Hey guys, Pete here. alright this is gonna be my Game of Thrones Season seven
episode 7 - the season finale, recap basically just gonna do a breakdown here
I got to tell you up front though that I enjoyed this. I think they actually
landed the plane there was definitely some worries that I had and a lot of
people had been whining throughout the season about details and different
things and if you're in that boat then, well,
this video is probably not gonna be for you. because I'm gonna talk about what was
good about this and I'm gonna be a fan because tonight when I watched this, I was
exactly that. also a spoiler warning here obviously if you haven't watched it
you're not going to want to watch this video because it will spoil it.
so this is the longest episode of Game of Thrones ever. it didn't necessarily feel
like that but the one thing that I said just a moment ago was I think they
landed the plane and the way this all kind of worked in my head at the end was
that I was engaged throughout, there were some pleasant surprises even though this
thing had been spoiled a million times over by the leak, and we got to the place
where we knew we were headed and we've always known we've been headed.
this really opens up something new so as a fan I'm excited because we don't know
what's gonna happen now. we just really don't, I mean the White Walkers have
breached the wall, they're moving south. it's freaking exciting and we did lose
stuff this season don't get me wrong, we lost some of the character development,
we lost to travel, we lost a lot of things and things move too fast I
complained about that plenty but here we are and this is an example of the show
doing what the show does well. so let's get through it and let's see where we're
at at the end so the big thing that I had been waited for was this massive
meeting of all the characters in the show basically at the dragon pit for
those of us that watch the filming spoilers pretty closely in the off
season we knew this was going to go down and it was unprecedented and then people
who were there and it was just done well I mean I think that their idea of using
this structure a thing we've never seen on the TV show before was a good choice
because it put everybody even though we were
in King's Landing and there was definitely a home-field advantage it
didn't feel like that and one of those things that the show does well is that
it always makes you feel like anyone could die at any time and I was just
kind of convinced that someone was gonna randomly get killed during the scene
because it was just setup well that way at the same time however though they
were you know kind of felt like they might work this out I mean most of us
didn't trust anything that Cersei might say but it was a pretty convincing
display whenever they actually presented the wight I mean the thing charged at
her The Hound cuts it in half it doesn't die even a little bit it was awesome
Qyburn like was my favorite part of this cuz he was just sort of like whoa look
at that that thing is still that fingers are still moving and everyone that was
there understood that the threat from the north is real there's this a lot of
cool moments here even the lead-up to ever some awesome reunions you know
meeting in Tyrion with pod and Brienne with the Hound and then Tyrion with
Bronn I mean this is this is good stuff this is the stuff that we've been
waiting for right and you're on calling out Theon and that everyone was kind of
like leaving their mark on this historic event in one way or another
Euron gets up and leaves after the display Cersei agrees to this but then
she adds on top those who only do it if Jon agrees to stay out from now on like
he won't fight against her and that sort of he gets the bomb of truth from Jon
that he's already bent the knee to Daenerys which didn't go over very well
with anyone because no one was expecting it all of that said at the end we find
out it's all fake anyways because the Euron leaving was set up and Cersei
never even after the whole thing of meeting with Tyrion and everything else
she never at any moment was gonna go along with it like if you think about
that scene closely whenever she was giving up the towel of being pregnant
she didn't drink the wine then she touches her stomach it seemed odd but
it's not odd because she was doing that like she played Tyrion in that scene so
all of what we saw the whole thing Daenerys has grand entrance all that was
for because Cersei was never gonna get on
board her plan is instead to let everybody else go and slaughter whatever
White Walkers they can and whatever's left of either side the crown will take
them on because that'll be easier now Jaime who is at this point the only
person she has left can't even go along with her plan like he can't even believe
it and there is a real moment here between these two because they both
understand what a terrible idea is to do what she's going to do but where he says
he can't do it on the other side she can't not do it so that's really pretty
fucking fantastic as far as I'm concerned like it was really it was hard
to watch him leave I believe that she thought about killing him although she
didn't it was like you know it was it was definitely set up well so in the end
