I'm so grateful for those who have joined over the last year to enjoy this journey with me. It became my favorite show and being able to share this first time watching and having fun and tough conversations through 8 seasons has made it that much more special.
Only such great commitment can bring bring those tears. Thanks for your commitment! All the best from the Netherlands and good fortune on the reactions to come! 🖖
Lipps, thank you for allowing us to tag along with you on your GoT journey. We all rode shotgun alongside you, and your passion, thoughts, and insights were well-appreciated. Hope you are enjoying the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books- problem is, soon you'll be like the rest of us, impatiently waiting (years!) for George R.R. Martin to finish The Winds of Winter. Thanks again, and have a wonderful holiday season!
Thank you for joining! We'll be doing some lore dives and theory videos on the world of Westeros and Game of Thrones so I hope y'all will join for those as well. And House of the Dragon of course!
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but one of my favorite character progression visuals and costume design decisions was the styling of Sansa's hair throughout the seasons. In the beginning it was sort of loose but mainly styled like her mother's. When she moves to Kings Landing she starts wearing it like Cersi (like a real southern lady, as her nanny mentioned), sort of back to northern styles once her travels with Littlefinger were finished and she was back in Winterfell, then like Dany with the braids, and then at the very end it was completely down and free as she was no longer being influenced by other women and had come into her own power
I am at peace with the endgame. It was sadly impossibly rushed. Jon got the happiest possible ending. His ‘punishment’ is bogus, there is no Night’s Watch left, he is going to roam free beyond the Wall and lead what is left of the Wildlings with his buddy Tormund and Ghost at his side. He never wanted the Throne.
Arya got it best. That show hopefully won’t suck and she is actually smiling , Jon is still sulking even in the North and we all know it. The only thing good this horrible ending did was get the hardcore into the rest of the lore and theories and books… the only thing.
As I’ve watched back and edited these reactions it’s her last few conversations people have with Danareys that scare me. And that speech. The speech frightened me
The end always makes me cry as well, because I don't want the story to end, and because the musical score is fantastic. I really wish they would have given us two more seasons. They were given the green light for it, but the writers didn't want to. 😭😭😭
It was the wall at Eastwatch by the Sea that was breached by the Night King and army of the dead. Jon met Tormund and the others at Castle Black, which was still intact. The exile of Jon to the Night's Watch seems to have been a technical "bookkeeping" move, made with a wink and a nod, knowing that Jon would almost certainly simply join the Free Folk and live in the True North. With the defeat of the Night King and his generals, the true purpose of the Night's Watch was no longer needed.
When Jon and Tormund first said farewell, before the long ride south to King's Landing, Jon told Tormund he wishes he could go with them. So... he truly got what he wanted most.
I really enjoyed watching it again with you. It also changed how I feel about the ending. I never had it in me to watch it again after season 8 because I was disappointed. But actually there was still much I liked in the last season and I cried at least as much as you when watching it the first time. I find the quote of Maester Aemon is so beautiful. In that scene he said to Jon, "If the day should ever come, when your father was forced to choose between on honor on the one hand and those he loves on teh other, what would he do?" and Jon said "he would do whatever is right." Jon is his son, even if not in blood.
The Starks now rule almost the entire Western world. Bran holds the 6 Westerosi kingdoms, Sansa the North Kingdom, Jon the True North, and Arya sets off to conquer the True West. Only the East remains free.
Imo Bran doesn’t say that as like “oh yea I want to be king”. I think he just had a good idea through the sight he has that he was needed to be king. That the ruler had to be someone that didn’t want it, and he has access to all the things people have said. He has heard the convos Varys and Tyrion had etc, so he knew what was probably coming and the way he now speaks is quite blunt so that’s just how it came out.
i think you're right. It doesn't happen as much as you'd expect but sometimes when I edit the reaction I have 180'd on my thoughts. And while reflecting I think I personally just don't think Brans character arc was one I got to connect with during the first watch. Is that the shows fault or my fault, idk. But that lack of knowing who he is while i've had so many moments with other characters to know their flaws and love them in spite of their flaws made Bran seem like a bad choice. But I am coming around to it more.
@@LippsReacts Bran accepted being King because it was his duty, he knew he would be the best choice. When Tommen became king, Tywin questioned him. "What makes a good king? Wisdom makes a good king." That is what the three eyed Raven/Bran has.
@@raymondgraber9629 Absolutely yes. He takes it as fulfilling a duty, being a servant to the realm, truly: he doesn't say yes because he's power hungry, which makes him an ideal choice. He also is the wisest being in the world, and also the most a-political one. While all the other players were in some way or another involved in the wars, he was out of all that. There was no grudge against him from any side, which ensures that his election won't be followed by more conflict. In the end Bran was the best choice for the realm. For the people, to start a long period of stability, peace, prosperity. That's what the people need, not more disagreement and destruction.
@@LippsReacts yea I think one mistake they made was having that full season or so where they didn’t show you Bran at all. If they were gonna make him King and they wanted people to be happy with it then they needed to show more of Bran to make people really fall in love with his character. It also doesn’t help that the way he is in the end seems cold, it’s like Meera Reed says, Bran sort of died in that cave when he became the Three Eyed Raven. In doing so though he transcended into something even more important and impressive than a King. Missing a good chunk of time spent with him probably made a big difference on how people felt at the end of the show. Everyone was either routing for Jon or Dany, when throughout the show there was always way more than just them. The books show this as they have chapters named as the characters names. I haven’t read all the books so maybe the show runners just didn’t think they could make enough interesting content with Bran so they had to cut a season from him, and in the end a rewatch of the early seasons will remind people just how great a character Bran was and how fitting it is that he ended up king. I remember after the red wedding thinking “omg Rob is gone, who the heck is gonna be king now” and really having to think of all the characters and I thought it would be fun with my gf at the time if we made a prediction of who ends up on the throne. I predicted Bran. By the end of the show I probably wanted it to be Jon, or Tyrion. But tbh I was happy with the ending, after a day or so to reflect. This show took up a huge chunk of a lot of our lives as it was 8 seasons, I think it’s important to realise that a lot of us wanted a happy ending and that the manner of the show was that we might not get one. Overall, I think we got one.
@@raymondgraber9629 100%. I think that convo with Tommen and Tywin was one where we were really meant to pay attention and in the end even this shows that even Tywin thinks Bran is the perfect choice. I also think that George chose this as the ending because this is truly breaking the wheel. Jon was worthy of it because he had people that would follow him even though they thought he was a bastard, but in the end he would have gotten it through the Targaryen name alone. Naming Bran as king truly broke the wheel as Tyrion says.
hahahha I can't believe I pulled him up at that moment. I was so embarrassed I thought Jon was going to ride of into the sunset with Danareys. But it always gives me a little giggle
No they didn't rebuild the wall that fast. Jon crossed under the wall at Castle Black. It was East Watch castle's section of wall that took the damage, it was only the part of wall that connected to the ocean that fell and pulled down enough to make a passage for the undead army. The rest of the wall remained untouched.
The jackass and honeycomb comment was a throwback to season 1 when Lady Catelyn took Tyrion to the Eyrie, her sister, and he was confessing his 'sins'. That little bit of Banter at the end could have promised another round of an interesting makeup of the new order.
I enjoyed watching this with you. For me S8 and this episode in particular doesn’t take away the fact that this is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched. As the years have gone by I’ve come to appreciate S8 and the finale for what it is, flaws and all. Looking forward to watching something else with you!
