hi everyone its Charlie this is going to be my Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 3
Q&A video so here we go there were so many questions about the mythology
about what's happening next about what the shows doing with the big twist so I
tried to include as much of that as possible in the video but I do have a
couple other bigger bonus videos planned for later this week to follow up on that
if you're finding me for the first time be sure to subscribe to get all the Game
of Thrones videos I know we only have three episodes left but then later this
summer we'll be talking about the game of Thrones prequel series that's
supposed to premiere next year which is called the long night I know last
night's episode was called the long night but for right now they're just
referring to the prequel series as the long night so it gets a little confusing
but don't worry we'll talk about that after the finale there's a new round of
that HBO now giveaway all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber and leave a
comment on the video obviously careful for spoilers through episode 3 if you
have not seen the episode yet so here we go first question house people asks is
there any chance the night king could be resurrected or recreated well he could
be recreated but there's really as far as we know only one person who knows how
to do that and that's bran stark so it depends on whether or not you think he
wants another night king they haven't absolutely confirmed it but I think for
the most part they've destroyed the children of the forest I think that was
the idea of season 6 episode 5 when the night king invaded the three-eyed Ravens
tree in there with the remaining children of the force that were there
protecting him but unless there's some that we don't know about they were
hiding out on the Isle of faces for all intents and purposes the children of the
forest are gone on the TV show next question fo asks can they still use
brand in their fight against Cersei he can see everything he can warn them
about Kai burns device so you're talking about the scorpions there's actually an
interesting thing that I saw in the behind-the-scenes featurettes this week
if you've ever watched those featurettes that they release like the game reveal
they'll do interviews with the actors if you've noticed the last couple of them
have featured all them wearing very summery looking outfits down on the
King's Landing sets in the behind the scenes for episode 3 you see brand
wearing a very summery looking outfit on that King's Landing set so it implies
that they're going to take brand with them when they go to King's Landing to go get
Cersei it does absolutely confirmed that he's going
down they could be tricking us just putting him in a costume like that on
that King's Landing set because a lot of other interviews are happening in this
type of space but it definitely seems like he's going to go down there because
he's still alive and then even people have pointed out that there must always
be a stark in Winterfell they can still avoid trampling on that if Sansa stays
in Winterfell but I think we'll find out pretty soon during episode four who's
going down to King's Landing and who's not going down next question Alec asks
do you think that it's possible that bran was working into Arya near the end
of the episode what else could he have been doing while Theon was protecting
him so you're just asking about why he just checked out for most of the fight
and we didn't see what he was doing he just seemed like he was working into
something the first time he did it he was using the Ravens to find out what
was going on with the night king during the battle but then later in the episode
he was still warding you didn't see any Ravens anywhere else so my assumption
just based on what the show was telling us in this moment is is that he knew
what was going to happen because he was using his green site to try and see into
the future so in this moment he was looking at the night King like when he
looks down at the Night Kings chest then back up at his face he was looking at
the weak spot where he knew the Arya would have to get him
so unless the producers come out and say something different I'm just assuming
that he was using his abilities to see into the future next question and
Christina asks will bran be normal now that the night king is dead the
three-eyed Raven is linked to the existence than I can write so if that's
the case will bran be free to be the Lord of Winterfell and perhaps still a
warg that's an interesting question but I think for now unless they tell us
something radically different at the beginning of episode 4 I think that it's
the exact same for bran going forward he still has all that power you have to
remember based on his explanation he's the human repository of all knowledge of
the world so it'll be really interesting to see why they would take him to King's
Landing and how they're going to use his abilities in the last couple of episodes
everyone's been making jokes about the creepy stairs that he gives everyone
that he wheels by in the Winterfell courtyard but more than anyone he has
been giving Tyrion really long stairs so I think that it implies that he's going to
be down in King's Landing knowing that Tyrion is going to do something really
crazy just in terms of Winterfell I think that Santa will continue to be the
lady of Winterfell in the sort of warden s of the north and continue to see the
reconstruction of Winterfell because most of it
destroyed during the battle next question Joseph asks would really love
to know how Aria got that close to the night king in the last scene in order to
attack and eventually get him did she use the face of one of the Dead I know
she's really sneaky but it seems almost impossible a living person to get past
that many White Walkers unless they're disguised as one there were a lot of
questions about this how sneaky is she why was she able to get past all those
white Walker generals and get that close to the night king the only real
complaints that I had about that final scene were mostly the execution you know
the fact that Jon Snow really didn't do anything to contribute to that or
Daenerys and George RR Martin has kind of been setting that bump to the
background as this essaouira high princess Prince who was promised
prophecy like Melisandre I think that you both have a role to play but when it
