Impossible to choose. Several that come to mind: In Breaking Bad: -Go-cart scene from s4 e4 "Open House" (because of the music) -Titular scene from s4 e13 "Face Off" (because of the music) -Train scene from s5 e5 "Dead Freight" -All of Walt's scenes from s5 e15 "Granite State" In Better Call Saul: -Mike and Werner's last scene from s4 e10 "Winner" -Jimmy and Mike's 'bad choice road' chat and related chats from s5 e8 "Bagman" and e9 "Bad Choice Road" In Game of Thrones: -Wildfire scene from s2 e9 "Blackwater" -Roadside inn scene with Arya, the Hound, and Polliver from s4 e1 "Two Swords" -Scene where Arya and the Hound chat with a dying man from probably s4 e7 "Mockingbird" (dialogue succinctly encapsulates different approaches to death) -Trial by combat scene from s4 e8 "The Mountain and the Viper" (great writing, tension, action, sound design) -Most of s4 e9 "The Watchers on the Wall" In House of the Dragon: -Opening scenes from s1 e9 "The Green Council" -Ratcatcher sequence from s2 e1 "A Son for A Son" (tension and plans going awry) -Titular scene from s2 e4 "The Red Dragon and the Gold" In Succession: -Scene of Shiv and Roman talking in hospital amphitheatre room s1 e2 "S*** Show at the F*** Factory" (great sibling dynamics) -Ending from s1 e6 "Which Side Are You On?" -Tom and Gregg in the safe room s2 e4 "Safe Room" -Most of s4 e3 "Connor's Wedding" In Bojack horseman: -Most of s4 e6 "Stupid Piece of Sh*t" -Ending of s6 e15 "The View From Halfway Down" (maybe should've been series finale) In The Leftovers: -Opening scene from s1 e1 "Pilot" -Departure scene from s1 e9 "The Garveys at Their Best" -After housefires scene from s1 e10 "The Prodigal Son Returns" -Most of s2 e5 "No Room at the Inn" -Most of s2 e8 "International Assassin" -Opening sequence from s3 e1 "The Book of Kevin" -All of s3 e7 "The Most Powerful Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)"
This is IMO the best piece of music ever written for TV. I play the piano and have played this piece 1000 times and it never fails to give me goosebumps!!!! Phenomenal
I have this very distinct memory of that night. For years, my brothers and I had gathered to watch Game of Thrones, all the way back from season 2. That night my little brother and I were watching it. Both of us were amateur piano players, and loved the music. The recap played and everything looked normal. Just another GoT night about to kick in. But as the final shots of the recap went on, and the saoundtrack escalated with the sound climbing before the usual silence, the expected HBO static sound and synth choir and the small pause before the opening theme, something unexpected happened. There was an odd, really out-of-place piano chord played, loud and clear, but very fast. Both of us exchanged a weird look. I wondered if I had just imagined the sound. But then he asked me "was that... a piano?" just before the main theme began. We both knew something was off. Oh boy, we were not wrong. I have since wondered if anybody else noticed that. Or if it was a weird thing happening on our TV. Or if both of us, somehow, imagined the same damn sound.
The moment I heard the piano playing, I knew something was off. What a great composer Ramin Djawadi is! And what a great video honoring that masterpiece!
I want to point out although it has no inherent connection to Rains of Castamere, you can sing Rains over it perfectly in places. And the accidental in the second phrase of the arpeggio motif is very similar to one which is super conspicuous in Rains of Castamere. The music operates in the same way the scene does - all the pieces are there except one (Cersei), but when you know what that final piece is, everything clicks into place. It also in a way feels like Cersei "rewriting" the Lannister legacy, in a similar way to the music being rewritten, but without the Rains melody actually present. Edit: The clearest place Rains of Castamere overlays with the music is RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW'S THEME MAKES ITS FIRST APPEARANCE. 5:20 - 6:14 of the "Light of the Seven" track. It can also be sung twice in the space at 7:08-8:19. This was SO VERY INTENTIONAL, I'M CONVINCED.
I would add to your comment that this is exactly what ends up happening within that same episode (as pointed out in the video): when Cersei sits on the Iron Throne near the episode's end, her theme is combined with Rains of Castamere (the track playing during that scene is "Hear Me Roar"). So I think you're right about there being an intentional connection there.
