Hi everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Game of Thrones finale video for the top
10 questions that they have to answer before the end of the series just
long running big question marks that hopefully they'll pay off or at least
give us an idea that we can use as fans to extrapolate on so if you're new to
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it's the finale of the main show but I'll be doing Game of Thrones prequel
videos as we start to learn more about that they're getting ready to start
filming right now there's been conflicting evidence about what's going
on with that so of course I'll do prequel videos next week after we get
done talking about the finale we'll do a new round of the HBO now giveaway all
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video so careful for spoilers for everything that's happened on Game of
Thrones so far but starting with number 10 will they pay off Daenerys as visions
from the Iron Throne in the house of the undying meaning that she never actually
gets to sit on the Iron Throne the things that she's fought so hard for
this whole time reaching it winning quote-unquote so to speak but never
actually getting to enjoy the fruits of her victory bittersweet fruits of
victory if you look at all the damage that she did to the red cape during
episode 5 she did not destroy the iron throne room she just destroyed the
Lannister lion that had replaced the seven pointed star that sat above the
Iron Throne which is a nice metaphor for her kicking Cersei to the curb so to
speak or kicking her down to the basement where she was then crushed by
the rest of the Red Keep has it caved in number nine if Daenerys really does wind
up dying what will drogon do because he's a weapon of mass destruction and he
would probably be pissed if Daenerys died would he just live out the rest of
his life as a writer less dragon roaming around the world where he pleases
dragons with proper access to a good food source would just continue to grow
the older and older that they get that was why balerion the black dread grew so
big is just because he lived to be so old and he continued to grow he was
close to about 200 years old at the time of death and drogon is less than 10
years old so just imagine he could continue living for a couple
hundred more years there is precedence for riderless dragons in A Song of Ice
and Fire after the doom of Valyria because you have to imagine that during
that era the rise of the freehold there were dragons everywhere all over the
place but after the doom most of the dragons that survived were Targaryen
dragons there was a time during the dance of the Dragons the Targaryen Civil
War that happened a long time before the actual Blackfyre rebellion where there
were six riderless dragons living on Dragonstone
so after Aegon's conquest it wasn't unusual for there to be a lot of
riderless dragons just chilling around number eight follow-up question to that
Daenerys question of course Jon Snow's told us several times last season and
this season as recently as season eight episode five that he absolutely does not
want to be king so if he's forced into a situation where Daenerys isn't around
anymore and he's the last remaining true Targaryen heir to the Iron Throne what
did the Lords of the realm do if he refuses them again they've actually been
moments in Westeros see history where matters of succession become a really
big problem in what has happened is is the call a Great Council where all the
Lords of the different realms come together to decide who's going to be the
next king it's the closest thing that Westeros has ever had to a parliament
but they would only come together briefly and it's only happened three
times in the last 300 years since Aegon's conquest although there have
been many more failed attempts to call a great council the most recent one was
when Catelyn Stark tried to convince Renly that he Stannis and Robb Stark
should all hold a great council to deal with the issue of Joffe Baratheon after
they discovered that he was the bastard son of Jaime Lannister not Robert
Baratheon the very first grey council was called after an event very similar
to what's playing out on the TV show right now and season 8 with a succession
issue yeah but Jon Snow and Daenerys that both have a claim to the Iron
Throne but technically the male heir has a stronger claim the reason why Jon Snow
has the stronger claim to the Iron Throne is because Westeros history has
typically practiced male favoring primogeniture where the male heir of the
oldest living male heir inherits everything before any of the kings other
children so even though Daenerys is the only living child of the Mad King
technically the line of succession skips her and goes straight to Jon Snow the
mad Kings grandson because Jon Snow the oldest living legitimate male heir
of Rhaegar Targaryen who was the oldest living legitimate male heir of the Mad
King in real life a really good example that is Prince William he's a head of
the line of succession of his uncle's Prince Andrew and Prince Phillip because
he's the oldest living male heir of Prince Charles who's the oldest living
male heir of Queen Elizabeth during this very first Great Council the reason why
it was called is because Jerris the first and queen alicent had a succession
issue where Jo Harris the first skipped over his oldest living granddaughter who
was technically the closest relation by blood for a male cousin because he felt
like the realm would support a stronger claim from the male even though his
granddaughter was technically the closest relation to him by blood so it's
not unusual for Westeros to call a Great Council to decide matters of State but
number 7 if Aria told Gendry that she doesn't want to be a lady of a castle
what does she do after this does she continue acting like a rogue assassin
dishing out justice or taking contracts on the DL she's way too famous to
continue living in Westeros too many people know her face even though she
can't wear other people's faces there was a scene during season 6
episode 8 that I hope that they pay off because it seemed like a pretty big
setup for a way to send her character off at the end of the series she's
talking to lady crane talking about escaping from the faceless people
leaving this life and she says where will you go or he eventually says what's
west of Westeros says I'd like to see that someday well when you go east
Westeros is West but what's west of Westeros I don't know
nobody does that
so do they pay that off by having one of her final shots on the series B of her
sailing beyond the sunset sea to the Western continent otherwise her only
other option would be to go back to Essos but just remember during the end
of season 4 beginning of season 5 where you see arya boarding a ship to go away
will they do something similar like that for her at the end of the game of
Thrones series will that be one of the final shots of her just sailing off into
the unknown 6 tyrion took a weird interest in bran stark after the battle
with the White Walkers and had this whole big scene talking to him about
being the only living male heir to Ned Stark
you would make a great Lord of Winterfell
