 Thanks for checking out this game of thrones review video So this is for as a title says season 8 episode 2 I'm gonna go all the way through season 8. So just so you know upfront if you didn't watch my first one Maybe you should the other thing is you definitely definitely should know if you haven't watched season 8 Well any of season 8 do not watch this spoilers. It's like all spoilers. It's all spoilers. Okay, just so you know So anyway, let's get into it I'm just gonna kind of walk through my thoughts as I was watching the episode like last time I have my notes here. Just gonna kind of tell you my feelings. Let's just talk about this stuff a little bit So first of all it starts with people kind of saying, oh, no, sirsie Lannister screwed us all over She's screwing us all over and Jamie's like I'm real sorry, man I thought she would be good this time and Tyrion's like man, she she do me again, but this is the thing Who didn't see this coming like she's an established liar not just in the show But like in their reality She is a professional liar and no one has known her to be anything else for them to think that what they pitched it to her Last season about oh, it's about preserving life in our realm and all this stuff You have to know for her. It's just like Don't care because she's not on the front lines. She's not that type of person She doesn't think in those terms all she thinks of is her own power And she would rather die and have everyone die with her and have the world basically end as long as she's in power when it happens Just saying and everyone should know this so there's kind of this moment of like everyone's like People really are like really really you didn't understand, but it's kind of like that for every care It's like really there's anyone that even thought this was a possibility But anyways, you know that it's in the script some people are supposed to you know But as an audience member you feel me. I'm sure you feel me. Everyone knew this is coming This is not a surprise to anyone did anyone out there actually put it in the comments Did you actually think that Cersei was turning around please? I would like to know The interesting thing about when Jamie's in winter fell and he's talking to them saying, you know, I'm here I want to help out He looks haggard. He looks broken like if you've been watching the entire show from season one on You know what he's gone through you know the changes. He's made so he's a much better person now But at the same time like he's lost so much. He's gone through so much So he looks haggard and broken because he basically is haggard and broken And I think they really did a good job of making him look that way And I think he the actor also did a good job of Acting that way and showing it facially and in his mannerisms when he's standing there in front of everyone Kind of adds are like holding court in winter fell. So I thought that was really good When that was going on by the way, you could feel the tension at that table between Sansa Jon Snow and Daenerys That tension was just it was thick and when Daenerys kind of made the I Made the decision, you know, we should just let this guy live I forgive him because Brienne's sticking up for him. She says he's different. She says he's worth keeping around He could definitely help us It like you know, it's the right decision and it seems like the right decision as the audience member But I don't know if it was just me But to me it also kind of felt like it was Sansa taking a jab at Daenerys and she was partially doing it Just to spite her and that's just kind of how it felt once again put a comment down there Let me know did you feel that same way or did it just come off as only just a intelligent decision to me It seemed kind of dual purpose. It was like well, this is kind of the way I should do it But at the same time, you know screw you Daenerys. I know you're not gonna like this one and at that moment It shows you how vengeance driven Daenerys still is and I know that's something that as her character has developed from season one to now She went from being a very benign person a very sweet person very innocent person and going through so much and becoming who she is now And for a while for a good while She was really focused on doing the right thing and doing well for people but what it seems like at this point is She still has that in mind and I think she still says that and I think she still tells herself That's what she's doing But her actions and what she says kind of seems a little bit more like It's vengeance driven. It's this is my birthright You know, what did they do to my family? I'm gonna get them all back for it Which makes her know better than someone like Cersei in the first place actually a lot of people kind of had that have that That bent in this story You know Stamps is kind of that way as well. Renly, you know, everyone it's just So just it just an interesting observation I just feel like Daenerys has become less and less of a good person as time's gone on Which is also really interesting because there's juxtaposition then between someone like Janie Lannister Who was a pretty awful person immediately in the show and as the show has gone on he's softened up a lot He's become like I was saying broken and haggard and has through that become much better Same with the mountain, you know, there's a good scene in in this episode where the mountain and I'm sorry, not the mountain the hound. I'm sorry at the hound. Sandra Clegane is talking with aria stark and he's kind of Showing her through his through his personality change that he is a different person. He is a better person He has changed. He has developed. He's become more mature in a sense And so it's like him and Janie and and they're making me this big kind of 180 Whereas people that started so great are making the reverse 180 Like Daenerys seems to kind of be doing Sansa to a degree like she's