surprise. They can't do that in the show of course but lol half the viewers probably wouldn't have even remembered it was Selmy because there are so many characters in the show.
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Warlocks after one assassination attempt.
"Well, we tried."
They only sent one attempt because Euron Greyjoy visited Qaarth and enslaved the warlocks shortly after they launched this first attempt.
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@@locutusofscifi1033 Euron... 🤤
"...visited and enslaved" tickled my funnybone 😂🤣😂 Sooooo Euron "finger up the bum" Greyjoy 🤣
@@marissasue319 lol yeah. Its something he would do. Book Euron is like a two-face villain between a charming, charismatic leader and an terrifying, demonic, and pure evil reeving sorcerer. Way better than Urine 'finga in da bum' Greyjoy on the show.
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“Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young"
"Unless the old man gets into trouble with untrained thugs who can barely swing a dagger, then he's totally screwed."
@@extremegrieferjesus8897 Even a veteran swordsman can be overwhelmed by an armed mob. Especially an older veteran that hasn't had a lot of serious combat time recently that is using a longsword in an enclosed space. Of all the shit Game of Thrones did to hurt me, Barristan's death is pretty reasonable in comparison.
Only makes sense in a time where guns didn't exist. Now a days, a toddler can shoot a 40 year old veteran.
@@makeway3080 Not true. Sure a kid can shoot and kill a seasoned combat veteran, much like a kid could stab Barristan Selmy with a sword. You may think one is more unlikely than the other, but they're both equally unlikely if the seasoned veteran and Selmy are actually fighting the kid.
There are old swordsmen, and there are bold swordsmen. But there are very few old and bold swordsmen.
The Hound was 50 feet away, had 5 kingsguard soldiers between him and Selmy and still had his hand on his hilt when Selmy raised his voice...thats how bad ass this guy is.
I loved these subtleties between warriors.
Another of my favorites is when they bring the wight to Cersei. Jamie is sitting there with a smirk on his face because he's not taking the threat seriously - until he sees the fear on the Hound's face. Then his smile immediately melts away because he knows that if the Hound is afraid, they're all in deep shit.
@@thefaithslayer2553 And then the Hound made the huge mistake of not allowing the zombie kill Cersei.
Daenerys and the characters around her, had a incredible amount of potential and value in the storyline. Just her name and what she and her past stands for, already had so much value and affection. She was like the first person you would root for. She was the only different one in the whole story with the most unique character traits and a fabulous personality. I feel like they wasted 8 years of good writing on a TRASH ending >:(.
And Arya too...
It's also been said that she's the series' true villain - as crazy, power-hungry, and merciless as any Targaryen, just more subtle about it and not aware that she's a monster.
exactly bro ...totally wasted
Her past stands for a genocide, she is an arrogant, sexually frustrated, crazy idiot - hardly unique
The path to every throne leads through corpses; Daenrys was simply better at marketing herself - but the fact is she claimed to have the right to decide who lives and who dies without any supervision That's a tyrant
I am really bemused that so many people actually like her; to me she's far worse than Cersei
You know Selmy is the most badass because he's the only one who doesn't fall in love with Dany.
Grey Worm doesn't, either.
+ינון חבר he falls in love with messandai
Menna Emam So?
ינון חבר kinda feels like selmy is more badass to me as he has no love interest throughout the show, just my opinion though
Yet.
Ser Baristan is like an Old Jedi Master!
He seems like that kind of fellow. He even has a similar intro to obi wan in a new hope. Both walk in seeming like a threat but you come to realize they are not bad.
Maybe he was based on him ?
What is a Jedi?
@@iche9373 Someone from Srar wars
Little known fact the Game of Thrones universe exists on a planet in the middle of the Galactic Empire. It was scheduled for destruction for being too primitive, but the Death Star assigned to the job was destroyed when its death ray reflected off D&Ds plot armour and blew itself up.
I could never accept his death. Such a braveheart and warrior character.
Wrong movie, lady.
@@TD_JR lmao
@@TD_JR lmaooooo 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
His death was pure bullshit. He was one of the greatest fighters ever and he was with the Unsullied who are literally game of thrones equivalent of special forces, there is no way they wouldn't wipe the floor with bunch of bums armed with fucking knives
He died exactly as he would have chosen, fighting alongside a comrade admidst a heap of slain foes.
0:43 Emelia Clarke has the most beautiful smile of anyone I’ve ever seen
The greatest fighter in the 7 kingdoms and so far we've only seen him killing a scorpion!
