Your gal has got TIK TOK!! www.tiktok.com/@indiancalypso?lang=en HAHA!! I upload my fav moments of GOT so check it out you tik tok peeps and I will figure out how to work this app hahahaha!!!
Good for you! I signed up, for when I get a project off the ground......hopefully 🎨🧩🏝🌅. But right now. I can't figure it out. When the time comes. I will have my kids help 🤣
I know people may have told you this already, but Episode 3 was shot extremely dark, to emphasize " The Long Night" , but trust me, you will want to turn the resolution up on your screen so you can see! This drove me mad the 1st time I saw it!! You'll thank yourself that you did it, you'll be able to see everything much better!!💕💕
The look on Dany's face when she sees Theon and Sansa: I've always interpreted that as jealousy... as in she realizes that she doesn't inspire that level of loyalty - a loyalty of love, not just a loyalty of honor
What about Arya and Gendry? The rest of the show is just forgettable after that. There was something about a bread wedding and some rando getting sean-beaned....
Jaime knights Brienne with Widow's Wail, while she has Oathkeeper with her. It's the symbolic coming together of the Two Swords Tywin re-forged from Ned Stark's sword Ice. Where else but in Winterfell. With the knighting it's like Ice is whole once again. That was a nice touch, dare I say. The first time Jaime saw Brienne was as a prisoner, during that heated "Kingslayer? What a King he was!" back and forth with Catelyn which revolved around questions of forsaken vows, honor and knighthood. Now that conversation is complete.
In my personal top 3 episodes. Great writing and acting, well paced, you’re nervous yet comfortable the whole episode. Very little conflict, and a great feeling of solidarity for all our favorite characters.
I have to admit, binge-watching the final season is a big improvement over waiting two years and then getting only 6 episodes you have to wait each week to watch.
Fun facts: 1. This is the third episode in the entire series where we stay in one location from start to finish. 2. This is the fourth episode in the entire series not to feature a single character death.
This episode is one of my personal favourites from the entire series. It’s a really good calm before the storm styled episode and a great way for us to spend time with characters. Many of them believe they may not make it through the coming battle and so take the opportunity to spend their final hours with the ones they most want to. Get ready for the next episode😊
With all the nods and callbacks this episode is basically a hour long homage to the throwback moments of the show. It's like a farewell tour. I vaguely remembered it for being slow, but on rewatches I've grown fond of this episode for the way it builds up anticipation and gets me sad and nostalgic for the incredible journey we've had. It tugged the heartstrings much better than what I initially remembered. Pod's Jenny of Oldstones sets the mood for The Night Before Winter.
The title, "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms" is an homage to some *REALLY* cool Westeros History and Lore, *AND* Brienne's own family history, which was not told in the H&L specials. Brienne is a descendant of one of the most noble knights of the Seven Kingdoms, Ser Duncan the Tall. As far as we know, Ser Duncan was never actually knighted yet went on to become Lord Commander of the King's Guard for King Aegon Targaryen Fifth of his Name. In George R.R. Martin's short stories, "The Tales Of Dunk And Egg" Dunk is a travelling Hedge Knight who wanders Westeros with his loyal squire "Egg", who's true secret identity, Prince Aegon Targaryen, is known only to Dunk, Egg, and Egg's father, Prince Maekar Targaryen. Through a series of unfortunate events, young squire Aegon, who was never actually in line for the Iron Throne, becomes King Aegon Targaryen Fifth of his Name when Egg's older brother, Aemon, turned down the throne due to his oath a Maester of the Citadel assigned to the Night's Watch. Brienne and Pod's relationship is a direct reflection of Dunk and Egg's relationship. The title, "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms," is also the working title of the live action adaptation of "The Tales Of Dunk And Egg," currently in production by HBO. On a side note, one of the first things the young King Aegon did was to sentence a man named Lord Brynden Rivers to the Wall. Brynden was the bastard son of King Aegon the Fourth and served as Master of Whisperers and Hand of the King to two previous kings. Bloodraven had broken an oath of protection and beheaded the man that protection had been sworn to. LORD Bloodraven traveled to the Wall with Aemon; they were close, as Bloodraven was Aemon's great uncle. Lord Bloodraven served several years as lead ranger, then Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, before being lost beyond the Wall roughly 75 years before being found in a cave by Brandon Stark, Jojen and Mira Reed, and a gentle giant called Hodor, who, btw, was also a direct descendant of Ser Duncan the Tall. Thats where Hodoe and Brienne both inherit their size. Namaste 🙏
They say that Bran can see everything that has ever happened and everything that is happening, but to my knowledge they never said he can see what is to come. I don’t think he necessarily can see the future. Unless I missed that somewhere along the line.
This episode is one of my top 3 episodes ever in Game Of Thrones! So pure, so intense... looks like the TV Show is saying goodbye to us and looks like us giving this huge goodbye to all these great caracteres too.
I like this episode but the part where brienne gets mad at jaime for not insulting her and saying they've never had a conversation without him doing it is just false and wrong
After this ep you should react to "Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones (Lyric Video)" It's the song that Podrick sang in this ep but with the lyrics correlated with the events!
Danerys sees her sworn oathman, fighting the same battle she is fighting, but for someone else. Theon's loyalty to Sansa supersedes his loyalty to Dany.
@@Heather61776 what of it? he bend the knee to Daenerys the moment he arrived, but Sansa is his family, so it makes sense. but that doesn't mean anything other than this. Dany has her own family
such an emotional episode for so many reasons.. love your investment in the characters and that you are not afraid to show your emotions.. looking forward to finishing this with you
Okay, few things: The only people in the throne room when Jamie killed the Mad King were the two of them plus a pyromancer who Jamie also killed. The only people who know that Jamie did it to save the people of King's Landing from death-by-wildfire are Jamie and Brienne, because he told her. Everybody else assumes it was part of his father's deceitful plan to take King's Landing by pretending to be there in support of the king until he opened the gates and then sacking the place. The Arya & Gendry thing didn't come out of nowhere. Way back when they were at Harrenhall, there was a scene where she was eyeing him up as he worked topless at the smithy. She was way too young to do anything about it and maybe didn't even understand what she was feeling, but it was there.