still pretty good, but she's also like super bitter She's still kind of like vengeance driven although Once she kind of like forgave Theon Greyjoy when he came back That kind of seems more like a turning point of her kind of coming back to how she used to be being more innocent being More kind of like good driven in a sense but also like Aria aria is a big one. She has had a gigantic change and she is still doing things for the for the good The right purpose, but she is 100% vengeance driven. I mean, she has let some people loose for the moment We don't know that this won't change, but people like the hound who are on her list Obviously she let Berek Dundarian off her list Well, I guess I can't say obviously but she alluded to the fact that she let him off her list During this episode when she was talking with the hound and Berek Dundarian. She said he was on the list for a little bit but She still seems pretty focused on the vengeance thing So it's very interesting to see who's changed for the better who's changed for the worse and What their motivations are currently because one of the other things is with the big thing that happens at the end Which I'll talk about it a little bit more a little bit later, but it with the The interaction between Daenerys and Jon Snow at the very end there when they're talking in like the Crips It seems like she's jealous and there the wheels are turning with her of oh my gosh This potentially means I'm not gonna get what I want So it kind of shows that things are more based on like her getting power and her vengeance and all that Which shows that you know, she's been rising to the level of Cersei Lannister in a sense throughout the series Cersei has not softened at all as we all know she's gone nowhere. She's been the same person so Yeah, and and it kind of seemed to me like Attitude-wise that kind of the Lannisters and the Starks and when I say the Lannisters I just mainly mean Jamie and Tyrion that their overall attitudes have changed to become more soft and more Pragmatic versus how the Starks have changed and they're way more like salty and vengeance driven and hardened and callous You know, so it's kind of interesting to see these personality shifts. It's like they just kind of switch sides, which is interesting Tyrion is right the part where he was talking about how he he didn't think he'd be dying at Winterfell And he's very much right in the point that he makes that a Death there is depressing. I mean look at it. It's such a glum place. I Mean, I'm sure no one wants to die there. So it's I mean, it makes you think with these characters What is going through their minds at that moment? How many of them are like not just like I can't believe I'm gonna die But I can't believe I'm gonna die here in this place. There's like no foliage. It's just snow everywhere It's cold as hell. It's just Bleak and it only gets more bleak when the white walkers come in town as we all know Podrick man with the the scene where Podrick's kind of training and Brienne's watching him And then Jamie comes up. He's looking like a boss like look at how far that guy's come I feel like there hasn't been they haven't super closely like watched his progression and so the Seeing him in this episode being as much of a boss as he as he was Kind of seems like a little bit of a leap Not like it's you know doesn't make sense But I'm just saying like we haven't seen much of a progression of him getting all that much better It's not a little bit, but he wasn't like super focused on so it kind of makes you wonder if like he was initially Supposed to be more of like a super small supporting Role in in the show and in the in the book so a story overall, but he's definitely Become a lot more and I like that. I like his character. He's cool The whole point where Jamie was saying that he came there because it would be his honor to serve under Brienne Seems like a euphemism anyone else with me on that seems like euphemism He doesn't want to be under Brienne in a sense and you could cut that sexual tension with a knife right there It's just like you could cut the sexual tension between Brienne and Tormund But actually that's just kind of a one-sided ordeal. Although is it? Because I think the part where they're kind of hanging out in front of the fire and drinking wine and Tormund I guess is drinking giant Boob milk. I don't know Kind of alluded to It seems like there's a slight slip up where she lets Let's an emotion get into what she's saying to Tormund and then she corrects herself where she says that like I think she says it's like it's good to have him there And then she like corrects it She's like, oh, I'm you know for the fight and she kind of looks at Jamie at that point kind of like I don't know if that was more She's trying to to make sure she doesn't give Jamie The idea that she would have any interest in Tormund because he's clearly showing interest in her Or if it's a slip up where she's showing like she does have an inkling of an interest in Tormund So I don't know another thing comments. What do you guys think? Let's see Daenerys says she's about the greater good Yeah, um, that's just kind of a rehash of what I was already saying like she says it numerous times still But you can kind of see it in her actions It especially in the way she talks to people and the way she makes decisions It's very much about we got to put the fists down and got to make sure people know I'm the person It's me which to a degree you have to do that. But at the same time it seems like Her she becomes even more and more and more focused on that as the story has gone on and She's having a hard time breaking this this new way of thinking and going back to how she was Where she was thinking more. I need to do this for the people It seems way more like she's doing it for her. So but we'll see where that ends up leading. Maybe i'm wrong Uh, the the part where davis which I love