In the books after hes kicked out by Jofferey, they order that he be captured because hes so pissed off. When they finally figure out hes long gone, one of the city gates is wide open and all the men guarding it are cut down and they know he did it.
but btw, in the books they always talked about how fantastic a fighter Khal Drogo was but he never fought anyone there
***** well then quit bitching.... don't watch.... keep reading.... DUH!!!!
SerNotSoBraveAlot of the Scared Easily Guild He also had two heads.
you know nothing SoundsToBlowYourMind
Watch the show for the new fights they make, read the books for the ones they skip =)
Fun fact: Oberyn coated his spear with venom from this bug on his fight against the Mountain.
The more you know i suppose hahaha that's quite interesting actually
he borrowed the manticore from Pyat Pree....
J Jo A heavily modified version too. It was created to draw out the death so it was as agonizing as possible. The mountain will suffer for weeks before (if) he dies.
Sceptical Bionicle SPOILERS! (If you so choose to know that is)
The mountain in name dies, the Mountain in person is reborn
Chris Davidson
half true XD
The reason I love Ser Barristan so much is he’s one of the only ones in the entire series who never breaks his oath; he defended a mad man, a bad king and a tyrant all out of oath, and when he was ‘released from that oath he found a new way to honour it in Daenerys. Only death would break his bond and I love it, apart form his death of course
He let Ned die tho
@@icetea5807 because he had an oath: he never made an oath for ned, and although I love ned first and foremost his oath was to his king/queen
Why glorify 'oath' like this when by definition it boils down to doing what people tell you in a medieval setting?
Yeah, Barristan really did whatever everyone told him to do for the entirety of the show, what a badass? I'm confused by this post
He was never released of his oath of loyalty. He just went with whoever was convenient. He's no more honorable than Jaime. At least when Jaime switched sides it wasn't for his own selfish reasons.
@@quinnpage7943 it doesn't get through to your degenerate zoomer lifestyle with no higher values.
A true Star Wars moment.
A desert world. The sci-fi critter. The ubiquitous Jedi robe. The requisite English accents.
Barristan's backstory is really incredible in the books; he is referred to once or twice as Barristan the Bold in the TV series but it's never revealed why. He earned the nickname after he rescued the mad king after he had been captured and held during the Defiance of Duskendale.
Following the defiance, Aerys II had the houses who were involved executed down to the last child, except for one who was spared at Barristan Selmy's request.
Dontos Hollard
No, he earned the nickname after entering a jousting tournament as a 10 year old
No he earned the nickname after punching a bear in the face and stealing its fish
@@diegomo1413 Wasn't that the man, the mystery, the legend himself, John West?
He also ended the Fifth Blackfyre Rebellion by killing Maelys the Monstrous. But then in this show he dies to a group of untrained civilians with knives.
In ser Jorah's head: "Shit! More competition!"
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Ser Jorah Mormont, Lord Paramount of the Friendzonene
worse..... the small council knew jorah was spying on dany and usually the commande of the kingsguard sits on the council so under normal circumstances selmy would know that jorah wasn´t loyal to dany
@@felipem7626 I want to petition Google that when one types in friend zone a image of Ser Jorah pops up.
Saw your comment had 999 likes, had to do what was right
"Barristan Selmy...Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time"
A long time.....
Weirdo
@@johnstamos9662 no u
Darragh Ruddy hehe calm down
@@johnstamos9662 says the guy named Justin beiber
I like Jorah's look when he understands it's barristan Selmy. If he has come on the orders of Robert, he knows there will be nothing he can do to defend Daenerys.
picked that up as well, agreed.
@@collaborativelearning1 doubt it. if that were the case he would have assumed a better stance immediately if he though dani was in danger. he clearly realised he was there to join them and not murder dani. otherwise why would he have knocked the thing out of danis hand and not just cut her throat?
I was thinking this, he takes a step forward to be infront of daenerys and he has that look like this is the end, the music also makes me feel like this.
Can we all just take a moment to admire Ser Barristan? Not only is he a great fighter but a good guy too. Once, Dany jokingly tells him her butt was numb from sitting so long during an audience and the next time she holds audience he's piled her bench with cushions for her. Really, AWWW! 'Ser Grandfather' is such an underrated character in a world full of such cruel people.
He's 100% a better man than Ser Jorah Friendzone, that's for sure!
I remember that. He was a real one.
Значит ее задница была ему не безразлична))
Also take a moment to appreciate how creepy the face is on the insect
His pov chapters in aDoD are some of my favorite. Hope George gives him more chapters if we ever get another book.
Ser Baristan Selmy: Quits like a boss, introduces like a boss.
Barry must hate TV .Killed in the adaptation with no reason .
+ironheadfm and dies like a boss
He never died .
+ironheadfm He is a hypocrite piece of fuck.