Exactly. I remember speculation after those scenes in Season 2 that perhaps Robert's command ("We'll join our houses!") would come true, except not quite as he planned.
The Tyrion Jaime scene where he completely calls him on his bs (acting all coy and surprised when Cersei does something evil even though she has been a monster to Tyrion since the day he was born and Jaime loved her anyway) is so important and so many people about it
When Jaime asked Bran why he didn't tell them about the tower window, I'm pretty sure he meant right there in the hall, this episode (as opposed to years ago). The "things I do for love" line made it clear that Bran was now aware, and yet he didn't pile on when Dany and Sansa were listing his offenses against them. Nobody but Jaime could possibly know what that line meant. It signaled to Jaime that he was keeping the secret intentionally, and Jaime was asking him why he would do that.
Apart from Arya and Gendry, this was a perfect episode. Pod has got to be the most eligible bachelor in the seven kingdoms. He can fight, he can sing and he has his magic touch in the bedroom.
@Darkstar In Arya’s defense the motivation is understood. Nothing sets the mood quite like the end of the world, and she wanted to know what it was like. I do agree that it was very badly executed, though.
Jesus, I forgot how much they nerfed Tyrion in the last two seasons. He went from being written as an incredibly cleaver person for 6 seasons and then is written to have all plans fail and him take the blame for it for the last two.
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Yo, this was a THICC ‘sode We got the reunions, we got the tension, we got the pride, we got the sexual tension (😂) And most importantly, the laughter. It’s a masterpiece. Its… it’s my favorite episode of the whole series tbh lol the, ‘frivolity before a battle’ trope is always just😙🤌🏼💋
daenerys: i- sansa: use your army against the Night King while i chill in the crypts, but don't eat our food. go to king's landing to destroy my rival and then let the north be free cause we don't need you 🤬
God knows that season 8 has its flaws... many of them... but it also has quite a number of great moments, and several of them were in this episode. The knighting of Brienne. The one-on-one between Daenerys and Sansa (and the arrival of Theon). Pod's song (Jenny of Oldstones). Arya & Gendry. Jorah & Lyanna. Jaime & Bran. Being able to savor those moments helps us tolerate the weak parts and allows us to enjoy the bigger picture. Don't let the bad block you from enjoying the good.
It's not (at least - not only) that Jon is a male air, he is just first in succession line - oldest living child of oldest son of king. In case Robert's rebellion would not had place or was unsuccessful - Rhaegar would be king after Aerys (the mad king), and his child after him (probably one of the children he had with Elia Martel, not Jon, but still), in that case too - neither Deanerys nor Viserys would have claim to the throne regardless of their gender.
This episode in my top 10 for the entire series. Originally, the buildup to the Long Night was such that we believed everyone was going to die. I was going to throw my tv out the window if any happened to Arya.
Dany and Jaime coming face to face reminded me of that beautiful description of Westeros, or rather Rhaesh Andhal in the Dothraki tongue, as Dany would imagine it in exile. It ends with a thought about Jaime : *Somewhere beyond the sunset, across the narrow sea, lay a land of green hills and flowered plains and great rushing rivers, where towers of dark stone rose amidst magnificent blue-grey mountains, and armored knights rode to battle beneath the banners of their lords. The Dothraki called that land Rhaesh Andahli, the land of the Andals. In the Free Cities, they talked of Westeros and the Sunset Kingdoms. Her brother had a simpler name. “Our land,” he called it. The words were like a prayer with him. If he said them enough, the gods were sure to hear. “Ours by blood right, taken from us by treachery, but ours still, ours forever. You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.” And perhaps the dragon did remember, but Dany could not. She had never seen this land her brother said was theirs, this realm beyond the narrow sea. These places he talked of, Casterly Rock and the Eyrie, Highgarden and the Vale of Arryn, Dorne and the Isle of Faces, they were just words to her. Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King’s Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother’s womb. Yet sometimes Dany would picture the way it had been, so often had her brother told her the stories. The midnight flight to Dragonstone, moonlight shimmering on the ship’s black sails. Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved. The sack of King’s Landing by the ones Viserys called the Usurper’s dogs, the lords Lannister and Stark. Princess Elia of Dorne pleading for mercy as Rhaegar’s heir was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. The polished skulls of the last dragons staring down sightlessly from the walls of the throne room while the Kingslayer opened Father’s throat with a golden sword.*
In honor of Dany and Jaime finally coming face to face, an excerpt on how the Kingsguard who killed his father seemed in Dany's imagination during exile : *Every khal had his bloodriders. At first Dany had thought of them as a kind of Dothraki Kingsguard, sworn to protect their lord, but it went further than that. Jhiqui had taught her that a bloodrider was more than a guard; they were the khal’s brothers, his shadows, his fiercest friends. “Blood of my blood,” Drogo called them, and so it was; they shared a single life. The ancient traditions of the horselords demanded that when the khal died, his bloodriders died with him, to ride at his side in the night lands. If the khal died at the hands of some enemy, they lived only long enough to avenge him, and then followed him joyfully into the grave. In some khalasars, Jhiqui said, the bloodriders shared the khal’s wine, his tent, and even his wives, though never his horses. A man’s mount was his own. Daenerys was glad that Khal Drogo did not hold to those ancient ways. She should not have liked being shared. And while old Cohollo treated her kindly enough, the others frightened her; Haggo, huge and silent, often glowered as if he had forgotten who she was, and Qotho had cruel eyes and quick hands that liked to hurt. He left bruises on Doreah’s soft white skin whenever he touched her, and sometimes made Irri sob in the night. Even his horses seemed to fear him. Yet they were bound to Drogo for life and death, so Daenerys had no choice but to accept them. And sometimes she found herself wishing her father had been protected by such men. In the songs, the white knights of the Kingsguard were ever noble, valiant, and true, and yet King Aerys had been murdered by one of them, the handsome boy they now called the Kingslayer, and a second, Ser Barristan the Bold, had gone over to the Usurper. She wondered if all men were as false in the Seven Kingdoms. When her son sat the Iron Throne, she would see that he had bloodriders of his own to protect him against treachery in his Kingsguard.*
By "fought" I don't think he means a literal battle. Jaime and Tyrion were at war against Robb, even Davos if you take into account that Robb sided with Renly who was Stannis' enemy. Tormund fought against Jon Snow. I guess the only two this wouldn't apply at all are Brienne and Podrick
Dany's chat with Sansa was a good one. After Sansa says that men in love are easily manipulated, we see Dany trying to manipulate Sansa. She says that she's fighting Jon's war, but that's a lie. Dany stands to lose more than Jon if the Night King succeeds. She will lose her whole kingdom -- just as Jon explained to her on their first meeting. Dany is also omitting the fact that the key reason she decided to fight for the North was to avenge the death of Viseryon. So Dany's line about, "Tell me who manipulated who" is rather ironic and very telling.
