What's going on guys Carmine here and welcome to my review for the season 6 finale of Game
of Thrones and all I got to say is what the hell just happened.
I've got to say episode 10 was insane and it fulfilled the wet dreams of almost everybody
who watches this thing: Jon is king in the north, Arya gets revenge on Walder Frey, the
High Sparrow finally shuts the fuck up, Dany is on her way to Westeros and R+L=J finally
confirmed on the show.
Now if you ask me?
this episode gets a 5 out of 5 rating simply because they hit almost every single nail
on the head for every character except one....my favorite Petyr Baelish.
That scene between him and Sansa is the most idiotic I've ever seen Baelish on the show
thus far and we'll get to him in a moment but all that aside?
all of it was fantastic.
The music was on point, acting was very good and I absolutely loved the scenery this time
around with Oldtown, the library inside Oldtown and the ships in the last scene.
Something Game of Thrones always does right, along with its big battles, is the scenery
and it did not disappoint this time around.
Now let me stop rambling and get on with the review.
First lets start with King's Landing.
I didn't expect the Mad Queen theory to come on full force in this episode but it did deliver
on so many levels and then some.
Before I continue let me praise the level of detail on Cersei's costume here.
While it looks cool and gives her a bit of a Darth Vader feel?
it does speak volumes to her character.
Personally I've always loved her in the Lannister colors of red and gold but I'm digging this
new look on her.
It definitely sets her up to be the villain in season 7 which is a little weird for the
show.
Consistently the show has always had a way of making you re-think whose a bad guy and
whose not.
Originally we all thought that Tywin was evil but hes just a hard to please douche.
Roose is an opportunist that happens to be an asshole and the masters are just victims
of that high class self serving life style that made them scumbags from birth.
Many of these people you could argue aren't villains like Ramsay or the Night's King but
it seems that the show is going all out to make Cersei the main bad guy for next season.
Her actions in this episode definitely set her up as the villain and I think her descent
into that realm of darkness was spectacular and very well done with some unintentional
consequences with Tommen.
I'll get back to Cersei in just a minute but let me touch on the trial for a bit.
i got to say I just feel bad for Loras most of all.
He had to endure all that torture for nothing.
And We also haven't seen him all season and the reason for that is, like Brienne last
season, the actor got a role on Marvel's Iron Fist premiering on Netflix next year but losing
the Tyrell family this episode does hit home for me because I always liked Loras' character
and Margaery going down is not something I expected in a million years.
Mace and Kevan going down was always in the plan of course but almost everyone whose had
a story line in King's Landing has been killed and it gives you a sense of finality.
With all of them gone you can definitely tell that the show is coming to a close very very
soon.
What really made King's Landing for me in this episode was the music which really set
the tone.
After Cersei puts on her costume, Lancel walks out to go get her and Pycelle going down in
the basement you really start to hear it and it does stick with you throughout.
It did an amazing job of putting me on the edge of my seat and I loved every minute of
it.
When Lancel goes down there and he realizes that Cersei setup barrels of wildfire all
over the place you kind of want him to put out the burning candles in time but you just
know hes too much of an idiot that it won't happen.
He was very close to the candles and he could've reached out and grabbed them too but it was
too late.
It was very satisfying seeing the High Sparrow go down the way he did and it was pretty graphic.
If you go back and slow it down a little you can see the flesh melting off his body too.
I also need to call out the amazing job Jonathan Pryce and Natalie Dormer did in this episode.
When she realizes something is wrong with the whole situation it really set her character
aside from everyone and showed she isn't stupid and I liked that.
Once again I didn't want Margaery to die because I kind of wanted to see her in Olenna's place
trying to face off against Cersei but at the same time I understand that it was time for
her to go.
Her character has pretty much done all she could and I feel like Olenna was always the
more interesting and likable one in that family.
As for Tommen jumping out the window?
I really didn't expect that at all.
Not only was it so random and out of nowhere but I never took him for the suicide type.
I mean sure he was a weak and naive fool but jumping out the window?
I mean if he was going to kill himself I figured he'd do something a little less public and
more along the lines of poison or that Essence of Nightshade, which was almost used back
in season 2 when Cersei feared that Stannis would take King's Landing.
She prepared to use it on Tommen at the time but at the last minute it didn't happen.
Now that does put a damper on the whole Cersei-Tommen master plan to catch the High Sparrow off
guard scenario.
I was really hoping that Tommen wasn't so damn easy to control and maybe Cersei was
able to get into his head and make him somewhat of a player in the game but no.
I will say that it's kind of a shame because I did think that the plan could've still been
implemented with the same results making more sense.
Now I know you guys don't like me doing the whole "if I was writing this" crap but bare
with me for a second it'll be worth it.
Wouldn't it be much better if there was a secret plan between Cersei and Tommen to catch
the High Sparrow off guard and she tells him every bit of the detail until the last part
where she has the sept blow up with wildfire.