+ironheadfm died in an alleyway.
I also think Selmy could just straight up tell Daenerys... "I've been keeping an eye on your for a while to make sure you weren't crazy like your father was at the end."
There is a small mistake in this scene. When Jorah first stops Selmy, he grabs him pretty good, thinking that he is a threat to Danearys. But in the next shot Selmy is free completely when he kills the scorpion. I mean Jorah won’t just leave a threat like this in a couple of seconds.
The scorpion slowly crawling out of that sphere gave Jorah enough time to realise what was going on.
In the book, he overpowered Ser Jorah, I think it says he went crashing to the floor.
He had more than 10 seconds to get free lol...
@@1616jaime nobody cares about the book. This scene is hackwork.
Because Ser Selmy wears the +100 Armor of Plot
Barristan: "I think we better get indoors. The Warlocks of Qarth are easily startled but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers."
DonCapoeira You fucking win.
DonCapoeira one of the coolest comments HA
***** A quote from the books, I surmise.
unoder a star wars reference
MrKguy97 As a huge star wars fan, I don't know how I missed that... mind you it's been a while since I watched the prequels.
This was a good change from the books. In the book they don't realize who Selmy is until much much later. But in a movie, the audience can recognize the actor. So they avoided that old soap opera cliche of having the characters be oblivious to what the audience already knows by having Selmy declare himself from the get go :)
ye
when writing was good KEKW
I don't think it is a good change. We may know who Selmy is, but we won't know why he is there. If we saw him there and hear him tell obviously false stories of why he's there it and then go on to build trust, while we know he is lying and we don't know if he's there to support dany or to kill her. It would have created a lot of tension and suspense.
@@Dunam Only Barristan Selmy would never lie, it completely goes against his character.
@@Dunam that's so out of character for Barristan Selmy
Danny had so much potential and they threw it out the window. Up until season 8 she was shown to be merciful and fair, saving the lives of innocents even if it didn’t benefit her.
“How many slaves are there in Yunkai?”
“200,000, if not more.”
“Then we have 200,000 reasons to take the city.”
Only for season 8 to roll in and have her burning thousands of screaming men women and children out of revenge on the people who did no harm to her.
“Let it be fear.”
They absolutely annihilated her character..
Thats a little unfair. The show (and the books make this clear) showed her to quite vindictive, and as her power grew much more draconian in her punishments.
Its not exactly a stretch she burns kings landing, and probably does in the books.
One thing. The men who earlier moderated her behavior were dead. That and it's my understanding - that what Happened when she burned King's Landing - was her inner ... tyrant ..... ?? ... coming out.
I think a lot of her fans wanted she and Jon to get married and live happily ever after but they had decided that wasn't going to happen. So they had her happily burn Kings Landing and say she was going to do that to the rest of Westeros as well.
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@@akashgarg9776 Yes, but there is a massive difference between deciding to kill the slavers, and taking pains to avoid loss of innocent life, and deciding to burn a city indiscriminately.
@@Rougarou99 True, but she has been building to that for some time. It started with clearly evil slavers, then indiscriminate slavers, then slaves she thought were evil, then really anyone against her, even bringing back sport killing tournaments, and so on. The show doesn't do a good job with this escalation of violence, but the books do, and its probably where she ends up.
1:05 That thumbmail looks like he feed Daenerys with that scorpion or whatever it is
I actually thought the thumbnail looked like an Aliens facehugger.
@@jonathandemy-geroe4991 facehugger +1
I think it looks like she "wearing" a Half Life face hugger.
Yeah, it looked like she got a face hugger on her.
(Imagine if those things were in GoT)
"He's one the kingdoms greatest fighters but we will only get to see him fight once before dying through the whole series because he's so badass..."
Dude was like 70 , the more disappointing one was Khal Drogo he only fought once too and died coz someone scratched him !
@@konoko196 Khal Drogo was a badass warrior but a dumbass fighter, got killed because he didn’t think he needed to heal his wound
@@drfabulous2804 erm, healing his wound is what killed him.. you should watch the show its pretty good ;)
He intimidated and verbally burned the whole king's guard that should count for something.
@@MegaParrotMan I have watched the show, it was several years ago, I only watched it once and I have watched hundreds of other shows since then and Khal Drogo died in season one after a only handful of scenes, a thousand apologies if my memory about one of the show’s less important characters is a little askew.
SIR BARRISTAN SELMY
GOT's Obi-Wan Kenobi
DrLeroyGreen He literally is lol. I think that's what they were going for after he left KL :)
+DrLeroyGreen exactly why i played the lightsaber sound every time he appeared
+DrLeroyGreen And Jorah is the young obi wan
+Peter L Rydland what about me ?
