 Thanks for checking out this game of thrones review video All right, let's jump into episode three of season eight of game of thrones This is the one that after seeing episode two everyone was geared up for ready to go. This is Kind of what it seemed is like the culmination of the entire series because this is where it was heading for so long People had said winter is coming winter is coming. It eventually came a few seasons ago To a degree but now it was the big showdown with the Night King that everyone had been waiting for Where humanity was coming together minus Cersei and her folks No big surprise and so yeah Real quick if someone's starting to watch this and they think oh, maybe there aren't spoilers It is all spoilers in this review. So turn around if you haven't seen the episode Anyway, I literally just watched it took all my notes. So I'm I'm fresh I'm fresh off it. So let's dig in. So immediately What I really did like about it is all the silence in the beginning of it I know there are a lot of people who are just like I don't like it when when a show or movies real It has like long stints of silence But for me personally I think in film it can be extremely powerful, especially in this day and age where a lot of the movies and the shows that that we watch are very heavy on on music and It's Okay, getting a little too ahead of myself. It's it's heavy on music and the problem is that it ends up Telling you telegraphing to you. This is how you're supposed to feel instead of allowing you to focus on what's actually going on minus the music and Figuring out yourself how you want to feel about the scene and what's going on and just being able to feel the actual gravity of what's going on in front of you and The acting that's happening as well. The problem is for me, I mean don't get me wrong music can really really enhance scenes But it's so nice every now and then when when it's totally out and it's just like it's silence So you can feel something else and it's kind of like especially in this episode of Game of Thrones this sound of serenity with the silence with the backdrop of Chaos and like terribleness and war that that's just about to start So I thought that that choice of being so silent was a very good one And it's kind of like this other thing where like people don't necessarily need to be talking before war either because a lot of people are kind of contemplating their lives they're potentially their deaths and You know as we know from the prior episode everyone was thinking we're gonna die So I thought that was really good in in addition Another thing that was happening with that silence that like one take camera scene or that camera shot Where they were like following one character and then they go to another character and then another character Well, they're all getting ready for war was awesome. It looked really good It was really nice And it was just cool to kind of like get little glimpses of how people are getting ready and just being like oh, yeah There's this person. Oh, yeah There's this person and it really set you up to kind of start thinking immediately in the episode Who's gonna get it? You know, like who is dead This episode because I know a lot of people going into it myself included. We're like we could lose a Ton like a lot of characters in this. I mean, I don't think anyone's like oh, we're gonna lose everyone Potentially everyone's dead. I don't think anyone really thought that especially because there's three more episodes But I was thinking heavy casualties coming up and not just a bunch of red shirts. No name people I'm talking about, you know, the big names the named characters and that did happen probably the least impact on me death-wise in this episode was I always forget his name. Hey gran had already died the the one Night watchman. Is it Pip? Who's the guy who's still alive? I can't remember but that dude when he got it early on that probably had the least impact Well, other than Milisand, you know, cuz who really likes her? Nobody. I mean, he's just like a crappy person But but she served a purpose, you know, the Lord of Light told her what to do She did it and then she evaporated as she walked away Yeah, I kind of saw that that's where it was going as soon as she started walking out at the end But I'll go in kind of like sequential order here. So Okay One of the things that really struck me in this when the war starts the fact that they're just like, all right You Dothraki Go to your deaths. It was just basically like you guys don't speak the language around here You're very aggressive people. You have horses Why don't you all just go die and then the rest of us will wait in a more fortified situation For the bad guys to come to us. It was like, oh man, they're really doing this to the Dothraki That's pretty disrespectful. That's terrible. So that struck me But the cool thing was when Milisand came and she lit all their swords on fire, which it looked real I don't I mean the lighting of them I'm sure was CGI but the actual like the parts where that's showing them Close up with the the swords on fire and when they're riding all those scenes of like the horses going by with them on fire That looked real and I don't think that was CGI But maybe it was maybe the CGI was that good that I was like, that's real, but it's CGI. I don't know But that was cool do It was great Leading up to the fight starting Seeing when they pan to when they went to Samuel Tarly and you see his face and he just looks like He's ready like for the first time in his life like he's ready. He looked like mean. He looked focused He looked confident