The execution of this scene was so brilliant, that most people were too busy celebrating it to realise it meant the story was about to get simplified out of existence. I know most people only really hate the 8th season but I remember watching this and thinking "and so it begins" (having read ASoIaF, I also knew they were coming to a point where there were no more books to base the series on)
Indeed. I felt the same way at the time. Amazing cinematography. Awe-inspiring sound design & music All build on a fundament strong as quicksand, for the writing, that which made the show great, the thing that underpins Everything has gone down the drain
I was expecting this video to be a meme, and then I realised it was 20 minutes long. This is a beautiful analysis and comparison of the music that highlights the talent of musical and cinematographic direction that has gone into this episode. If I could like this video twice, I would.
*_I remember back when I first watched the episode when it was released and I was so shocked by the Piano I thought that it was some weird game ad playing in the background on my computer..._*
I can’t help but bawl my eyes out every time I hear the first few notes. I play the piano. I have a hard time getting thru playing it because I’m so emotional about it. Probably the best score in my lifetime.
I was (well, figuratively) jumping up and down, screaming HOLY SHT, when the first piano notes started playing. I was OBSESSED with it for years and it's still one of my favorite pieces of music (not just soundtracks). I loved the video, and you did a great job breaking this epic masterpiece (tried over the years, but since I'm mostly a writer and not film creator, it was a mess). I would like to add another reason the piano is so meaningful. There's another reason why it's missing from most of the show: the show borrow a lot of aesthetic elements from the medieval and renaissance eras. Djawadi does the same for Westeros' themes, and they are *mostly* contains instruments that were in use at that era. For example, until the 1700's or so, there were no wood or brass sections, because there was no standard for mass producing these instruments. They were in some use, mostly as soloists, but composers wrote mostly for string because they're much easier to tune to sound cohesive as a section. That's way most of the time, Djawadi uses Strings as his main instrument. The same goes for the piano, it only gained popularity later on, as it gradually "replaced" the harpsicord. So, even before I've heard the full Light of the Seven theme, it meant to me that a new era is coming to Westeros. The style of composing is also very modern. I love that it's later on goes up against the The Rains of Castemere, because the Lanister's theme meant to sound ancient, like the family itself. Light of the Seven really reminds me of the work of Phillip Glass and other modern minimalists, and it gives such a different tone to the episode. wish the writers wouldn't drop the ball in later seasons and give Ramin something good to write about.
I vividly remember watching this one air on my laptop and then the piano starts and I start looking around to see if I left any other tabs open and it took me way too long to realize it was the episode. It was a bizarre change of music but a welcome one, this is one of the few songs on the show that I remember note fot note
Beautiful analysis! My experience of music is very intuitive, but I love when it is explained to me so that I can understand the work behind, the genius. Thank you!
This was such an interesting video! Really makes you realize the intricacies of the soundtrack and how layered it truly is. A great example of musical analysis
There is another absolutely briliant detail about this piece that I never see pointed out on the internet: You can start a stopwatch while you're listening to it and every bar of the piece hits perfectly in time with the stopwatch. One bar per second. Light of the Seven is a literal countdown to the sept's explosion. I love that more than I could possibly put into words.
This was such an incredibly effective video to help explain the language of music & composition even to someone like me, who has absolutely no musical background or education to speak of. I learned a lot!
Would love if you did a similar analysis for "The Night King" from The Long Night. As much as the writing declined, some of the creative decisions with the other aspects of filmmaking, like the score, retained their brilliance.
Interestingly C Minor is also the key of broken relationships and longing for what is lost so Cersei's theme being in this key hints at a lot going into her story and main theme of her character.
This was my favourite piece of music from the GoT soundtrack. Another reason why this sequence was the best part of the season, was the relatively limited dialogue. By that point in the show, without GRRM's quality dialogue and story to pull from, it got rather tiring every time a character started speaking. Insert "words are wind" joke here.
