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This will be top 10 and Easter eggs also explain the video schedule at the end of this
and how it's all going to go down but starting with number 10 reverse red wedding so they
pick up almost immediately after the end of last season with Arya wearing Walder Frey's
face in this wonderful twist.
You wonder why give you two banquets when Walder Frei is such an awful person will now
you know because he wanted to poison them all.
I love how on the nose.
It was like everything seem so calm Walder Frey's acting weirdly nice so you know instantly
that something's up so within two seconds of him opening his mouth you know exactly
what is going to do all my got it's Arya she can take them all down into reverse.
Red wedding oh my God this is so amazing and I love the way that she starts throwing all
the things that they did to the starts in their faces you murdered all these people
you slit their throats, but you didn't kill them all.
You should've killed them all and let it not be said that Ari is without mercy.
Although really I think the reason she say Walder Frey's wife so that she would survive
to tell everyone what happened that the North remembers leave one alive so that they can
strike fear into the hearts of everyone else knowing that something terrible happened in
the North was responsible for it.
So the big surprise here.
Number nine a minute jump to the episode just for the different storylines number nine Arya
is a few writings south to kill the Queen if we finally learn what Ed Sheeran's cameo
was.
I love the way that they're clearly trying to set up that Ari is probably get a murder
all of those soldiers there like they talk longingly about their families.
They seem like really nice people.
They invite her to eat their food.
She starts scanning around looking at their sword seeing where their weapons are stored.
They even offer her drink.
Are you even old enough to drink like they don't take her seriously because she seems
like a little girl.
So the big twist is probably going to be that she's going to stab the crap out of all of them
but the bigger surprise to me though is that she's going south to get Cersei to cross her
off her list instead of going north so it does make me wonder how she's going to meet
up with everyone else and reunite with the rest of the starts like is that going to happen
later because there's a couple points in the trailer where you see them further in the
south.
It looks like the house in the Dragon pit and did you catch the reference that lancer
soldier was talking about.
I wanted to go to Kings Landing I wanted to see the great set I wanted to see the Dragon
pit, but the great set was blown up in the Dragon pit is in ruins.
You see exactly what they're doing there.
There hyping up the Dragon pit for later in the season because we never actually seen
it on the TV show and that's actually what this shot is here with this mystery box that
they've unveiled, but number eight that wonderful reveal of the night King in the army of the
dead being preceded by the winter storm so you actually get a bit of a clarification
the night.
King does create a storm that hides their movements, but is not responsible for the
greater winter change in seasons.
He just able to take advantage of it.
But the coolest thing about that, though, is the way they use CG to highlight their
eyes so that you see them through the mist before you can make their faces out, but you
know exactly who it is just call Molly, marching south towards the wall it because of the house
storyline in the way that Jon Snow was setting up the wild things to man East watch by the
sea you know exactly where the battles going to take place, so that's probably where all
this craziness at the end of the season is going to happen then is Brandon Mira hit the
wall.
I love the way that Edd reacts to them like who the hell are you are you wild things what's
going on, but it's brand like Mira tries to explain who she is.
He's like yeah whatever but because brain is seen across space and time he's seen where
Ed's been he knows exactly what happened to him.
So he tells him what he's done and he's like oh my God, yeah, I did all those things.
I was at heart home.
I saw the army of the dead.
I saw the Nike all right, let's get you in here let's keep going in number seven.
We finally go to Jon Snow in the great Hall talking about how they need to prepare for
the army of the dead and they start arguing about what they're going to do about manning
the wall like I said that the wild things are going to man East watch by the seat because
that's the closest location to heart home and that's where the night King is coming
but you sort of see them so the seeds of dissent between Jon Snow and salsa, so it's not as
bad as they make it out to be they do argue and she makes a good point Rob and Ned both
lost their heads would listening to me in my counsel be the worst thing in the world,
so he begrudgingly acknowledges that she is probably right but you see that little twinkle
in littlefinger's eyes so he just going to try and drive a wedge between them for as long
as he can, because you have the ward of the South which salsa is more concerned with she's
more worried about what Cersei is doing in Jon's more worried about the war to the north
in the night King, but I thought they did a good job of balancing their concerns like
all the things that salsa says or actually big problem Cersei is still a big problem
in Jamie one of the best things about his storyline will get to in a second is the idea
that he can actually see all of Westborough's in his mind every city in every town father
trained me well, so it gives you an idea for the scope of the battles the season.
