Hey guys, Pete here. The Battle of Winterfell is now over and this will be
a top moments recap video, just a quick one.
Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 3 was one of the most anticipated episodes of
all time and after watching it I believe it's gonna turn out to be one of the
most divisive episodes of all time as well. so many good theories died on that
battlefield outside Winterfell tonight when the night king was defeated and his
entire army droppes but there will be plenty of time to get into the details
of the episode when I do my recap and review later this week for now let's
look at the top moments together and you can discuss how you feel about the
episode in the comments. Number 10 Melisandre's return this was expected
as it felt pretty clear that she had a role to play in the fight against the
White Walkers she arrived just in time for the start of the clash and her
lighting the Dothraki weapons ablaze was definitely one of my favorite moments of
the episode of course things didn't turn out well for the Dothraki who seemed to
have been wiped out as they attacked the army of the Dead completely and I do
fear that even though it would have happened off-screen that we should add
ghost to the list of casualties here rip ghosts will never forget. Number 9
edy saving Sam this whole fighting sequence was done really well as we see
the chaos of the whites attacking from what feels like every direction we get
to see dollar said save his knights watch brother in the nick of time but
unfortunately he pays the ultimate price for it and now his watch has ended
number 8 barracks death Aria found herself in a dangerous situation being
swarmed by whites inside of Winterfell even though she proved her fighting
skills outside just before this happened she found herself in need of rescuing
once she was indoors berrak and the Hound step up to help her
to safety but barrack is mortally wounded in the process after he falls
Melisandre tells Arya that the Lord of Light brought him back for a purpose now
that purpose has been served so no kiss of life for barrack to give out and he
won't be coming back either this time well it wasn't the most dramatic death
in the episode I did like that at least for barrack
in the end he did something purposeful his death gets arya safely to Melisandre
and that leads to the next moment number seven Melisandre and Arya meet again
everyone in this room has been an Arya's list of people she wanted to kill
Melisandre earned a place on it by taking Andrea way back in season three
and we've anticipated their reunion ever since in it they refer back to that
episode where Melisandre told Arya that she would shut many eyes forever
Melisandre says brown eyes green eyes and blue eyes emphasis on the blue eyes
then she delivers a callback to Arya's water dancing teacher Syrio Forel she
says what do we say to the god of death arya says not today and takes off
running number six Lyanna Mormont death of all the character deaths we expected
to see it was a little hard to decide if they would go to killing off Lyanna
Mormont or not she's a freaking kid but that wasn't enough to spare her she went
down fighting and took out a white giant with her on the way and it was a pretty
sad occasion this was a death that shocked me the most and probably
delivered the biggest emotional blow well some of the other characters hurt
more and we're more important and how they were essential to the story I just
didn't see this one coming number 5 the whites over taking the
castle walls at the end of the day this was one of the most well put together
episodes of TV I've ever seen in this section of the whites were they start to
go through the trench start to get over the walls start to drop down into the
yard I love the way we saw them come off the cliff into hardhome it was kind of
just a well-polished chaotic devastating frightening it was just a horror show
and it had a great impact and it made you wonder how the hell they were gonna
get out of it number four the night king raising the whites we had been
anticipating this what happened since the actor who plays the night king
mentioned that him and Jon were gonna have a bigger moment than what
happened at hardhome and this time John was stuck in the middle of it I thought
that is what made this work even though I didn't really expect John to die it
was a crazy situation that he found himself in and we'd all been wondering
who might become White's how that might go and we saw that Edie was turned and
literally on a Mormont was turned and basically everybody else who fell in the
battle I'm not sure this is the payoff that fans were looking for as far as
people turning into whites was concerned but it seems like that's all that
they're gonna get either way the night King raising his arms once again worked
for me as it did the first time I saw it and I thought that was a pretty good
moment number three Jorah Mormont's death I had Jorah high on my list of
people who would probably die in this episode I'm thinking most other people
did as well so it wasn't shocking but it was a fitting end for Jorah he got to
die defending his queen since we saw him outside the wall it was hard to imagine
that there would be a situation where he would be literally defending his queen