This is such a good episode, you learn how Pod kept his coins with the ladies in KL. Sansa ,Dany, and Theon scene totally shows Dany is alone, all her life she's been looking for what Theon and the north shows Sansa and the Starks. Theon came for Sansa and Winterfell, not Dany. Brienne as Pod yells liar liar on wanting to be knighted. The pairings at the end and Jenny of Old Stone as close to a 10 as we could get, just expand on Bran and Dany, it be great.
@@Nihilanth Jorah, yeah, but Missandei and Grey worm point blank on screen were talking of bailing when the war was won. Danny has NOTHING like Sansa or the Starks have; and her body language and facial expression was as plain as the noses on OUR faces.
@@pjfsr7024 I bet Theon intended to return to the iron island after the battle of winterfell. just Missandei and Grey Worm are like the siblings Dany never had and they intended to return to naath. Jorah's intentions was to remain by dany's side tho. "Dany has nothing like Sansa has" cutts to Dany's hugging Jorah when he came back, Dany crying when she discovered his grey scale, dany looking at Jorah in the fighting pits, etc. he was there for her since day one and he was her family, just like Theon was for Sansa.
Jon gave up his crown, at best he could be Warden of the north which is a military title, Winterfell goes to Sansa as Bran also abdicated, so following tradition the lords of the north would follow the King or Queen in the north or the Lord / Lady of Winterfell.
I don't get why people always blame Tyrion. Cersei was the one that came out and told everybody that she was going to send troops. Nobody said anything about it then. But somehow it's Tyrion's fault despite the fact that everyone agreed.
Saw this was uploaded earlier and waited till my house was calm & quiet enough to enjoy fully and it wasn't easy to wait that long and it will be even harder next time. Let's go!
Do you know that there are GoTs recipe books? The author in the books was always coming up with unique foods and some people decided to try and make them.
I forgot how bad the dialgue was even in episode 2. Everything is either a cheap reference to a previous episode or cringe shallow one-liner. "I like turtles"->"That's good, we need turtles"->"Do turtles kill White Walkers?"->"I don't know." *shrug* THE END
That heart warming moment when Theon goes to embrace our Lady of Winterfell, Dany in the background looking envious af. Well she gotta realize you can't build those connections by fear and intimidation. The Dragon Queen ain't got no support system like that lol. Ok not gonna lie. I usually hate on Emilia but the range she manages to capture in her facial expressions during the Jon reveal scene is nothing short of incredible. If you zone in on her face all through that scene it's another one of those beautiful close up shots of an actor giving it all they've got. Sometimes I just gotta savor moments like that with my theater kid glasses on cause that was a masterclass in acting. Credit's where credit's due.
The sad thing about Tyrion and his poor judgment is that people talk about him as though he's a real person who made real decisions. But he's not. He's a fictional character. One person wrote him as a great character. A couple of bored idiots made a deliberate choice to make him a character who makes bad decisions. Just one of their bad choices. There's another one next episode, when they thought they'd be so clever and insert a twist entirely devoid of logic or evidence from text. On a more positive note, the look of incomprehension on Dany's face when Sansa rushes forward to embrace Theon is a great thing, whether it was in the writing or a choice of Emilia/David Nutter. For all that she's just said, she doesn't really understand.
next one is gonna be a dark episode , i mean literally dark, i would suggest you to dim the lights and increase the brightness to the max. even then it may not be enough 😅
My thought on the change in Tyrion. After so many times watching, I never thought of this until you just spoke about it in your intro. I wonder, if being away from Kings Landingb & all the corruption from nearly ever turn, plus his disposal easily to hundreds of books, if his brain really isn't the same. Like fight or flight mode has disappeared. Recall he said "a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone: & when they were preparing Winterfell in episode 1/1, they said a lot of candles, he reads all night". He was bored to fake laughter with the joke telling with Grey worm & missandei. Make sense to me. If so. Hope he finds a book soon.
In the book version, Winterfell had a vast and ancient library, which was burned, possibly as a diversion, when Bran was attacked, though there are other theories about why the library was burned.
Bran did have amnesia about the fall/push incident, but would definitely have known all the details through his Three Eyed Raven powers. His point was that if he were to disclose that now that he remembered it, they would have executed Jaime for the crime, and he had more value as a soldier for the living than as a revenge killing.
His comment "The things we do for love" being a paraphrase of what Jaime said when he pushed him out the window was to tell us (the audience) and Jaime both that he remembers everything now.
I will like to see your reaction to a horror/movie series lol especially now that it's Halloween period...dont know if you have watched it but "The Haunting of the hillhouse" Is one of my favourite horror series and it's actually a very grt story and not just jumpscare horror.