I'm with you there. It's still fresh but i have more respect for it today than I did even the moment I wrapped the recording. As i was finishing this edit and watching myself cry I was taken aback because I wasn't even crying over sad things but just crying because this journey was over. I cam to love characters I never expected to love. And for a piece of media to evoke connection and emotion like that is exactly what I want in a show. And sharing it with everyone has been so cool
Thank you for such a wonderful experience. Your reactions and analysis have been absolutely amazing. Don't ever apologize for the tears..I still cry at certain scenes all these years later. To me that shows commitment to the Series and to your channel. This Series truly becomes a part of your life. Keep safe much ❤ and can't wait until you start your journey back to Westeros for HOTD 🐉
The three plot points George gave Dan and Dave were Hodor, the burning of Shireen, and Bran on the throne. Obviously they could happen differently but this was George's end game. Personally I think it works if Bran is a slightly sinister tool of the old gods. But the show doesn't really explore that...
interesting. The way it went down felt so off to me. I hope to see the way it was intended in the future, perhaps it's just another casualty of the rush that this season seemed to have
@@LippsReacts Yeah I'm trusting that if GRRM intends for Bran to be on the throne in the books, he'll write it in a way that makes much more sense than this. This was insane
The main reason I'm okay with the ending, conceptually anyway, is because Bran's whole thing makes sense to me. Although we never see anything like it play out again, that scene where he makes history happen by "creating" Hodor in the past all but "confirms" that anything people perceive as divine or godly is, and always has been, Bran arranging people and events to both a) destroy the White Walkers and b) become King. If you watch all his scenes back to back, it becomes very clear that Bran withholds information with the intent of manipulating others. For one, he never tells anybody that he can see visions of the future, and we know he's been seeing a dragon fly over King's Landing since season 4. Even the origin of various religions - the Lord of Light, the Seven, the Drowned God - all of which combine into the "Many-Faced God" of Death, operate involving prophetic "visions" and life after/against death. And although we never understand how the Faceless Men operate, or why they let Arya go, maybe things were arranged in such a way where Bran had Arya fulfilling a contract under the guise of the Many-Faced God himself.
In the visions she was shown at the House of the Undying, Dany saw the throne room in ruins, with what appeared to be snow falling... it turned out to be ashes. Only this time, unlike in the vision, her hand continued and grasped the knob on the arm of the throne. Never did sit the throne though... And in Bran's weirwood visions, he saw the shadow of a large dragon flying over King's Landing, just as he saw the wildfire explosion in the tunnels below the sept.
Sweet Lipps, you are the only reactor that I’ve sat with from 1/1 to the end. Thank you for the laughter, the heartache, tears, anticipation. You truly did a fantastic job keeping me entertained. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for joining the adventure! It became my favorite show and my absolute favorite world that I've ever experienced. And it's all the richer because I got to share it with such awesome people
My theory is that everyone at the council of surviving characters thought they were the only person who didn’t know what a three eyed Raven was and they were all too afraid to ask.
@drsavage3262- Sansa outright said she didn't know what it means to be the three-eyed raven, and as I recall Bran didn't elaborate. I see no reason to assume Bran fully explained himself to anyone.
@williamshelton4318 I'm sure you can all surmise had on how the last, meeting of lords and ladies, went. They all know the truths that commoners don't. Cmon now. Be reasonable.
Ahh, the end of an era! Thanks for the beautiful journey, Lipps - you are a fab reactor, and when you laugh or cry you make me laugh and cry with you 😍 Regarding Bran - we have to remember that the dragon pit scene is a few weeks after the events at King's Landing (Tyrion said he'd been imprisoned for that long), so I'm not convinced we can hold Bran responsible for "knowing what was going to happen and letting it happen anyway, so he could be king" (not quoting you, it's what I've read other people saying). His visions of the future were never set in stone (because they can't be, the future hasn't yet happened), nor as clear and detailed as those of the past/present. We only saw one brief vision of a dragon flying over King's Landing, which could have signified nothing more than that. I agree it was a bit of a cheesy line, but I'm just not convinced it gives Bran any sort of 'dark intention' or ulterior motive vibes? 🤔 And as for him being king ... if not him, then who? Drogon had the best idea, the throne itself was a symbol of too much desire for power and needed to be destroyed; the ultimate symbol of the wheel Danaerys said she wanted to break (yet she still craved it). As Varys had previously said, someone who didn't want to rule might be the best person to rule! Someone with the knowledge of all the mistakes and bad decisions previous rulers had made, who has no desire for power, who has seen both the good and the bad in people, and has no personal agenda ... I can't think of anyone better, to be honest! 😁👍
I love how Drogon magically got comprehension of what abstract objects with history were after all the book reading he did to burn the throne ya know 😂
Notice Dany never actually sat on the Iron Throne.. she put a hand on it before Jon walked in then they started talking.. she never even got to be Queen like, for real. She won, but still lost
Funny thing is: Grey Worm and the Unsullied will not survive Naath, because it's the home of poisonous butterflies that end people who aren't native to the island through a high fever. A just poetic ending for savages like them. They will never see Essos again...
You never know.. maybe the butterflies will avoid touching them or they build an immunity whether natural or magical because Naath needs them to protect the people from slavers now that Dany is dead and the east is likely to slip back into old habits. The show doesn't seem to include the toxicity of the butterflies anyways so...
During the table reading of this episode Kit had no idea how the series would end. When he learns the fate of Dany at Jon's hand, he became emotional. Maisie at first had her hand over her forehead. When she saw Jon's pain, she moved her hand over her mouth.
When this season was airing we kept hearing about leaks, and some of them turned out to be true but a lot were fake. So the day before this episode aired, I saw a leak that said Bran would be crowned king and I laughed so hard, thinking I saw an epic fake leak. When Tyrion said "Stories", I realized where this was going and literally stood up and left the room. I'm not sure what I find more infuriating, every single leader of every single major house agreeing to a Stark child with no experience ruling being king (with no arguments!) or Yara Greyjoy and the new Prince of Dorne not yelling "Yeah, me too!" after Sansa just states that the North will be independent. I'm sure if this happens in the book, it'll have a lead-up that makes sense, but the showrunners just wanted to wrap things up quickly here so they decided to just have everyone agree with everything
So BASICALLY Bran Knew that Daenerys would commite a genocide and he said nothing There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff and those who see evil stuff being done and don't try to stop it" - Janis Ian.
Considering that this world seems to operate with visions in a closed loop, he couldn't have done anything to stop it, as we see when Hodor dies and breaks young Wyllis' mind. That happened before Bran was even born, and it was always going to happen. The ink is dry.
Would like to thank Lipps for one of the more in depth reactions to this series. Your emotion and eager to learn about everything was a great experience to watch. Glad you're now one of us 👍
Girl I found your channel like 2 weeks ago and caught up on your GOT reactions just in time for the finale 😅 love love love your perspectives on the story!!!
Thank you for your reactions. You did well. I quite liked the way they tied up everyone's stories. I don't know if it will happen but word is they are working on a sequel with Arya's journeys to the west. GRRM was a producer on the show and I"m pretty sure he told them the general idea of how it would end. I suspect he never bothered to finish the books because so many people on social media crapped on the show's ending that he didn't want to work hard and still receive the same crap about his books.
