hey youtubers it's Charlie this is going to be my game of thrones season 7
villains video we're going to talk about the biggest baddest best villain so of
course boilers from everything that's happened on the show so far so mostly
you know that game of thrones doesn't really have straight up villains it has
a lot of antagonists antagonist is a better word but you know for the
purposes of this video is just easier to call them villains the people that the
subtext is telling you to root against like everybody always loves Cersei
because Lena Headey is so amazing but she is most definitely one of the
biggest villains to come out of the end of season six so you know just right off
the bat i will say she's probably gonna be my favorite villain of season 7 even
though she's written in such a complex way that you can identify with why she's
doing things but it is certain point you do have to say like okay she is
definitely the villain of this Daenerys vs Cersei storyline that's gonna be
happening in the crown lands because of all the atrocities that she is committed
now the nearest has killed a lot of people but she's also freed a lot of
slave so you know like you kind of have to balance out the bad things she does
with the good things that she does in her intentions
what is it exactly that Cersei is fighting for like she killed a bunch of
her own subjects she wasn't killing enemies of the kingdom she was killing
people that were trying to kill her like so she was defending her own life she
was being very selfish and as a consequence of that Tommen ended up
dying
dan and dave clarified that the subtext to that whole event was you know the
Tommen was just like going crazy in his head and probably needed his mother to
lead him through that but then the realization that his mother was
responsible for this and no one was there to be with him to help him just
was too much for him so he's just like I can't handle this i'm out peace so the
counterpoint to that is actually when Cersei was still you know bad person but
not really an antagonist was the Blackwater episode where she's sitting
there with Tommen clutching him thinking that if they lose the battle
Stannis takes the red key she's going to commit assisted suicide with her and
Tommen so that they can't be taken alive so that's a very bad Cersei sympathetic
moment but you know where she's swirling her wine here in where she walks out on
shame nun like if it wasn't clear what she blows up the great set you know
because everyone was kind of cheering when that happened because it was so
amazing looking
the real Cersei villain moment of the season was when she left
Shame nun with the mountain knowing full well what was going to happen
oh no you're not going to die today so it is totally ok to root for Cersei just
because Lena Headey is so amazing as long as you remember that she is
probably the bad person in this fight with daenerys the actual battle for
the Iron Throne even jamie is questioning his loyalty to Cersei now
like oh my god i have no idea when i'm going to just look on his face here is
priceless
so when all the storylines that are going to be happening in season 7 just
remember that idea they'll be like fantastic actors but there will
definitely be an antagonist for each storyline so like up in the North
they've been teasing jon snow versus Sansa maybe the you know nothing part of jon
snow doesn't realize what's going on inside Sansa's head how she feels a little
slighted by all the stuff that's happened in how she might act out as a
result of that in what little finger might do to take advantage of it
so while Sansa might seem like the antagonist really little finger is going
to be the actual villain of that northern storyline just because he's
going to create as much chaos as possible
chaos is a ladder it all goes back to that amazing little finger speech but
slightly lesser storylines they'll probably be some barriers for Samwell
across like you don't just automatically have access to everything that he needs
at the Citadel the arch maesters have a very strong opinion about the way they
go about their business in Samwell is trying to become a maester so he has to
follow their rules and if it wasn't clear from like the really funny
exchange that he had with that person when he was entering the citadel that's
only the beginning he's probably going to have a much harder time I just I'm
not expecting the season to give us too many Samwell scenes because there's only
going to be about seven episodes which means the story will be less sprawling
which is actually a good thing but bad and it will have to like cut down on
some other storylines like Samwell at the citadel so a lot of you are also asking
what about the White Walkers won't they be some of the biggest villains of the
season
well the funny thing is the way Dan and Dave talk about them like they're like
well they represent death in the narrative we don't think of them as
traditional villains so you can kind of understand where they're coming from
like the White Walkers are a force of nature like literally a force of nature
force created by those who worship nature so they're kind of more of an
ethereal threat and that's actually the way they've been using them in the story
I
you don't think they'll be actually like physical antagonist where you have a big
battle till the final season so what I still kind of do think of them as
villains I don't think they're gonna be villains in the sense that Cersei is a
villain of season seven so they'll be there but they're like the ticking clock
down like they're just there to remind you that death is slowly marching on it
cannot be stopped the really fun part that i haven't mentioned that you're
probably wondering about is what about euron I think he's gonna be the
surprise bitches Ramsey villain of season 7 like you thought you forgot
about me but I'm actually a really terrible person with a pretty large
force my back so I think in the way that Ramsey went from being just like an
awful person in a dungeon to being this really big antagonist I think that
you're on will turn from this person who seems like a threat into a much bigger
threat in season 7 like if he lines with anyone it will probably be Cersei
because right now the entire kingdom hates or even the people in King's
Landing look like they're going to turn on her so she is going to seek allies
wherever she can find them in right now the greatest thing that Euron could
do for Cersei is help make sure that she still has a steady supply of food coming
into the city because the Tyrells they basically control most of the food in
the kingdom is because so much of it is grown on their lands so if she wants to
the queen of thorns could totally starved Cersei out so she's going to
need to get food somehow Euron is just one of the many ways that she could
solve that problem but i know i haven't talked much about the East there i mean
there's still a lot of big forces in the East but I think the show has largely
come back to Westeros so most of the storylines you see will take place in
the Seven Kingdoms like I said one of the benefits of the story being fewer
episodes as bad as that sounds
is that the story will be less sprawling so I'm not expecting us to visit the
east a whole lot but let me know in the comments
who's your favorite antagonist going into season 7 like who do you think is
going to be the biggest baddest best villain right now I still think that
it's going to be Cersei just because Lena Headey so fantastic so they write
her that way they write her to be this amazing villain but i just love the idea
that Daenerys is moving in with her for like she has this amazing large force
that she's going to bring in to lay siege to King's Landing and it looks
like Cersei's own subjects are going to turn on her especially Jamie even the
Lena Headey
he is probably signed a contract that's going to take her through season a so I
think they're gonna try and keep her around as long as possible but that
doesn't necessarily mean that she's still going to be sitting on the Iron
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there's not a whole lot of news happening right now but I'm expecting a
few surprises for winter winter in the books and stuff like that but if you
guys didn't know george RR martin did land another TV series but it's going to
be at FX it's for his wild card series that has absolutely nothing to do with
Game of Thrones but there will be another george RR martin big epic series
that they try to develop for television so high fives to Martin his stuff is
blowing up like wildfire right now while you guys wait for my next video to post
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