and that's the first time in this show series that he's really looked like Kind of a badass to be honest like this is the turn where he's just like I'm accepting this. I'm stepping up I'm being Who you know, I'm supposed to be at the end of this gigantic journey like he's the man of the house now Like he's the head of Tarly the house of Tarly now Basically because his brother and his father are gone So, you know, I talked about that on the other ones that like that switch happens, you know, it's it's pretty much Immediate where he's like, oh, you know now I'm different because this is my place in in house Tarly So yeah, I just thought that was really cool. Although, you know when the actual fights happening It's a very different situation. He's not as confident. So, yeah I will say one one neg one big negative to me with this is that it was so dark and snowing during a lot of the the actual fighting that it makes it hard to tell what's going on Like I watched it in the morning when I'm recording this. I didn't watch it last night I'm sure people like, oh my god, you didn't watch it when it was immediately on I was doing some podcasting stuff last night. So I was busy with that but Yeah, first thing this morning and so I had to like close all my blinds to make sure it was like super dark in the house So I could see better but even then like it's hard to tell what's going on Because it's so dark like they needed a little bit better lighting But that also may have been intentional to kind of give you the feel of the confusion of war Or the fact that if they do that from a technical standpoint, they don't have to make the CG Any CGI they're putting in there look as good or the makeup that they're putting on like white walkers They don't need to make that look as good because if you think about it How much time do they really have to put super amounts of detail into tons of people who are playing white walkers? So maybe from that from that angle That's why they were doing it. I don't know but it just kind of like bothers me because it's hard to tell What's going on sometimes and the other thing is with HD shot things Things are in high definition when you have really dark things going on and things are moving relatively fast It leaves like tracers On shapes So like if a if a person's like running in the dark you see like a tracer following this person So the whole time i'm watching i'm just seeing like all these tracers in the dark and it's it's like distracting It's confusing But then again, you know, maybe that's just whatever tv i'm using maybe other people watch it and they're like Oh, I didn't have that at all. So, you know, you can let me know down in the comments if that's the situation Maybe i need to upgrade my tv. It's not super new, but it should be supporting hd properly and when things are well lit No problem. I will say that um There was uh The first Little big moment in this for aria was when she kind of saved the hound Uh sandor claggain when he was like running and there was a white walker coming after him And she's just like whoop with an arrow right in his dome I think it was like right in his eye or something and he's like, oh man, she saved me So I felt like that was kind of the turning moment of like She's accepting that he's a better person now, you know, like I will save this guy. He seems like he's different He's turned a new leaf. So that's that was kind of my feeling on it So that was her first like big ish moment because this obviously if you watch this episode It was a huge episode for aria. It was I wouldn't say it's all about aria, but in the end it was kind of all about aria so um I literally when I was watching this was like couldn't melissan just go light that Fire trench and then not long after I wrote that she walked out and I was like, okay, perfect That makes sense perfect good writing on that one. I'm glad they took it that way But when things started going wrong I was just sitting there thinking to myself and of course things go wrong Because it's game of thrones things can't be neat. You can't just have things go the right way Which is, you know, why we love the show so much I'm sure everyone watching this feels the same way. You love it because it's unpredictable You love it because the good guy doesn't always win which keeps you guessing Keeps the tension up and this did keep did a good job of keep keeping tension up in the episode um So when the fire trench Stopped all those white walkers I was like, this is the moment right here For the two dragons to swoop in denaries and john snow. Well agon Targaryen To to swoop in and just start lighting them up because they're standing in place And there were none of their people hanging out there, you know So like that was the safest best time for them to just come in and start doing it I understand that they were working at getting at the night king because that's the main objective Because once they would take him out all the other thing all the other um white walkers would just collapse die, you know Shatter however it goes Um, but I just saw that and I was just like, oh man, this is the time This is the perfect opportunity to just take a bunch of them out But they would just keep coming as we saw later in the episode where you know The night king shows up and he's just like And rises everything up the old white walkers and the new dead who become white walkers And it's like well, this looks real bad as it usually does in game of thrones always look bad um So the other thing that struck me is when the fight's going on I'm like, man white walkers are so creative Because when they