He doesn't have the first claim to the throne because he is a male. He has The Claim because he is rhaegar's son. The line of succesion goes; ruler, eldest child of ruler (in this case Rhaegar) , eldest grandchild of ruler. So its Aerys - Rhaegar - Jon. Danarys is Rhaegar's sister and thus not in direct line to the throne. Now, had there been no children of Rhaegar or siblings older than her ( as we all have thought until now) THEN she would have been first in line. Just like Visarys was before he died. She was second in line when he was alive (again, had there been no Jon). So, Jon is absolutely the rightful heir, the rightful king. If the Tagaryans were in power, Which they aren't. She has no birthright to the throne and she has yet to be crowned Queen. So, yeah, she is lost at this point.
Next episode made every military strategist, armchair historians, regular historians with ANY knowledge of medieval combats head explode from how bad it actually was. I will watch the next episode and point out all the BS because it's a pretty long list.
I’m so sad I’m realizing we are at the end and this truly sucks been here since the beginning and wowwwwwww happy to have watched you react it’s been great keep it going and please more bells lol
Knowing what happened at the end of the show, you can see those moments of authoritarian madness creeping into to Danerys as she assumed more and more control. We all missed it the first time around. P.S. That said, this was my favorite of all the episodes.
The reason that Tyrian's not the Tyrian "of old," is because George Martin hasn't been writing the stories that Game of Thrones is using. Once the TV show ran out of the GoT books written by Martin, the quality of the story telling has fallen off, since the TV show "show-runners" have been in charge of the story. Before that, it was a collaboration, where some things in the books were changed, but the main story lines came from Martin.
Another fantastic reaction, your the bomb. Get ready Calypso, I told you before, next episode is the holy shit episode that will make you lose your mind the entire time.
Funny thing, even if somebody would believe that Jon is the rightful son of Rhaegar (because nobody in their right mind would believe that Bran really sees that past and it pissed me off that in this show everybody just accepts this), he still wouldn't be rightful heir. After Rhaegar's death, Aerys the Mad King disinherited Rhaegar's children and named Viserys his heir and the Prince of the Dragonstone. Jamie was a sworn Kingsguard, he took a holy vow to protect the king. He should have been either killed or sent to the Wall for what he had done, but Robert didn't care about it because of his hatred of Targaryens. So even though Aerys was an evil man, Daenerys (and most other people) still despises Jamie. Also here's why Daenerys shouldn't agree on North becoming independant: because if she would, suddenly Dorne and Iron Islands, kingdoms with even greater history of being independant from the Iron Throne, would immediately ask to for it too. This would lead to civil war or breaking apart of Seven Kingdoms, reducing it to separete kingdoms that would constantly war against each other like they had before the Conquest (there hadn't been a year without a war somewhere in Westeros before Aegon united the realm).
Indian Calypso, you might want to do 2 parts for next episodes so you can include 10 minutes of the episode on each post :) also... use over the ear headphones
Thank you friend I will keep that in mind and since I have already watched the show fully the headphone idea is unfortunately a little late for me but thank you again!!
Your gal has got TIK TOK!!
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HAHA!! I upload my fav moments of GOT so check it out you tik tok peeps and I will figure out how to work this app hahahaha!!!
Good for you! I signed up, for when I get a project off the ground......hopefully 🎨🧩🏝🌅. But right now. I can't figure it out. When the time comes. I will have my kids help 🤣
I know people may have told you this already, but Episode 3 was shot extremely dark, to emphasize " The Long Night" , but trust me, you will want to turn the resolution up on your screen so you can see! This drove me mad the 1st time I saw it!! You'll thank yourself that you did it, you'll be able to see everything much better!!💕💕
I feel that John telling Dany the truth should be peak of the episode, yet Brienne becoming a Knight was higher 🙌🏻
The look on Dany's face when she sees Theon and Sansa: I've always interpreted that as jealousy... as in she realizes that she doesn't inspire that level of loyalty - a loyalty of love, not just a loyalty of honor
Brienne being knighted is my favorite part of season 8.
I hear your hidden scream.
same. downhill from here.
Only scene that deserves to be loved
My fav is the hound part, you know which one
What about Arya and Gendry? The rest of the show is just forgettable after that. There was something about a bread wedding and some rando getting sean-beaned....
I love how Tormund looks at Brienne!!! he sees power and strength and beauty. "imagine the monsters we would have!!!"
Brian's smile was so pure for the first time in series. After knighthood.
It was an amazing moment 😊
We all love Brian
This was the best episode of the series imo. It was a meeting of all our favorite characters under dire circumstances.
When Jaime was knighting Brienne, she just fit every "charge" he said
She should've been killed by the Hound many episodes before. Fitting death for such an inept character like Brienne.
Jaime knights Brienne with Widow's Wail, while she has Oathkeeper with her. It's the symbolic coming together of the Two Swords Tywin re-forged from Ned Stark's sword Ice. Where else but in Winterfell. With the knighting it's like Ice is whole once again. That was a nice touch, dare I say. The first time Jaime saw Brienne was as a prisoner, during that heated "Kingslayer? What a King he was!" back and forth with Catelyn which revolved around questions of forsaken vows, honor and knighthood. Now that conversation is complete.
Get ready for episode 3!!!!! Theon, you're a good man.
Oh God! The ultimate tear jerker!
Oh God! The ultimate tear jerker!
Oh God! The ultimate tear jerker!
In my personal top 3 episodes. Great writing and acting, well paced, you’re nervous yet comfortable the whole episode. Very little conflict, and a great feeling of solidarity for all our favorite characters.
The last great episode.
You should react to Jenny of Oldstones, there's a full version by Florence and the Machine and the lyric video is emotionally devastating! :')
I have to admit, binge-watching the final season is a big improvement over waiting two years and then getting only 6 episodes you have to wait each week to watch.
What am I supposed to say? Waiting for 10 years for George to write another book lol
Maybe she will less disappointed lol
Fun facts:
1. This is the third episode in the entire series where we stay in one location from start to finish.
2. This is the fourth episode in the entire series not to feature a single character death.
What are the others ?
Interesting trivia!
1) 2x9 was entirely at the wall. Not sure what the second was.