+DrLeroyGreen exactly what I thought when I saw this scene for the first time x)
Aah, back when every episode would offer you nothing less than goosebumps.
0:48 I love how Jorah, younger and in armor, tries to overpower the unarmored Barristan from behind, but evidently Barristan gets free in just a few seconds.
New character unlocked:
BARRISTAN SELMY
Stats:
Swordfighting: 10
Blending-in while using incredibly suspicious black cloak: 8
Insect stabbing: 9
Standing beside throne: 10+
Longevity: 2,5
Bonus abilities:
Provides convenient exposition about long lost relatives.
stalk8r He's basically Orlandu from Final Fantasy Tactics. Now the game is on easy mode.
stalk8r Loooool! You just made my day! xD
Role Playing Game of thrones
stalk8r Status : Dead.
Monkey D Luffy
Wow, subtle.
Fun fact, if Joffrey hadn't fired Barristan from his kingsguard Daenerys would be dead.
+The Ice Viper I don't doubt Varys had a part in persuading Joffrey into firing Barristan and making sure he sails to aid Dany.
What a shame.
I think even though we saw Ser Barristan save the day here, if it was just Jorah he'd have seen something was not right and killed it pretty quickly too!
If Selmy don't push Dany, she will had that scorpion really close to her face. Even Jorah can't save her.
It seemed to be a slow to react scorpion. Swiped away and under his boot in no time! ;-)
Maybe this incident is the reason that Daenerys "kind of forgot" about the Iron Fleet. She was operating under the assumption that once you deliver a setback to a group that's opposing you (foiling the assassination attempt and killing the Warlock's bug for example) that they completely disappear from the story, never to be heard from again.
“Embarassing Selmy” might be the funiest subtitles i’ve seen in a while 😂
That's what I thought he said too, the first time I listened to it.
I miss him.
He was one the few that managed to keep a little bit of integrity even after all the caos that has happened during the War of the Usurper.
+carol zebra And his voice was the most amazing thing ever.
1:10 Come back here you little shit!
I'll smash ye fookin' head in swear on me mum
Loik a fookin' legend.
LordVader1094 yu Avin a giggle there mate?
This scene is a classic device of introducing characters. At the beginning we are presented with two characters: A young girl and a mysterious man in a hood. The young girl looks innocent and the man looks threatening. At the end, we find out it was the exact opposite: The girl was the dangerous one and the man was the one who was trying to protect the character.
A similar device of introduction of characters can be seen in Terminator 2. We're introduced to Arnold's character who we assume wants to kill Sarah because he did try to kill her in the previous movie, whereas the other character is even dressed as a Police man.... only to find out it's the other way around.
Good luck in your GCSEs.
@@jimbob0025 No clue what you're talking about. But thanks, I guess.
Plus the "catch the attacking scorpion in motion" to add weight to Jorah's compliments.
Watched it after like 3 to 4 years. Still gives chills, that's GOT!!!
Does anyone else think the thumbnail image of this video looks like Dany's getting attacked by a facehugger?
+Naomi Armitage Yes, lol.
+Naomi Armitage it makes her look like bane too lol
+HotHubHD "I was born in the fire, you were merely molded by it.?
Went straight for the comment section to check if anybody noticed that too :D
Yesss. Was kinda excited about the thought of a AliensXGoT crossover
A pretty big theme of the books is that the generation in power is starting to age. Cersei feels threatened by Margaery, King Robert and Ned Stark focus more on politics than fighting in battles and tournaments, and in the books Jaime reminisces of Rhaegar Targaryen, Arthur Dayne and young Barristan and how all of them were greater knights than any young ones currently alive.
I like it, personally - not every piece of fiction has to only star teenagers and twenty-somethings.
The March of Time. It stops for no one, and tomorrow's young stars become yesterday's dying old men in sure order or they die too young to know time's bitter truth.
Weren’t they all youngish tho? Like 35/40 max. Especially in the books
Loyalty though and through. This man is the prime example of honor, loyalty and commitment. A great fighter and a great man when I read the books.
Jorah proclaiming Ser Barristan as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard makes him sound like part of Robert’s Rebellion and actively supporting Robert. In fact, Robert respected Ser Barristan’s skill so much he pardoned him for his loyalty towards the Targaryens and even fighting alongside Rhaegar in the Battle of Trident AGAINST Robert himself. It reminds you of the fact it wasn’t the Targaryen ended the Blackfyre Rebellion (at least through the male line), it was young Ser Barristan, even before he became Kingsguard through Aerys, it was in Aerys’ father’s reign.
