Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, my Season 4 countdown continues.
Also if you hadn’t noticed, I just changed my youtube avatar.
It’s just meant to look a little bit more like my face.
This time I’ll be talking about my Top 10 characters on the show.
Especially given where things are headed in season 4.
My biggest favorites always get shuffled a little based on what happens each season,
so people that were my favorite in season 1 might be lower on the list right now.
All that being said, as I work my way down the list to my own number one.
Here’s the biggest question we need to answer.
Who is the most important character in A Song of Ice and Fire?
Not the coolest or most powerful, the most important.
Like if you were forced to say who the one main character is after everything is done.
This would be that person.
So as you think about that, also think about this.
Is the most important character the person that ends up on the Iron Throne, or is it
the person that put them there.
So real quick before we try to answer that question.
I’m going to do one more countdown video tomorrow morning and then my next video will
be my review of Episode 1.
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The winner is picked at random from the comments.
All you have to do is be a subscriber and leave a comment on my review video each week.
I’ll explain more tomorrow.
Now, let’s get started.
Dragons are coming.
And Winter.
Here’s my Top 10 Characters going into Season 4.
Careful for potential spoilers if you’re not caught up on Season 3.
Number 10 - Daario.
I guess you could say the new Daario since we’re also talking about actors.
He mostly makes the list because the character is such a big part of Daenerys story and she’s
also on this list.
I feel like the people who are most important to the most important people are sometimes
also the most interesting characters.
Daario as we’ve seen him so far is essentially the special forces leader of Daenerys Army.
Yes Grey Worm is technically the leader of the Army, but Daario is the person she calls
on for the most important political missions and doing covert dirty work.
The swagger the character has is also a lot of fun given how proper the rest of Dany’s
inner circle is.
You have two knights who are almost Yes Men and a few influential women.
Daario is one of the few people that kind of just does what Daario wants to do.
Adding Sex into the equation makes his relationship with Dany and the dynamic between him and
her other male advisors a little funny too.
I’m hoping that since they went through through the trouble to recast the role, they
added a lot more of his book scenes.
We’ve already seen a clip of him and it’s very promising.
Number 9 - Sansa Stark.
Someone who you might write off because of how much shit she’s taken from the Lannisters,
but I think she’s going to surprise us.
We also have to acknowledge how much Sophie Turner has matured as an actress since the
show has started.
I feel like they keep giving Sansa more to do each season because Sophie Turner has become
so much more compelling as things get worse for her character.
I will say that I love tv show Sansa a lot more than book Sansa, and that’s all because
of Sophie.
One of my other favorite things about her is that because she’s quote unquote a flower,
other characters tend to overlook her.
So she gets to be present for some of the biggest and best scenes just because no one
is really paying attention to her.
With the exception of Joffrey.
I’m most looking forward to seeing how Sophie Turner interprets Sansa as all these new Season
4 mega events unfold.
And the really cool thing for all the book readers out there is that she’s a POV character
in Winds of Winter.
They haven’t posted any excerpts for her yet though.
Number 8 - Melisandre.
The Lady in Red.
Even though Daenerys brought dragons back into the world, Melisandre is the most visible
symbol of magic on the show.
She’s add this whole sex aspect to it that really makes you afraid and turned on at the
same time.
Like imagine how Gendry felt with the sex leeches.
Disgusting, terrifying and awesome at the same time.
She’s also one of the wisest characters on the show next to Tyrion and Varys.
She really is like a female Maester who’s not a Maester.
They really teased the Wall during that last scene at Dragonstone in Season 3.
So what I’m most looking forward to from her is seeing how she interacts with Jon Snow.
And watching him react to her will also be so much fun.
He has a very spotty track record with sexy gingers.
Number 7 - Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne.
For a lot of people who haven’t read the books he’s a totally new character.
Which is one of the reasons I like him so much.
He’s fresh meat for the King’s Landing grinder.
He also brings Dorne into the story in a much bigger way.
It’s a whole region of Westeros we haven’t seen yet.
One of the coolest things about big epic stories like Ice and Fire is that they’re literally
big places.
So you don’t just get stuck with the same group of characters for 7 or 8 seasons.
Of all the new characters coming in the near future.
He’s one of the best.
I really hope we see more Dorne in season 5, but this year I’m most looking forward
to watching him fight.
That’s essentially what his reputation is, being one of the best fighters in Westeros.
And because of the different culture, he fights in this really cool way none of the other
knights of King’s Landing do.
We actually got some teasers for this in all the trailers they’ve been posting.
Number 6 - Brienne of Tarth.
Probably the only real knight in Westeros.
Brienne was so awesome in season 3 and watching Gwendoline Christie with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
was one of my favorite things.
I could watch a whole season of just the two of them together.
World’s best odd couple.
Brienne is probably the most noble person in Westeros.
Even in the first episode you got the sense that just because people were knights, didn’t
mean they were honorable.
Playing the Game of Thrones and all.
But Brienne is one of the only characters that doesn’t care about any of that.
She has this beautiful dream of knighthood and it’s works so well when you juxtapose
it with someone like Jaime Lannister, who essentially doesn’t care about anything.
I think he thinks he cares about Cersei, but he has doubts about even that.
So it’s like Pure belief and Nhilism walking around together.
The think I’m most looking forward to for her in season 4 is seeing her adapt to the
rewards and challenges of King’s Landing.
She largely gets credit for bringing Jaime back and as much as she rubbed of on him.
I can’t wait to see him try to repay her.
Number 5 - Arya Stark.
Stabby Death Machine in training.