was all said and done in the moment it didn't seem like they had much of a role
to play Miguel Zepeda said something really interesting in the behind the
scenes for the way they filmed this scene and he said that the producers Dan
and Dave let the people filming it he's the director the DP break every rule
that the show has about the way they film things he was mostly referring to
the style of filming like they filmed it in slow motion Game of Thrones as a show
just does not use a lot of slow motion they also used a very different kind of
musical soundtrack so Ramin Djawadi used piano during the score in the only other
time he's used a lot of piano in a game of Thrones song was during the light of
the seven song which was the song that played over the scene of Cersei blowing
up the Crypt during season six episode 10 so on a production level it was them
just trying to make it seem like a special a moment as possible and when
you look at the behind the scenes she's literally flying through the air look at
how high up she is in this rig so that they could pull that shot off so of
course even if you think that Aria has crazy faces person skills she can't jump
that high in real life so yes it is very unrealistic within the context of what
her abilities are but on the most basic of level what they're trying to say is
is that the night King was so focused in this moment with bran that the other
White Walkers were just sort of hypnotized by what was going on in the
moment in this moment of arias sneaking past them to get the night king was
what all of her faceless person training was building up to and in the books
George RR Martin has talked a lot about how important aria is to the endgame so
I do think that in the books are we'll still be the one to land the
killing blow on the night King even though in George RR Martin's book
version of what this scene winds up being will be way way different like Jon
Snow and Daenerys will probably have a much bigger role in the way this all
goes down but what I'll do is is because there's a much larger conversation about
that and why George RR Martin's version will be very similar but a little bit
different will be a video later this week about azor Ahai the prince and
princess who was promised in the fulfillment of that prophecy because
this late in the show I don't think the show is going to tie up all the loose
ends that you're expecting it to next question Josh Drummond asks what's the
deal with Melisandre sending so you're asking about her just walking out into
the fields and taking off her necklace and turning almost into dust there was a
bunch of dust coming off her when she fell down I think that's just another
payoff for what she said about how beric Dondarrion went out the Lord of Light
brought him back for a reason that reason is fulfilled now that he no
longer has a purpose he can die she felt like the Lord of Light told her in
visions that she had a role to play she felt like she fulfilled that purpose
the long night is over the threat is gone so she can finally die and remember
she is really really old that glamour term worked really really well I love it
so much that they did the extra special effects to make her old in that moment
to it just like an extra nice little touch on her ending but like she told
Davos there's no need to get me because I'll be dead before dawn all of her
prophecies are starting to come true now what about the other prophecies about
the prince and princess who was promised like I said Melisandre's prophecies
starting to come true so I still think there's a fulfillment of azor Ahai
that's a little bit different from what people were expecting next question Loki
of Asgard asks what do you think about ghost is he still alive yes we saw a
ghost in the episode 4 trailer video we also saw both of Daenerys dragons so
regal and drogon are also still alive there were a lot of people that were
confused about who is alive who is dead at the end of the episode they'll answer
most of those questions at the beginning of episode 4 because they have to burn
all those bodies so you see that scene of everyone standing out there and I'm
having a sort of memorial to all the people that bell especially the Dothraki
may they rest in peace next question Tinashe asks how will the
show deal with all the drawings they have been showing us they didn't explain
that before getting the night king so assume you're talking about
all the children of the forest drawings the symbols that the White Walkers in
the night King had been making this whole time the way they explained some
of the symbols especially at the beginning of the series and the spiral
symbol that the knight King kept making is that it was really just a perversion
of the children of the forest symbol that they used to invoke the magic to
create the night King it'd be like someone going up to a Christian turning
a cross upside-down and saying I am against everything that you stand for
that's basically what the knight King is saying every time he makes a symbol like
this next question James D s no one's discussing the Nike possibly being a
Targaryen as he survived Dragon Fire there were a lot of questions I tried to
address this during my episode 3 video he didn't survive the fire because he's
Targaryen it's just because he's so powerful there's this idea behind the
show that everyone's been drawing this power from the same source like all
these different gods they've been worshipping are just different aspects
of the same God like the whole idea of the many-faced God many faces but one
God the children of the forest used their most powerful magic to create the
night king so it would stand to reason that he would be impervious to almost
all kinds of magic save for the idea that he could be uncreated with Valyrian
steel in the exact place where the children of the forest stabbed him with
that dragon glass when they created him next question Kathuria asks the origins
of the night king who was he and the reason behind him coming after the
three-eyed raven was so a brain gave that basic explainer he was trying to
get bran to extinguish man and bran was the repository of knowledge of all man
so he was going to get rid of memories of man first the Nike was created during
the time of the first men in their war with the children of the forest so the