Holy shit it's Obi-Wan
What? But it KENOBI him
Dead. The Star Wars puns killed me more than that scorpion would've.
@@PotterSuccess ha
"Hello there" *Stabs Manticore*
Hello there!
And that was the last time we ever saw or heard of the warlocks
+heroinhero69 together with benjen stark
yeah that was weird, it was like "hey, look, this people are trying to kill me with their magic". And that was it... like 4 seasons ago.
santiago sancho Yeah, and with that little girl it was like they were trying to show: "These guys will bother them heck of a lot in future episodes."
´They have yet to be mentioned
Well Gendrys story is over, concluded, there is no reason for him to reappear.
But I agree about the warlocks. Ignored plot point completely.
His story is not over by a long shot. Look at some of the Arya/Gendry scenes. If they don't meet up again that would be a hugely wasted relationship that was built over the course of many episodes. ''you would be my lady'' is quite an emotional scene. It would be a terrible mistake to just throw him out the window for good
"I will not fail you again"
Gets killed by some randoms in a back alley
Daenerys seasons later destroys King's Landing and dies
Gods, D&D fucked up.
The warlocks kinda forgot they wanted to kill Daenerys
ahaha ser friendzone was pissed, he wanted to be like go away bro...
Lol haha
+juvenilemafia10 ser friendzone lmao !
He's scared that there would be a higher chance of Dany finding out that he was Ser Spy to Robert Baratheon.
I don't get it, if the Unsullied started buying hoes, why couldn't Jorah find his release elsewhere?
Ned Stark should have gone to see Ser Barristan when he found out Cersei's secret instead of telling her he knew. Ser Barristan is big on honour like Ned and Jon Arryn, he would have helped Ned and since everyone knows Ser Barristan, Ned might have had a chance of beating the Lannisters.
In the books he told it ser barristan and pycell before the queen, still, he died
HedojaHD Well, if he told Pycelle...
a Stark is not meant for King's Landing.
it's like a law of nature or something.
@@Ar1AnX1x but the king in kings landing is now a stark
@@aneriesstyle323 that's fan fiction, the books ain't out yet.
People are forgetting that at this point in the series Jorah is still a spy for the Baratheons/Lannisters. His reaction isnt that of awe, he is terrified that Barristan Selmy will out him as a traitor
No? Jorah stopped spying on Dany in S1...
daenerys: who is this man? Mormont: that is Master Obiwan Kenobi
There was so much story to continue this show for five more season.
Yeah but we still would have had a garbage ass ending because David and Dan are awful writers. The only reason the first 5 seasons were good was because they had the books as reference. Post 5 they had to make their own shit up. But yeah there were sooooo many storylines they didn't touch. Never touched on Lady Stoneheart (Kat after her throat got slit at the red wedding), The one person from Qarth or whatever it was with the crazy face mask thingy. Oberyn wasn't supposed to die as quickly as he did. That one jester guy i think patchface or something like that. Super lit so i can't remember all of it, those are the only things that come to mind.
@@chrisarbour They said they didnt use Lady Stoneheart because they didnt want to ruin the surprise effect of John being resurected. Because in their opinion if they used her, ppl would have known he wouldnt die and all but yes, they are still awfull writters who ruined the entire series.
@@kevinlpe68 Lady Stoneheart was always more hype than Jon Snow. People would've LOVED the vengeful corpse of Catelyn...one of the many mistakes by D&D
@@boblazer9586
Nah.
@@boblazer9586 True. Stoneheart's introduction was one of the fan favorite moments in Storm. I wondered where they thought they were taking Brienne and Jaime's characters if LSH wasn't there. And then I saw, and despaired.
Man, Jorah is pissing himself just at the presence of Barristan...
Luiz Fernando Cavalcanti dos Santos Because he knows Barristan could kick his ass with a walking stick sideways even though Jorah is in full armor haha
Emil Bæk Mogensen I know that... that's why I posted this comment. :)
Mabye in the books but certainly not in the show
+Nicktaco yes...old man versus much older man....
+Emil Bæk Mogensen Not only that, but he's afraid Selmy knows about him spying on Dany--why do you think one of the first things he said about Selmy was that he was head of King Robert's kingsguard? He wanted Dany to mistrust him.
The fact that we were denied Strong Belwas is unforgivable.
I really wanted to see more of the warlocks in later seasons. The warlocks we saw were evil but had some extraordinary powers like illusions. They just kinda forgot about it.