The only thing more jarring than having a piano playing in game of thrones was that, years later, Light of the Seven was used in promotional material for the tom cruise mummy movie before a movie i saw in theaters. I was so caught off guard by this song being used somewhere fully unrelated to GoT lol
I have been watching GOT in the background while doing other things, paying attention but never fully devoting myself. But when that first piano tune hit, i instantly stopped what i was doing and payed attention, this was something different .
despite loving this theme, knowing that the modern piano we hear developed much later than whatever this medieval looking fantasy world equates to in real history, the sound is too polished compared to the rest of the instruments textures which pairs perfectly with the visuals imo. it feels like piano doesn’t belong on game of thrones and makes it less convinving. that’s how i felt as a pianist myself, although, dragons and fckin white walkers and wargs exist in this story
All these years, and only now I've realized that Cercei's and Tommen's sections of Red Keep are across the town with Sept of Balor in between them. Note how the sea is to the left from Cercei's perspective, but to the right from Tommen's. What's more, from either perspective you don't see another big building with great view on the town. Mistakes were made with the green screen :-)
idk this reads way too much into it. one could also argue that they are kind of forgetting that they weren't using piano before. and they kind of forgot that they used the theme of the boys when they weren't in the scene.
Fantastic video, now I must go and watch the whole series :D Djawadi is no John Williams but...his music is consistent, fitting and highly underappriciated. Anyway, amazing analysis, subbed and looking forward for more! Thanks
I’m kinda of a music fiend and I find myself quite knowledgeable when it comes movie / tv soundtracks. how music is composed for something I’m watching for some reason is just important for my brain lol Obviously when composer is great it makes even a mediocre movie or show great for me and somewhat rewatchable. My point being Ramin Djawadi might just be the most talented and creative cinematic composer working ever. I came to this conclusion not of any logic or methodology but just by realizing how much and how often I listen to his stuff on Spotify. It’s almost weird how during a random activity like cleaning the house my brain just goes huh this should be accompanied by “Maester” from S6 or working out with kettlebell just must be done listening to “Fate of the Kingdoms” from S1 of House of the Dragon.
Tommen should have used the people, the Faith of the Seven, the North, and any other allies he could muster to stop Cersei and make her pay for her crimes. Killing himself immediately after the sept blew up abandoned the people and westeros to Cersei's cruelty and lunacy.
I think I may be in the minority when I express my belief that, not only was this season the weakest (outside of the 8th), but the Soundtrack was -not- very good. I wasn't a fan of hardly any part of S6, but I stuck through it because I had faith it would turn around... The piano *was* the only part of the Soundtrack that actually resonated with me, but the ending with almost every major character off the board, I felt myself utterly disillusioned with the show. Margaery, or at least *someone* in the sept, should have survived to continue as a threat to Cersei. Yet, we instead get Mad Queen Cersei, which was *fine*, but none of it felt earned. I didn't want Cersei to lose, by then, I found I just... no longer cared. Throughout the rest of the show, this happened again, and again, and again... Every Character was stripped away to a facsimilie of one, to remove their distinguishing traits until they're just... caricatures. Cersei the Tyrant, Jamie the Fool, Tyrion the Failure, Jon the Blind, Arya the Wooden, Brienne the disgusted, Tormund the Horny, Daenerys the Lunatic... it was just so sad to watch, but I *kept* watching, because I wanted it to turn around. I was *sure* it would be redeemed, and yet... it never was. It just kept falling down, like a collapsing building...
Unfortunately he carried that piano over to the Night King in season 8 and completely stripped tbe White Walkers and the NK of their horror theme. The NK's season 8 theme sounded like a Westworld theme instead of a GOT theme. But Light of the Seven is a gorgeous theme.
False. He brought back the horror themes for the white walkers. They were not "completed stripped" of it at all. lmao. He just used the piano for the Night King's final scene
The show was so bad at this point, the music felt especially gaslighting, Loras following that kid to the tunnels was so fvckin' stupid, Cersei becoming queen when she was at her weakest and no allies made zero sense, by this point Tywin is dead, the gold mines ran out, her biggest allies and family had just died (by her hand no less) and worst of all she uses wildfire to destroy a holy place, WILDFIRE!!! Yeah, the substance that never stops burning, but somehow the fire never spreads to destroy Kingslanding, the camera just cuts, so that means the wildfire stops too.. so Jaime didn't save Kingslanding from wildfire, the many caches under are not a thing then, he was just overreacting when he killed the Mad King? These scenes were created for shock value, but devoid of logic and I wasn't particularly impressed by the music, I don't know man, I just prefer less piano in my Game of Thrones like the first 4 seasons.
Without spoilers... what's your favourite scene that has ever aired on television? 👀
I wanted to pick between the Red Wedding and My Baby Blue but I'll go with the Peacemaker Intro. :)
I would say this intro. I'm a sucker for great piano.