davis seaworth where he's doing it He's you know ladling out the soup and the one guy's kind of like oh, I'm not a soldier and he's afraid to die I just wrote down like davis. He is not good at pep talks at all. He should never do that again Because he literally was was like Uh, yeah, you know, we're probably all gonna die. Just suck it up, man And he was like, I mean, I lived through some stuff. So maybe you can live through some stuff But yeah, you know It was it was so uninspiring That guy walks away and and I was just like, um, you know, that guy's just like Like i'm a red shirt. I'm wearing a red shirt. Am I a red shirt here? I don't Uh, yeah, that guy's gonna die that guy's gonna die um Definitely one of the great things about this this particular episode is seeing even more of the characters come together in one place Let me fix this light a little off ish. Okay, that's better Um, seeing all these characters get together, you know in the first episode of season eight A lot of the characters are getting together at this this episode. They're even more showing up And it's pretty awesome. It's just really cool to see all these people getting together in one place Assembling becoming they've always been a part of one large story But now it's much easier to see that it's closer knit story that's tying them all together And it's just cool to see I kind of thought of it for me A little bit akin to the first time I saw the the uh very first avengers movie Where I was like, oh man, you know, I've seen all these a bunch of these people Individually in their own movies and they're super awesome and here they are like working as a team It's so cool to see them together. So that's just kind of how it felt to me in this episode And and that's one of the the best things that probably is the best thing about this episode to be honest So, uh, when they were all Getting together and talking and tormented is trying to entertain everyone because he's a gigantic blowhard to be honest Um, I love how much of a realist he is He's such an excellent realist is what I wrote down when he his quote He quotes the I quote him. He said we're all going to die, but at least we die together I mean That's pretty much all you can say to be honest And then from there you kind of see like what's everyone focusing on While it's potentially their last night alive And some people are like, let's just get hammered. Some people are like, let's you know Talk and and feel better about the relationships we have with some people. Let's mend some relationships You know, brian becomes knighted by jamie. That's great. Um aria bones gendry, which Did anyone else feel like that was kind of like gross slash wrong? I mean only in the sense that like When we started this show and I'm talking about we as the audience When we started this show, she's a kid and like I feel like her features are very much still kid-like so that She seems like a kid still so it just seemed gross to me I because I don't know if anyone else is like that Like do you still view her as like a child because I still do even though she's been through as much as she's been She still has a really small stature. She still looks super super young So when that started happening like I saw it going there and I was like, uh, can we And it was actually funny because my wife came home from the gym while I was sitting there On the couch watching this like literally when that scene was developing And she looked at my face and like I don't know what the look on my face was probably something like And she's like, what is going on? I was like guys They're about the bone. They're about the bone. I don't really it's a little weird So she just kind of like took a quick look and was just like me walked away. But um It just I don't know it didn't seem right to me. I mean if you're gonna throw in any sex scene I guess the one that would make the most sense would probably be jamie and brian Because that's been building for some time. I understand how aria was like, you know, I've never had sex before Let's do this and that makes a lot of sense But from a store from like a show standpoint It would have made more sense from what the show has laid out if brian and jamie were getting it on Not that I want to see that not that anyone necessarily wants to see that but um, because it'd just be like I bet they'd still wear their armor. Well, they did it just just saying It'd soon be super unsexy, but whatever But I thought the aria gendery one was super unsexy too. So I don't know Not that you know sex scenes always have to be that way but whatever Um, the other thing I wrote down is like, I understand the impact of romance in this I really do But the amount of romance they put in between like gray worm and masandi It just seemed like they just threw it in they're just like, oh, yeah, we haven't talked about these people We haven't seen these people for a while. So we should just be like, oh, we really miss you Like I understand because they did laid the groundwork for their Love affair, I guess you would say although he doesn't have genitals So I don't you don't really know what would happen and I I don't know but um To me it just seemed more like look We don't have time for this we the audience we don't have time for this Let's let's get moving please. I mean, I know some of these episodes are gonna end up being longer But that doesn't mean that you Need to drag your feet with kind of really unnecessary stuff and for me the gray worm masandi stuff in this episode was like Very unnecessary As well as some of the dialogue that was going on Like it was a pretty slow episode to be honest It really was but I understand, you know, they're building up And I think the whole focus of this Episode was to naturally which ends up being slowly Bring these characters together in the same place so that we can build up the tension and get everyone Get everyone Re familiar with each