They didn't. They just forgot to introduce euron like in books. Because euron captured them warlocks and enslaved them. Euron is the biggest villain in the books for now (there's no night king)
i enjoy this scene so much, at first for the fear on jorahs face to see selmy, then the utter shock as selmy declares himself to deny. all while jorah kept hand on hilt, aware selmy would know everything about jorahs work for varys. brilliant! he thought he finally had to face the music and dance with selmy and steel than have to sing for danny and forgiveness.
just so much happening.
to be fair, varys need not let anyone know who his mole was; Varys could've totally been treating Selmy like mushrooms, feed em shit and keep em in the dahk
@notfiveo you know this isn't in the past eh?
Barristan was not aware that Jorah had been spying for Varys, thats only revealed later when Tywin has Varys send a letter
Man like Baristan out here looking like Ben Kenobi in that robe
ikr
Kinda is in his young ages one of the best fighters in the world and as old man mentoring someone....I just hope Daenerys wont become super great warrior than pursuaded on the side of white walkers....and than they fight Dany and Barristan beside lava......
Jakub Šmelka ?? Baristan is dead bro
+Litman obi wan was suppose to be dead either....
+Litman THEY FAKED HIS DEATH K??
I will not fail you again.... Goosebumps each time
Não me canso de assistir essa rainha.
That's a bad-ass bug. And only a bad-ass human like Selmy could off a bad-ass bug like that.
I think it's a scorpion?
+Lauren Lind that doesn't exist in the real world
+Lauren Lind That's a manticore and it's under your bed.
+Naomi Armitage I am pretty sure my size 12 workboot could sort that bug out.
+Naomi Armitage ~ Him and every other Australian ;)
I like how Manticores seem to be legitimately evil for an insect. It goes for Daenerys even though it has no reason to, it could've scuttled away but instead it tried to kill her.
they are well known to be so in ancient lore.
Some critters are just aggressive that way. Funnel web spiders and Brazilian wandering spiders are both deadly poisonous and salty as hell.
I wish Selmy was still alive to witness me liberate the seven kingdoms. And I will again.
RIP Selmy.
Oof
You are my queen
Shame that you decided to burn people because they don't like blondes.
"I was sworn to protect your family, I failed."
Even the best bodyguard can't protect a mad man from himself
I hope they show a barristan selmy fight in one of bran's visions. I desperately wanna see him in combat.
Naaah... Rhaegar vs Robert HYPE!
Yiasss!!! I thought I was the only one thinking and hyping so much about this!! I really wanna see who the fuck killed Rhaegar, cause it sure as hell wasn't Robert!
It was Robert. He was also a great warrior. So brave and strong. He was injured in the fight, but survived.
It was Robert. He got injured after that and that's where Stark comes in. (you know the story) Thats' why he got weaker, and became fat. (GOT season 1)
It was also known that Ned defeated Arthur Dayne and it turned out that he got stabbed in the back and then was killed by Ned. It could be some plot twist that Robert won by some favorable circumstances, and not simply by being a better warrior.
But that's just wishful thinking from a Rhaegar fanboi
This scene is so epic. The music when he's pledging to her is so awesome.
Selmy had so much potential, painfully under-utilised.
One of the best series i saw in my life GAME OF THRONES
Warlocks of Quarth.
Complete with Blue tooth.
Qarth*
Snapeismyfriend
Kwarth
Kaht*
Potato*
Everything's better with bluetooth!
Actually this is when Daenerys meets Obi Wan Kenobi
Amazing scene! Of course Game of Thrones is filled with amazing scenes and cinematography.
This is not even close to how Barristan Selmy was introduced to Daenarys in the books
0:39 Dat pokeball! I choose you pikachu!
seidl01 Pretty sure she chose a skorupi ;)
+seidl01 I'm pretty sure that's pokeatchu
Horrible poisonous monstrosity, go!
RIP Selmy. Wish we got more of him.
ser barristan selmy the king of all badass in all seven kingdoms and beyond the wall
This is when Dany truly got epicness behind her.
This scene shows that Ser Jorah was quick enough to apprehend Barristan to protect Dany, then had a good enough grasp of his surroundings that he saw the Scorpion, added up the situation in his head fast enough to figure out what was going on and had the faith to let Ser Barristan go to save his Queen.
That or Barristan got out of the hold, which he probably could, but that is a little less cool.
I hate how every goddamn scene with Daenerys is just a close up on her breathing heavily.
***** ***** Thats not a problem for me...
It is for me, because I dislike Daenerys, ALOT.
Most of her chapters in the books are really boring aswell.
Sure, I read all of them first time reading the books, but as I'm reading the first book again, I skip every chapter with her.
***** Yeah it's because Essos is so boring and disconnected to the main plot at Westeros. When I reread the books I tend to skip her chapters too excluding the important ones (i.e. Viserys & Drogo's deaths, hatching the dragon eggs, House of Undying, conquering Astapor, etc). I do like Dany as a character though and it's going to be awesome when she finally hits Westeros.