Impossible to choose.
Several that come to mind:
In Breaking Bad:
-Go-cart scene from s4 e4 "Open House" (because of the music)
-Titular scene from s4 e13 "Face Off" (because of the music)
-Train scene from s5 e5 "Dead Freight"
-All of Walt's scenes from s5 e15 "Granite State"
In Better Call Saul:
-Mike and Werner's last scene from s4 e10 "Winner"
-Jimmy and Mike's 'bad choice road' chat and related chats from s5 e8 "Bagman" and e9 "Bad Choice Road"
In Game of Thrones:
-Wildfire scene from s2 e9 "Blackwater"
-Roadside inn scene with Arya, the Hound, and Polliver from s4 e1 "Two Swords"
-Scene where Arya and the Hound chat with a dying man from probably s4 e7 "Mockingbird" (dialogue succinctly encapsulates different approaches to death)
-Trial by combat scene from s4 e8 "The Mountain and the Viper" (great writing, tension, action, sound design)
-Most of s4 e9 "The Watchers on the Wall"
In House of the Dragon:
-Opening scenes from s1 e9 "The Green Council"
-Ratcatcher sequence from s2 e1 "A Son for A Son" (tension and plans going awry)
-Titular scene from s2 e4 "The Red Dragon and the Gold"
In Succession:
-Scene of Shiv and Roman talking in hospital amphitheatre room s1 e2 "S*** Show at the F*** Factory" (great sibling dynamics)
-Ending from s1 e6 "Which Side Are You On?"
-Tom and Gregg in the safe room s2 e4 "Safe Room"
-Most of s4 e3 "Connor's Wedding"
In Bojack horseman:
-Most of s4 e6 "Stupid Piece of Sh*t"
-Ending of s6 e15 "The View From Halfway Down" (maybe should've been series finale)
In The Leftovers:
-Opening scene from s1 e1 "Pilot"
-Departure scene from s1 e9 "The Garveys at Their Best"
-After housefires scene from s1 e10 "The Prodigal Son Returns"
-Most of s2 e5 "No Room at the Inn"
-Most of s2 e8 "International Assassin"
-Opening sequence from s3 e1 "The Book of Kevin"
-All of s3 e7 "The Most Powerful Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)"
GoT: the first 10 minutes of Season 6 finale
HoTD: Driftmark confrontation and Rook’s Rest
@RealPixels This one, season 6 episode 10, Winds Of Winter. Without a doubt the best episode of any show I've ever seen. Phenomenal. A masterpiece 💯
When Tommen jumped off I gasped. I knew the lack of music and the lingering on the window meant something but... oh boy.
i'm still alive and living happily with ser pounce dw!
subtle
the music built up so much tension but tommen found a way to bring it back down to earth 😔
And this is why Ramin Djawabi is one of my favourite contemporary composers
I adore his work for Westworld, too! The Maze is unforgettable.
@@Hekateras he's the reason I started watching Westworld in the first place.
Ok Glidus, I think the jig is up.
Didn’t even notice until this comment. They do sound suspiciously similar
This is IMO the best piece of music ever written for TV. I play the piano and have played this piece 1000 times and it never fails to give me goosebumps!!!! Phenomenal
I play it on the piano and I can’t bet through it without bawling my eyes out. I hope I’m not the only one.
I have this very distinct memory of that night. For years, my brothers and I had gathered to watch Game of Thrones, all the way back from season 2. That night my little brother and I were watching it. Both of us were amateur piano players, and loved the music.
The recap played and everything looked normal. Just another GoT night about to kick in. But as the final shots of the recap went on, and the saoundtrack escalated with the sound climbing before the usual silence, the expected HBO static sound and synth choir and the small pause before the opening theme, something unexpected happened.
There was an odd, really out-of-place piano chord played, loud and clear, but very fast. Both of us exchanged a weird look. I wondered if I had just imagined the sound. But then he asked me "was that... a piano?" just before the main theme began.
We both knew something was off.
Oh boy, we were not wrong.
I have since wondered if anybody else noticed that. Or if it was a weird thing happening on our TV. Or if both of us, somehow, imagined the same damn sound.