There isn't just a war to the north and award of the South there's going to be war all over
the seven kingdoms but we finally got confirmation on Alys Karstark and we have young Ned Umber,
so I like the Jon Snow put his foot down because now we have Alys Karstark for the book plot.
She could always potentially get married to one of the wild things, but they might choose
not to do that plot.
Remember, they actually gave a hat tip to the fact that those of the two places that
are the next defense after the wall so not if but when the army of the dead makes itself
of the wall because we know they have to those of the next places that they'll come one of
the cool things though is there arguing with each other on the battlements is the way that
Jon Snow talks about the history of net start that we haven't heard before father used to
say everything before the word but was complete Shiite when we got the hounds vision.
We actually didn't see the vision though, so we actually do flashbacks that will probably
be through brand storyline.
The next time he's near where would, but number six we catch up with Cersei who surveying
the map.
I love the idea that she has this whole plan that she's thought out in Jamie just wants
to talk about their dead children acknowledges that this all this craziness in the seven
kingdoms.
He has this map of Westeros burned into his brain.
In some of that amazing battle commander in them starts to come out.
That's going to be a big thing this season.
The idea that he really understands larger troop movements and how to manage big large
armies that is something that Jon Snow does not know how to do so just remember that the
people in the north need a really good military commander Jamie is a really good military
commander.
He seems like he's starting to bristle with what Cersei in your honor getting ready to
do so.
The just laying some seeds in there.
But before we get to all that they say the first thing that they need to do is feed their
army the grain that they need is at high garden.
So what they're going to try and do is go treat with them if they can't work out a deal
and they'll kill all the Tyrell's and take their grain so high garden in the great joy
battle like the next two big things there hyping up but Cersei's plan.
You also see how quickly her mind works to we need an ally who's going to be our ally.
Now don't you worry about that.
Queue Euron writing up with all his ships.
So number five Euron just being spectacularly disgusting with Cersei and with Jamie I have
two good hands.
Did you see the look on Jamie's face when he threw that at him. He was basically telling
him that I'm going to marry her sister screw her rotten and then become king of Westeros
and Jaime's just utterly disgusted with them.
To begin with.
Now he really wants to kill him, but they need and they need his ships.
He has the best armada in the world and I love the way that Euron plays on the idea
of the rebellion.
I'm actually glad that you came to the iron islands you weeded out all the bad Ironborn.
That's the reason that I was sent into exile and became the world's greatest sea captain
really.
I think that you're on is just playing the game.
He senses a big opportunity in this alliance with Cersei.
He wants to be King of everything that he sees and he needs Cersei to do that.
So he's going to bring her a gift and that's going to seal the deal.
I feel like were all in agreement that that gift is probably the sand snakes you remember
that scene where they sent her the gift in the description for episode three.
It says that Cersei returns again.
She probably returns the dead sand snakes to door so witnessed the birth of the most
unholy alliance in all of Westborough's even more evil than the night King and the army
of the dead Cersei in your on to birds of a feather they actually went to great lengths
to show the similarities between those characters.
Your on even says were very much alike, and that you have no humility either, but number
four cut the Sam on the Citadel.
I love the way they actually use the astrolabe to cut that transition just reminding you
of the opening credits it might not seem like it but I actually laughed pretty hard during
that montage the way they cut things.
They started to make the soup bowls in the soup that they were serving scene exactly
like the dirty bedpans that Sam was cleaning out like they were literally eating ship and
he was just dumping it into the privy.
But then you get the teaser for the forbidden knowledge, so you meet Jim Broadbent's character
whose only confirmed as an arch baster.