2) I’ve got no clue…
@@alooncnej4696 I believe the others were:
Season 1 Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 8
Season 3 Episode 7
@@gregweatherup9596 2x9 and 4x9
This episode is one of my personal favourites from the entire series. It’s a really good calm before the storm styled episode and a great way for us to spend time with characters. Many of them believe they may not make it through the coming battle and so take the opportunity to spend their final hours with the ones they most want to.
Get ready for the next episode😊
Lol, Theon always gets me too, even in the rewatches. What an actor!
With all the nods and callbacks this episode is basically a hour long homage to the throwback moments of the show. It's like a farewell tour. I vaguely remembered it for being slow, but on rewatches I've grown fond of this episode for the way it builds up anticipation and gets me sad and nostalgic for the incredible journey we've had. It tugged the heartstrings much better than what I initially remembered. Pod's Jenny of Oldstones sets the mood for The Night Before Winter.
The title, "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms" is an homage to some *REALLY* cool Westeros History and Lore, *AND* Brienne's own family history, which was not told in the H&L specials.
Brienne is a descendant of one of the most noble knights of the Seven Kingdoms, Ser Duncan the Tall. As far as we know, Ser Duncan was never actually knighted yet went on to become Lord Commander of the King's Guard for King Aegon Targaryen Fifth of his Name.
In George R.R. Martin's short stories, "The Tales Of Dunk And Egg" Dunk is a travelling Hedge Knight who wanders Westeros with his loyal squire "Egg", who's true secret identity, Prince Aegon Targaryen, is known only to Dunk, Egg, and Egg's father, Prince Maekar Targaryen.
Through a series of unfortunate events, young squire Aegon, who was never actually in line for the Iron Throne, becomes King Aegon Targaryen Fifth of his Name when Egg's older brother, Aemon, turned down the throne due to his oath a Maester of the Citadel assigned to the Night's Watch.
Brienne and Pod's relationship is a direct reflection of Dunk and Egg's relationship.
The title, "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms," is also the working title of the live action adaptation of "The Tales Of Dunk And Egg," currently in production by HBO.
On a side note, one of the first things the young King Aegon did was to sentence a man named Lord Brynden Rivers to the Wall. Brynden was the bastard son of King Aegon the Fourth and served as Master of Whisperers and Hand of the King to two previous kings. Bloodraven had broken an oath of protection and beheaded the man that protection had been sworn to.
LORD Bloodraven traveled to the Wall with Aemon; they were close, as Bloodraven was Aemon's great uncle. Lord Bloodraven served several years as lead ranger, then Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, before being lost beyond the Wall roughly 75 years before being found in a cave by Brandon Stark, Jojen and Mira Reed, and a gentle giant called Hodor, who, btw, was also a direct descendant of Ser Duncan the Tall. Thats where Hodoe and Brienne both inherit their size.
Namaste 🙏
They say that Bran can see everything that has ever happened and everything that is happening, but to my knowledge they never said he can see what is to come. I don’t think he necessarily can see the future. Unless I missed that somewhere along the line.
He can according to the books
This episode is one of my top 3 episodes ever in Game Of Thrones! So pure, so intense... looks like the TV Show is saying goodbye to us and looks like us giving this huge goodbye to all these great caracteres too.
I like this episode but the part where brienne gets mad at jaime for not insulting her and saying they've never had a conversation without him doing it is just false and wrong
After this ep you should react to "Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones (Lyric Video)" It's the song that Podrick sang in this ep but with the lyrics correlated with the events!
Her voice, omg
Jamie Kinghting Brieanne of Tarth is the single best moment of Season 8 to me.
Dany can say shes not her father a thousand times.but you cant ignore her actions which says she is very much her father.
Danerys sees her sworn oathman, fighting the same battle she is fighting, but for someone else. Theon's loyalty to Sansa supersedes his loyalty to Dany.
ser jorah is literally there for her, she doesn't need theon
@@Nihilanth that's not the point. His house is sworn to her. Yet he showed up, with his sister's permission, to fight FOR the Starks. Not Dany
@@Heather61776 what of it? he bend the knee to Daenerys the moment he arrived, but Sansa is his family, so it makes sense.
but that doesn't mean anything other than this.
Dany has her own family
@@Nihilanth it goes to show how she's losing what loyalties she thought she had
@@Nihilanth family? She has no family. None. John is her only living blood. She has friends. And those that have sworn allegiance. Like Theon
such an emotional episode for so many reasons.. love your investment in the characters and that you are not afraid to show your emotions.. looking forward to finishing this with you
Okay, few things:
The only people in the throne room when Jamie killed the Mad King were the two of them plus a pyromancer who Jamie also killed. The only people who know that Jamie did it to save the people of King's Landing from death-by-wildfire are Jamie and Brienne, because he told her. Everybody else assumes it was part of his father's deceitful plan to take King's Landing by pretending to be there in support of the king until he opened the gates and then sacking the place.
The Arya & Gendry thing didn't come out of nowhere. Way back when they were at Harrenhall, there was a scene where she was eyeing him up as he worked topless at the smithy. She was way too young to do anything about it and maybe didn't even understand what she was feeling, but it was there.
Exactly. I remember speculation after those scenes in Season 2 that perhaps Robert's command ("We'll join our houses!") would come true, except not quite as he planned.
The generals in the front on horseback, that are with the Night King, are Gilly’s brothers.
The Tyrion Jaime scene where he completely calls him on his bs (acting all coy and surprised when Cersei does something evil even though she has been a monster to Tyrion since the day he was born and Jaime loved her anyway) is so important and so many people about it
That is the sincerest reaction I've ever seen for GOT. Damn, that scene & Lady Calypso's reactions got to me.
It's been implied that we found out why the brothel women wouldn't take Pod's money in this episode. That voice.
now you need to react to the song. its called : Jenny of the old stones. hit like so she can see it
If i were to rename this episode, it would be “moments before disaster”
When Jaime asked Bran why he didn't tell them about the tower window, I'm pretty sure he meant right there in the hall, this episode (as opposed to years ago). The "things I do for love" line made it clear that Bran was now aware, and yet he didn't pile on when Dany and Sansa were listing his offenses against them. Nobody but Jaime could possibly know what that line meant. It signaled to Jaime that he was keeping the secret intentionally, and Jaime was asking him why he would do that.