like right in front of her as it all played out in the show so if Jorah had
to go then I think this was pretty good and I thought Ian Glenn and Emilia
Clarke both delivered a memorable performance so rip Jorah
number two is Theon's death obviously I'm mentioning the deaths because of the
impact they had as we were watching the show after episode two it started to
feel like Theon wasn't likely to make it through the battle and I really made
peace with the fact that he would die in this episode before it even started I
looked at it like hey he had his moment when he came back he stepped up and now
he's not gonna have much of a chance to live in this situation he signed up for
protecting bran which puts him right in a really dangerous spot I don't know how
I feel about the end of his story related to the end of this episode but I
really liked that bran told him that he was a good man I really like that he got
that moment and then he still charged the night king even though it wasn't
gonna make a bit of difference and he pretty much knew that going
into it so rip theon greyjoy you're a good man and number one is the stare
down between bran and the night king of course this leads into Arya stabbing the
night king and effectively wiping out the White Walkers which is like I said
going to be probably the most divisive thing that we've seen in this TV series
history I didn't follow along on Twitter or do any of that kind of stuff but I
did see some comments and but yeah I have a feeling that people won't like
the fact that Arya is the one who did this and probably they won't like that
it happened in episode 3 at all in spite of all of that I still think that bran
and the night king having their stare down was an awesome moment I think it
was fantastic and that's where the list will end and I have to watch it again
what I can say for sure right now is that it was fantastic looking it was a
great looking episode it definitely was a twist compared to what most people
said other things that were really good here was the sound and the music some of
it seemed incredibly dark and hard to see some of it seemed really chaotic and
it was hard to figure out what was going on I have to watch again
to see how that plays out on the second viewing I'm in that spot in that space
that you get into when you really think you have an idea and you have theories
that you like and they all turn out to be wrong I mean I wrote 2,000 words or
so yesterday on a video that I ended up not doing and it was about what comes
after this and the reason I didn't finish it was because it just was so
hard to imagine that the night King would die you know my arguments were all
leaning towards him staying in and the end the video was gonna have a really
short shelf life if it turned out this way but yeah I don't know what they have
in store in the back end I looked at the trailer we see that the dragons are both
still alive and they're definitely making Cersei the big bad as far as we
can tell I don't hate that idea but this does feel abrupt I'm really just
mourning theories right now I hope that there's a good reason
that it had to be this way I'm not like reactionary to the point of like this is
the end that was it they couldn't they can't redeem themselves from this
because it was a fantastic-looking episode that especially the Melisandre
stuff and the battle itself but I mean it looks like we lost ghosts off so he
just charged into the battle by himself and that's the last we'll ever see of
them I don't see that being popular in that writing about Cersei being the big
bad I thought to myself they have to top this that's the real problem is that
they have to talk what has been billed as what we expected to be the final
showdown the big ending of the White Walkers so if they have that in their
back pocket and they're able to do that then I'm on board with it but it's not
what we were expecting let's face it I don't see Arya being the person who
killed the night king being popular and that's for a few reasons but really it's
just doesn't it just didn't seem what was telegraphed I mean I talked to a
friend of mine who's a big fan but maybe not as deep into the theory side of
things and he actually made a pretty good point of why he thought it might be
Arya based on stuff that they've shown us for instance her besting Brienne
whenever they were sparring in the yard and you know she did do all of the
training necessary to be a skilled warrior at this point but it just didn't
really seem like that was the way it was gonna go but overall with the Arya stuff
I think we could go back and say there was foreshadowing like we could piece it
together but it really wasn't I don't think anybody thought that this was
gonna turn out this way so it's gonna be divisive that's just the only thing
there is to say about it but that is where I line things I don't want to
drone on I have a trailer breakdown to do and then I want to re-watch and
really get into it and see how I feel on the second watch and the third watch
I'll be interested to hear what you guys thought of the episode and what moments
you really thought stood out so leave that in the comments please like the
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thanks for watching guys I will talk to you soon