Just checked my HBO, the sound is there
The moment I heard the piano playing, I knew something was off. What a great composer Ramin Djawadi is! And what a great video honoring that masterpiece!
I want to point out although it has no inherent connection to Rains of Castamere, you can sing Rains over it perfectly in places. And the accidental in the second phrase of the arpeggio motif is very similar to one which is super conspicuous in Rains of Castamere. The music operates in the same way the scene does - all the pieces are there except one (Cersei), but when you know what that final piece is, everything clicks into place. It also in a way feels like Cersei "rewriting" the Lannister legacy, in a similar way to the music being rewritten, but without the Rains melody actually present.
Edit: The clearest place Rains of Castamere overlays with the music is RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW'S THEME MAKES ITS FIRST APPEARANCE. 5:20 - 6:14 of the "Light of the Seven" track. It can also be sung twice in the space at 7:08-8:19. This was SO VERY INTENTIONAL, I'M CONVINCED.
I would add to your comment that this is exactly what ends up happening within that same episode (as pointed out in the video): when Cersei sits on the Iron Throne near the episode's end, her theme is combined with Rains of Castamere (the track playing during that scene is "Hear Me Roar"). So I think you're right about there being an intentional connection there.
The execution of this scene was so brilliant, that most people were too busy celebrating it to realise it meant the story was about to get simplified out of existence.
I know most people only really hate the 8th season but I remember watching this and thinking "and so it begins" (having read ASoIaF, I also knew they were coming to a point where there were no more books to base the series on)
Indeed.
I felt the same way at the time.
Amazing cinematography.
Awe-inspiring sound design & music
All build on a fundament strong as quicksand, for the writing, that which made the show great, the thing that underpins Everything has gone down the drain
This is one of my favourite cinematic sequences of the series. I was in awe after watching the beginning of this episode.
0:08 SUBTLE FORESHADOWING
Such subtle spoiling😭
Very subtle indeed
That 20 second intro was textbook perfect editing. Well done.
I was struck by the piano in this scene as well.
I was expecting this video to be a meme, and then I realised it was 20 minutes long. This is a beautiful analysis and comparison of the music that highlights the talent of musical and cinematographic direction that has gone into this episode.
If I could like this video twice, I would.
I could listen to you talk about Ramin's music forever. The Targaryen motif is my favorite.
*_I remember back when I first watched the episode when it was released and I was so shocked by the Piano I thought that it was some weird game ad playing in the background on my computer..._*
I can’t help but bawl my eyes out every time I hear the first few notes. I play the piano. I have a hard time getting thru playing it because I’m so emotional about it. Probably the best score in my lifetime.
Still remember thinking the pianomusic must be from some kind of pop up since i was pirated that season. MAde me pause and look for the window.
This video essay was FANTASTIC!
I was (well, figuratively) jumping up and down, screaming HOLY SHT, when the first piano notes started playing. I was OBSESSED with it for years and it's still one of my favorite pieces of music (not just soundtracks).
I loved the video, and you did a great job breaking this epic masterpiece (tried over the years, but since I'm mostly a writer and not film creator, it was a mess).
I would like to add another reason the piano is so meaningful. There's another reason why it's missing from most of the show: the show borrow a lot of aesthetic elements from the medieval and renaissance eras. Djawadi does the same for Westeros' themes, and they are *mostly* contains instruments that were in use at that era. For example, until the 1700's or so, there were no wood or brass sections, because there was no standard for mass producing these instruments.
They were in some use, mostly as soloists, but composers wrote mostly for string because they're much easier to tune to sound cohesive as a section. That's way most of the time, Djawadi uses Strings as his main instrument. The same goes for the piano, it only gained popularity later on, as it gradually "replaced" the harpsicord. So, even before I've heard the full Light of the Seven theme, it meant to me that a new era is coming to Westeros.
The style of composing is also very modern. I love that it's later on goes up against the The Rains of Castemere, because the Lanister's theme meant to sound ancient, like the family itself. Light of the Seven really reminds me of the work of Phillip Glass and other modern minimalists, and it gives such a different tone to the episode. wish the writers wouldn't drop the ball in later seasons and give Ramin something good to write about.
OH GOD HE'S USING THAT TITLE FORMAT
He's falling off, isn't he
@@AlbertAlbertB. All youtubers are slaves to the algorithm, that's just how it is
oh god
I vividly remember watching this one air on my laptop and then the piano starts and I start looking around to see if I left any other tabs open and it took me way too long to realize it was the episode. It was a bizarre change of music but a welcome one, this is one of the few songs on the show that I remember note fot note
Beautiful analysis!