Apart from Arya and Gendry, this was a perfect episode. Pod has got to be the most eligible bachelor in the seven kingdoms. He can fight, he can sing and he has his magic touch in the bedroom.
I thought it was implied that his voice was the reason they gave him the money back
Agree with you on Pod! Disagree on Arya and Gendry.
@Darkstar In Arya’s defense the motivation is understood. Nothing sets the mood quite like the end of the world, and she wanted to know what it was like. I do agree that it was very badly executed, though.
when arya was coming on to gendry i was like noooo put ur cloths back on girl! anyone else felt the same way?
Jesus, I forgot how much they nerfed Tyrion in the last two seasons. He went from being written as an incredibly cleaver person for 6 seasons and then is written to have all plans fail and him take the blame for it for the last two.
Hi!! Just one suggestion, pls consider to watch the movie "Ring of the Nibelungs" has 2 parts, is an incredible movie with GOT era vibes and with a fascinating and very emotional love story, and also has big actors like Robert Pattinson or Kristanna Loken. And as I saw you in the GOT series that you are very emotional, you will definitely cry at the end of this movie... This movie is a underrated masterpiece!! So pls consider to react to it someday !
Yea, I remember this movie, one of the best I've seen
Theon' arc is one of the only thing I really liked about this season.
Edit : And The Music of course.
Yo, this was a THICC ‘sode
We got the reunions, we got the tension, we got the pride, we got the sexual tension (😂)
And most importantly, the laughter. It’s a masterpiece. Its…
it’s my favorite episode of the whole series tbh lol
the, ‘frivolity before a battle’ trope is always just😙🤌🏼💋
daenerys: i-
sansa: use your army against the Night King while i chill in the crypts, but don't eat our food. go to king's landing to destroy my rival and then let the north be free cause we don't need you 🤬
God knows that season 8 has its flaws... many of them... but it also has quite a number of great moments, and several of them were in this episode. The knighting of Brienne. The one-on-one between Daenerys and Sansa (and the arrival of Theon). Pod's song (Jenny of Oldstones). Arya & Gendry. Jorah & Lyanna. Jaime & Bran. Being able to savor those moments helps us tolerate the weak parts and allows us to enjoy the bigger picture. Don't let the bad block you from enjoying the good.
14:47 ... one of the most tender, and true, moments of the entire series.
Followed up by one of the more amazing moments at 28:12 ...
It's not (at least - not only) that Jon is a male air, he is just first in succession line - oldest living child of oldest son of king. In case Robert's rebellion would not had place or was unsuccessful - Rhaegar would be king after Aerys (the mad king), and his child after him (probably one of the children he had with Elia Martel, not Jon, but still), in that case too - neither Deanerys nor Viserys would have claim to the throne regardless of their gender.
This episode in my top 10 for the entire series. Originally, the buildup to the Long Night was such that we believed everyone was going to die. I was going to throw my tv out the window if any happened to Arya.
Dany and Jaime coming face to face reminded me of that beautiful description of Westeros, or rather Rhaesh Andhal in the Dothraki tongue, as Dany would imagine it in exile. It ends with a thought about Jaime :
*Somewhere beyond the sunset, across the narrow sea, lay a land of green hills and flowered plains and great rushing rivers, where towers of dark stone rose amidst magnificent blue-grey mountains, and armored knights rode to battle beneath the banners of their lords. The Dothraki called that land Rhaesh Andahli, the land of the Andals. In the Free Cities, they talked of Westeros and the Sunset Kingdoms. Her brother had a simpler name. “Our land,” he called it. The words were like a prayer with him. If he said them enough, the gods were sure to hear. “Ours by blood right, taken from us by treachery, but ours still, ours forever. You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.” And perhaps the dragon did remember, but Dany could not. She had never seen this land her brother said was theirs, this realm beyond the narrow sea. These places he talked of, Casterly Rock and the Eyrie, Highgarden and the Vale of Arryn, Dorne and the Isle of Faces, they were just words to her. Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King’s Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother’s womb. Yet sometimes Dany would picture the way it had been, so often had her brother told her the stories. The midnight flight to Dragonstone, moonlight shimmering on the ship’s black sails. Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved. The sack of King’s Landing by the ones Viserys called the Usurper’s dogs, the lords Lannister and Stark. Princess Elia of Dorne pleading for mercy as Rhaegar’s heir was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. The polished skulls of the last dragons staring down sightlessly from the walls of the throne room while the Kingslayer opened Father’s throat with a golden sword.*
In honor of Dany and Jaime finally coming face to face, an excerpt on how the Kingsguard who killed his father seemed in Dany's imagination during exile :
*Every khal had his bloodriders. At first Dany had thought of them as a kind of Dothraki Kingsguard, sworn to protect their lord, but it went further than that. Jhiqui had taught her that a bloodrider was more than a guard; they were the khal’s brothers, his shadows, his fiercest friends. “Blood of my blood,” Drogo called them, and so it was; they shared a single life. The ancient traditions of the horselords demanded that when the khal died, his bloodriders died with him, to ride at his side in the night lands. If the khal died at the hands of some enemy, they lived only long enough to avenge him, and then followed him joyfully into the grave. In some khalasars, Jhiqui said, the bloodriders shared the khal’s wine, his tent, and even his wives, though never his horses. A man’s mount was his own. Daenerys was glad that Khal Drogo did not hold to those ancient ways. She should not have liked being shared. And while old Cohollo treated her kindly enough, the others frightened her; Haggo, huge and silent, often glowered as if he had forgotten who she was, and Qotho had cruel eyes and quick hands that liked to hurt. He left bruises on Doreah’s soft white skin whenever he touched her, and sometimes made Irri sob in the night. Even his horses seemed to fear him. Yet they were bound to Drogo for life and death, so Daenerys had no choice but to accept them. And sometimes she found herself wishing her father had been protected by such men. In the songs, the white knights of the Kingsguard were ever noble, valiant, and true, and yet King Aerys had been murdered by one of them, the handsome boy they now called the Kingslayer, and a second, Ser Barristan the Bold, had gone over to the Usurper. She wondered if all men were as false in the Seven Kingdoms. When her son sat the Iron Throne, she would see that he had bloodriders of his own to protect him against treachery in his Kingsguard.*
I think that's all the secrets known by everyone now....4 episodes to go and the surprises are still HUGE what a show
Tyrion saying that almost every one of them fought the Starks at one point or another, when the only one is Jaime. Expert writing.