started just like piling their bodies into the fire so that others could just walk over them in the through the trench And and then coming up the walls and everything and just not stopping and I'm like, man, they're so creative And then I was like wait a minute. It's not actually creativity. It's just Brainless determination like they have no concern for their own well-being because They're not really people anymore. They don't really think they just go at it at the direction of night king So I was just like, oh, it's just mindless determination is what it really is. So you know Sorry allergies uh So another thing that occurred to me with all the craziness going on in this and in for the first I didn't even know like half hour or maybe it was kind of just like go go go go like crazy stuff And then it slowed down a bit, but I was like how in the world do you direct this? You know, how do you keep directing these massive massive scenes with so many people and so many things going on? I can't imagine I have done some directing at like a super super small independent film level And it is maddening enough to do that like just directing a few people I can't imagine I was just thinking like how do you do this? It's nuts And then and then I wrote down. Oh, here's the moment that aria finally starts doing stuff that everyone was waiting for with her She's had all this training. She's had a long story She's been through so much and she came out of the house of black and white like being a super badass But you didn't see it on display to the degree that you saw it in this episode When she finally just kicks in and she just starts Whooping the white walkers just going nuts, which ends up inspiring Sandor Clegane the hound who starts being just like This is pointless. We're all dead. We're fighting death. He literally says which he's right and uh She inspires him by what he sees her doing because berek dendarians like tell her that and she's just like fighting fighting fighting. So that was really awesome, but then it also created a lot of um Disappointment to me when they then transitioned kind of quickly kind of out of nowhere to her sneaking around inside the castle And trying to avoid a bunch of white walkers, which it didn't look like there were that many white walkers actually in there At that time when she was in there And so I was like why is she like avoiding them now? My only thought was she's tired. So she kind of needs to get up her energy maybe But other than that like she was just like Taking care of tons of them in a much more cluttered environment She can take care of picking off a few of these real quick, but I guess I'll have to chalk it up to um just being tired but that pacing wise it kind of like I don't know it's it kind of like made you made you hit a wall Because the pacing was like so fast and it just kept moving moving moving moving and then it was just all of a sudden like We're going really slow all of a sudden and you're like whoa, okay And it just kind of like killed the pace. It's like stop. It's like go stop So suddenly and I was just like what so that was kind of a weird choice in my opinion But I think it may have also been to kind of give them a break In the filming and in the directing to be like, all right Let's get some stuff in here that's more calmed down a little bit easier to shoot a little more calm So I I guess I kind of understand it um I don't really is the girl to name iliana the the girl who had the armor on and she she ended up stabbing the White Walker giant in the eye and killing him which was badass good on her She's always been a like a little spitfire and so to see her get that moment She just it was a triumph for her even though she ended up dying, which you know, it was sad but um She was always just like I'm doing this and I'm doing that and people were trying to tell her like I think you should be down on the Crypt she's like uh, I'm gonna fight with everyone else and she did and she did she had her moment She went out on top and though so that was good for her Is it was is her is her name iliana tell me in the comments. I can't remember She's from umber house umber or is it car stark? I think it's umber I want to say it's umber, but I'm like you're wrong. Tell me. Let me know But anyway, like that was a cool moment and how she took down a giant like she's so small And she's so feisty and she took down this giant white walker But that was a cool moment. I really enjoyed it and as she was like having the life squeezed out of her. She's just like It was nice. I enjoyed that um Yeah, I was just already sneaking around wasn't so great and then okay So then they had the part where are you sneaking around and then they had the part where um the hound and berek dundarian are then doing the same thing kind of like just sneaking around the halls inside of the Uh castle which seemed kind of weird to me because stuff was still in full force going on On the outside of the castle where they would be of way More use so it kind of seemed weird to me that they would go inside the castle at that point And just be like let's sneak around and see if there's a stray white walker here or there It's like no you're needed outside you guys Get out there. So it didn't really jive with the story and who those two are as characters in my opinion So I was kind of like would this be happening right now? I don't know And then there's the issue of when berek dundarian ends up getting taken down and he ends up dying He was getting stabbed a lot and at one point he falls way behind in the hallway And he's just getting nailed. He's getting nailed. I'm