My experience of music is very intuitive, but I love when it is explained to me so that I can understand the work behind, the genius. Thank you!
This was such an interesting video! Really makes you realize the intricacies of the soundtrack and how layered it truly is. A great example of musical analysis
There is another absolutely briliant detail about this piece that I never see pointed out on the internet: You can start a stopwatch while you're listening to it and every bar of the piece hits perfectly in time with the stopwatch. One bar per second. Light of the Seven is a literal countdown to the sept's explosion. I love that more than I could possibly put into words.
This was such an incredibly effective video to help explain the language of music & composition even to someone like me, who has absolutely no musical background or education to speak of. I learned a lot!
I love, love, LOVE that episode.
The music, the visuals, the feel!
Absolutely magnificent analysis. Thank you very much for that video. I love that scene and music so much.
Whenever I'm having a bad day I watch one of your videos thank you
This was amazing! Thank you so much for doing this video!
Literally just finished the series for the first time yesterday. Perfect timing.
Would love if you did a similar analysis for "The Night King" from The Long Night. As much as the writing declined, some of the creative decisions with the other aspects of filmmaking, like the score, retained their brilliance.
Wow, this is an amazing breakdown of music and meaning of the scene
Interestingly C Minor is also the key of broken relationships and longing for what is lost so Cersei's theme being in this key hints at a lot going into her story and main theme of her character.
this episode was cinema at its peak ... for me thats the best episode of GOT :)
This was my favourite piece of music from the GoT soundtrack. Another reason why this sequence was the best part of the season, was the relatively limited dialogue. By that point in the show, without GRRM's quality dialogue and story to pull from, it got rather tiring every time a character started speaking. Insert "words are wind" joke here.
I got recommended this because I’m trying to teach myself piano, and I definitely learned something!
This song is a lot of fun to learn on piano-just wish I had the time and patience to stick with it!
A fantastic sequence and a fantastic breakdown. Chills
This was very well articulated. I am going to check the rest of your library!
Wow what a video, Real Pixels never misses
Excellent video essay. Thank you!
The only thing more jarring than having a piano playing in game of thrones was that, years later, Light of the Seven was used in promotional material for the tom cruise mummy movie before a movie i saw in theaters. I was so caught off guard by this song being used somewhere fully unrelated to GoT lol
When I heard the piano, I knew there's something big coming.
Not at all the video I expected, but it was even better
The subtle foreshadowing💀
I could gladly watch you break down every song in the whole series
WOW!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿FANTASTIC ANALYSIS!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I have been watching GOT in the background while doing other things, paying attention but never fully devoting myself.
But when that first piano tune hit, i instantly stopped what i was doing and payed attention, this was something different .
Oh, its my man who make best videos on Red dead redemption 2..ofc i will watch his take on Game of Thrones
This was fantastic!
Please continue making these analyses. 🌷
This is my absolute FAVORITE GoT episode because of this sequence. Absolute perfection. Subscribed.
It was Glimbus the whole time! Of course!
This is a great video! Thank you for got content! Love your channel!
excellent video, thank you!
I always liked this so kinda wild to find out it's the first time the used piano
Great video, subcribed!
Glidus is not going to be happy…
despite loving this theme, knowing that the modern piano we hear developed much later than whatever this medieval looking fantasy world equates to in real history, the sound is too polished compared to the rest of the instruments textures which pairs perfectly with the visuals imo. it feels like piano doesn’t belong on game of thrones and makes it less convinving. that’s how i felt as a pianist myself, although, dragons and fckin white walkers and wargs exist in this story
All these years, and only now I've realized that Cercei's and Tommen's sections of Red Keep are across the town with Sept of Balor in between them. Note how the sea is to the left from Cercei's perspective, but to the right from Tommen's. What's more, from either perspective you don't see another big building with great view on the town. Mistakes were made with the green screen :-)
New Subscriber. Great work!!
the titles are just funny
Great vid.
what is the track at the end of the episode called
"Hear Me Roar"
If only they had put in as much effort into the writing
😂
This particular episode was well written though. Honestly one of the best episodes of TV ever. lol
idk this reads way too much into it. one could also argue that they are kind of forgetting that they weren't using piano before. and they kind of forgot that they used the theme of the boys when they weren't in the scene.
