hey guys, Pete here. today I'm going to talk about some of the news related to
Game of Thrones Season 8 after the release of the first trailer there's
been a stream of new information to build the height for the upcoming season
and I started out focusing on the interview with the actor who plays the
night key this led me to think about the bigger picture so we'll get into that as
well there are no real spoilers here just my thoughts based on what we know
from the show and from reading the books and following along with all the
theories that are out there about how the game of thrones TV series will end
so let's jump into it in my last couple of videos I talked about the trailer
what they're giving us in the press about the epic Battle of Winterfell and
what I thought the show would have to do to give us a good and memorable ending
they are in fact being liberal with details about this battle telling us all
about what went into shooting it when it will happen in the season and just
generally hyping it to be the big centerpiece of season 8. I thought this
was suspicious at first and then when I saw the episode run times it got even
more interesting we know there are roughly seven hours in season eight the
first three episodes are shorter was episode three being 60 minutes we know
the battle for Winterfell will happen in this episode we also know that it will
be the longest continuous battle in cinematic history
lasting more than 40 minutes if it ends in episode 3 that means we have four
more hours of story after the battle concludes there are a lot of
possibilities that I won't get into here but this is something to keep in mind
because that sure looks like there's a whole lot of story to tell after what
happens in Winterfell goes down in the interview with the night king actor he
drops a few interesting pieces of information the first is that the night
king has a specific target and we will find out who that is I believe this is
brand and this video was originally just going to be about the reasons I think
that is the case for me in the way I think about the story his first
statement would have been enough for me to say he's after bran
but a second statement makes that even clearer in my opinion when asked what
the night king wants he said, "somebody made him the night king nobody knows who
he was before a soldier or part of [nobility]
he never wanted to be the night I think he wants revenge everybody in
the story has two sides a bad side and a good side the night king only has one
side a bad side." so we know the children of the forest made him the night King as
much as we can know anything in the story because bran watched that happen
through the weirwoods in that scene we can see that he's tied
up and appears to be having this done to him against his will the Lord tells us
that the children were doing this because they were losing a war with the
first men they created what we now refer to as the White Walkers to give them an
advantage in this conflict that means that the White Walkers were created to
defeat humanity and we know they did this because the first man were moving
into their forest and more importantly cutting down the weirwood trees from
what we know though this didn't work out as planned and eventually their creation
led Westeros into the long night we will get to learn a lot more about this when
the prequel series comes out but ultimately the children in the first men
had to join together in order to beat back this invention which threatened to
destroy everyone now of course they are back the White Walkers that is and they
have been moving south for the first time in a long time in last season they
finally made it through the wall and now we know that Humanity is going to have
to face them at Winterfell as far as the story goes it's important to remember
why they were created and what they do they kill humans they also kill
everything else which wasn't exactly what the children had in mind
but the fact that the actor told us he wants revenge and has the target doesn't
change that the reason why I think he's after bran and why there aren't even any
other likely candidates is based on a few things first despite being very
effective at killing people and adding them to their army of the Dead I think
the show has made it clear that they aren't mindless in this endeavor there
are several examples where we see what looks like strategic moves from the
night king. despite how we feel about the events of the trip beyond the wall to
capture the white and season seven it seems plainly obvious that the plan was
for the night came to capture a dragon that he could use to get through the
wall he devised the plan and follow through with it
which to me makes him a much greater threat not to go on and on about this
episode considering it's one of my least favorite episodes
but two other takeaways here are that one John shows
us again that he is a great warrior but he makes bad decisions in the heat of
the battle just like in the Battle of Bastards he would have lost here he
would have died here of someone that swooped in to save him in this case the
reanimated uncle Benjen and then also the knight King had every opportunity to
kill him here just like he did in hard home and decided against it or at least
he made it clear that that wasn't his priority so that leads me to believe
it's probably not John and the revenge aspect of it doesn't really make sense
with Jon either so what is the revenge part about well that is the second thing
that I would say is the reason why it has to be bran and that is his position
as the three-eyed Raven now the children of the floors created the night King and