just like oh, he's just gonna go down right there But somehow like magically he catches up to the hound and aria and they get into that other room Where millisand is and he dies in front of them then I understand doing that from the standpoint of like It's more impactful if you give people the time to like see him dying alongside Characters who kind of like cared for him So I understand that but at the same time it didn't make sense Because he wasn't close enough to make it especially with the amount of times he'd been stabbed Like he was really Not going to make it with the shape that he was in so that just was I was like, okay But you know with a lot of this stuff you kind of got to let that slide because overall Game of thrones is extremely well done like extremely well done. So when I bring these things up Let's let's just like nitpicky type things. So, you know Um, oh the other thing is the the death of berek dundarian I was kind of like oh berek But it didn't hit me super hard because like I said in a previous episode I did of this Our previous video I did about other episodes at this point in the story in the books Berek dundarian has long been dead So I've just been as I've been watching the show. I'm like every time he pops up on the screen I'm like is this where he gets it is this where he gets it because I know he's dying I know he doesn't have a super significance to the story because he died a long time ago in the books Yeah, so um, then I wrote down, um Dragon fights are pretty sweet Yeah, I think with what they did with the cg in this with the dragon fights looked really good And once again, this this is where I'm kind of going back to what I was talking about with it being snowy and dark It may have been a situation where they're like, man We got to have a dragon fight like these two totally cgi dragons fighting each other It would be a lot easier if it was dark and snowy So we didn't have to put as much detail into these dragons as they're fighting Because I can imagine that being a big pain But when you're seeing the dragons and you're seeing all the cgi that they do in the show They've done an amazing job. It's always looked top notch. So yeah, maybe they're just giving their cgi teams Uh a little reprieve there Um, oh one of I think potentially my favorite scene in this Was the one where john snow is like running through the inner wall of the uh the castle as like It's just chaos all over and he's like seeing all the big name characters as they're struggling in their fights with white walkers And the first of which he sees as sam well And you get this moment where you're just like, oh it's sam He's gonna go help him out and he doesn't he sees him and he keeps going and then he sees like brian He sees jamie sees gendry, you know, he sees all these characters And he just keeps going and it's kind of this moment where I was like um You know, I I think people aren't gonna like this from the standpoint of that's not john snow He would stop and help but it's more realistic. I think because he has a mission He needs to get things done and he's looking for the um night king who he just kind of lost to but um Yeah Like I I love that scene because he does what you're not expecting to do and just the way it was shot and the way it looked it was And the way it played out it it was outstanding. I think that was my favorite scene Plus it was kind of it seemed like a long scene, which was nice um Theon got a good death. I'm going into like my talk at the end about the death Uh, I couldn't have thought of a better outcome for theon gray joy basically in this He got a good death because brand Basically said well, he did say, you know, you're a good man. Thank you And that's kind of all he needed like that's the end of his story there Like he went through so much he caused a lot of problems in the beginning and he really wronged the stark family brand included And for brand to in the end basically forgive him and and give him that gift and say you basically you're released Is when he's then like, yes, I can go die and I can die a death That while it's happening. I feel good about who I am at this point in time So I I felt like that was the best outcome for theon So it was nice to see that I mean when when he was kind of surrounded and it was just him and brand you were really like Yep, this is the end for him, but it was a good death. It was um Jorah Mormont going down uh When I was seeing him die. I was like He's been on borrowed time kind of because of the whole grayscale thing like at that point a lot of people I mean, I assumed I was like, I think he might just end up dying from this grayscale But sam had saved him, but He's kind of been on borrowed time. It seems like There's a big impact there obviously for denaries because she obviously loved him And I don't know if people didn't really think about this. You probably did a lot of people are smart when it comes to Game of Thrones fans um He was her true love He really was but because of what she was doing in life His position her position She felt like she had to keep him at an arms length at least For the greater good like she couldn't allow herself To partake in that in that love between the two of them. So when she finally sees him die in front of her It's this realization to her of all along. This has been my true love and and to some degree I guarantee she held on to the the hope That she would be with him in the end when everything was said and done and The realization right there of that's not gonna happen. And maybe also the realization of Maybe I should have let The love that was there Take it