even though bran said I don't really want anything anymore later in that very
same episode when Varys was talking to Tyrion about possibly getting rid of
Daenerys he said maybe the best choice for a king would be one that doesn't
want power so if Jon Snow were to refuse the throne
who would become the next king if the Lord's even want another King Gendry is
another newly minted heir with a now legitimate claim to the Iron Throne
through Robert Baratheon but as history repeats itself during a song of ice and
fire several times I think people would be worried the Gendry would just be
another weak King like Robert Baratheon there are a lot of people that are
wondering if they would make bran stark the new king how would that even work
because his brand said he doesn't want anything literally anything beyond
probably three regular meals and handicap access to a nearby weirwood
tree for the most part he's basically a glorified library of world history with
perfect recall so he's more useful in situations where you need lots of
detailed information about things so you need a situation where bran would have
someone around him to help focus his attention and even if they just want to
make him a figurehead he'd really be better off living with the arch maesters
in the Citadel with a team of them around him just writing down every bit
of history they can get out of him because of its the maesters job to
record history and bran is literal history he can tell them everything
that's ever happened in the greatest detail then why wouldn't you take
advantage of that and have the maesters start recording everything five a lot of
us been wondering will there actually be an Iron Throne anymore or will they as
we've all suspected just destroy it for symbolic reasons you can't win the Iron
Throne if there's no Iron Throne anymore when HBO started promoting Game of
Thrones Season 8 they used the for the throne hashtag we were all like that
doesn't make any sense because we were still thinking that the White Walkers
were going to be the biggest threat like the Iron Throne isn't even going to matter
anymore by the end of the series because we're dealing with the army of the Dead
it's life or death here who cares about a pointy throne made up a bunch of
swords number four a lot of people asking will brought ever get his bigger
castle and who's going to be the new warden of Highgarden in the reach who's
going to be the new warden of the West ruling from Casterly Rock it seems like
Tyrians days are numbered so if Tyrion is around anymore then all the
Lannisters are gone who is going to take Casterly Rock we can already probably
get that Sansa is going to continue to be
warden s of the north sweet Robyn would continue to rule from the Vale Yara
Greyjoy will be the lady the Iron Islands and whoever winds up being
picked to succeed Jon Snow if Jon Snow abdicates the Iron Throne then that
person would be Lord of the Crown lands if not King in name only if they decide
to adopt a policy more like modern-day British government where the crown
wields no actual political power and is therefore more symbolic and cultural
value a lot of people wondering if they're going to adopt the democratic
theory of Westeros like is that going to be the future of the kingdom going
forward three really important one that we haven't talked about a whole lot will
the show's ending provide a clear thesis for what a Song of Ice and Fire is
really about there's going to be a lot of arguments for what Game of Thrones has
really been about this whole time it's not about climate change I'll tell you
that people try to liken it to allegory but recent events seem to suggest it's
more of a story about the dangers of autocracy and putting so much power in
the hands of a single person the value of shared rule people working towards
the common good all the while subverting a lot of the tropes of typical fantasy
stories about good and evil there is no true good there is no true evil only
bitter victories and the reality that you're faced with going forward like
Martin talks a lot about the time that happened after aragorn's victory after
he ascended the throne how did they deal with all the orcs did he go around
ending all the orc babies after that so no one really gets to ride off into the
sunset with a classic happily ever after just very general broad themes that
everybody in 50 hundred hundred and fifty years could read and apply to
their own lives not any kind of direct allegory for what's happening in present
day for us George RR Martin said that his ending was inspired a lot by
Tolkien's ending the Lord of the Rings and talking absolutely hated the idea of
allegory in the suggestion that his books were about World War 1 and World
War 2 he was very adamant that he wasn't referenced anything in present day when
he was writing so the people at hundreds of years could read Lord of the Rings
and apply general themes of what's happening to whatever it's happening to
them in that future timeline number two rather big question will Jon Snow ever
give ghost the good boy hugs and pats on the head that he deserves like he just
kind of rode off into the sunset what torment a lot of people are expecting
that we'll see ghosts again before the end of the series then probably one of
the biggest questions number one the ending give us a good sense as to
whether or not history will eventually repeat itself again as and will they
ever be any more by Walker's the threat of another long night in a thousand
years will bran also be able to pass his abilities on to another three-eyed Raven
when he gets ready to die of old age just like the Bloodraven past his
abilities to brand before he died remember when bran said that he was the
literal living memory of all of mankind's history obviously that has to
continue living so he would have to pass his knowledge on to another three-eyed
Raven but what'll happen is is my finale video
will post Sunday night just like normal and then I'll do a bunch of bonus videos
after just reflecting on the series if there's any specific videos you want me
to do let me know in the comments don't forget about the bonus episode that's
airing the week after the finale I'll do a video for that just like I would for
any of the other episode videos then obviously I'll start doing some Game of
Thrones prequel videos but I don't think that that's supposed to premiere till
next spring at the earliest maybe next summer depending on how quickly they get
through their episode production schedule this summer but don't forget we
have Watchmen coming this fall to HBO we have The Witcher Netflix series we have
the Lord of the Rings series which is probably going to start sometime towards
the end of next year there's a bunch of other big stuff that's starting later
this year but as long as you have alerts enabled for my channel you'll see the
videos when I post them so you'll see that stuff no worries I'll leave the
giveaway open till I start posting bonus videos on Monday so I'll just remind
people when I post my finale video tomorrow click here for my Game of
Thrones season 8 episode 6 finale trailer video and click here for my Game
of Thrones season 8 episode 5 video thank you so much for watching everybody
stay awesome I'll see you guys tonight!