Thanks a lot for being like a home to come back to every few days ;) I really enjoyed watching Game of Thrones again with you, and the Bran being King issue still bugs me years after first watching it ^^
great reactions. what a roller coaster.👏🙌 i enjoyed the series start to finish, but i don't think the story is over. the end of the Iron Throne yes, but the rest is still an unfinished book. or two🤭 where did Drogon take Dani's body? to a Red Priestess perhaps? remember there have been multiple Three Eyed Raven and multiple Night Kings in the past... You can't kill Death, according to the Hound... what will Jon find beyond the wall? what will Arya find west of Westeros? who better to unite a continent for the wars to come than an all seeing all know dispassionate eye or three🤔
Amazing journey! Honestly the best reactor to GOT I've watched - and the only one I've watched all episodes from. Great editing, great emotions, and great reactions!
It took me all day to decide to watch this. I knew your emotions would be similar to mine at the end. Thank you for taking us on this journey with you! I'm looking forward to House of the Dragon!
I avoided the pain, but here we are lol. Here YOU are tho! Woo! At the end! Yay 😂 now the only coa is to just keep diving into this world and more and make the pain go away. But fr, thanks for being here in the suck with us all now ❤
I don't necessarily dislike how it ended, but the writing and direction felt messy and rushed. I think if they had done a whole final season, or maybe even one more season, to really help bring us where it was going to go, to develop the character's final arcs and motivations better, i think that would have been better.
Oh Miss Lipps, what a journey it's been to watch you go through this rollercoaster of a series. Excited to see you go through the lore and even House of the Dragon if that's on your agenda. Have a great weekend Queen!
yay!! Will definitely be diving into lore, i've been working on some lore videos i'll be releasing and then House of the Dragon reactions will start going live beginning of January if not end of this month
Thanks for sharing your GoT journey with us, It's been so great rewatching this along with you. I have also really enjoyed your thoughts and analysis after each episode. Will definitely be looking forward to your HotD and other future content.
In TV and the movies, there are really only a few examples of dragons done right.... Game of Thrones and Dragonslayer (1981). I am sure that others have already told you that some of the actors involved in the final episode, were reduced to tears at table reads and Kit had to go into therapy for what Jon Snow... Aegon Targaryen did to Daenerys at the end of her "reign"! It was truly an emotional high spot, in that your level of emotion, whether it was anger, happiness, sadness, or shock, was pretty high! That is exactly why it is not "stupid" to cry. As for the story, I think it would have been better for everyone if Daenerys had Drogon burn Cersei, Qyburn, and the Mountain at the gate right when they killed Missandei. It would have given a better vindication of when she says Dracarys as her last word. Not as many people would have died, and the Red Keep and the Iron Throne would still be around. Also, I agree with you that perhaps Bran should not have been selected as King. I also think that Jon would have been beheaded or hung by the Unsullied. Whoever is king, I think Bran should have gone to the same tree as the previous 3-eyed Raven. There are no weirwood trees where he is at and it would be fitting for him to be connected to the roots of the world. (Recall that he had to do that to have visions when he was still with Meera.) Who should have been king/queen then, if not Bran? Easy... Gendry. He was a Baratheon, he was a peasant (can relate to the needs of the common folk) and now he is a knight! Can you think of a better choice? Oh! and Sansa should still rule in the North!
Thanks for the 8 seasons of reacting! Was enjoyable to watch your analysis and reactions to lots of different moments and how the story unfolded. Looking forward to House of the Dragon next :)
the "punishment" of the "poor" deserter of the nigtht´s watch, the trairor of the wildlings, the enemie´s lover, the worst commander the battlefields have ever seen, the submissive king, the queen´s slayer Jon Snow was his biggest dream: the night´s watch. And as he arrived he does what he can do best: he deserts AGAIN. At least snake Sansa got her throne she always wanted because her brother on the iron throne repressed the north too much! Poor people of Winterfell.
The quality of dialgue really went down the drain in the last few episodes for sure. And the North gets to be a free and independent Nation and no one blinks an eye.
When I first watched the Finale I was pretty happy where all the characters left off I’m a big fan of the Starks in general so I was happy that the Starks pretty much end up winning out even Jon who doesn’t get to go back to being in the North with his family gets to go be a with the wildlings which I think is good enough for him I don’t see him ever going back to being apart of the nightswatch I think he just stays north of the wall
i feel similarly. I think in the moment a few things felt off but perhaps it was more that it felt rushed. Or with Bran specifically he's such an important character yet in the show I feel like I do not know him at all so that could have played into that feeling of meh with his ending. But I was emotional watching everyone get their ending.
Thank you for all you do. You've given yourself to us and you are a joy. You brighten the lives of many of us that have little joy in our world. I don't think I'll join you with THOTD as I'm not that interested in that show, but will continue with the film reactions. Please know that I appreciate the time and effort and insight and emotion you put into every reaction you post and that your work and, well you being you, makes people like me feel better about the world. Best wishes to you and yours. xoxo
Something I always like to note In reactions to s8E6.. Tyrion once said “Dragons are smarter than men according to some Maester” Drogon knew Jon killed Dany, but Drogon saw his mother go from the loving young woman she was to the tyrannical woman she grew to be all because of that damn throne. Another part of me feels like in Drogon’s mind “If my mom can’t have the Throne, no one can.”
Well that’s it my child of winter . Season 1-6 were great season 7 was good but season 8 was a bit of a let down but in dany’s vision it showed the throne covered in snow so it did show us the out come but it is what it is still the greatest tv series of all time
Yay!! I'm excited to share! They'll start going up end of month or beginning of January. I want to finish Dune Prophecy and Penguin before House of the Dragon goes live
Yours was a great series of reactions to this show. I would love to watch you react to other shows I like and will keep watching if and when you do, and if you have other content, I'd be interested in that, too.
Such a disgusting thing D&D did with season 8, through no fault of the actors, directors or composers. Still wish they didn't abandon Jon's established arc, and that the Bran is Night King theory came to fruition.
wooo! HotD edited reactions should start going live end of this month or beginning of January at the latest. I need to wrap up Dune Prophecy and Penguin edits before diving into those. But i'm excited to share it :)
Some people think the end is so bad it retroactively ruins the whole series. While I didn't enjoy the last two seasons, I enjoyed the show overall. And I'm really enjoying HotD so far.
I enjoyed it overall too! The last episode didn't land for me in a few ways but overall i'm content with the wrap up of things and excited to keep diving into the world
I want to say thank you for not celebrating Dany's death. A lot of reactors I've watched don't seem to understand the tragedy that is Daenerys's character. And it is a tragedy.
@@LippsReacts I mean if you go from the beginning of the show- she had no agency, no power, nothing. Subjected to the abuses of her brother and sold to another for her brother's quest for power. What power she had with the Dothraki was through Drogo. She was ultimately someone who was abused and sold, and made best of her circumstances as she could and then after s1 finale, found power through her dragons. By the time s7/s8 rolls around, of course she doesn't want to share power. She went from having nothing and being abused, to having power. She struggled to learn how to lead, but because of her exile she didn't get the education she needed to learn how to properly lead. I remember the Daenerys from s3 on Walk of Punishment "Blood of my enemies, not the blood of innocents." I also don't see what she did in The Bells as insanity- or madness. She was angry and grieving, and she had a powerful weapon at her disposal and if anything, that's not a good combination. She went from being the person that wanted to save innocents to killing innocents. S3 Dany would be horrified of what she became. Also the books aren't finished, so who knows what her fate ultimately is. Emilia Clarke suffered two brain aneurysms during the filming of GOT and used the inspiration of her character she played as a way to help herself get healthy and strong again, and she was reported at not being happy at all with the direction of what was going on with Dany. Then again no one in the cast was reported to have been very happy Sorry for the long response.