to the natural level Because there's regret now because he's gone So I thought they did did a good job of trying to make that impactful for me It wasn't as impactful on a personal level because I was like I feel like he's been on borrowed time but you know um The cool thing with when john snow was like facing up to the dragon is like it's that moment you just saw in him He was just like ready to face death Again That would have been his second death, but he was just like he was ready to accept it He was just like this is it like if this is what it is. This is what it is But part of me also thought that he was trying trying to test the theory of like um the night king got nailed with a Breath a mouth full of fire from a dragon and nothing happened. Maybe I'm that special too. Let's test that out So a small part of me thought that but yeah, so any obviously he gets saved in the huge aria moment Which was cool I thought That maybe like when she jumped out of nowhere and she went to stab the night king I thought oh cool like this is her big moment That's awesome And then he catches her by the neck and he starts like choking her And I was like oh well, okay Maybe they're just gonna kill her here because you never know because game of thrones And then that moment where she like drops the knife down to her freehand and just jabs it in It was a slick move. It was a slick camera angle It looked good and it was nice and then he's just like Blows up sat in a satisfying nature doesn't show any emotion though sadly I wanted him to show a little something just like Would have been nice Uh, and then the last thing I have written down about deaths Millison, you know, you kind of knew it was coming when she showed up in the beginning And and I think she said to davis. Oh, you want to kill me? But um something the effect of you want to kill me, but you know, don't bother because I'll be gone in the end So in the end when she comes walking out and she just like turns to dust. I was like Bye felicia Peace. I don't good. See you. I'm glad you showed up and did a few good things for a minute Goodbye So I think a lot of people probably felt that way too, but they gave her a cool death It was it was nice how like you see her walking out into the into the snow and the ice And she her hair starts graying She starts reverting back to who she is because if you remember In a previous season they showed her in the mirror at night when she's kind of took off all our magic stuff And she's like this super old crone So you're just like whoa So literally she just like turns to dust and Blows away in the wind because magic was just holding her all together So that said that's kind of all of it So my my then thought was where are we going from here because we know we all know there's three episodes left So it's like what's coming because the white walkers have been neutralized Maybe not but to the best of our knowledge the white walkers have been neutralized So my thought is What's coming next most likely the disappointment that is humanity? That is what's coming next and by that I mean in fighting amongst The living human beings in westeros Do you think i'm right? I feel like you probably do because that's kind of been one of the big themes in game of thrones Is the disappointment of humanity and how terrible we all are to one another and how you can't see the forest for the trees And you'd rather fight with each other than take care of the actual problems, which It's pretty true to real life to be honest um You got to look at big picture people stop getting into the little minutia and your Your grudges and revenge and all that stuff because that's all these a lot of these characters are into So I just have a feeling Since the big bad is taken care of in this instance Things are going to really start falling apart people are going to be each other's throats Literally and they're going to be killing each other because obviously we have the big thing looming of Cersei who has Been in the show saying i'm just going to let them take care of this and then i'm going to swoop in and take over So we know that's coming, but I think there's also going to be some fights Not just between everyone that's left in cersei. I think there's going to be some more going on Hope i'm wrong to an extent, but we'll see Anyway, uh, thank you everyone for checking out this review video Hopefully you liked it if you liked anything feel like any of my videos hit that subscribe It means a lot to me in the long run hit the notification bell That'll let you know anytime a video goes up. Give me feedback. Do you like these? Do you think I did a good job? Would I leave out? What did you really like about the episode? What did you hate about it? Where do you think it's going? That's another big thing Give me some thumbs up if you feel so inclined and thank you So until next time well next time with one of these videos will be Next week at the same time for episode four Hopefully more crazy stuff going on. Oh real quick speaking of four. I'm giving this episode four stars I've been doing star ratings for the episodes the first one I gave a four star the second one I gave a three star this one I'm giving back to a four I would have liked it to be at a four and a half or a five and I kind of expected it to be there But it that slowness in the middle of it kind of took it down a bit for me Plus there wasn't a ton. There was story development, but there wasn't like a ton of story development You know what I mean? Yeah, it doesn't make sense. But anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out until next time keep it brutal