he goes off in the north and we see the snow start to come down and it's a
really great scene where we see all of the you know different shots of King's
Landing with snow falling and then we go up to the north and I want to point out
that whenever her and Tyrion had that conversation
I mean Lena Headey pretty much owned the whole first half of this episode I mean
she plays the despicable character that you can't help but be compelled by so
well not to take away anything from Tyrion or Jaime I mean those their
acting was fantastic too but this was really like a tour de force for the
whole Cersei character I think because like I said she's completely despicable
and what she does but you kind of can't help but be compelled by the character
and it's not just like on an evil like I hate this character it's sort of like
well I kind of see how she got to that place not that it's excusable or
anything else but it's just I don't know what other word to use besides
compelling like I just like to watch her act
also the Brienne thing was fantastic whenever she pulls Jaime up this is the
person who has the biggest connection to loyalty and keeping OHS and things like
that and she's the one that has to throw it back on Jaime like this is crazy we
can't do this so you had these two characters twins lovers the whole nine
yards and Jamie finally has to break from her
head north there we see that Santa's still talking to Littlefinger and it
really starts to put some fear into me personally but then we see how it all
plays out and I don't know I mean I don't think that i think that this ended
well I don't think that it makes up for some
of the awkwardness and the other Stark's sister parts before this but it ended
well we find out that they were working together we see that it's not aria
that's in trouble whenever they call it it's actually Littlefinger who they're
trying for treason and murder and I have to say I got a new I mean obviously
little fingers always been an awesome character but I got a new respect for
Sansa as a character because we see how he/she did pick up all the stuff from
him and while he's doing his thing she just rebuts each one perfectly and it
was a trip to see when they first brought Aria in and we see the
full-grown Sansa and the full grown brand sitting at the table and their
family's Great Hall it was pretty good and aria was a little bit ruthless and
that's why she should be but I think that that all got kind of better
whenever they had that personal moment later like that was the one thing I was
sort of like okay well of course he has to die of course this should go down
this way but I hope they don't keep Aria in this strange world of like being only
an assassin because she's a character that has a lot of depth you know she's
had a lot of things and can bring a lot to the story and so whenever I saw the
two sisters together later that really worked things out I would say but yeah I
mean sauce it did a great job here and the one of the things I read earlier it
kind of cracked me up was that as he was dying Littlefinger it looked like a
robot that was breaking down or something along those lines you know he
was just sort of bouncing around he's never been in this place and he's just
bouncing around from one thing to the other to try to get his way to get
himself out of trouble and sonses there and she doesn't bend she has her family
there backing her up and it was pretty good let's let's be honest that was
pretty good I think it came off well and the story
will miss Littlefinger but you could see that we're moving into
a different phase and and the skills he had and what he brought to this story is
pretty much unimportant at this point you know what I mean like he was good at
playing the game of Thrones and we heard some sub-points us out as the whole
things going down that really doesn't matter anymore the White Walkers are
coming and they're gonna kill everyone regardless of anything else doesn't
matter and so his character really isn't
essential to anything else moving forward because politics are kind of out
the window at this point so we do also get a real big dose of the wolf and the
dragon or the dragon and the wolf I should say Ice and Fire come together
not just dant Dany and John as samurai they have this great back-and-forth with
bran which also kind of saved brands I think I mean I don't know what you guys
think but I thought that bran was way more human here his deadpan was funny
instead of just creepy you know when he said I remember
everything about Sam and whenever Sam said you know did you see that in the
flames like he was all giddy because he thought he could see this that John was
coming and he just sort of shows him the the scroll that they received you know
what I mean like I don't know if it was just this director did a better job than
the other directors did or what but this worked we got to make our Lyanna
flashback which wasn't a big surprise to anyone at this point we had already
heard that they were married it was cool to see it was a little bit awkward that
they showed it as Daenerys and John were having sex for the first time it was the
weird juxtaposition of like you know something that we all like people who
have been reading the books and watching the shows and really been into this
