Yep sadly. I still find myself revisiting this scene. One because it's absolutely masterful as a villain introduction and horror-action spectacle but also...I'm still a bit stung by what Season 8 did to my boy.
@@SaleemFrazer Him and Jon were supposed to have a battle for the ages. Instead we got a load of bullcrap and a complete implosion of 8 years of buildup. What a travesty.
The Night King is the definition of wasted potential. Had they stuck the landing by doing a solid season 8 (or an 8 and 9) he would’ve been a fantasy villain to rival Sauron from LOTR. Instead he ends as a joke, one-shotted by a girl less than half his size.
@@tutuadefolalu3661 I was really thinking they were going to have the Hound become thst prophesized fire warrior and possibly have some major impact on the whole war with the dead. Nope, more wasted potential.
The use of silence while Jon and NK stare down really makes this scene hit hard, any other show would have filled that scene with pointless dialouge or soundtrack.
This was the episode that got me interested in Game of Thrones. I then started Season One and became hooked. I binged until Season 6 came out and then I was caught up. I miss this show when it was great!
3:42. That face is easily the most terrifying moment in the history of the show. Just intimidating. They shouldn't have changed the actor. This one looks truly evil, angry and shows a lot of hate and intense emotion.
I stopped watching the Walking Dead after season 7. I only watched a few minutes of season 8 episode 1 and stopped. I can't get myself to continue the series.
Absolutely. It's my favorite. They also change the dude who played the ice king (or whatever his name is) sometime after this episode or in the next season. For the worst IMO.
@@D00kerT Agreed honestly, it's a very subtle detail, but Richard Brake (the Season 6 actor for the Night King) just had a much more terrifying appearance and personality for the character. Always observing and staying in the shadows, and never showing any emotion apart from that cold, blank stare.
I was talking with a friend who was complaining about why the night king didn't attack hardhome sooner to which I explained that the night king was probably fattening the turkey. Everyone in the north in one place and if they stay there, they reproduce and giving him more dead. He only attacked when jon arrived because the turkey was escaping.
Damn, I never thought about this before, but now reading it and considering it actually makes the entire Hardhome sequence even scarier. Hardhome had been in his claws for months, maybe years before the Night's Watch came, but he just bid his time. Truly scary if you think about it, all those people living their lives, loving one another, survivng together, eating a warm supper, all in the shadow of the Night's King. They never could stand a chance.
I also loved when they all meet up to go back over the wall together (Jon, Sir Jorah, The Hound, Beric, Thoras, etc etc). That was awesome. Also, the final episode before the big battle when they're all at winterfell just chillin + drinking - getting ready to battle - and Brianne gets knighted - that was a solid episode too.
When the Night King reached the end of the dock, I had a real hard time believe he wouldn’t simply step onto the water and freeze it. Like imagine how much more of a nightmare it would be, trying to row away while the water beneath you was freezing AND you were being chased by a growing army of the dead. Like holy shit
If they could do that, then they'd have circumvented the Wall thousands of years ago by going around either Eastwatch-by-the-sea, or The Shadow Tower. That they didn't means they couldn't. It's speculated that it wasn't just ice that makes the Wall, but the magic of the Children of the Forest, and and such it's possible that this magic also prevents them from circumventing the wall that way. The problem is that the Others (in the show the White Walkers) are enigmatic almost to a fault, and this deep into things we don't even really know all that much about them; the producers of the show were clearly hacks who faked it for most of the show because they relied on GRRM's work to bolster their mediocrity, but towards the end of the show where I imagine most of the exposition on the Others would happen, they had nothing to go on, so clearly they screwed up royally. Still, you could argue that the reason they were ultimately able to penetrate the Wall is because dragon fire is also a form of magic, which is capable of neutralizing or countering the ice magic of the Wall, so the Others couldn't pass until the dragon made it possible.
