hey youtubers is Charlie this is going to be my Game of Thrones episode 9 video
just careful for spoilers if you haven't seen it yet far and away the strongest
episode of the season so far this is the only episode that HBO has submitted for
multiple Emmys like writing directing so before this ever air like after HBO saw
the final cut of it they decided that this was probably the strongest episode
of the season not to say that the finale won't be amazing but a lot of times you
find like the craziest episode comes right before the finale speaking of
which the finale next week is going to be 69 minutes so because there's so many
other storylines to wrap-up that's probably why the episode is 15 minutes
longer next week so just be aware and adjust your DVRs if you do record this
but a lot of awesome callbacks to previous episodes this is a lot like
Watchers on the wall Blackwater episodes that are consumed with a big battle even
if they have a few other things going on and I think they made the right call and
choosing just Daenerys his storyline and Jon Snow's northern Battle of Winterfell
storylines to go with I like the way that they're matching them to up it's
almost like they're getting ready for a big reveal of some kind next week so top
10 and I'll explain book moments as we go along so number 10 the other two
dragons finally get out as predicted finally it's about time you see a giant
fleet roll up you have two weapons of mass destruction locked up makes sense
that you would let them out to play so we finally get to see the three dragons
in battle just a preview of the words to come think about what this scene is
going to look like when they make it to Westeros number nine goes hand in hand
with Theon and Yara showing up they have the ships they make a pact
Daenerys even bonds with Yara over their terrible fathers this is a really big
deal a number eight the Iron Islands will become independent again that was
part of the terms of the agreement you give us the Iron Islands back and we
will find a new cultural heritage that does not involve reaving and raping so
it sounds like if everything goes well the Iron Islands will just become
merchants they have the most powerful fleet in the world it would make sense
that they would just make money off of that instead of piracy but not before
Daenerys helps her get a few uncles that don't think women have the right to
rule so you could look at this as a sly wink at the uncles the Greyjoy uncles
the show did not do like Victarion for instance but no surprise that Daenerys
is reaction to your on I think that was one of the easiest predictions of the
season you're on just like grabbing his crotch air
humping daenerys just saying all the things he's going to do to her just like
Ramsey would he's kind of like Ramsey in that moment so when Daenerys hears that
she chuckles a little bit like why would I ever make a pact with this kind of
person so it is very believable that she sides with Yara but not without a price
the nurse is like you have to help me take Westeros and stop doing all of the
things you've been doing for thousands and thousands of years it becomes
another one of those burning down the old ways moment they've had that several
times this season where it's like there's this old way of thinking versus
the new way of thinking but one thing at a time
first they have to get to Westeros and she has to figure out how she's going to
take the Iron Throne is it going to be by force will there be another war or
something else going to happen that's why Tyrion in the teaser for the next
episode said now you're in the great game as if the real battle is just to
come and obviously we're thinking about the war for the dawn but that's even
further down the road first she's thinking about Westeros and the Iron
Throne she hasn't even mentioned White Walkers once so as awesome as we got
victories in both these storylines for Daenerys and for the Starks is really
just the beginning number six Jon Snow offers Ramsay the easy way out of the
fight so they're just treating Jon explains he's only taunting him Liyana
Mormon is there with her awesome sass phase I was so happy that they let her
be in this scene she wrote up like a badass even though there is the threat
of death but you just get a whole lot of Ramsay swagger
he calls Jon Snow a bastard several times it's almost like every time he
opens his mouth he says bastard at least once but I did like that the writers let
Sansa be the one to shut him down just like she did at the end of the episode
this is almost more sonses fight than it is Jon's John is fighting the physical
battle but for Sansa the context is so much greater given what happened to her
at the hands of Ramsay during season five but sauce is the one that's really
moving the game pieces around like she's just learning to play the game of
Thrones a little finger style just like Daenerys is so number six was actually
all that battle planning in the conversation that he had with Sansa
after so he comes off as this really smart person these are the traps we're
going to lay for Ramsay this is how we're going to lure him in but then
Sansa comes along and is like you don't know Ramsay like I know him he doesn't
fall for traps he lays them for people please don't do what he wants you to do
which of course he proceeds to do in the battle so number five at the battle
field Ramsey releases Rickon do you like playing games little man in his tragic
his richens death is even if you didn't read spoilers about this episode you
could have read the cues in the way they filmed this in the musical score that
they put to it it was such a tragic scene and Ramsey was stone cold with the
bow like he was missing on purpose until he finally hit Rickon we know from Theon
storyline in season 3 that Ramsey or maybe it was season 4 that Ramsey is a
good Archer the minute he picked the bow up and he was shooting a tricking I just
thought of them chasing down that girl like he was literally hunting a girl
like a wild animal there were a lot of visual callbacks to
previous episodes like this so number 4 Davos finds the wooden stag that he gave
to Shireen there was actually this scene of her that's so heartbreaking where
she's playing with it just like a little girl would play with her toys and you
just see over the course of the rest of the episode like by the end he just has