Hated so much of the writing for this season and the choices made for shock factor. Dead ass Bran is a super villain who orchestrated all this BS and all the Starks made choices that made me despise them
I hate the ending. Bran on the throne, Arya just sailing west, the north gets to be independent but not any of the rest, why is there still a nightswatch...sigh
I kept following you to see your reaction to the finale. I was disappointed in your reaction heres why. You never ever mention the biggest problem with this last season and instead somehow manage to normalize it as ...it is what it is. I read all of the books twice and watched the full series. The reason why we all were so disgusted by the last season is that the screen writers COMPLETELY departed from the original arc of all of the characters which had been built over many seasons ! This completely gutted and destroyed the many years of character building to a point that they seemed not even to be the same characters. All of that work in building them was just shredded so that the directors could move on to Star Wars. They destroyed all of the character arches to make a quick ending and exit. They were rewarded for this stupidity in not handling the Star Wars project. If you cant repect one legendary storyline how can you be trusted with another. Im disappointed that you did not align with millions of fans in recognizing the exact same thing. This reminds me of when Jodie Foster was asked to return to the role of Clarice from Silence of the lambs. She responded that she was familiar with the script and had no desire to return to the screen to completely destroy the arch of the character that she had worked so hard to build in the original movie. Im calling you out for not calling this out as most of us did. Even the actors were disgusted with the annihilation of the story lines and character arches.
Or… people have different opinions 🤷🏻♀️ Personally I don’t hate the ending, although I do think it was a bit rushed. For me it’s one of the best TV series ever and that’s what I choose to focus on. But I accept other people feel differently to me. 🙂
George let everyone down by not finishing the last two books. He's had over a decade. Dan and Dave even stalled to give him more time. Instead he chose to focus on other projects.
I think Jon knew what he had to do but he needed to hear what Dany had to say first. Once he spoke to her, heard her out and saw that she really had no remorse about what she did, it was clear to him. He’s basically pleading with Dany to make some sense but Jon could see in her eyes that she was too far gone. He knew she had to die and it destroyed him to have to kill her. He totally believed she was different but Dany betrayed them all.
Here's how the real ending should've gone. Bran fucks off. Jon becomes King. Sansa gets her own piece of land. Arya goes back with gendry and redefines what a lady can and should be.
I genuinely love Bran being King because that's the most intelligent choice. He knows how everyone ever has built or rebuilt after chaos. I'm so happy Dany is dead. Extremely annoyed with Jon's story. Pleased with Sansa's. Don't care about Arya's. Elated Tyrion made it. Tickled with Davos (my husband), Sam, Brienne, and Pod. Haaaattttteeeeee Cersei and Jamie's ending. DESPISE HOW WE GOT HERE.
@LippsReacts Well, firstly, because it's now inherently broken the tradition of how a ruler is chosen in Westeros because he can't have children and there's nobody to pass the crown onto in the bloodline. But mostly because of the reason I gave that he is really the only choice on how to move forward after all that's happened. It's one thing to set Maesters to the task of reading old scrolls on accountings of how to rebuild. It's quite another for him to go watch the conversations and processes in all past civilizations. Both their triumphs and failures. So he'll best know how to allocate resources from this point of disaster.
@katbee00 love what you've said. When I first watched and he said he was leaving to go see if he could find Drogon I felt abandoned by him. But when editing I thought it was quite wise of him. If he has this ability and power it is wise to use it.
Thank you for a pleasant revisiting of one of TV's greatest achievements, warts and hiccups and all. Like you, I was content and satisfied with the ending.
One question that has never been answered... back then when Bronn took Shae to the ship, he said, she is gone. And yet she ended up with Tywin. So, what was it? Did he betray Tyrion? Did he sell her to Tywin? Or took Tywin her fom the ship? Or did she sneak off on her own? I still don't know...
I remember when this episode was released. Everything was so bad that I didn't even feel sad because it was the end. I felt relieved, they couldn't ruin anything else if there was nothing else to ruin. Nowadays I like to think that the show happened till season 6 and the real ending will happen in the book. There are many rumors about what the author will do, but most of them were made up on Twitter.
This episode might be the worst in GoT history... I did ultimately live the series overall. The pacing and writing and story is terrible to try to finish off an extraordinary show.
I think Jon's ending is incredibly unfair. He protected his family, he saved millions of lives by ridding Westeros of Daenerys. He ended up exiled, this was the reward for those who only did good.
I'm so grateful for those who have joined over the last year to enjoy this journey with me. It became my favorite show and being able to share this first time watching and having fun and tough conversations through 8 seasons has made it that much more special.
great job - enjoyed the ride with you - thankyou
Only such great commitment can bring bring those tears. Thanks for your commitment!
All the best from the Netherlands and good fortune on the reactions to come! 🖖
It's been a great ride with you. I'd like to suggest Breaking Bad if you haven't seen it.
House of The Dragon?
Cheers to u ! see u in House of the dragon
Catelyn wrote the ending :
* Bran is king
* Sensa is queen, in another kingdom
* Arya does what she wants
* Jon is sent away
OPE she is the puppet master!!
Holy, yea actually that’s mad.
Girrrrrrllll I was just like you watching the finale. I was sobbing. That scene where Brienne is finishing Jaimie’s story just is so beautiful to me.
That moment really got me!! Even after he left her she still wrote his story down with love. Giving him a positive legacy
Lipps, thank you for allowing us to tag along with you on your GoT journey. We all rode shotgun alongside you, and your passion, thoughts, and insights were well-appreciated. Hope you are enjoying the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books- problem is, soon you'll be like the rest of us, impatiently waiting (years!) for George R.R. Martin to finish The Winds of Winter. Thanks again, and have a wonderful holiday season!
Thank you for joining! We'll be doing some lore dives and theory videos on the world of Westeros and Game of Thrones so I hope y'all will join for those as well. And House of the Dragon of course!
@@LippsReactswhen it is gonna be?? I mean HoTD. Impatiently waiting for u to join and see that there is something more, not only GoT
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but one of my favorite character progression visuals and costume design decisions was the styling of Sansa's hair throughout the seasons. In the beginning it was sort of loose but mainly styled like her mother's. When she moves to Kings Landing she starts wearing it like Cersi (like a real southern lady, as her nanny mentioned), sort of back to northern styles once her travels with Littlefinger were finished and she was back in Winterfell, then like Dany with the braids, and then at the very end it was completely down and free as she was no longer being influenced by other women and had come into her own power
I am at peace with the endgame. It was sadly impossibly rushed. Jon got the happiest possible ending. His ‘punishment’ is bogus, there is no Night’s Watch left, he is going to roam free beyond the Wall and lead what is left of the Wildlings with his buddy Tormund and Ghost at his side. He never wanted the Throne.
Arya got it best. That show hopefully won’t suck and she is actually smiling , Jon is still sulking even in the North and we all know it. The only thing good this horrible ending did was get the hardcore into the rest of the lore and theories and books… the only thing.
One sentence from Daenarys did it: "they don't get to choose", that's what convinced John.