Fantastic video, now I must go and watch the whole series :D Djawadi is no John Williams but...his music is consistent, fitting and highly underappriciated. Anyway, amazing analysis, subbed and looking forward for more! Thanks
Thanks for teaching me the word diagetic.
I know this request is a bit late, but in the topic of rdr2, can you make a video talking about rains fall?
Can you do the real history of Steven Soderbergh The Knick.
I’m kinda of a music fiend and I find myself quite knowledgeable when it comes movie / tv soundtracks. how music is composed for something I’m watching for some reason is just important for my brain lol
Obviously when composer is great it makes even a mediocre movie or show great for me and somewhat rewatchable.
My point being Ramin Djawadi might just be the most talented and creative cinematic composer working ever.
I came to this conclusion not of any logic or methodology but just by realizing how much and how often I listen to his stuff on Spotify. It’s almost weird how during a random activity like cleaning the house my brain just goes huh this should be accompanied by “Maester” from S6 or working out with kettlebell just must be done listening to “Fate of the Kingdoms” from S1 of House of the Dragon.
Tommen should have used the people, the Faith of the Seven, the North, and any other allies he could muster to stop Cersei and make her pay for her crimes.
Killing himself immediately after the sept blew up abandoned the people and westeros to Cersei's cruelty and lunacy.
That one sound sounded like Stranger Things
It’s PEAM
not even thru the very many commercials yet, but even if the title is click-bait im there.
It makes me a little mad how good everything about this show except the overarching writing is
I think I may be in the minority when I express my belief that, not only was this season the weakest (outside of the 8th), but the Soundtrack was -not- very good. I wasn't a fan of hardly any part of S6, but I stuck through it because I had faith it would turn around...
The piano *was* the only part of the Soundtrack that actually resonated with me, but the ending with almost every major character off the board, I felt myself utterly disillusioned with the show. Margaery, or at least *someone* in the sept, should have survived to continue as a threat to Cersei. Yet, we instead get Mad Queen Cersei, which was *fine*, but none of it felt earned. I didn't want Cersei to lose, by then, I found I just... no longer cared.
Throughout the rest of the show, this happened again, and again, and again... Every Character was stripped away to a facsimilie of one, to remove their distinguishing traits until they're just... caricatures. Cersei the Tyrant, Jamie the Fool, Tyrion the Failure, Jon the Blind, Arya the Wooden, Brienne the disgusted, Tormund the Horny, Daenerys the Lunatic... it was just so sad to watch, but I *kept* watching, because I wanted it to turn around. I was *sure* it would be redeemed, and yet... it never was. It just kept falling down, like a collapsing building...
Unfortunately he carried that piano over to the Night King in season 8 and completely stripped tbe White Walkers and the NK of their horror theme. The NK's season 8 theme sounded like a Westworld theme instead of a GOT theme.
But Light of the Seven is a gorgeous theme.
False. He brought back the horror themes for the white walkers. They were not "completed stripped" of it at all. lmao. He just used the piano for the Night King's final scene
You have too loud voice compared to the rest of the video Sir 3:19
Great music for an absolutely terrible season unfortunately.
I enjoyed season 6 - I feel as if it was peak Game of Thrones fever and loved this specific episode along with the Battle of the Bastards.
@@MichaelKnickle Almost everyone who supposedly hates Season 6 loved it at the time. Wouldn't take them too seriously.
The show was so bad at this point, the music felt especially gaslighting, Loras following that kid to the tunnels was so fvckin' stupid, Cersei becoming queen when she was at her weakest and no allies made zero sense, by this point Tywin is dead, the gold mines ran out, her biggest allies and family had just died (by her hand no less) and worst of all she uses wildfire to destroy a holy place,
WILDFIRE!!!
Yeah, the substance that never stops burning, but somehow the fire never spreads to destroy Kingslanding, the camera just cuts, so that means the wildfire stops too.. so Jaime didn't save Kingslanding from wildfire, the many caches under are not a thing then, he was just overreacting when he killed the Mad King? These scenes were created for shock value, but devoid of logic and I wasn't particularly impressed by the music, I don't know man, I just prefer less piano in my Game of Thrones like the first 4 seasons.