Tommen seeing this realizes that he basically helped kill all those people and the guilt
is too much for him.
He commits suicide because he cannot become the type of person his mother has made him.
She wants him to be strong but he just isn't like that.
To me it would've made sense from a character development point of view for Tommen to be
internally conflicted on who he is and what hes become.
This would show the audience that not every one can make the transition from good guy
to bad guy.
That some people would rather lose their lives than lose their morality.
Do me a favor if you agree with me or not let me know in the comment section about my
whole idea of tommen and cersei being in on the plan and him not wanting to be that type
of person.
But as I was saying the whole Tommen jumping out of the window due to Cersei's actions
kind of hearkens back to the beginning of the series when Jaime pushes Bran out the
window.
It's almost like the Gods are playing a cruel and sick joke on Cersei and Jaime for what
happened with Bran.
But the King's Landing scenes in this episode were all around amazing.
I loved Cersei getting some payback on Septon Unella and making her the zombie Mountain's
bitch.
I loved Jaime coming in at the right time to see Cersei crowned as queen and I loved
the atmosphere surrounding all of it when she is crowned.
It was dark and ominous with a sense of awe and fear.
All of it was great.
They did an amazing job and it definitely hyped me up for next season when shes actually
in charge of everything but what I'm really excited for is how her relationship with Jaime
will unfold and how he'll take the turn of events that came about in this episode.
Over in the Riverlands the Freys and Lannister soldiers celebrate their victory over the
Blackfish.
We get some nice banter between Jaime and Bronn to close out the season and an awesome
discussion between Jaime and Walder which kind of puts the Freys in their place a little
and that's always welcomed.
Throughout the entire feast we see this one girl pouring drinks for everybody and she
kind of gives Jaime the that look.
Now some of us don't know what that look is and some of us do....it's the look a girl
gives you when she either wants to rob you for your money or ride your like a wildebeest
or maybe both.
Either way I definitely knew that Arya right away.
Why?
because the actress they got for that disguise looks exactly like Masie Williams.
Did anybody else notice this or was it just me?
Side by side this girl looks exactly like Masie Williams.
I don't know why but I just knew it was her from the beginning.
Maybe it's the nose and the eyes that look alike but I could tell that was her but this
is something I predicted a long time ago but it was mainly a wish of mine.
I don't remember the name of the video I said it in but it was one I uploaded in 2015 and
in it I said that she would go on her first mission and kill Walder Frey and whisper in
his ear "the north remembers muthafucka".
Obviously the muthafucka part wasn't making it on screen but I really thought she was
going to say "the north remembers" but I'm also quite happy with the line we got.
It felt so good to see her kill him...it felt like justice but holy shit...the frey pies?
chopping his sons up and mixing them into pies?
Didn't Eric Cartmen on South Park chop up some guy's parents and put them in Chili and
feed them to the guy? Goddamn Arya...I'm so fucking proud of you.
That's my girl.
Now all she needs to do is team up with Hot Pie and we got ourselves a Game of Thrones
version of Sweeney Todd.
Seriously someone with Photoshop skills make this happen.
But the Riverlands scenes were absolutely epic.
Arya getting her revenge in an insane way was great and getting one last Bronn moment
before the season ends is just icing on the cake.
Beyond the wall we get our last Bran moment of the season and it's a short one with big
purpose.
As I predicted Benjen would not follow Bran back over the wall and will instead stay back
in what I assume is a plan to reduce the numbers of wights . It was really cool to have him
back as coldhands but the main focus of the Bran stuff this episode is to finally see
inside the Tower of Joy and we do.
R+L=J is confirmed on the television show and it's to be expected because the show runners
have been teasing their support for that theory for a very long time.
I also need to give a shout out to one of my subscribers for pointing this out to me,
thanks a lot Andrey.
What he did was point out this really cool easter egg about Jon Snow being the Azor Ahai.
In this scene Ned takes Arthur Dayne's sword up to the tower and he leans the sword next
to some blankets covered in blood.
The legend of Azor Ahai, which is basically the Jesus Christ of the GoT universe, states
that the prince that was promised would be born under a bleeding star.
Theres the star and there is the blood.
Not only that but Lyanna constantly telling Ned to promise her also gives that theory
more credibility.
The one thing that I loved that the show did was not spoon feed the audience that Jon Snow
is Lyanna's baby by having Howland Reed come out of nowhere and tell everybody.The show
cut to the baby's face and then cut to Jon's face with some nice dramatic music and I think
they did this tastefully.
It was the best way to do it to confirm R+L=J without making it overly complex or too simple.
Now lets cut to the North with one of my favorite scenes this episode: Davos confronting Melisandre.
Of all the stuff going on in this episode this is the one that hit home for me and I'm
sure many people will agree.