***** I don't particularly like her either she kind of seems like a dumb ass to me.
Yeah
Ser Barristan is an absolute boss. One of my favourite characters
+Ben Parks GoT sure seems to have a surplus of old farts who are supposed to be great warriors but at their ages would hardly be able to lift a sword.
Cant believe they just killed him in the show to a bunch of thief's
Right
“beta fighter in the seven realms...”
le krieg i guess you are correct but to hype him up so much and only see him in a couple fights was quite the let down
le krieg why would he put himself in that situations.
Answer : D&D wanted to cut plot lines so instead of Barristan running the city they had Tyrion’s journey sped up so he ran it. It’s a dumb way to end his plotline would have been nice if he killed some assassin after her and died to poison or something.
He’s still alive and well in the books
thieves
"The honor is mine, *my Queen* "
I GOT CHILLS EVERYWHERE
Barristan Selmy, IMHO, is for whole time targaryen loyalist, however his pride and duty ordered him to serve even under Baratheon reign. But now, he found his best way to serve someone who he can trust.
This show had so much potential. Too bad D&D destroyed it.
For the record, d&d didn't write GOT.
Why GRRM couldn't finish his books faster ?
@@randomhuman97 can't blame him for the show based on his books going to shit, he had nothing to do with production/writing the show
That’s nothing, let me tell you about the time D&D ran over my dog... 🐕 🚗
@@Ethan-uo4fr - Actually, Martin had a very great influence on how the show turned out. It was D&D's job to adapt Martin's novels into a TV series lasting 7 seasons. Before Season 1 had gone into production, Martin had started writing Winds of Winter. Now, ten years later, the book still hasn't been finished, and the final book, A Dream of Spring, has not even started to be written. Most authors who take their writing careers seriously manage more than two books in a decade, and Martin couldn't finish ONE. It should have been a safe assumption that Martin would have delivered the sixth book and be nearly done with book seven by the time Season 6 would go into production. As it was Seasons 7 and 8 tackle the subject matter of what the final 2 books cover. It didn't matter that HBO was going to grant D&D 10 full seasons. At the time Season 8 went into production, AFTER taking a YEAR on hiatus, Martin had managed to miss yet another deadline... Considering how long he had already taken, it was no longer realistic to assume that the final book would be out before Season 10 would need to go into production.
I can only speculate, but as disjointed as Season 7 was compared to the seasons that had come before, D&D likely only had detailed notes on the Winds of Winter content and only a list of Bullet Points for A Dream of Spring. It was they job to ADAPT Martin's story, not FINISH WRITING it for him.
When the book content was exhausted, the writing of the show began to decline.
There's a video here on UA-cam where Martin and Stephen King appear together. Martin asks King how he can write so many books...
He actually WRITES them.
@@anormaldudewhowasattackedb9864 because they're a bunch of greedy cunts who really are not good at writing unless they have someone else's work to copy. The show started to go to shit after they passed the books and they just lazily finished the show because they wanted to go make star wars
Me: “He’s the best fighter Westeros has ever seen.”
Them: “but we’ve never seen him fight!”
Me: “Because *they* know better!”
For people who don’t know, that weird scorpion creature is a manticore
How is it that Jorah gets the boot, after saving and protecting Dany for 1000000 times. But Sir Barristan just comes along from years of betrayal and gets his pardon. Fucked up.
It's different in the books. In the books he tried to pass himself off as a man named Arstan Whitebeard, a servant of Ilyrio (the rich guy in Pentos from Season One). Just as they are about to lay besiege Mereen, Jorah, out of jealousy of the favor "Arstan" is getting, outs him as Ser Barristan. And in return, Ser Barristan outs him as Robert's informer. Dany is furious with both of them, but Barristan begs her forgiveness while Jorah stubbornly insists that he was not in the wrong. So she feels she has no choice but to banish him. Hope this helps.
Thanks. But i can see why they changed it in the show. That makes even LESS sense. Because if Barristan AS WELL lied on top of betraying her by having supported rRobert for 17 years.... OH WELL!
maximumhate666 The kingsguard serve for life, no matter which king sits the Iron Throne. It is not for them to judge who should be the king, only to serve and protect once a king has come forth. Aerys died, so he served Robert, Robert died so he served Joffrey. He got the boot so he went to serve Dany. There was no betrayal, he did what kingsguard do and then once he was kingsguard no longer he went to find someone else to fight for since it was all he knew.
He served in the "Kings" guard, in which another "kings guard" was the Kingslayer, namely Jami Lannister, who killed .... oooops her DAD! So yeah, all forgiven because REASONS.