All of the clips of Arya that we’ve seen from the trailers have been action scenes
and her in the middle of a warrior training montage with Needle.
I just love how dark she is, it’s this whole level of complexity that Sansa hasn’t quite
got to and something that goes way beyond where Jon Snow or Bran are.
Despite all those characters have been through.
She’s one of the few characters on the show that embraces the direction she’s headed.
Revenge Machine.
How appropriate that we saw the Titan of Braavos in one of the trailers.
Kind of heralding the return of faceless ones.
You also can’t talk about her right now without talking about the houd.
Of all the twosomes on the show.
She and the Hound are my second favorite behind Jaime and Brienne.
It says a lot about who the strongest characters are when you see who rubs off on who.
For instance, Brienne is a much stronger character than Jaime right now.
So she rubs off on him.
And Arya is a much stronger character than the hound.
In an intense dark way.
So she rubs off on him.
It’s just so funny and awesome to think that such a young small character has a stronger
presence than someone as vicious as The Hound.
Number 4 - Jon Snow.
He’s a real fan favorite because Kit Harington is so awesome and because the character has
so much potential.
There’s a lot of things in the story that make you feel like he’s destined for greatness.
So he’s in my Top 5 mostly because I feel like he’s going to be one of the focal points
of the story as things move into Winds of Winter.
One of the biggest problems of Season 3 was that he was off on his own with the Wildlings.
Yes, it was so much fun watching him react to Ygritte.
Guess which one of them had the stronger personality.
But he didn’t really get to interact with any of the other characters.
I liked Ciaran Hinds as Mance Rayder, but he was barely there.
And a lot of the Wildlings with the exception of Ygritte and the Lord of Bones were forgettable.
Giants notwithstanding.
The thing I’m most looking forward to from him in season 4 is taking more of a leadership
role.
It’s time to grow up boy.
We’ve already seen him with Sam in the Night’s Watch library.
So I can’t wait to see them deal with the Wildling army, angry ex girlfriends and hopefully
some more white walkers.
Number 3 - Tyrion Lannister
I really do feel like once we get through Season 4 he’ll be one of the most important
characters, but this year it looks like he’s going to be hanging out in the black cells.
And he can’t start having a greater impact until he gets out.
Tyrion is one of the most interesting characters on the show just in general for two big reasons.
One George RR Martin has said that he identifies with him the most, so I feel like he expresses
the character in a much deeper way.
And two, Peter Dinklage is one of the best actors on the show.
There was this really cool thing that Dinklage said about acting in an sword and sandal show
like Game of Thrones.
He said that because it’s such a grand setting, actors tend to overdo their performance a
lot.
Like cranking the acting knob to 11.
But he has this subtle way of delivering lines or saying things using gestures that just
comes across so much more effectively than yelling your lines ever could.
That’s why I feel like HBO kind of makes him one of the centerpieces of the show, from
a marketing stand point.
Next to Emilia Clarke.
The thing I’m most looking forward to from Tyrion in Season 4 is repaying all his debts.
Because a Lannister always repays his debts.
Sometimes with revenge.
Number 2 - Jaime Lannister.
There has been so much Jaime in all the trailers that I feel like he more than anyone with
the exception of Tyrion will be the biggest character in King’s Landing.
Yes Purple Wedding, but think about the entire season.
As of the end of Season 3, he’s undergone one of the biggest character transformations
next to Theon.
There’s so much of Brienne’s nobility in him now I can’t wait to see how he deals
with all the shit going down in King’s Landing.
The Golden hand is just the icing on the cake.
It’s just a visual sign of his transformation.
There’s oathkeeper and the White Cloaks.
Mark my words.
By the end of Season 4, Jaime will be one of your favorite characters if he’s not
already.
I’m most interested to see how he deals with all the changes happening in King’s
Landing.
Like Cersei, who’s kind of changing herself.
He’s going to be leading the White Cloaks too.
I don’t think he’s going to become another Barristan Selmy, but I do think he’s trying
to be the kind of person Brienne would respect and admire.
Plus there’s him learning to fight with his left hand.
I can’t wait to see him train with Bronn.
They changed that from the books for anyone who’s wondering.
Number 1 - Daenerys
Just talking about Season 4, I feel like she’s going to be the biggest and most important.
Joffrey is King of Westeros, but he’s really just a figurehead.
Daenerys is earning her kingdom, one freed slave at a time.
Then there’s the dragons.
Of all the things HBO pumped up in the trailers it was the size of the dragons now.
Even on the Black Friday South Park episode it was all about ‘dragons are coming’.
They’re collectively always going to be at least the second most important characters
in A Song of Ice And Fire no matter what happens.
It will be like Dany is the biggest, the Tyrion or Jon Snow.
And always right behind them Dragons.
If you wanted to get someone excited about the show who hadn’t seen it all you would
have to say would be “Dragons are coming.”
And they would totally get it.
The thing I’m most looking forward to from Daenerys in Season 4 is her trying to be a
real queen.
Not just a General like she was in season 3.
That story arc was all about conquering, but now she actually has to learn to rule.
Think of it as a like a practice run for the Iron Throne.
Emilia Clarke has done such an amazing job of portraying someone who is essentially a
little girl learning to be a general, then the mother of dragons and now a queen on top
of all that.
Remember Dany isn’t a lot older than Arya.
But now it’s your turn, let me know who your favorite character is right now and who
your favorite actor is.
It doesn’t have to be the same person.
Tomorrow morning I’ll post my Top 10 Moments from Season 3 and then my episode 1 review
that night.
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Dragons are coming.
Tomorrow.
High Fives everyone.
The wait is over.