Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, I hope you all enjoyed the season 4 premiere.
We’ve all been waiting so long, Peter Dinklage probably could have just read the phone book
for 54 minutes and we’d have been happy.
So here’s what I’m going to do.
This video will be a review of the episode with top 5 moments and my first round of the
weekly giveaway.
All you have to do to participate is be a subscriber and leave a comment.
I also explain a little more in detail in my season 3 video I posted earlier today,
so I’ll add a link to that at the end.
Also, please don’t post any pirate links in the comments.
I’d like to be able to work with HBO in the future.
They do not take kindly to pirates.
So let’s get started.
Here are my top 5 moments from the episode.
Careful for spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet.
Number 5 - The Melting Down of Ice
Notice I didn’t say the forging of Oathkeeper and Widow’s Wail.
This was all about calling back to Ned Stark and all the Starks who have fallen.
The shot started on the sheath, which was made of a wolf’s pelt.
It was actually a pretty heartbreaking way to start a new season.
The music was even really sad with Tywin and his haunting gaze.
I was actually kind of proud of Jaime for defying him in the scene that followed.
And that he tried to give oathkeeper back.
The show does this amazing job at using visual cues to call back to earlier moments.
George RR Martin writes a lot of them in the story himself.
But it’s up to the show to interpret those visually and the whole forge scene was amazing.
If you want to read this chapter in book 3 it’s 32.
If you want to know more about the blades, like Tywin said, only three people know how
to work Valyrian steel and Tobho Mott, their smith, is the best.
Ice was Ned Stark’s blade and when it was reforged into the two smaller ones Tobho added
a reddish black hue to it for lannister colors.
Number 4 - Oberyn Martell’s Whore House introduction
It wouldn’t be Game Of Thrones if there weren’t a scene in a whore house.
Take off your clothes, we’ll be here awhile.
I just loved the way Tyrion shook his head when Oberyn invited him to his little sex
party.
Remember the way he described him.
He’s fucked half of Westeros.
The culture in Dorne is a little different too.
Women have more social standing and being bisexual like Oberyn isn’t as big a deal
as it is in King’s Landing.
As funny as the Tyrion introduction was, their conversation about his secret mission to kill
the mountain is really what’s going to drive his character forward this season.
Notice he dropped some epic knowledge on us about Lyanna Stark too.
Remember he said, Rhaegar left Elia for another woman and it started a war.
That was Ned Stark’s sister.
A lot of people, myself included think that Rhaeger and Lyanna are Jon Snow’s real parents.
And Ned just hid it from everyone to protect him.
Thus making a song of ice and fire about a Son of Ice and Fire.
Just a theory, but one of the best I’ve seen.
If you want to read the first Oberyn book chapter in Storm of Swords it’s Chapter
38.
Number 3 - Jaime Gets his Golden Hand
It was so funny how Jaime just waved goodbye awkwardly with it.
The hand itself is so iconic just like Oathkeeper or Needle but in reality it’s just as useless
as he claims it is.
A hook would be more practical.
It seems like they’re combining a lot of Jaime’s later chapters from book 3 with
what’s happening right now.
It’s implied that Cersei isn’t down for twincest anymore just because she’s so fried
from everything that happened since Season 2.
But there is on really notable scene from Chapter 62.
Something tells me that they’ll just go for it.
It’s something to look forward to.
Number 2 - Daenerys and her Kitty Cats
It’s the shot from the trailer as cute as it is to see her purring in her lap it’s
all about them being untameable.
The computer graphics has also evolved a lot in the last year.
Drogon is like one of those big dogs that thinks it’s a little lap dog.
He even snapped at her like a hungry dog would when she tried to slow his feeding.
Imagine what’s going to happen in another year.
Dragons that aren’t kept in captivity will just keep growing.
It was the first episode, so I didn’t expect them to blow their whole CG Dragon budget.
I’m really looking forward to seeing a few Drogon action scenes like they’ve teased
in the trailer
That look on Ser Jorah’s face as he’s staring at Drogon tells you everything you
need to know.
This will not end well for anyone.
In a battle between nature vs nurture, nature will always win.
If you want to read this part in the books it’s book 3 chapter 57.
And my Number 1 moment - Arya Takes Back Needle
With the way they rode out of there, you’d think the whole world is on fire.
It’s like Arya is becoming a demon and she’s descending into hell.
Smiling no less.
Did you see how much she smiled as she slowly slipped Needle into Polliver’s head.
She killed the other two Lannister men that way.
Not with a giant hack, she just very gently massaged the blades into them.
Sh, sh, sh, that’s right.
Just be quiet and die.
Best line of the episode was her whispering “Fine Little Blade, Maybe I’ll Pick My
Teeth With It”.
There was a really notable change from the books here, in Storm of Swords, at the crossroads
when she got needle back, the Hound was mortally wounded and she left him for dead.
So since they’re still riding together in good health we’ll have to see if they split
them up anytime soon.
But personally I don’t mind, they’re so much fun together.
Don’t you just feel like it’s Arya leading him around giving orders.
Not the other way around.
‘ If you want to read that crossroads scene
in the books it’s book 3 chapter 74.
See how things are jumping around a lot in the book from scene to scene.
As a bonus WTF moment we have to talk about the Thenn’s.
I thought that Joseph Gatt was playing the Magnar of Thenn, but it looks like they cast
someone else in that role.
Who else said that Seven line in their head when they threw the bag down at the fire.
“What’s in the bag, what’s in the bag!”
After that all I could think about was ye old Hannibal Lecter’s cooking blog.
I can’t remember, but up to this point in the story I don’t think we’ve seen actual
cannibalism occur on the show.
Unless you count the wights.
And they don’t eat people, they just chop them up.
But now it’s your turn.
Let me know what your favorite moment was from the premiere.
Oberyn in the whore house?
Daenerys and the Dragons or did you just think them including the Ser Dontos Sansa scene
was really cool.
There really are too many awesome things to talk about in just one video.
So feel free to add stuff in the comments.
Overall I rated the episode as an A minus.
I have to save the coveted A for the biggest and best episodes.
But as first episodes go, I loved this way better than season 3 episode 1.
The humor was great, just a lot of really subtle additions from the actors.
Like Tyrion just shaking his head and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau shaking his golden hand goodbye.
One of the biggest reasons the show is so good is because the actors are so good.
I’ll say my favorite character from the episode was definitely Oberyn.
He’s going to be so much fun.
He’s like a wild rockstar on vacation and King’s Landing is the hotel that he’s
going to trash.
And that line, Tell you father the Lannisters aren’t the only ones who pay their debts.
So good.
I could talk about this all day, but let me know what your final thoughts are on the episode,
was there anything you didn’t like.
Like I said, I’ll be announcing the winner of this week’s giveaway in my Q&A tomorrow.
You can click here to get that video.
I’ll add the annotation as soon as I post the video.
And you can click here for all my other season 4 videos.
Thanks so much for watching, I can’t wait for next week.
This season is going to be amazing.
High Fives everybody!