Dany reacts only emotionally towards Jorah but towards Barristan, we follow rational thought. This scene is just badly developed and not very convincing. Unless they wan to make Dany look like a douche. That worked really well.
Jorah spied on her and told varys about her unborn child and Barristan fought honorably until he was defeated by Robert and Robert had him spared because he put up such a good 1v1 duel. Later he bent the knee after he believed his king and their family all dead. Jorah is much slimier. Barristan is the man, read the books
I wish Daenerys could meet Tyrion. THAT would be a sight to see.
She did plus the young Giff (aka Daenerys nephew).
watch season 5 you will b surprised
MadPuppy92 It's implied in the season 5 trailer anyway.
MadPuppy92 Wait till Young Griff brah.
Young Griff for the throne!
Young Griff = Aegon Targaryen ;)
MadPuppy92 SNAPE
KILLS
DUMBLEDORE
And this was the first and last time that this plot line was ever seen 😅
“He’s one of the greatest fighters I’ve ever seen….”
Laughs in 10 dudes with daggers.
"And I will not fail you again."
"AHHHHHH HELP ME GREY WORM"
+NaveNinja still one of the Legendary Kingsguard, not perfect though.
I'm just glad his end was noble as he shit himself in a back alleyway amidst nameless and faceless goons
Like a true hero
+NaveNinja "You want to be a hero? Then go die like every other hero in history!" -Roman Torchwhig, RWBY series
+waldoman7 Thanks for the cancer
NaveNinja aw shucks, don't give me the credit. You two were meant for each other.
Can they just give him a REAL fight scene already?!?! i know he's supposed to be a great warrior but its kinda hard to believe when I've only seen him fight a little girl and a bug
If they stay true to the books he will have a 1v1 next season but that's it.
iamrossiam will that be next season already? i thought next season would be based mostly on AFFC?
The show can't just leave out Daenerys for one season in the way she was left out of a book. So I think they'll likely catch up or add lots of filler to extend her story. Hard to say though, her season could end with the dragon in the pit, leaving Selmy's fight for season 6.
That's the best summary of his storyline EVER. :)
The show also missed out on one of barristan's fights... Remeber the 2 guys daario killed for dany in season 3...out of the 2 the one in charge was named Mero aka the titan's bastard. One of the most feared warriors in essos. In the books Barristan killed him with a fucking walking stick. Thats how badass he is. He is an all time top 5 fighter.
Back when dialogues were badass and full of meaning... man I miss those good days :(
Something flew out of my window.
I think its the Warlock plot line. wow
Barristan Selmy looks like he'd play a good Obi Wan Kenobi.
In the books a character who is associated with Selmy has a pretty well described fight scene, let's hope that Barristan fills in that role for Season 4.
he didnt
didn't age well sadly
"Geoffrey didn't die on his watch." Tywin Lannister
Damn this came up in my feed, it’s making me tear up a little, memories of when this show was great, of when I had hope for the Winds of Winter. Sniffle
Jorah Mormont. Barristan Selmy. Tyrian Lannister. She has had some great men advising her.
Jorah Mormont, Great man. Pick one.
Barristan is honourable but a pretty average advisor, he even attempts to rule in AWDW to little avail. Jorah is a skilled warrior but also lacks an astute political mind
As Illyrio Mopatis said, "Ser Barristan is a valiant knight and true; but none, I think, has ever called him cunning."
And then......!
D&D they have another idea.
1:55 There's something about the title "Lord Commander" that I just love. I think this is an invention by GRRM and not found in medieval history (though I could be wrong).
Strictly speaking, it's kinda redundant since 'Commander' itself should be enough to know what that person's position is but I just love the sound of 'Lord Commander' too much.
You are wrong.
Adding Lord to another title sounds awesome
Lord General
Lord Admiral
Lord President...
Lord Admiral I like... Lord President sounds kinda weird though. Maybe because the concept of 'President' is the antithesis of 'Lord'.
Lord Protector is the coolest because it's real. Cromwell was a badass.
You're right "Lord Command of the Knights Watch" Sounds badass!
He killed that bug in style man.
Jango fett watching this scene:
"Amateurs, you need to send at least 2 bugs..."
I love how the author gives him a different name in the books until Jorah remembers him later to give you a surprise. They can't do that in the show of course but lol half the viewers probably wouldn't have even remembered it was Selmy because there are so many characters in the show.
Barristan looks like Ben Kenobi...
+Theo T. AGREE!
Qarth, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany
Barristan: "I won't fail you again ... "
Daenerys: "Erm no sorry I have a boyfriend" **walks away**
Obi-Wan Kenobi, is that you?