As I’ve watched back and edited these reactions it’s her last few conversations people have with Danareys that scare me. And that speech. The speech frightened me
Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
The council later was literally laughing at the idea of people choosing
@@LippsReactsThe council later was literally laughing at the idea of people choosing
@@GilleanFreirethat is not true, since most and most targaryens aren't mad
The end always makes me cry as well, because I don't want the story to end, and because the musical score is fantastic. I really wish they would have given us two more seasons. They were given the green light for it, but the writers didn't want to. 😭😭😭
SAME SAME SAME!! So sad we didn't get more
It was the wall at Eastwatch by the Sea that was breached by the Night King and army of the dead. Jon met Tormund and the others at Castle Black, which was still intact. The exile of Jon to the Night's Watch seems to have been a technical "bookkeeping" move, made with a wink and a nod, knowing that Jon would almost certainly simply join the Free Folk and live in the True North. With the defeat of the Night King and his generals, the true purpose of the Night's Watch was no longer needed.
When Jon and Tormund first said farewell, before the long ride south to King's Landing, Jon told Tormund he wishes he could go with them. So... he truly got what he wanted most.
Nice to see a reasonable reaction to the finale!
Yay! Glad you enjoyed it
We watch reactors to relive the emotions we felt the first time we saw the show. Lipps, mission accomplished. ❤
I really enjoyed watching it again with you. It also changed how I feel about the ending. I never had it in me to watch it again after season 8 because I was disappointed. But actually there was still much I liked in the last season and I cried at least as much as you when watching it the first time.
I find the quote of Maester Aemon is so beautiful. In that scene he said to Jon, "If the day should ever come, when your father was forced to choose between on honor on the one hand and those he loves on teh other, what would he do?" and Jon said "he would do whatever is right." Jon is his son, even if not in blood.
The Starks now rule almost the entire Western world. Bran holds the 6 Westerosi kingdoms, Sansa the North Kingdom, Jon the True North, and Arya sets off to conquer the True West. Only the East remains free.
Very True
Lipps: Ghost, what happened to your ear buddy?
Ghost: Tis but a scratch
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Imo Bran doesn’t say that as like “oh yea I want to be king”. I think he just had a good idea through the sight he has that he was needed to be king. That the ruler had to be someone that didn’t want it, and he has access to all the things people have said. He has heard the convos Varys and Tyrion had etc, so he knew what was probably coming and the way he now speaks is quite blunt so that’s just how it came out.
i think you're right. It doesn't happen as much as you'd expect but sometimes when I edit the reaction I have 180'd on my thoughts. And while reflecting I think I personally just don't think Brans character arc was one I got to connect with during the first watch. Is that the shows fault or my fault, idk. But that lack of knowing who he is while i've had so many moments with other characters to know their flaws and love them in spite of their flaws made Bran seem like a bad choice. But I am coming around to it more.
@@LippsReacts Bran accepted being King because it was his duty, he knew he would be the best choice. When Tommen became king, Tywin questioned him. "What makes a good king? Wisdom makes a good king." That is what the three eyed Raven/Bran has.
@@raymondgraber9629 Absolutely yes. He takes it as fulfilling a duty, being a servant to the realm, truly: he doesn't say yes because he's power hungry, which makes him an ideal choice. He also is the wisest being in the world, and also the most a-political one. While all the other players were in some way or another involved in the wars, he was out of all that. There was no grudge against him from any side, which ensures that his election won't be followed by more conflict.
In the end Bran was the best choice for the realm. For the people, to start a long period of stability, peace, prosperity. That's what the people need, not more disagreement and destruction.
@@LippsReacts yea I think one mistake they made was having that full season or so where they didn’t show you Bran at all. If they were gonna make him King and they wanted people to be happy with it then they needed to show more of Bran to make people really fall in love with his character. It also doesn’t help that the way he is in the end seems cold, it’s like Meera Reed says, Bran sort of died in that cave when he became the Three Eyed Raven. In doing so though he transcended into something even more important and impressive than a King. Missing a good chunk of time spent with him probably made a big difference on how people felt at the end of the show. Everyone was either routing for Jon or Dany, when throughout the show there was always way more than just them. The books show this as they have chapters named as the characters names. I haven’t read all the books so maybe the show runners just didn’t think they could make enough interesting content with Bran so they had to cut a season from him, and in the end a rewatch of the early seasons will remind people just how great a character Bran was and how fitting it is that he ended up king. I remember after the red wedding thinking “omg Rob is gone, who the heck is gonna be king now” and really having to think of all the characters and I thought it would be fun with my gf at the time if we made a prediction of who ends up on the throne. I predicted Bran. By the end of the show I probably wanted it to be Jon, or Tyrion. But tbh I was happy with the ending, after a day or so to reflect.
This show took up a huge chunk of a lot of our lives as it was 8 seasons, I think it’s important to realise that a lot of us wanted a happy ending and that the manner of the show was that we might not get one. Overall, I think we got one.
@@raymondgraber9629 100%. I think that convo with Tommen and Tywin was one where we were really meant to pay attention and in the end even this shows that even Tywin thinks Bran is the perfect choice. I also think that George chose this as the ending because this is truly breaking the wheel. Jon was worthy of it because he had people that would follow him even though they thought he was a bastard, but in the end he would have gotten it through the Targaryen name alone. Naming Bran as king truly broke the wheel as Tyrion says.
Your cat's face when you said "look at this" (@19:06) is my reaction to this entire season.
hahahha I can't believe I pulled him up at that moment. I was so embarrassed I thought Jon was going to ride of into the sunset with Danareys. But it always gives me a little giggle
No they didn't rebuild the wall that fast. Jon crossed under the wall at Castle Black. It was East Watch castle's section of wall that took the damage, it was only the part of wall that connected to the ocean that fell and pulled down enough to make a passage for the undead army. The rest of the wall remained untouched.
The jackass and honeycomb comment was a throwback to season 1 when Lady Catelyn took Tyrion to the Eyrie, her sister, and he was confessing his 'sins'. That little bit of Banter at the end could have promised another round of an interesting makeup of the new order.
I enjoyed watching this with you. For me S8 and this episode in particular doesn’t take away the fact that this is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched. As the years have gone by I’ve come to appreciate S8 and the finale for what it is, flaws and all. Looking forward to watching something else with you!
I'm with you there. It's still fresh but i have more respect for it today than I did even the moment I wrapped the recording. As i was finishing this edit and watching myself cry I was taken aback because I wasn't even crying over sad things but just crying because this journey was over. I cam to love characters I never expected to love. And for a piece of media to evoke connection and emotion like that is exactly what I want in a show. And sharing it with everyone has been so cool
Thank you for such a wonderful experience. Your reactions and analysis have been absolutely amazing.
Don't ever apologize for the tears..I still cry at certain scenes all these years later. To me that shows commitment to the Series and to your channel. This Series truly becomes a part of your life.
Keep safe much ❤ and can't wait until you start your journey back to Westeros for HOTD 🐉
And now her watch is ended.
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It's been a journey. So glad to have taken this journey with you.
Thank you for joining the journey, Chloe. 💗
The three plot points George gave Dan and Dave were Hodor, the burning of Shireen, and Bran on the throne. Obviously they could happen differently but this was George's end game.
Personally I think it works if Bran is a slightly sinister tool of the old gods. But the show doesn't really explore that...
interesting. The way it went down felt so off to me. I hope to see the way it was intended in the future, perhaps it's just another casualty of the rush that this season seemed to have
@@LippsReacts Yeah I'm trusting that if GRRM intends for Bran to be on the throne in the books, he'll write it in a way that makes much more sense than this. This was insane
Is the burning of Shireen not in the books? They should cover through to the end of season 5 already, no?