The actor did an amazing job convincing me that he really loved Shireen and that she
was like a daughter to him.
You could feel the emotion from him and that is what makes him an amazing actor.
It's sad to see Melisandre leave but I think her character can still maintain a sense of
epicness if they team her up with the brotherhood or go as far as combining her story line with
Euron or Cersei for the next season.
As for Jon and Sansa this episode...they were a little weird for me.
What I didn't like was that she never really explain why she kept all that stuff from him
at all and but the same time I did like their little conversation on the wall about their
father.
As for Sansa and Petyr?
this is what really annoyed me about the whole episode: Petyr Baelish.
He is my favorite character and he completely dropped the ball this episode.
Baelish never reveals his full plans to anybody and him declaring the Vale as allies of the
Starks is really dumb.
Especially considering he wants some of that Sansa and chill but never gets it.
She promised to reward him but he didn't really get to collect on that and that isn't like
him.
Petyr is a good manipulator but in the end all he really did was fall for Sansa's cock
tease.
It makes the character look dumb for opening his mouth like that without fully trying to
grasp the other person's intentions.
Petyr Baelish, despite being one of my favorite characters, really dropped the ball this episode
and it was one of my complaints here but everything else was pretty solid.
The whole north coming in to declare Jon king in the north was epic.
I will say I really loved what they did with Lyanna Mormont this entire season.
I liked that they spaced her role out on the show.
It made sure the character didn't grow stale and annoying on us with so many other child
actors doing exactly that.
She also took over Manderly's the north remember speech which I'm fine with but I noticed something
with the Mormonts... they are the number one supporter of jon snow.
giving him the sword which helped big time in that battle against the white walker, the
shield that helped jon in the 1v1 against ramsay was a mormont shield and their leader
even helped declare him king in the north.
Hell without the mormonts Jon Snow would be Jon icicle by now.
But as I said everything in the North was downright awesome minus that Petyr Baelish
scene.
I loved the scene they did when Jon was declared King because it you go back and re watch in
season 1 almost every frame side by side mirrors what happened with Rob when they declared
him king.
It was a cool thing to do.
The One thing I wanted to see was that Karstark kid get his ass kicked by Jon or whoever else
but it didn't happen.
If you remember he is the only one who didn't join in on the battle with the Umber guy and
Ramsay but it'll probably be in a deleted scene or something.
Karstark joins several characters who appeared a couple of times this season and never returned
like Euron and that red priestess who really freaked out Varys.
Now I'm going to touch on these scenes a little because they're so short there isn't much
to say about them but I still want to mention them.
Samwell finally getting to the Citadel was great.
I loved the way they captured Oldtown and the Hightower.
I loved the look of the library and Sam finally didn't get his ass kicked this episode by
either family member or nature.
His line of saying "life is irregular" was a bit funny and I did enjoy his scene throughout
the episode.
The Sand Snakes return and it was great simply because they didn't say much and were put
in their place by Olenna which I will welcome any day of the week.
Seeing Varys come out of nowhere from the back makes it all that much better.
And finally we come to Mereen with Dany.
Shes giving Daario the "it's not you it's me" speech and he doesn't take it quite well
but she does.
Despite him loving her she didn't really seem to care that much.
Personally I thought Daario was the harpy and he still can but it seems very unlikely
right now.
We also come to find out that Tyrion has persuaded Dany to let him go before they come back to
Westeros and you could say Tyrion is almost a scumbag for doing this for certain reasons.
A lot of people were coming to me and saying that Tyrion had Dany do that because he was
in love with her and he wanted Daario out of the way but I don't see that.
Tyrion is giving her sound advice about the future and he does love her but hes not in
love with her if that makes sense.
That whole scene between them and her making him hand of the king? that was great.
I kind of wanted him to hug her or something because that scene was just so sweet and you
can't help but feel happy for Tyrion.
The ending shot of Dany on her ship with all her allies sailing towards Westeros has got
to be one of the best closing shots for a finale we've ever gotten.
Personally I will always love the finale we got to season 1 and this has got to tie with
that one.
That final shot showing all the ships from all those houses who have joined her is great
and we also get a glimpse of the Dothraki and the Unsullied too.
Dany has managed to combined almost every known race of people under her banner.
She has Ironborn, Dornishmen, Andals, Dothraki and Ghiscari, who are the Unsullied, with
her and shes ready to invade.
It's just an epic scene and an amazing ending to this season that leaves you on the edge
of your seat for the next one.
Dany's stuff really delivered in this episode and I hope they keep it up
Overall this episode was amazing.
It kept me on the edge of my seat and it was definitely a game changer.
Almost everybody was great this time around and it got me pumped for the next season.
Before I end the video I want to bring out another group of people who I think deserve
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See Thats how you know you have the patience of a saint is when you put up with my crap.
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