whole lore of everything about the Song of Ice and Fire you know what I mean
this was sort of like a it was sort of odd how they put these two things
together but after the fact I was thinking you know it is the Song of Ice
and Fire we see those two coming together to the the union that brought
John into the world and then we see John as a grown man and he's with his aunt I
know it's weird but I don't know I it'll be interesting to see how they go beyond
that I would have liked to seen a little bit more of Rhaegar and Lyanna it was
pretty short but it was what it was it was Brandon basically explained it to
people who might not know the story Samwell was there to fill in the blanks
about the annulment and now we know that John is legitimately the best claim out
of the Targaryen line and that together they are the last Targaryen not that
Daenerys is the only Targaryen left so yeah I mean I think it's messed up as it
all fell it's about prophecy it's about this idea it's a you know even at the
underlying one of the most poignant moments of the whole flashback is when
brand says Robert's rebellion was about a lie and that's true but beyond that
everything Rhaegar did that led to that was based off a prophecy and I think
that that is almost as important as anything else that we saw here and yeah
it's hard to imagine not thinking about the fact that they're doing what they're
doing but you know what I mean I think it does actually work and if nothing
else that'll have people talking that's for sure and then the big exclamation
point on the end of the sentence is obviously seeing tormund and Barrack on
top of the wall and watching the White Walkers come I had concerns about this I
was worried that if they just used the dragon it might not make sense but it
kind of does now I mean I think it worked
part of it is out of convenience I would say in that I think that in georgia's
you know George RR Martin's version will get your on playing a big
part and maybe some other characters playing a big part in this whereas all
of it just sort of got condensed down to where the knight King does it himself so
I think it's I'm ok with it I'll talk about a little bit more but it was
really fantastic to watch I mean you can't you can't be a fan of Game of
Thrones and say that that was not an impressive amount of I mean we never saw
anything like that on TV before ever before the show came into existence so
if you're like well it was okay then you're probably just spoiled and you
forget what TV was like before this happened to be honest and you're just
looking for to be salty because that's just what you
do I don't know because it was amazing and yeah I mean the the season went all
over the place it wasn't clear if it was gonna wrap up correctly or in a
satisfying way but it definitely did I have no doubt people will complain about
things because that's what people do but this story has always been about that
wall coming down and the Ted cut mean it's the winners coming is the house
dark words and what we saw in this episode was that without a doubt winner
is here it's hard to say how things are gonna move forward but all the pieces
are in place I think what really is interesting is what I was talking about
before like about when I'm talking about little fingers death I mean all this
stuff that has been important the political moves the strategy on the
different players in the game it's all done now now it really is a fight for
survival and not just a survival of one house or the other but of mankind and
that's what this has always been set up to be and we did lose things in this
season we lost a lot based on the fact of the magical spectacle that is
necessary to show that and you know you're not gonna have anything be
perfect but I think this actually worked and I think that it's cool and the thing
that I thought about what the dragon was is that you know the leaks kind of
killed all of that instead of thinking about it and being surprised in the
moment while watching people sort of form that idea I know I did like I
thought that that was just bullshit and it wasn't gonna happen and saying I just
refused to believe that the leaks were real for a very long time but when you
see it in the context of how it was used like that isn't a dragon anymore that's
not Daenerys his dragon that died that the knight King now has control over
that is an extension of the knight Kings power whenever he raised Vissarion back
up that became a part of this wave of Terror that's coming into Westeros and
in that context that works for me and I'll be interested to see what you guys
think some of my favorite parts were those reunions it was just fantastic
like I said they acting top-notch the dialogue was good I you
know I mean I just don't have anything I dislike about this episode so make sure
you let me know what you think and if you're like I said if you're just like
gonna say stuff about details and other things I mean this story has changed
into something else but what I'm so excited about as a fan of the show is
seeing how this develops towards the end and if you want to find things to be
wrong you'll always be able to find them but we're at a pretty good pretty good
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