@@beefjezos2713 Not yet, at least. The last we see of Shireen in the books, she is at Castle Black with Selyse.
@@beefjezos2713I read that it is not in the books.
The main reason I'm okay with the ending, conceptually anyway, is because Bran's whole thing makes sense to me. Although we never see anything like it play out again, that scene where he makes history happen by "creating" Hodor in the past all but "confirms" that anything people perceive as divine or godly is, and always has been, Bran arranging people and events to both a) destroy the White Walkers and b) become King.
If you watch all his scenes back to back, it becomes very clear that Bran withholds information with the intent of manipulating others. For one, he never tells anybody that he can see visions of the future, and we know he's been seeing a dragon fly over King's Landing since season 4. Even the origin of various religions - the Lord of Light, the Seven, the Drowned God - all of which combine into the "Many-Faced God" of Death, operate involving prophetic "visions" and life after/against death. And although we never understand how the Faceless Men operate, or why they let Arya go, maybe things were arranged in such a way where Bran had Arya fulfilling a contract under the guise of the Many-Faced God himself.
In the visions she was shown at the House of the Undying, Dany saw the throne room in ruins, with what appeared to be snow falling... it turned out to be ashes. Only this time, unlike in the vision, her hand continued and grasped the knob on the arm of the throne. Never did sit the throne though...
And in Bran's weirwood visions, he saw the shadow of a large dragon flying over King's Landing, just as he saw the wildfire explosion in the tunnels below the sept.
Sweet Lipps, you are the only reactor that I’ve sat with from 1/1 to the end.
Thank you for the laughter, the heartache, tears, anticipation. You truly did a fantastic job keeping me entertained.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for joining the adventure! It became my favorite show and my absolute favorite world that I've ever experienced. And it's all the richer because I got to share it with such awesome people
My theory is that everyone at the council of surviving characters thought they were the only person who didn’t know what a three eyed Raven was and they were all too afraid to ask.
Respectfully, that makes no sense. Sansa,Arya,Sam and Tyrion all know about Bran's journey and him becoming the the eyed raven.
Naming someone king because you're too afraid to ask for clarification is tight!
@drsavage3262- Sansa outright said she didn't know what it means to be the three-eyed raven, and as I recall Bran didn't elaborate. I see no reason to assume Bran fully explained himself to anyone.
@williamshelton4318 I'm sure you can all surmise had on how the last, meeting of lords and ladies, went. They all know the truths that commoners don't. Cmon now. Be reasonable.
@@williamshelton4318 Becoming King was super easy! Barely an inconvenience.
Ahh, the end of an era! Thanks for the beautiful journey, Lipps - you are a fab reactor, and when you laugh or cry you make me laugh and cry with you 😍
Regarding Bran - we have to remember that the dragon pit scene is a few weeks after the events at King's Landing (Tyrion said he'd been imprisoned for that long), so I'm not convinced we can hold Bran responsible for "knowing what was going to happen and letting it happen anyway, so he could be king" (not quoting you, it's what I've read other people saying). His visions of the future were never set in stone (because they can't be, the future hasn't yet happened), nor as clear and detailed as those of the past/present. We only saw one brief vision of a dragon flying over King's Landing, which could have signified nothing more than that. I agree it was a bit of a cheesy line, but I'm just not convinced it gives Bran any sort of 'dark intention' or ulterior motive vibes? 🤔
And as for him being king ... if not him, then who? Drogon had the best idea, the throne itself was a symbol of too much desire for power and needed to be destroyed; the ultimate symbol of the wheel Danaerys said she wanted to break (yet she still craved it). As Varys had previously said, someone who didn't want to rule might be the best person to rule! Someone with the knowledge of all the mistakes and bad decisions previous rulers had made, who has no desire for power, who has seen both the good and the bad in people, and has no personal agenda ... I can't think of anyone better, to be honest! 😁👍
Good timing, even the cat was shocked lol
I was SHOCKED
I love how Drogon magically got comprehension of what abstract objects with history were after all the book reading he did to burn the throne ya know 😂
this made me giggle ngl
Notice Dany never actually sat on the Iron Throne.. she put a hand on it before Jon walked in then they started talking.. she never even got to be Queen like, for real.
She won, but still lost
Funny thing is: Grey Worm and the Unsullied will not survive Naath, because it's the home of poisonous butterflies that end people who aren't native to the island through a high fever. A just poetic ending for savages like them. They will never see Essos again...
You never know.. maybe the butterflies will avoid touching them or they build an immunity whether natural or magical because Naath needs them to protect the people from slavers now that Dany is dead and the east is likely to slip back into old habits. The show doesn't seem to include the toxicity of the butterflies anyways so...
During the table reading of this episode Kit had no idea how the series would end. When he learns the fate of Dany at Jon's hand, he became emotional. Maisie at first had her hand over her forehead. When she saw Jon's pain, she moved her hand over her mouth.
Pod taking a vow of chastity is the real tragedy. 😢
When this season was airing we kept hearing about leaks, and some of them turned out to be true but a lot were fake. So the day before this episode aired, I saw a leak that said Bran would be crowned king and I laughed so hard, thinking I saw an epic fake leak. When Tyrion said "Stories", I realized where this was going and literally stood up and left the room. I'm not sure what I find more infuriating, every single leader of every single major house agreeing to a Stark child with no experience ruling being king (with no arguments!) or Yara Greyjoy and the new Prince of Dorne not yelling "Yeah, me too!" after Sansa just states that the North will be independent. I'm sure if this happens in the book, it'll have a lead-up that makes sense, but the showrunners just wanted to wrap things up quickly here so they decided to just have everyone agree with everything
So BASICALLY Bran Knew that Daenerys would commite a genocide and he said nothing
There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff and those who see evil stuff being done and don't try to stop it" - Janis Ian.
Considering that this world seems to operate with visions in a closed loop, he couldn't have done anything to stop it, as we see when Hodor dies and breaks young Wyllis' mind. That happened before Bran was even born, and it was always going to happen. The ink is dry.
Lips got me emotional again!🥺
Thanks for joining me in the emotions! 🥺
Would like to thank Lipps for one of the more in depth reactions to this series. Your emotion and eager to learn about everything was a great experience to watch. Glad you're now one of us 👍
yay!! Thank you for welcoming me into the fold
@@LippsReacts as an unseen Northman extra in the show, you're extremely welcome.
May I say Lipps, for the finale of Game of Thrones you look absolutely stunning! 🤭
I mean you always do, but especially for this episode 😍
The Children of the Forest won the Game of Thrones by putting Bran on the throne.
ope they are the true winners
Thank you for fixing the show audio my Queen.
haha of course, I got a nasty head cold on Friday so I'm blaming that on the cold medicine 😂
Fun journey to take with you ❤... looking forward to whatever is next.
Lot's of fun stuff! Penguin, Band of Brothers, House of Dragon and then Peaky Blinders!!
Girl I found your channel like 2 weeks ago and caught up on your GOT reactions just in time for the finale 😅 love love love your perspectives on the story!!!
What great timing!! Thanks for joining :)
Thank you for your reactions. You did well. I quite liked the way they tied up everyone's stories. I don't know if it will happen but word is they are working on a sequel with Arya's journeys to the west. GRRM was a producer on the show and I"m pretty sure he told them the general idea of how it would end. I suspect he never bothered to finish the books because so many people on social media crapped on the show's ending that he didn't want to work hard and still receive the same crap about his books.