I couldn't find any references to a name, but it seems like he might be an analog for
Maester Marwyn because he believes Samwell when he talks about the army of the dead and he
gets sort of a mini history lesson to where he says, people thought the world was ending
during Robert's rebellion the end of the target areas.
People thought the world was ending back during Aegon's conquest people thought the world
was ending back during the long night, but every winter that has come has ended in the
wall has stood through it all, so you know what that setting up obviously when they say
that something has stood for forever.
It means that it's not going to stand for forever.
It's going to come crashing down, but number three Samwell reading the book sees a picture
of the catspaw's dagger that we see are you wearing in the promo photos which also belongs
to littlefinger.
Currently you don't quite make it out but littlefinger had it on his person.
When Ned Stark was killed.
I even think he's holding it to his throat there, but you see it on Ned Stark's desk
here.
So if you don't know at this is the catspaw was the assassin that is implied that Joffrey
sent to kill Bran after he caught Jamie in Cersei and got pushed out the window that
was unsuccessful.
Kaplan fought them off and then Ned Stark brought the dagger with him when they came
to Kings Landing and he had it on in with them when he was taken into custody and thrown
in the black cells.
So originally, the dagger belonged to little finger.
Then somehow it wound up in the possession of the catspaw assassin.
Now it's back with littlefinger.
So this is big conspiracy theory that little finger planted the idea in Joffrey's mind
that he should send the catspaw to kill Bran back during season one, but Samwell turns
right past that he goes to the Dragon stone page and learns about the Dragon glass factory
only got, I have to tell Jon giving Jon one more reason to go to Dragon stone because
he tells lords of the North everybody look for all the Dragon glass.
You can find so the minute that he gets that Raven from Samwell he's going to want to make
a beeline for the nearest look you have something that we need we need to form an alliance the
catspaw valerian dagger is more of a background plot that will probably pay off later in the
season because at some point Arya has to get that off of littlefingers body, preferably
his dead body.
So we'll see how that plays out.
But number two the brotherhood writing north we go back to the farmstead where the hound
was with Ari at the beginning of season force was a nice mirror for that episode and look
how the weather has changed since the last time they were there.
This is season four.
This is now truly winter has come, but I think the whole reason for this scene is so that
the hound will become a believer in what they're doing this the same way that Tyrian wasn't
a believer until he saw the dragons with his own eyes until Jura saw the dragons with his
own eyes like you have to see something fantastic in order to believe in the hound is confronted
with the misdeeds of his past and he sees the vision in the flames.
So he becomes a believer and that's what motivates him to bury the dead.
You deserve better.
It was a really great eulogy and you get the set up for Barrick why does the Lord of light.
Keep bringing you back why you so special so you see them later in the trailer when
he lights his sword on fire.
He's probably there to protect Jon Snow and allow him to get away.
So a whole lot of big payouts being set up for the end of the season but if you remembered
the Blackwater episode like they noticed that the farmer killed himself and his daughter
rather than allow themselves the fate of starving to death Cersei almost did the same thing
during the Blackwater episode with the poison and of course number one get that awesome
heroes return as the nearest roles into the bay at Dragon stone you see all this iconography
of dragons carved into the rock.
She touches the beach like she's trying to commune with the island itself.
She hasn't been there since she was a baby she was born during a storm at Dragon stone.
That's why they call her to nearest storm born the next episode is literally called
stormborn, but the interesting thing is is that while she was being born in that big
storm was happening.
The majority of the target area fleet.
This was back during Robert's rebellion was being smashed at sea.
So I love the parallels for the storm of her birth in the destruction of the target area
and fleet with the idea that you're on is going to smash her fully during the storm
born episode but just a great way to end the episode her looking at the throne room.
They try to convey all this history of her family Aegon the conquerors sat here before
he conquered the seven kingdoms.
He's also the person who had that map table built he had it built because he really enjoyed
Westeros.
He visited a lot of times before he chose to conquer it.
So just a double bonus that when he did he actually had a big battle planning map and
in present day.
It provides a nice mirror for Cersei's floor map when Tara says, shall we begin like now
the wars can begin.
So let me know in the comments.
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