other make sure everyone's happy with each other and on the same page and united in this effort Then let's kill some of them Maybe in the next episode. I don't know so then it'll have more of an impact on The audience that's my thought Um But I just didn't care for the romance stuff all that much Uh, what I felt like for this like the tension building of like you could feel that here they go They're getting everything ready for the for the war. They're, you know, setting up the defenses Everyone's talking about going to war everyone's talking about, you know, what are the white walkers like? How this is is going to be we're all going to die that type of stuff So like the the tension and the build up was good And it see it felt kind of to me the same way I felt when I watched for the first time lord of the rings two towers When everything was building up and getting ready for that kind of a castle defense Massive battle it kind of feels like that build up So i'm really hoping that we get something kind of Of that magnitude that would be awesome. I mean I assume that's what's gonna end up happening because They took two years to do this up this season and they have said we're like going all out like we're We're doing the big finale. So hopefully it lives up to what we're all thinking the hype is Um Oh, and then I just kind of wrote down like with everyone kind of doing their things before they're potentially gonna die Uh, it just makes me think like what would if you were in that situation or me as I was thinking about it What would I be doing? What would you be doing? I mean in my current situation me being married I would definitely spend all of my remaining time with my wife But if I was in one of the situations with one of those characters where I didn't have A wife or anyone really, uh, I'd probably just try to get some laughs in to be honest You know like laugh before you're going into a really terrible dire serious situation So, yeah, I'd probably just want to find someone to to tell some jokes with and just mess around have some Have some uh, some laughs and some fun for the last time So, um, yeah, the aria sex scene was weird. I'd written it down Uh, it it did seem like there was a lot of wasting time in this episode. I know I talked about that a little bit, but Um, like I said, like I know it was trying to build things. I know it was trying to bring everyone together So like I get it and it was still enjoyable But it also seemed a little too slow and I was kind of like can you just give us like maybe a little bit of action? Like maybe they send out like a scout to figure out where the white walkers are A little band of scouts to figure that out and then they get into like a mini skirmish like a mini fight with the White walkers just give us like a little taste a little something to wet our appetite for the next one You know to make us want it even more, you know what I'm saying um So the Yeah, so one of the other things that occurred to me towards the end of this when the The conversation was happening in the crepe between denaries and john snow. Well agon targaryen and denaries targaryen It's finally revealed which that also Was anyone surprised at this point about that like I feel like everyone has known that that's the situation since like Season three, maybe maybe even season two maybe even season one because It's not a well kept secret really um So anyway, but when they were talking it made me think Oh, man Have they actually had sex like we haven't seen it In the show, but it could have been off-show. They could add sex. We don't know we at least saw him kiss and then it just made me think like They're jamie and sursy right now kind of in that sense. They're like the good version of the bad jamie and sursy So because you know mother Brother sister lovers, you know what I mean? um And then the other thing the last episode related thing that I had written down was At the end when you see kind of the white walker army coming up and stopping and kind of looking at winterfell Which everyone had to know this is the cliffhanger where they're going to stop it uh Those white walker horses look badass like have you ever seen a more badass looking horse than a white walker horse? Not me Like honestly the the white walkers sitting on those horses kind of don't look badass like they kind of look I don't know they look like larpers maybe And like i'm not trying i'm not trying to discourage uh say anything bad about larpers or discourage larpers because I know some I personally know some people who larp and they're great people But um the stereo what people think of as a stereotypical larper is kind of what i'm saying Uh, but yeah, those horses look crazy badass Like how they started the shot like with its hoofs down at the bottom and starts panning up and you can see That it's kind of just like bones and sinew left It just looked good man and like the horse skull head. Yeah, it's cool So the final thing I actually wrote down It are my hopes This better be an epic battle scene in the next episode and they better not waste a whole lot of time getting into that I would love love love and this is what i'm expecting That they make episode three The like the whole entirety of the episode just about a battle They've done that before in some other seasons where almost an entire episode has been a big battle That's what I want to see here. I know that's what we all want to see right here We want to see them go bigger go home Get that battle in but we know that after the next episode there's still three more episodes So there will be more battles So it also makes me like will they really get in the big battle? Are they gonna waste a bunch more time and then do a little bit of battling? I don't know but i'm hoping Very little time is wasted in the beginning and they get in the battle so That's how I feel about this. 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