Andals had not come over there were no Targaryens in Westeros yet it was just
the first men so he was a north man that the children of the forest captured and
used to turn against his own brethren there are a lot of rumors that he was a
stark of Winterfell nobody has confirmed this George RR
Martin has confirmed it yet but there's some evidence pointing to the fact that
he could have been a stark of Winterfell and the way the show explains it he's
always been the same night king whereas there's been many many three-eyed Ravens
so one will become the three-eyed raven he'll grow old then eventually another
one will come along he'll pass his knowledge on to them and then that one
will pass his knowledge on to the next three-eyed Ravens so on so forth until
you get to bran stark within the world of Game of Thrones there are several
events in world history that sound like their other versions of long nights and
night Kings coming people coming together different azor Ahai figures
popping up predating the first long night by a long long time there was a
very vast civilization in ET that rose and fell long before the first long
night so there is a theory that there's been many night kings in the past many
long nights that have come and gone many differences or high figures but I'll
talk about that during my Azure 'hi video later this week next question on
Keita asks what the hell was bran doing all along so I think for the most part
he was just serving as bait like he said he was just trying to bait the night
king into thinking that he was vulnerable whereas most the time he was
working into the future to try and see that everything would go down the way he
wanted it to I'm sure Isaac Hempstead right is also probably going to do a bunch
of interviews about this moment at conventions in the next couple of years
so he'll probably talk a little bit more about what was going on inside brands
head during this moment because we don't really see it we just see him being
worked out next question me Toole asks if the night
King is gone what about Danny's vision and King's Landing where the roof is
gone and it's snowing and she's close to the throne he has a lot of questions
about what the meaning of this vision is if the night king isn't going to be down
there to cause any of this damage I think the vision is still relevant to
what's happening in the last couple of episodes but I think the metaphors are
just a little bit different from what people are expecting I do think that
she's going to be forced to give up what she loves I talked about it during the
jenny of old stones explainer that I did last week genève old stones was a
commoner who fell in love with one of the Targaryen heirs to the iron throne
he was forced to give up his crown in order to be with her but in this case I
think the twist is is that Daenerys is going to have to give up her quest for
the iron throne to be with Jon Snow so we think a lot of the vision has just
tied up in the idea that she's going to come close to her goal but she will not
actually reach it like she's reaching out but she's not quite touching it but
I also think the Battle Damage is something to do with the final battle at
King's Landing with Cersei so remember there's still a couple episodes to go we
still have a huge episode 5 battle so they could still blow up giant portions
of King's Landing during their fight next question real Angelou asks who's
the original owner of Arya's dagger there were so many theories about the
dagger after we first saw it if they brought it back and then we
in samwell's book it was all about Dragan stoned illyrians and the
Targaryens using dragonglass if you would ask me this question last year my
theory was is that it actually at one time had belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen
so just tracing it back from bran stark and Arya Starks O'Brien hands it to Arya
Littlefinger gave it to brand what happened during season one is is because
it's called the cat's paws dagger is because it was the cat's paw who tried
to get bran with it the cat's paw was hired by Joffrey he gave him the dagger
but the dagger had belonged to Robert because he'd won it in a bet from
Littlefinger in King's Landing but you have to remember that there was a scene
that the TV show did not do where Joffrey is sitting there the next
morning listen to people talk about what happened to bran stark and through that
conversation he just comes to the conclusion that it would be better to
get rid of him so if Joffrey stole it from Robert Baratheon and Robert
Baratheon won it from Littlefinger how did Littlefinger orchestrate events to
get it into Roberts Han and where did Littlefinger get it from well the idea
is that because Rhaegar loved to put rubies in his armour and in his things
like he had a rubies all over his breastplate when he died at the Trident
rubies flew everywhere when Robert Baratheon smashed him with his war
hammer at the Trident Rhaegar was a Prince of Dragonstone Anna Targaryen
they would have had more access to Valyrian steel either through their
money or just through their family heirlooms than anyone else in Westeros
so it's possible that the dagger was acquired during the sack of King's
Landing from Rhaegar things or at some other point Littlefinger saw an
opportunity through Robert Baratheon knowing that he would be going to
Winterfell so he engineered a situation where the dagger would wind up in his
possession and then tried to push things along and create as much chaos as
possible but a lot of what we know about the dagger before it belonged to
Littlefinger in Robert Baratheon is conjecture and just theories based on
hints that we get throughout the books nobody's absolutely confirmed it thank
you so much for submitting questions I know there's a billion more so I'll try
to address that in some specific bonus videos later this week like I said
Maiasaura high video will probably be the next one if there's any other really
big questions that you guys have or bonus videos you want me to do before
episode 4 airs just let me know in the comments below but congratulations to
the giveaway winner from my last video super thumpa Soros please email me on
the about page of my channel so I can get your details click here for my
season 8 episode for or video and click here for my episode 3
video thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome I'll see you guys
tonight