By "fought" I don't think he means a literal battle. Jaime and Tyrion were at war against Robb, even Davos if you take into account that Robb sided with Renly who was Stannis' enemy. Tormund fought against Jon Snow. I guess the only two this wouldn't apply at all are Brienne and Podrick
Best episode of season 8.
I agree
Dany's chat with Sansa was a good one. After Sansa says that men in love are easily manipulated, we see Dany trying to manipulate Sansa. She says that she's fighting Jon's war, but that's a lie. Dany stands to lose more than Jon if the Night King succeeds. She will lose her whole kingdom -- just as Jon explained to her on their first meeting. Dany is also omitting the fact that the key reason she decided to fight for the North was to avenge the death of Viseryon. So Dany's line about, "Tell me who manipulated who" is rather ironic and very telling.
This is such a good episode, you learn how Pod kept his coins with the ladies in KL.
Sansa ,Dany, and Theon scene totally shows Dany is alone, all her life she's been looking for what Theon and the north shows Sansa and the Starks. Theon came for Sansa and Winterfell, not Dany.
Brienne as Pod yells liar liar on wanting to be knighted.
The pairings at the end and Jenny of Old Stone as close to a 10 as we could get, just expand on Bran and Dany, it be great.
My friend well put!! The fact that Theon came for Sansa for Winterfell, my heart!!
ser jorah, missandei and grey worm are literally there for her, lol.
@@Nihilanth Jorah, yeah, but Missandei and Grey worm point blank on screen were talking of bailing when the war was won.
Danny has NOTHING like Sansa or the Starks have; and her body language and facial expression was as plain as the noses on OUR faces.
@@pjfsr7024 I bet Theon intended to return to the iron island after the battle of winterfell. just Missandei and Grey Worm are like the siblings Dany never had and they intended to return to naath. Jorah's intentions was to remain by dany's side tho.
"Dany has nothing like Sansa has"
cutts to Dany's hugging Jorah when he came back, Dany crying when she discovered his grey scale, dany looking at Jorah in the fighting pits, etc. he was there for her since day one and he was her family, just like Theon was for Sansa.
When same gives Jorah heartsbane 😢😢❤️
I’ll wield in his honour, to defend the realms of men.
Daenerys killed the Tarlys, and yet the Tarly Sword was used by Jorah to save Daenerys from the dead. Poetic.
Jon gave up his crown, at best he could be Warden of the north which is a military title, Winterfell goes to Sansa as Bran also abdicated, so following tradition the lords of the north would follow the King or Queen in the north or the Lord / Lady of Winterfell.
I don't get why people always blame Tyrion. Cersei was the one that came out and told everybody that she was going to send troops. Nobody said anything about it then. But somehow it's Tyrion's fault despite the fact that everyone agreed.
Saw this was uploaded earlier and waited till my house was calm & quiet enough to enjoy fully and it wasn't easy to wait that long and it will be even harder next time.
Let's go!
I was a little upset Arya was so short of memory... Sandor protected Sansa and her.
He also rode down her friend
@@pulpficti Yeah, but by this time ( based on show with Yoren ) Mycah is being left in the past a fading memory.
Edit : wrong person.
call it fan service or whatever you want, this is one of THE BEST episodes of the series in my opinion.
TO MY GORGEOUS KHALEESI
I WISH YOU GOOD FORTUNE IN THE WARS TO COME.
( POD THE ROD GOT PIPES LIKE WESLEY SNIPES )
7:12 "oh! my ass and everything is sweating in this!" 😂😂😂
So excited for her to finish with GOT and then start with House of the dragon!!
...then at the end Porus laid down his arms. Alexander said let him be treated with all honour...."
Maybe a few dragons would have helped.
1:13 Lets be honest, Tyrion as an intelligent character peaked in season 2.
Do you know that there are GoTs recipe books? The author in the books was always coming up with unique foods and some people decided to try and make them.
You’ve gotta do the last kingdom next , an absolute roller coaster of emotions and lovely show !
Yes please Calypso! Such a great series with amazing characters and story telling.
You're too fine a woman for God alone.... I love that show
@@txheadshots Hilde is one of the best characters & she is too fine for God alone.
I forgot how bad the dialgue was even in episode 2. Everything is either a cheap reference to a previous episode or cringe shallow one-liner. "I like turtles"->"That's good, we need turtles"->"Do turtles kill White Walkers?"->"I don't know." *shrug* THE END
Next episode you gotta turn your brightness all the way up otherwise you won't be able to see
One of my most loved episodes: it does deserve all your happy tears! Thanks!
That heart warming moment when Theon goes to embrace our Lady of Winterfell, Dany in the background looking envious af. Well she gotta realize you can't build those connections by fear and intimidation. The Dragon Queen ain't got no support system like that lol. Ok not gonna lie. I usually hate on Emilia but the range she manages to capture in her facial expressions during the Jon reveal scene is nothing short of incredible. If you zone in on her face all through that scene it's another one of those beautiful close up shots of an actor giving it all they've got. Sometimes I just gotta savor moments like that with my theater kid glasses on cause that was a masterclass in acting. Credit's where credit's due.
30:50 The best song in Game of Thrones for me. 😍
*_Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones_*
I keep watching for your beautiful sunshiney face to pop up on here with Season 8, Episode 3.
The sad thing about Tyrion and his poor judgment is that people talk about him as though he's a real person who made real decisions.
