The most heroic thing we can do now look the truth in the face
the night king is coming
the dead are already here the night king made them all they follow his command if
he falls getting to him may be our best chance if that's true
he'll never expose himself yes he will he'll come for me. hi everyone its
Charlie this is going to be my Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3 trailer video
obviously the big Battle of Winterfell so we got to talk about the footage
that's going on here the plan that they made who we think is going to survive who
we think is going to go out and what the big twists are going to be because I don't
think any of us expect the battle to go down the way they think it will based on
the planning session that they had and what brand told them remember what
Tyrion said during the episode sometimes clever people the most clever people
overestimate their cleverness and bran thinks he's pretty clever right
now so if you're new to my channel be sure to subscribe to get all the Game of
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to enter is be a subscriber and leave a comment on the video so we'll start with
the footage first and what the people are saying during the trailer the
obvious stuff then we'll talk about what we think is misleading what's missing
from the trailer then we'll talk about death predictions so we start with the
voiceover from a sanso saying the most heroic thing we can do now is look the
truth in the face she's probably referring to the fact they're just
looking their own deaths in the face like we all might go out tonight
because most of the characters are fair game to go there are only a couple of
people that I think are safe with plot armor and have to survive to the last
couple of episodes but based on what torment told them when he arrived with
the brothers of the Nights Watch the White Walkers are arriving just
before dawn it makes it sound like the battle will end by dawn meeting most of
this will take place in the dark and it looks like the White Walkers
create a winter storm to cloud their vision to make it much harder for them
to coordinate their armies make all the jokes you want about cranking the
brightness up on your screens so much of my time after I finished making Game of
Thrones videos it's just going back into the Edit and cranking the brightness way
up so that everybody could just pick out what's going on in each of the frames
because of the way they light stuff they give you a bunch of different views of
their combined armies informations starting with the unsullied
legions the trebuchet is the smaller catapults the siege weapons in front but
you have the Dothraki bloodrider standing in front of them then you have
Jon Snow up on a hill face looking down on their forces at Winterfell from a
nearby clip they're both dragon riders now because
Jon has learned to ride Rago so maybe this is them just taking the
dragons for a loop around the area to get a better look at things before the
start of the battle Samwell watching the unsullied march by we haven't seen a lot
of Samwell footage from the other trailers in this big battle scene so I'm
assuming that he's just going to help the others inside the castle when the whites
eventually make it over the wall Samwell Tarly Slayer of White Walkers lover of
ladies Orion Sansa up on the walls Davos elsewhere also on the walls walking past
the northern soldiers down in the crypts it's Varys Gilly little Sam the little
girl that gave DuBose the Shireen Baratheon flashback it's a little too
blurry and dark in here to see which stark tomb they're sitting next to but
we'll probably get a better look for it during the episode but they're probably
on the upper levels of the crypts the underground structure has way more
levels goes way deeper in his way larger than the actual above ground Winterfell
Castle I did a whole history video on the crypts of Winterfell a little while
ago but they go back to the time of bran the Builder the lower you go the older
of the tombs are I know there are a lot of people asking what's going on with
this plan to put them in the crypts because it's all dead people they're
sitting around dead people the Nike and the White Walkers raised
things as whites well here's the thing about that I think there are a couple of
practical reasons why the people in the crypts are mostly safe not completely
safe but mostly safe the doors to the crypts are made of really thick iron
wood which is impervious to most kinds of fire and it's almost as strong as
steel but also number two I think the Gilly and little Sam are safe so I think
that most of the people around here would be safe because if you turned one
or two of these people then the rest would be dead because they really are
fish in a barrel so they'll probably be some moment where the whites almost bang
down the door before they're able to stop them above ground they'll probably
take it right to the edge like the whites almost get into the crypts but
they don't quite make it in so I'm not expecting any really big danger for the
people down here there's a sort of tyrion elsewhere
side on the walls sir Jorah upon the line in the thick of it on horseback
with hearts pain thank you very much Samwell be sure to give that back when
you're done with it unless you die then Samwell have to go find it himself
John says the night king is coming but there's a shot of him on the ground with
smoke all around him because of that winter storm that they create so it's
really hard to tell where he is during this shot but it looks like he's seeing
something he can barely believe the expression on his face is one of shock
and surprise there's a much wider shot of their armies outside the gates of
Winterfell this is actually lit pretty well there's the Dothraki bloodrider ZUP
in the front the siege weapons behind them the unsullied legions these people
over on the bottom right here with the taller looking shields and some of the
dragonglass pikes seem like they're the northern soldiers I'm assuming the
Knights of the Vale are standing off to one side here just off of frame there's
a same shot of Arya running through the upper levels of the castle probably from
some White's chasing her who have made it over the walls she doesn't have her
special weapon the Gendry made for her so she may have lost it at this point
maybe she still has that Valyrian dagger on her hip there's another shot of the
unsullied legions outside the castle as the winter winds blow all around them
this probably just means the army of the Dead is much closer to them in the winds
that they're creating or just making it much harder and harder for them to see
getting thicker and thicker that's actually a really creative use of their