Thanks a lot for being like a home to come back to every few days ;) I really enjoyed watching Game of Thrones again with you, and the Bran being King issue still bugs me years after first watching it ^^
great reactions. what a roller coaster.👏🙌
i enjoyed the series start to finish, but i don't think the story is over. the end of the Iron Throne yes, but the rest is still an unfinished book. or two🤭
where did Drogon take Dani's body? to a Red Priestess perhaps?
remember there have been multiple Three Eyed Raven and multiple Night Kings in the past... You can't kill Death, according to the Hound...
what will Jon find beyond the wall?
what will Arya find west of Westeros?
who better to unite a continent for the wars to come than an all seeing all know dispassionate eye or three🤔
Peter Dinklage, what an actor
Right?
Amazing journey! Honestly the best reactor to GOT I've watched - and the only one I've watched all episodes from. Great editing, great emotions, and great reactions!
Thank you for sharing this journey with us, I look forward to joining you on many more.
And of course I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.
It took me all day to decide to watch this. I knew your emotions would be similar to mine at the end. Thank you for taking us on this journey with you! I'm looking forward to House of the Dragon!
Thank you for joining and for feeling the emotions alongside me
I avoided the pain, but here we are lol. Here YOU are tho! Woo! At the end! Yay 😂 now the only coa is to just keep diving into this world and more and make the pain go away. But fr, thanks for being here in the suck with us all now ❤
thanks for joining me all the way to the end! What a journey it's been and can't continue to diving in
I don't necessarily dislike how it ended, but the writing and direction felt messy and rushed. I think if they had done a whole final season, or maybe even one more season, to really help bring us where it was going to go, to develop the character's final arcs and motivations better, i think that would have been better.
Agreed
Oh Miss Lipps, what a journey it's been to watch you go through this rollercoaster of a series. Excited to see you go through the lore and even House of the Dragon if that's on your agenda. Have a great weekend Queen!
yay!! Will definitely be diving into lore, i've been working on some lore videos i'll be releasing and then House of the Dragon reactions will start going live beginning of January if not end of this month
Thanks for sharing your GoT journey with us, It's been so great rewatching this along with you. I have also really enjoyed your thoughts and analysis after each episode. Will definitely be looking forward to your HotD and other future content.
In TV and the movies, there are really only a few examples of dragons done right.... Game of Thrones and Dragonslayer (1981). I am sure that others have already told you that some of the actors involved in the final episode, were reduced to tears at table reads and Kit had to go into therapy for what Jon Snow... Aegon Targaryen did to Daenerys at the end of her "reign"! It was truly an emotional high spot, in that your level of emotion, whether it was anger, happiness, sadness, or shock, was pretty high! That is exactly why it is not "stupid" to cry. As for the story, I think it would have been better for everyone if Daenerys had Drogon burn Cersei, Qyburn, and the Mountain at the gate right when they killed Missandei. It would have given a better vindication of when she says Dracarys as her last word. Not as many people would have died, and the Red Keep and the Iron Throne would still be around. Also, I agree with you that perhaps Bran should not have been selected as King. I also think that Jon would have been beheaded or hung by the Unsullied. Whoever is king, I think Bran should have gone to the same tree as the previous 3-eyed Raven. There are no weirwood trees where he is at and it would be fitting for him to be connected to the roots of the world. (Recall that he had to do that to have visions when he was still with Meera.) Who should have been king/queen then, if not Bran? Easy... Gendry. He was a Baratheon, he was a peasant (can relate to the needs of the common folk) and now he is a knight! Can you think of a better choice? Oh! and Sansa should still rule in the North!
Thanks for the 8 seasons of reacting! Was enjoyable to watch your analysis and reactions to lots of different moments and how the story unfolded.
Looking forward to House of the Dragon next :)
Thanks for watching along! House of the Dragon should start going up beginning of January if not before. Have a few one offs to get live first
@@LippsReacts I shall wait patiently! Your reactions are worth to wait :)
the "punishment" of the "poor" deserter of the nigtht´s watch, the trairor of the wildlings, the enemie´s lover, the worst commander the battlefields have ever seen, the submissive king, the queen´s slayer Jon Snow was his biggest dream: the night´s watch.
And as he arrived he does what he can do best: he deserts AGAIN.
At least snake Sansa got her throne she always wanted because her brother on the iron throne repressed the north too much!
Poor people of Winterfell.
2 books not 1. 2 entire books have yet to come… so we’ll see what happens ❤
Love how they gave him an awful moniker with out even asking him if he is cool with it 😂
I really hated how Arya said she knows a killer when she sees one just after dany burned down the whole city..
The quality of dialgue really went down the drain in the last few episodes for sure. And the North gets to be a free and independent Nation and no one blinks an eye.
@@jrafel1707 It's not enough to have a Stark ruling the seven kingdoms, no, they still need an independent north for ... euhm ... reasons??
Jon is free. The nights watch does not exist anymore. They are all dead, and the reason for their existance is gone.
exactly, that went over so many reactors heads :)
When I first watched the Finale I was pretty happy where all the characters left off I’m a big fan of the Starks in general so I was happy that the Starks pretty much end up winning out even Jon who doesn’t get to go back to being in the North with his family gets to go be a with the wildlings which I think is good enough for him I don’t see him ever going back to being apart of the nightswatch I think he just stays north of the wall
i feel similarly. I think in the moment a few things felt off but perhaps it was more that it felt rushed. Or with Bran specifically he's such an important character yet in the show I feel like I do not know him at all so that could have played into that feeling of meh with his ending. But I was emotional watching everyone get their ending.
Sadge its over, loved your reactions. It was one hell of a journey! Looking forward to more!
I was sacred to embark on it as I knew it was a big commitment of time. But now that it’s over I wish it was longer
Thank you for all you do. You've given yourself to us and you are a joy. You brighten the lives of many of us that have little joy in our world. I don't think I'll join you with THOTD as I'm not that interested in that show, but will continue with the film reactions. Please know that I appreciate the time and effort and insight and emotion you put into every reaction you post and that your work and, well you being you, makes people like me feel better about the world. Best wishes to you and yours. xoxo
Something I always like to note In reactions to s8E6.. Tyrion once said
“Dragons are smarter than men according to some Maester”
Drogon knew Jon killed Dany, but Drogon saw his mother go from the loving young woman she was to the tyrannical woman she grew to be all because of that damn throne. Another part of me feels like in Drogon’s mind “If my mom can’t have the Throne, no one can.”
I’ve always felt like Drogon knew that it was Danny’s desire for the throne that killed her so he finished it
👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻🔥 Enjoyed the series with you
It's been a great journey. 💙
i'm so glad you all shared in this journey with me
Well that’s it my child of winter . Season 1-6 were great season 7 was good but season 8 was a bit of a let down but in dany’s vision it showed the throne covered in snow so it did show us the out come but it is what it is still the greatest tv series of all time
28:15 i would of said no who is she to tell him to sit his higher rank then she is at that point i would of said what i wanted
I am so looking forward to see your House of the Dragon reactions! I enjoyed every episode, thank you!
Yay!! I'm excited to share! They'll start going up end of month or beginning of January. I want to finish Dune Prophecy and Penguin before House of the Dragon goes live
First season was good, second season started well and well off badly
Yours was a great series of reactions to this show. I would love to watch you react to other shows I like and will keep watching if and when you do, and if you have other content, I'd be interested in that, too.
There was a Jon spin off in development but it has been postponed indefinitely.
Ended the way it should have.
Well, no!