murder on his face I was surprised that he didn't get her at the end of this
episode but they will follow up on it in the next episode you can imagine how the
conversations going to go what kind of a God would ask you to do these terrible
things that was a lot of what that conversation that Jon Snow had with
Melisandre was all about like how do you know what the hell's going on does this
mean anything is there even a god but you have to remember Ian McShane
character where he's like it's all the same to me that was actually a really
important conversation maybe this idea of God isn't as important as the idea
that everything is connected like it's this magical weave this power of nature
that everybody shares so there will be some heavy-handed religious themes in
next week's episode as you would expect because they have the trial of the faith
so a whole lot of religion happening in episode 10 from the red God to the faith
of the seven number three is just the amazing battle choreography it was one
of the biggest episodes they've ever filmed for Game of Thrones they said
it's one of the most expensive two just because it's really expensive to have
all those people all the horses in the time they took to film it was longer
than normal episode so they have to pay all the crew so as episodes get bigger
and more epic like this the cost grows exponentially so you understand how
they're talking about doing fewer episodes next season because there's a
little bit less story for them to tell in the episodes are more like this big
and crazy with a lot of CG and a lot more dragons so everything the
cinematography just so beautiful and the way they weave music in Jon so it's
almost like Jon so getting buried under the bodies is
him dying again and then clawing his way back to life like he clawed his way back
to life in Episode two so really awesome call back to that
moment if I die don't bring me back I order you not to bring me back but in
this moment it's like he's choosing for himself and he claws his way back to
life Wolverine style how crazy was that giant
pile of bodies I was so worried when they dropped the teaser that this was
one one which is a couple people on top of him but note that is just a giant
pile of bodies so number two of course Jon Snow vs. Ramsay you offered a
one-on-one fight I'd like to take you up on that so Jon Snow gets revenge for all
the terrible things that Ramsay's done just starts beating him
for killing one one but he stops when Sansa walks up and I think the reason
that he stopped he didn't finish with Ramsay is because he sees himself in her
eyes and he doesn't want to become Ramsay himself he doesn't want to turn
into the monster that Ramsay is so when walking away it's a nice mirror for
Sansa walking away from Ramsay after telling him you're nothing no one's
going to remember you no one is going to remember your house it was a little more
satisfying once anza did it because of the context between those two characters
but there was also a moment like that with Jon Snow and Ramsay when Jon Snow
walks away from him but number one of course such a juicy treat they do not
deny us the pleasure of watching Ramsay being eaten by his own hounds they were
loyal until you starve them which is a nice metaphor for the way he treats
people in what a real leader is like Daenerys for instance or at least tries
to so this ties back to the old ways versus the new ways the old ways would
have been the Ramsay way to just rule with an iron fist be like the Mad King
Sansa Jon Snow Daenerys those characters represent the new way
they did an amazing job mirroring those two final moments the
deaths of the Masters with the death of Ramsay as in the death of the old ways
so this is real push-pull between old ways new ways especially with the King's
Landing storyline because Cersei is really like our protagonist we're seeing
a lot of this from her perspective but the reversal that's different from the
other storylines is that Cersei is kind of the villain in that storyline even
though the show isn't necessarily painting her like an antagonist she's
just fighting to keep what's hers and what a coincidence that Tyrion even
name-dropped the hidden wildfire all over King's Landing so we're talking
about burning down the old ways to make way for the new so I just
love the way of Cersei emerging as the clear front-runner for big villain but
she's such a good villain because she's just fighting to hang on to what is hers
fighting to hold on to her family we'll have so much Cersei and Jaime stuff to
talk about next week I might dedicate a bonus video to why Cersei is the best
villain and Game of Thrones right now if the show is telling us that the old ways
are getting burned down there must be a new way what does that say about Cersei
storyline even though she's going to come across with a big victory will come out
seeming like a big villain so let me know in the comments what was your
favorite part of the episode you know even it was just something minor like
seeing Ramsay getting eaten by his own hounds but was it not the best episode
of the season so far I mean we haven't seen the finale yet
but you can watch this ten times in a row and just be completely hypnotized by
how amazing it looks how the story plays out in the music the music is such an
important part of Game of Thrones that I don't really talk about that much but
like at the end of the Aria episode last week they had this great music track I
had to extract is that I can listen to it on soundcloud there's so much awesome
stuff happening so there will be bonus videos this week I'll be doing a QA be
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video I've just done a video kind of explaining how bastards work on Game of
Thrones so I'll put a link in the description for those of you that are
asking Gendry could totally become king bastards can become kings under certain
circumstances William the Conqueror was one of the most famous bastards in real
life who became king so Jon Snow for instance even if he's still a bastard if
he is the son of a Targaryen he could also become king but while you guys wait
for my next video to post you can click here to learn all about bastards on Game
of Thrones even the ones that can become kings and you can click here for last
week's episode 8 video thank you so much for watching everybody let's high five
I'll see you guys tonight