High Sparrow: Are you prepared to stand trial
and profess your guilt
or innocence before the Seven?
Jon Snow: We need to trust each other.
We have so many enemies now.
Walder Frey: The Freys and the Lannisters,
send their regards.
Sansa Stark: What do you want?
Littlefinger: I thought you knew what I wanted.
Davos Seaworth: Tell him what you did to him.
Tell him!
Are you afraid?
Good.
Tyrion Lannister: You're in the great game now.
And the great game's terrifying.
Hey YouTubers, it's Charlie.
This is gonna be my Game of Thrones
finale trailer video.
Just careful for spoilers,
for everything that's happened on the show so far.
So, here we go.
The funny thing that happened this season is that HBO,
at a certain point, for the last couple of episodes,
stopped releasing information, synopsis
but eventually we learned the synopsis
for the finale is just
"Cersei faces her trial."
Very simple.
Obviously there's a whole lot more going on,
and we see that from the trailer.
They're using the finale to
wrap up all the big ongoing storylines
from this season, and tee up
what's going to be happening next season.
So, just kind of moving the chess pieces around the board on Westeros.
Because that's where most people are going to be.
The end of Episode 9 is Daenerys is leaving Mereen
makes it sound like she's not planning on coming back anytime soon
"Tell everyone what Daenerys did when she came to Meereen,
and don't try to go back to your slaver's ways."
So, it was like Tyrion was giving the Great Master
that they left alive a warning.
If you don't uphold the terms of your surrender,
no more slavery will come back with the dragons.
So it seems like the action for the final two seasons -
I mean, as far that we know there's gonna be
a Season 7 and a Season 8 -
will take place in Westeros and obviously
moving closer and closer to the North
wherever the Night King's army happens to be.
And the really interesting thing about this trailer too
is this 'reverse Red Wedding' that they're teasing
with Jaime's character
just like he could not give a shit
about Walder Frey.
"The Lannisters and the Freys send their regards."
Just this really horrific twist on the Red Wedding.
So, if you've ever hoped for a Jaime redemption,
this is the moment to hope for.
A 'reverse Red Wedding'.
"Catelyn Stark sends her regards."
But on the flipside of that,
Cersei's character.
There was so much teasing of Cersei's storyline in Episode 9.
It was so funny.
So, in the first five minutes of the episode,
Tyrion specifically mentions the wildfire that's hidden
all over King's Landing.
The story that Jaime told him about the Mad King.
So he's like, Daenerys,
don't burn these cities, don't be like your father.
We don't want to go that far.
I want to suggest an alternative approach.
But it seems like Cersei
isn't going to listen to that kind of reason.
So she is going to do what Daenerys had planned to do.
"Whoa, you're going full Mad Queen."
So it seems like Cersei is going to have her 'Mad Queen' moment
because there is a big hidden cache of wildfire
underneath the Great Sept
and that's where most of the action for her storyline's gonna take place.
But as I've mentioned before,
Cersei is the protagonist of her own storyline
and we're viewing all this King's Landing stuff through her eyes.
So, don't you feel like the wildfire is her out,
she'll come away with a big victory
but there'll be so much collateral damage
and so many good people will die
that she'll seem like a villain.
So the show's really ambiguous at times about
what's good, what's evil,
it's really all about people's motivation,
the things that they fight for, how compelling their characters are.
So while there is a couple of really big villains on the show right now,
there is the Night King, there is Euron Greyjoy -
who's going to be a pretty fantastic villain -
and then there is Cersei Lannister.
I will argue that Cersei Lannister is gonna be
the best human villain on the show after this season.
And like I've said, the finale is kinda intended to
create some context for where the next season is
gonna pick up.
I think if anyone who has gonna have the job of
taking Cersei down, it should be Jaime
so you could tie that into Maggie the Frog Prophecy
'Valonqar'.
But I think, the idea with that -
like, if you're just going by the TV show's version,
which is a slightly simpler version that the book did,
they really didn't do the 'Valonqar' on the TV show -
but Maggie the Frog was telling Cersei
that all these terrible things were gonna happen to her.
But I think what the finale is going to show us
is that she's gonna to have brung about all those terrible things.
Like, ultimately she'll be the cause of her own downfall,
the death of all her children.
So the Maggie the Frog Prophecy is kind of like a
'self-fulfilling' prophecy, at least in the context of the TV show.
It's a little more complex in the books.
But what about Sansa and Littlefinger?