powers create a giant winter wind to obfuscate their vision so it's much
harder coordinated and it makes it way harder for the dragons in the air like
Daenerys and John Snow to see what they're doing
there's the Hound with his new dragon glass ax & barrack with his usual
flaming sword inside the castle looking like they're trying to hunt something
down there look they're trying to be really careful so something is clearly
going on inside Winterfell during the battle there's a shot of what seems like
Daenerys on dragons back amidst this giant winter storm just trying to
survive through it I saw a lot of questions about what's going on with
this dragon in my feed but if you look on its back there's a little tiny figure
with long white hair blowing all around in the wind and they're hugging the
dragon back as close as possible like they're trying to hunched over to avoid
this winter storm so that's why I think that this dragon is drogon in is
Daenerys on his back I don't think that it's the night king of Viserion because
Viserion is a much deeper shade of blue with piercing blue eyes in the teeth
coming out of his mouth look way more menacing than dragon's teeth they just
designed him to look like a much more or some dragon now that he's a white
then drogon even though drogon is much bigger in size the unsullied legions
enter their battle posture then there's Theon in the godswood with a flaming
dragon glass arrow getting ready to protect brand with the other Ironborn
Jon Snow pulling out long claw near a tree this might be the godswood - but
it's really hard to tell I'm guessing that wherever he goes during the battle
he won't stray too far from Winterfell then Daenerys turns to Jon Snow and says
the dead are already here still pretty clearly pissed about what happened at
the end of episode two the Rhaegar fell on the chart a son but they leave the
trailer off with Brienne shouting - pod and the Knights of the Vale - stand
their ground as it seems like the legions of whites have already started
making their run on Winterfell like here they come right now I know a lot of you
are hoping for I spiders big as hounds because we barely got a wide shot of the
White Walkers marching their horses into frame so we haven't got a full shot of
the army of the Dead yet so you don't know what else they're going to surprise us
with but outside of the Giants that the White Walkers have turned and maybe a
few other large animals I'm not going to hold my breath for giant ice spiders
even though that would be really really cool
there were a lot of people that were confused about this shot of the White
Walkers marching into frame - because a lot of people saw the curved ice blade
in the middle here that the knight King uses and they thought that this person
might be him but you notice that the knight king does not have a beard the
person with the curved blade here has a beard so that is not the night King it's
just another one of Gilley's presumable cousins that's right they're all
fighting Gilley's family that's who all these White Walkers are as far as we
know what is the big twist of the episode though is that we don't see the
night king anywhere in this trailer but they're all convinced that he's coming
bran made this huge plan to try and trap him or lure him out into the gods were
using himself as bait I think it's important to remember what Tyrion said
to Jamie during the episode about all his failures in battle planning I made a
mistake common to clever people I underestimated my opponent so think
about it this way maybe the night King has been using brands abilities against
him because brands said that the night King has been trying to get all the
three-eyed Ravens going back thousands of years unsuccessfully so the Nike is
not dumb although three-eyed Ravens had the advantage of
unbroken magical seals protecting them when he broke the seal by grabbing brand
and marking him that's really what tipped it off and we know that bran is
still kind of learning his abilities he's much better than he was last season
but he still doesn't know everything so in the way that clever people
underestimate their opponents I think that bran is under estimating the night
king John snow made it sound like it would be the easiest thing in the world
we just get the night king and we take care all of this stuff clearly that is
not going to be the case the battle will not go down the way they think so let me
know in the comments what do you think that the night king is going to do to
swerve on their plan to trap him during the episode he could either not show up
at all or he could only show up for a couple minutes in the episode and then
completely take off leaving them confused wait a minute where the night
king go well we still have all these White Walkers and whites to defeat as
far as death predictions go though this is a solid episode for them to shed a
lot of their secondary characters and maybe a few main characters too and
don't forget a few characters might come back as whites
during the battle they're only couple though I'm not expecting every single
dead person to come back as a white but I think it's actually better to say
which characters we think are totally safe so these are the characters that I
think are wearing plot armor and have to survive to at least the last couple of
episodes yep Jon Snow Daenerys and at least one of the Dragons probably drogon
is safe Arya Stark Samwell Gilly little Sam Tyrion in the Little Bear like we
saw ghost during last week's episode I think it's possible that they could get
ghost during this episode Nymeria is still alive so if she and her super pac
show up 50-50 on whether or not she survives the battle pretty much anyone
in the north that's not on my plot armor list is fair game to go including
Melisandre because I think that they're going to almost lose the battle really
really badly but I'm expecting some sort of Melisandre Knights of the Vale moment
during the third act with the red priests or whoever it is that she went
over to get support from it's just assuming that it would be other red
priests and maybe the fiery hand she even prophesied her own death when
she was talking to Varys before she went back to volantis so don't worry I'll be
back because we have to die in this strange land let me know in the comments
though do you guys actually think that Melisandre will show up during the
battle at some point what will happen to is I will do a Q&A video but that'll
probably post on Wednesday because I'm allowed to post my non-spoilery Avengers
end game review Tuesday afternoon so look out for that we have both
Avengers in game this week and the biggest battle in Game of Thrones
history so be sure to stay alive all week so that you get to see it all it is
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