The most heroic thing we can do now.
Is look the truth in the face.
The night king is coming
The dead are already here.
Hi everyone it's charlie we're getting ready for the
big episode 3 Battle of Winterfell against the night king HBO has been
hyping it up all season long getting everybody ready for this epic battle but
the really interesting thing is is that Conleth Hill who plays Varys on the
show has been talking about Cersei who he thinks is a much bigger threat than
the night king in the White Walkers for a couple different reasons which I think
he's correct about so HBO just in typical fashion when it comes to Game of
Thrones Season 8 has been trying to misdirect you a little bit to get you
focusing on what they think is the obvious threat instead of what the real
threat is going to be by the end of the season so we'll explain why that is and
why Cersei is a bigger problem than the night king as big as the night king and
the White Walkers seem they just want you to think that that's the biggest
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for spoilers for everything that's happened on Game of Thrones so far but
as of this weekend that I'm posting this video we're getting ready for season 8
episode 3 every promo every trailer every interview that HBO has released
with the cast has been focused on hyping up the big Battle of Winterfell against
the night king they do this every year for a couple different reasons season 8
even more so because it is the big final seasons 1 they understandably want
people to notice that they're breaking a couple of records before Emmy
nominations go out is the final season they spent something like over a hundred
million dollars in more than a year making these six episodes so it's
understandable that they want people to pay attention to what they're calling
the biggest longest battle in TV history longer than the Battle of Helm's Deep
and Lord of the Rings the two towers which was about 40 minutes long that's
why you keep hearing people talk about the Battle of Helm's Deep when they talk
about episode 3 episode 3 is supposed to be one hour in 18 minutes long which is
one of the longest episodes that they've had in the history of the show
so you imagined that maybe a little bit less than that is the actual battle
itself so way longer than the 40-minute helm's deep battle but to the other big
reason why they've been pushing the night king and all the marketing is the
big villain of the season is because they know that people expect it he is
one of the core villains of the show regardless of what you think the real
threat is and they still want to be a very twist driven show this late in the
game like everybody talks about the big moments on
Game of Thrones the biggest twist like during winds of winter in season six
when Cersei blew up the great Sept nobody was expecting them to do
something that epic until they saw that they were seeding that with all the wild
fire and Qyburn telling her oh we found some more much much more so remember
Game of Thrones is a show that trades on those big twists moments but they've
been hyping up the White Walkers in the knight kings since season one as this
real threat literally and metaphorically walking death that they have to stop
core operating narrative structure of the show being set up pay off in
reversal they spend seven seasons setting up the White Walkers is his big
threat brain gave us the stakes in the explainer in episode two last week the
show's way of explaining the mythology behind the night king this is what he
wants to do he wants endless night he wants to eliminate man as a species the
next step in that narrative would be to pay off that setup which is what this
big battle is going to be during episode three presumably obviously big twist
within each episode I don't think that the battle with the Nike is going to end
with episode three but even then in the grand scheme of things Jon Snow Daenerys
eventually defeats said night king it just probably won't happen during
episode three but it'll eventually happen later this season but eventually
they do defeat him that shouldn't mean that they've saved the realm right
because the payoff to killing the night king is that is supposed to end the
threat to the realm but here's the thing it doesn't though big twist because the
next step in that narrative is the reversal setup payoff reversal the
reversal is the surprise twist you never saw coming or maybe you did see it
because you were expecting them to do this in this case the reversal is Cersei
becomes a bigger problem for the realm than the night king was for a couple
reasons one being she's created so much chaos while Jon Snow and Daenerys are
still trying to fight the night king Cersei is making things way harder than
they need to be by double-crossing them not sending the extra Lannister soldiers
she promised then turning around taking out a massive loan from the iron bank
putting the crown back into serious debt only to use that money to hire 20,000
golden company mercenaries to destroy any of Jon Snow and Daenerys those
forces that just happen to survive the night King in the White Walkers during
this episode three battle on top of that she set Bronn to the task of killing
Tyrion and Jaime using the crossbow the Tyrion used to kill Tywin during season
four I've already made a few death
predictions about the big characters in Episode three but regardless of which
big characters they decide to kill off the White Walkers are going to carve down
most of their armies standing there so much so the Cersei will have an
overwhelming advantage even though she only has the golden company in her
Lannister forces remember she also has the extra Lannister troops that she did
not send north so even though there are only 20,000 golden company members and
no elephants much to her chagrin there's still those extra Lannister soldiers she
has she also has Chi burns giant scorpions for killing Daenerys is