I know a lot of people were confused about her actions
going into the Battle of Winterfell, like why didn't she
tell Jon about the alliance that she formed with Littlefinger,
and what is the price that he is going to extract from this?
Like, she just didn't get all that soldiers for free.
So logically, I think what Littlefinger's plan is
is to marry her to Sweetrobin
so that he could control both of them.
Sansa isn't quite as controllable as Sweetrobin.
Sweetrobin's kind of like a human potato, just like Tommen,
you can pick them up and put them wherever you want them -
they'll do what you want them to do.
So Littlefinger firmly has the forces of the Vale
under his thumb.
And I think, now with this alliance with Sansa,
he'll have the forces of the North under his thumb too,
but not necessarily in a sinister way.
I think, if he had his way,
he would put Sansa on the Iron Throne with Sweetrobin,
he would become the new Hand of the King
and by proxy, control the Seven Kingdoms.
But the problem is, is if Cersei blows up
half of King's Landing with wildfire,
there really isn't going to be an Iron Throne
and I think Daenerys is probably gonna realise that
that isn't the ultimate goal when she gets to Westeros too.
So I think the Iron Throne will become less of a priority
and it'll be more about uniting the Seven Kingdoms
against this bigger threat of the Night King.
What about Jon Snow, Tower of Joy reveal?
Like, why would the show wait that long -
I mean, it's a great fan moment, it's a bit of fan service
because we've been expecting it for so long -
but why would the show save this for the very end?
Well, if you think about what Cersei's doing,
if Tommen's collateral damage and there is no King,
then there's no leadership and right now,
Jon Snow - now that he has defeated Ramsay -
he's probably isn't too sure what he's gonna do.
It's not like he's gonna take the black again,
so I think the reveal is meant to tee up
Jon Snow having a higher purpose in the grand scheme of things.
He's like, "What am I supposed to do with my life now?
I'm part of some giant prophecy."
So I think the TV show might give him some of
the Aegon storyline from the books that they cut out.
Just someone as Varys says,
with the right name, and someone that the people love.
So think about what Jon Snow has done.
Even Ramsay was like, "I've heard stories about you and
the great things that you've done."
So that's probably going to spread across the Seven Kingdoms.
People will hear about the awesome things that
Jon Snow has done.
So maybe - fan fiction here - Varys will try to rope him
into the Targaryen Restoration.
But what about Bran's storyline?
He's gonna be facing the Night King at The Wall.
I think we're gonna see him activate some of his new powers
that he hasn't played around with
as the new last Greenseer,
so I think we're gonna see Bran do some really cool stuff.
And they'll do a pretty good job of foreshadowing
what's gonna be happening with the Night's King next season.
Tyrion talking about the wildfire -
like, specifically mentioning wildfire
underneath Baelor's Sept in Episode 9 -
is a good example of how the show just like, slaps you
in the face with stuff it's gonna be doing in the future
So I think they're gonna do a good job of that in Episode 10.
You'll have a really good idea for
what's gonna be happening in the first
couple of episodes in the next season.
So I'll just - I'll actually say there's a new round
of the giveaway this week,
all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber
and leave a comment on this video.
I'll announce the winner when I post my Q&A video
in like, another day or two.
But I also wanted to say, what's gonna be different
about this year? Obviously the finale is called 'Winds of Winter',
but Winds of Winter - the book -
is supposed to come out sometime.
It might not come out 'til the end of the summer,
but when it does, I will do videos about book things
so we can compare some of the moments -
like the Hodor 'hold the door' moment.
They said that the way that's gonna play out
in the books is gonna be very different.
So I'll do videos like that whenever that book comes out
but that might not be for a couple of more months.
So the bonus videos I do for the TV show will depend
a lot on what you guys want to talk about,
and then whenever the book drops,
we can talk about book stuff.
It'll be alot of fun, there's a whole bunch of
really cool book stuff, the show's never gonna have time
to touch.
But this weekend, this week we'll have alot of fun
talking about how the show is metaphorically
'burning down the practises of the old way' of doing things
to make way for the new, and how it's literally
burning things down. Like Daenerys, burning the Khals,
and hopefully seeing wildfire burn down a lot of King's Landing.
So while you guys wait for my next videos to post
you can click here (Lyanna Mormont's game face)
for last night's Episode 9 video
and you can click here (Bran being Bran)
for a Tower of Joy refresher.
Thank you so much for watching.
Everybody, let's high five.
I'll see you guys tonight.