he has at least killed most of those children that we've seen in the actual
series so far I don't think it's definitive one way or another on the
show if there are still children living but I don't think it's likely that the
night king is targeting someone or something that hasn't been established
as a major character the nert at me is holding out hope for more children order
of the Green Man I love faces type stuff but I don't think that is directly
related to the Battle of Winterfell the show's first three-eyed Raven has also
been taken out and that's how brand got to where he is the important part here
is that the first three-eyed Raven was considered the last greenseer by the
children and he was very important I tend to lean to the idea at least in the
book that he was pulling the strings and a lot of events that led up to where
we're at I made a video about the dire wolves and how he might have played a
hand in that a couple years ago but either way we saw that they protected
him with their magic and he was searching for bran
now I don't want to go really deep into the textual clues about this stuff
because I've made videos about that a few years ago now and I don't want this
video to be super long keep in mind though that the last three-eyed Raven
came to Brandon his dreams as a child he most likely did this with other kids
several of them and there's at least pretty good evidence that he probably
visited Euron on as a child in the books as
well and that Euron didn't make the grade
Euron in the books is basically a different character compared to the one
in the show though so it's not really important that it was him what is
important is that brain is special very special and very powerful you could
definitely say the brain is the most powerful character in the story at least
in his skin changing or will say warding because that's what they call it on the
show and his green singing abilities of course he's crippled he can't walk so
it's not like he can defeat the knight King in single combat but his powers
essentially make him the only person that can help the side of the living
actually defeat the army of the dead in my opinion this is where a story's
always been headed and it's led to a lot of theories about bran that kind of go
way out into left field which I don't subscribe to and I've made a video about
that in the past - about why I don't think he's the night king and it
basically boils down to that I don't think that this has been all leading up
to this sci-fi time-travel twist. it would be really a
big surprise and that's not to say it can't happen it just doesn't seem like
that's where the series has been headed so we know the children made the night
king we know that the children protected the original three-eyed Raven and that
the three-eyed Raven came to bran the children and the original three-eyed
Raven both basically sacrificed themselves to make sure that brand lived
which also is a pretty big indicator of how important he is so I don't really
think there's any chance that he has a target that is someone other than brand
now we're another layer came into this was like I said when I saw the run times
if everything's leading up to this battle the war for the dawn and bran is
the key to actually defeating the night king and that happens in Episode three
what's gonna happen after the fact you know I cut I told this the real battle
because I think the real battle does come down to bran and the night King but
then what is going to happen after the fact now there's got to be a twist I've
said that in my last video you know there has to be some sort of a twist
here and that's what I'm interested in talking about
finding out what you guys think going forward after this video does this mean
that they won't actually win at Winterfell but if that's the case then
what happens did they beat the night king back temporarily and he's still
there and there has to be another showdown later on do they lose straight
up and then what like it's really kind of hard to figure out where it goes from
there especially because you know we know that the dead are a big threat so
what I was thinking about was related to this idea but bran is powerful he is the
most powerful character in the realm of magic at least right now obviously
there's other magical people that have strong power but Brandes seems to be the
linchpin in this battle against him the thing about this story is it's not
really about magic Magic's a part of it but it's really not about magic it's
actually more about power when you think about it you know zooms way out in the
beginning that was the big thing you know we wondered what people would do to
get power keep power you know hold on to the iron throne and so on this was
supposed to be the twist going back to well you know actually none of that
matters because the dead are coming and they're gonna wipe out everyone if they
don't pull together in this scenario now where does the story go and is it really
still just about power because brands power is very specific and it's not
necessarily useful beyond this situation in a way I think it goes without saying
that the knight king will be defeated and the White Walkers will be taken care
of I don't think that the knight King is gonna sit on the throne at the end and
rule over Westeros are we missing a piece of the puzzle here or does it just
take them that long to dispatch Cersei and then we find out what happened after
once the dust has settled those are the things that I'm thinking about when I'm
thinking about this upcoming season tell me in the comments what you guys are
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