remaining two dragons she doesn't know about the night king having Viserion yet
but there's also probably still more wild by her hidden underneath King's
Landing she's probably kept the pyromancers busy even if she did burn up
most of the mad Kings wildfire that he had hid under King's Landing during
Robert's rebellion her new weapon might be the scorpion is even in the intro
they go down into King's Landing beneath the Iron Throne and you see that giant
scorpion pointing at balerion the black dread they really want you to remember
that she has those scorpions but her real main weapon this whole time has
been wildfire and her ability to make the worst possible decision for the
realm at any given time which means pots falling which means fire inside the
walls which means the poor is trying to defend the city and not burning it down
we have been working tirelessly day and night ever since your royal sister
commanded us to do so the contents of this room could lay King's Landing low
so even though the night King is more of a traditional threat to the realm Cersei
is an even bigger problem right now the advantage that Jon Snow and Daenerys
have over the night king that they do not have over Cersei is that the night
King just has numbers in his favour he has a lot of special abilities he has
vissarion but he has the ability to raise the dead so he can exponentially
grow his forces during the battle as things get worse and worse the more of
their forces that he kills the more that he can add to his army the thing that
Cersei has that the knight King does not have is intimate knowledge of all the
northern forces all the big players the main characters she has a lot more info
about how to twist the knife so to speak and given the opportunity I think that
she's sooner burned them all Mad King style than give up the Iron Throne to
Daenerys and Jon Snow she'll do anything she can to keep her
on the Iron Throne regardless of what's left of the realm after the night King
so I realized that's ignoring a lot of the relationship politics that are going
on between John Snow and Daenerys right now Sansa in Daenerys over the fate of
the north after the battle that all just happened during episode two but all that
is unimportant until they deal with the night king then
deal with Cersei and there is no scenario in all this where the realm is
better off with Cersei on the Iron Throne
if she's ruthless and calculating now because she thinks she's fighting for
this baby of hers she's growing the belongs to Jaime that you're on thinks
is going to be his eventually this second chance she keeps talking about is
a chance for us to start over before Jaime left her how mad is she going to
go when she loses the baby probably later this season and metaphorically has
nothing left a ruthless person with nothing left to lose and near unlimited
resources thanks to high interest loans from the iron bank is way worse for them
than the night king the funny thing in all this too is that it seems like at
the end of all this the iron bank sounds like kind of a villain to for being such
an enabler and being so quick to put the realm back into super debt like would
you like another loan we're really happy taking your interest money please take
as long as you like paying this back we really love those high interest payments
you're making on this even funnier they're not going to forgive those loans
when the war is over so Jon Snow Daenerys wind up winning the day they're
still going to have to repay all of Circe's debt that she took out because it's the
Crown's dead just like Cersei had to repay all of Robert Baratheon's debt
that Littlefinger helped put him in during the course of his reign so let me
know in the comments beyond trying to get rid of Tyrion Jaime in the northern
army what other epically crazy things do you
think that Cersei is going to do towards the end of the season to try and keep
herself on the Iron Throne while they're also trying to deal with the night king
think about it more from the perspective of how she can make their situation
worse like as bad as it is trying to fight the army of the dead the night
King the White Walkers you also have Cersei trying to destroy
you at every single turn I also think from a payoff perspective at the end of
the season it also makes more sense that they hype Cersei up as the real villain
of the show just because Game of Thrones is a show that trades on betrayal the
whole concept of a game of Thrones is all about people betraying other people
for the Iron Throne so course there are probably going to be
several more huge betrayals between the characters before the show is done I
think the thing that people aren't expecting though is that there'll be
some betrayal within Jon Snow and Daenerys as forces so that'll be really
interesting to see the last couple of episodes so don't be surprised if there
are some big twists during the episode three big battle this weekend but
obviously my episode 3 video will post after the episode airs on Sunday night
and I'll keep the giveaway open til Monday when I post my episode 4 trailer
video the really cool thing about the next couple of episodes - is that miguel
zapata nick originally said that they wanted him to do episode three four in
five and he was like there's no way i can handle that because he's mostly
known for doing their big battle episodes like hardhome in battle of the
bastards so that's why you're seeing him - episode 3 in episode 5 so i wouldn't
be surprised if there's another big battle during episode 5 but i don't
think it's going to be quite as big as the battle during episode 3 the way they've
been hyping it up so everybody just get hype while you wait for everything click
here for my season 8 episode 3 trailer video and click here for my season 8
episode 2 video thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome i'll see
you guys tonight!