Thanks for doing these reactions! I have looked forward to every episode! You have done a great! I look forward to House of the Dragon!
Thank you for joining!! House of the Dragon reactions are set to start releasing beginning of January if not before.
Such a disgusting thing D&D did with season 8, through no fault of the actors, directors or composers. Still wish they didn't abandon Jon's established arc, and that the Bran is Night King theory came to fruition.
Well you made it and you did a great job. On to House of the Dragon.
wooo! HotD edited reactions should start going live end of this month or beginning of January at the latest. I need to wrap up Dune Prophecy and Penguin edits before diving into those. But i'm excited to share it :)
And so it has concluded
Mojito was the star this episode.
He really was 🤣
Some people think the end is so bad it retroactively ruins the whole series. While I didn't enjoy the last two seasons, I enjoyed the show overall. And I'm really enjoying HotD so far.
I enjoyed it overall too! The last episode didn't land for me in a few ways but overall i'm content with the wrap up of things and excited to keep diving into the world
I want to say thank you for not celebrating Dany's death. A lot of reactors I've watched don't seem to understand the tragedy that is Daenerys's character. And it is a tragedy.
Why a tragedy?
@@LippsReacts I mean if you go from the beginning of the show- she had no agency, no power, nothing. Subjected to the abuses of her brother and sold to another for her brother's quest for power. What power she had with the Dothraki was through Drogo.
She was ultimately someone who was abused and sold, and made best of her circumstances as she could and then after s1 finale, found power through her dragons. By the time s7/s8 rolls around, of course she doesn't want to share power. She went from having nothing and being abused, to having power. She struggled to learn how to lead, but because of her exile she didn't get the education she needed to learn how to properly lead.
I remember the Daenerys from s3 on Walk of Punishment "Blood of my enemies, not the blood of innocents."
I also don't see what she did in The Bells as insanity- or madness. She was angry and grieving, and she had a powerful weapon at her disposal and if anything, that's not a good combination. She went from being the person that wanted to save innocents to killing innocents. S3 Dany would be horrified of what she became.
Also the books aren't finished, so who knows what her fate ultimately is. Emilia Clarke suffered two brain aneurysms during the filming of GOT and used the inspiration of her character she played as a way to help herself get healthy and strong again, and she was reported at not being happy at all with the direction of what was going on with Dany. Then again no one in the cast was reported to have been very happy
Sorry for the long response.
Here we are! This episode is the only one that I hated!! LOL! Great reactions!!
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Hated so much of the writing for this season and the choices made for shock factor. Dead ass Bran is a super villain who orchestrated all this BS and all the Starks made choices that made me despise them
I hate the ending. Bran on the throne, Arya just sailing west, the north gets to be independent but not any of the rest, why is there still a nightswatch...sigh
There isn't a night's watch... That's why the wildlings are waiting for him and left north. Bran knew that. Grey Worm didn't.
I kept following you to see your reaction to the finale. I was disappointed in your reaction heres why. You never ever mention the biggest problem with this last season and instead somehow manage to normalize it as ...it is what it is. I read all of the books twice and watched the full series. The reason why we all were so disgusted by the last season is that the screen writers COMPLETELY departed from the original arc of all of the characters which had been built over many seasons ! This completely gutted and destroyed the many years of character building to a point that they seemed not even to be the same characters. All of that work in building them was just shredded so that the directors could move on to Star Wars. They destroyed all of the character arches to make a quick ending and exit. They were rewarded for this stupidity in not handling the Star Wars project. If you cant repect one legendary storyline how can you be trusted with another. Im disappointed that you did not align with millions of fans in recognizing the exact same thing. This reminds me of when Jodie Foster was asked to return to the role of Clarice from Silence of the lambs. She responded that she was familiar with the script and had no desire to return to the screen to completely destroy the arch of the character that she had worked so hard to build in the original movie. Im calling you out for not calling this out as most of us did. Even the actors were disgusted with the annihilation of the story lines and character arches.
Or… people have different opinions 🤷🏻♀️ Personally I don’t hate the ending, although I do think it was a bit rushed. For me it’s one of the best TV series ever and that’s what I choose to focus on. But I accept other people feel differently to me. 🙂
George let everyone down by not finishing the last two books. He's had over a decade. Dan and Dave even stalled to give him more time. Instead he chose to focus on other projects.
hi kitty :3
I think Jon knew what he had to do but he needed to hear what Dany had to say first. Once he spoke to her, heard her out and saw that she really had no remorse about what she did, it was clear to him. He’s basically pleading with Dany to make some sense but Jon could see in her eyes that she was too far gone. He knew she had to die and it destroyed him to have to kill her. He totally believed she was different but Dany betrayed them all.
Here's how the real ending should've gone. Bran fucks off. Jon becomes King. Sansa gets her own piece of land. Arya goes back with gendry and redefines what a lady can and should be.
I genuinely love Bran being King because that's the most intelligent choice. He knows how everyone ever has built or rebuilt after chaos. I'm so happy Dany is dead. Extremely annoyed with Jon's story. Pleased with Sansa's. Don't care about Arya's. Elated Tyrion made it. Tickled with Davos (my husband), Sam, Brienne, and Pod. Haaaattttteeeeee Cersei and Jamie's ending. DESPISE HOW WE GOT HERE.
Ok I feeeel you actually. I’m curious, why fo you like bran being king? I think I just feel disconnected from his story. But he is our memory…
@LippsReacts Well, firstly, because it's now inherently broken the tradition of how a ruler is chosen in Westeros because he can't have children and there's nobody to pass the crown onto in the bloodline. But mostly because of the reason I gave that he is really the only choice on how to move forward after all that's happened. It's one thing to set Maesters to the task of reading old scrolls on accountings of how to rebuild. It's quite another for him to go watch the conversations and processes in all past civilizations. Both their triumphs and failures. So he'll best know how to allocate resources from this point of disaster.
@katbee00 love what you've said. When I first watched and he said he was leaving to go see if he could find Drogon I felt abandoned by him. But when editing I thought it was quite wise of him. If he has this ability and power it is wise to use it.
Thank you for a pleasant revisiting of one of TV's greatest achievements, warts and hiccups and all. Like you, I was content and satisfied with the ending.
Thank you for joining in the journey 💗
One question that has never been answered... back then when Bronn took Shae to the ship, he said, she is gone. And yet she ended up with Tywin.
So, what was it? Did he betray Tyrion? Did he sell her to Tywin? Or took Tywin her fom the ship? Or did she sneak off on her own?
I still don't know...
I wish I knew the answer to this. It haunts me actually
I remember when this episode was released. Everything was so bad that I didn't even feel sad because it was the end. I felt relieved, they couldn't ruin anything else if there was nothing else to ruin.
Nowadays I like to think that the show happened till season 6 and the real ending will happen in the book. There are many rumors about what the author will do, but most of them were made up on Twitter.
I can't wait for you to start House of the Dragon. The first season is amazing
I’m excited to share!
No spoilers but if you think the dragons in GoT are amazingly done, wait until House of the Dragon!
This episode might be the worst in GoT history... I did ultimately live the series overall. The pacing and writing and story is terrible to try to finish off an extraordinary show.
U are so beautiful!
Now you can start House Of The Dragon.
I think Jon's ending is incredibly unfair. He protected his family, he saved millions of lives by ridding Westeros of Daenerys. He ended up exiled, this was the reward for those who only did good.
Yeah, he essentially did what Jamie Lannister did so why did he have to be exiled? To avoid war, sure but still
Game of fools...