But he's not. He's a fictional character. One person wrote him as a great character. A couple of bored idiots made a deliberate choice to make him a character who makes bad decisions. Just one of their bad choices. There's another one next episode, when they thought they'd be so clever and insert a twist entirely devoid of logic or evidence from text.
On a more positive note, the look of incomprehension on Dany's face when Sansa rushes forward to embrace Theon is a great thing, whether it was in the writing or a choice of Emilia/David Nutter. For all that she's just said, she doesn't really understand.
Those are the Weirwood trees the Children of the forest prayed to
That don't look completely like gray scale. That's sense more like a burn.
next one is gonna be a dark episode , i mean literally dark, i would suggest you to dim the lights and increase the brightness to the max. even then it may not be enough 😅
My thought on the change in Tyrion. After so many times watching, I never thought of this until you just spoke about it in your intro. I wonder, if being away from Kings Landingb & all the corruption from nearly ever turn, plus his disposal easily to hundreds of books, if his brain really isn't the same. Like fight or flight mode has disappeared. Recall he said "a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone: & when they were preparing Winterfell in episode 1/1, they said a lot of candles, he reads all night". He was bored to fake laughter with the joke telling with Grey worm & missandei. Make sense to me. If so. Hope he finds a book soon.
In the book version, Winterfell had a vast and ancient library, which was burned, possibly as a diversion, when Bran was attacked, though there are other theories about why the library was burned.
Jaime the man of honour 💯
My tender heart!
@@IndianCalypso another member of the greatest family.
Bran did have amnesia about the fall/push incident, but would definitely have known all the details through his Three Eyed Raven powers. His point was that if he were to disclose that now that he remembered it, they would have executed Jaime for the crime, and he had more value as a soldier for the living than as a revenge killing.
His comment "The things we do for love" being a paraphrase of what Jaime said when he pushed him out the window was to tell us (the audience) and Jaime both that he remembers everything now.
I will like to see your reaction to a horror/movie series lol especially now that it's Halloween period...dont know if you have watched it but "The Haunting of the hillhouse" Is one of my favourite horror series and it's actually a very grt story and not just jumpscare horror.
Jamies one good deed is not cleaning that nasty plate for me
Arya had that look that seemed to infer she should have chosen Podric
I hope before the next episode someone had advised you to make sure you knew how to adjust the brightness on whatever you watch it on.
He doesn't have the first claim to the throne because he is a male. He has The Claim because he is rhaegar's son. The line of succesion goes; ruler, eldest child of ruler (in this case Rhaegar) , eldest grandchild of ruler. So its Aerys - Rhaegar - Jon. Danarys is Rhaegar's sister and thus not in direct line to the throne. Now, had there been no children of Rhaegar or siblings older than her ( as we all have thought until now) THEN she would have been first in line. Just like Visarys was before he died. She was second in line when he was alive (again, had there been no Jon).
So, Jon is absolutely the rightful heir, the rightful king. If the Tagaryans were in power, Which they aren't. She has no birthright to the throne and she has yet to be crowned Queen. So, yeah, she is lost at this point.
Pods song was the highlight for me.
Next episode made every military strategist, armchair historians, regular historians with ANY knowledge of medieval combats head explode from how bad it actually was. I will watch the next episode and point out all the BS because it's a pretty long list.
Jamie wants to be hand of the kind
I see what you did there :')
@ 19:50... look up butterflies of the isle of Naath.
I’m so sad I’m realizing we are at the end and this truly sucks been here since the beginning and wowwwwwww happy to have watched you react it’s been great keep it going and please more bells lol
Knowing what happened at the end of the show, you can see those moments of authoritarian madness creeping into to Danerys as she assumed more and more control. We all missed it the first time around. P.S. That said, this was my favorite of all the episodes.
I was so pissed when Sam gave away his family’s ancestral sword … I mean he has cousins distant cousins why is he giving it away
The reason that Tyrian's not the Tyrian "of old," is because George Martin hasn't been writing the stories that Game of Thrones is using. Once the TV show ran out of the GoT books written by Martin, the quality of the story telling has fallen off, since the TV show "show-runners" have been in charge of the story. Before that, it was a collaboration, where some things in the books were changed, but the main story lines came from Martin.
Ser Brienne, a Knight of the 7 Kingdoms. top 3 scenes of the series
Another fantastic reaction, your the bomb. Get ready Calypso, I told you before, next episode is the holy shit episode that will make you lose your mind the entire time.
you bring a smile on my face everytime
Winter is here
The night Arya broke the internet..everyone flooded Google asking Maisie Williams age
Funny thing, even if somebody would believe that Jon is the rightful son of Rhaegar (because nobody in their right mind would believe that Bran really sees that past and it pissed me off that in this show everybody just accepts this), he still wouldn't be rightful heir. After Rhaegar's death, Aerys the Mad King disinherited Rhaegar's children and named Viserys his heir and the Prince of the Dragonstone.
Jamie was a sworn Kingsguard, he took a holy vow to protect the king. He should have been either killed or sent to the Wall for what he had done, but Robert didn't care about it because of his hatred of Targaryens. So even though Aerys was an evil man, Daenerys (and most other people) still despises Jamie.
Also here's why Daenerys shouldn't agree on North becoming independant: because if she would, suddenly Dorne and Iron Islands, kingdoms with even greater history of being independant from the Iron Throne, would immediately ask to for it too. This would lead to civil war or breaking apart of Seven Kingdoms, reducing it to separete kingdoms that would constantly war against each other like they had before the Conquest (there hadn't been a year without a war somewhere in Westeros before Aegon united the realm).
Politics...I LOVE IT !
Indian Calypso, you might want to do 2 parts for next episodes so you can include 10 minutes of the episode on each post :)
also... use over the ear headphones
Thank you friend I will keep that in mind and since I have already watched the show fully the headphone idea is unfortunately a little late for me but thank you again!!
@@IndianCalypso for the next episode... headphones will be a significant plus... you'll understand this after the episode.
You've got the best GOT reactions by very far.
Jaime killed her father but the lannisters killed all children of targeryans. Dany is right to be angry at Jaime.