Love Arya but that pissed me off more than anything. Should have been Jon v Night King one v one. Sometimes it’s ok to give us want we want or expect ya know
This still remains my favourite GOT moment. The whole episode is just such a great way to set up everything to come and is just such an amazing piece of storytelling. The brief moments of hope as we learn that white walkers can be killed and that they have the weapons to do it. Followed by the incredible way that they execute that ending, completely shutting off all hope against insermountable odds. The measured way that the Night King just barely acknowledges the sheer desperate escape by simply staring Jon down and raising the army back up, now with new recruits. He doesn't even try to kill them, he knows they are so utterly demoralised he has won already. Then that wide shot of sheer numbers and scale and you realise, as an audience, all the politcing, all the struggles for the throne, it just does not mean a damn. This shifted the whole paradigm of the show. The villain, the REAL villain of the show who has always been lurking off screen, truly announces his arrival. A real shame there was never a satisfying payoff for all this work.
From 2:10 to 4:10, everything (cinematography, BGM, acting etc...) in every frame of this entire sequence deserves seperate awards. This scene is, literally, more than terrifying. From the characters physical and mental strength perspective, Except Jon Snow no one would've had the stomach enough to see what Jon faced here.
D&D: "It didn't feel...right...for Jon to be the one to kill the Nightking" *This episode clearly setting up the conflict between the Nightking and Jon
Hands down one of the best moments in the entire series. I love how this battle wasn't played as "epic fight" but "what the fuck just happened". The dead silence at the end as Jon stares at the undead horde felt like I was actually there.
Wun Wun was one of the bravest and kindest characters on the show. At this point theres no doubth that the giants will soon go extinct and that he might even be the last one alive. Yet, he stil wants to give his last to protect his cute little human friends. Such as (at 0:52), shielding them from the walkers until they are safe.
What I love, is how smart the night king is. The white walkers aren't the undead, not reanimated corpses. They're alive, with intelligence and actual intentions and plans, and expressions, heck they have their own armour and weapons plus obviously have a command system, . When Jon blocks the blow, you can see the white walker actually is shocked, looking at him in shock, almost looking at him in curiosity as if to ask something. When Sam is seen by the white walker, it actually rolls it's eyes in annoyance at the sight of in it's mind such a weak and useless person, and then calls out making the gesture with it's sword for the army of wights to advance, when the night king looks at Jon and reanimates the dead, you can see it's curiosity and smugness at these humans who escaped, and at the one who killed one of it's lieutenants in almost impressed look, then doing so in a gesture to tell the people they are nothing to it and will be defeated soon. When the white walker sees the fire and goes to investigate in the wight hunt, you see it showing curiosity and looking for clues as to who it belongs to. The night king was doing everything by a plan. First, he took his time wiping out the children of the forest, so that Bran finds the last hiding in a cave with wards specifically to repel them, because he knew they had magic necessary to defeat him and the weapons necessary to do so, dragonglass. Then, he slowly picks off the nights watch, doing so that Jeor Mormont is left with no choice but to lead a expedition to find out what's going on, sending men north of the wall. He also goes after the wildings slowly, not to kill them all yet but to drive them all south, knowing the nights watch will not let them through. He then also over the years takes Crasters sons, to build his numbers of white walkers, while also creating more contention between the wilding groups by this. He gets the white walkers to lead the attack on the great ranging at the fist, letting them get all this way north so when they do, they have no wildings or escape nearby, so they can massacre most of the men, sending them south to Crasters keep where he knows they will have a mutiny likely killing more, and so eliminates the men who have seen wights and white walkers and are loyal to the watch and know the threat, like Jeor.He then lets the two sides kill each other, knowing the wildings will go to one place only, Hardhome. He then waits, until Jon and the other men arrive to try and rescue them, doing so when they are unprepared and knowing most of the people are outside the fortified town, so that by the time they are aware and begin to arm themselves, he's already taken the majority down.He then lets them escape, showing his power to terrify them knowing they have no proof they are real, while simultanously also knowing the few remaining wildings being let south will just result in more death of the nights watch. Then, he bides his time, building his army by scouring the lands beyond the wall for more bodies, letting the kingdoms further weaken, because remember they only start acting after the war of the five kings begins, because at that time the armies would be too many while by season 8 the land of Westeros is extremely decimated, particularly in the north. He then traps the men on the rock island, waiting for the dragons to show up, knowing he will do so which is why he has no reaction, he knows she'll burn some of his army but he also knows three dragons can't be easily controlled, so one will be easy to target. Then, he drags it out and makes it a white walker dragon, using the magic in it to destroy the wall, when he finally has enough power to reach the lands south of the wall, and with no children of the forest left to ward him off, and he does so.Then he marches his army through, targeting each settlement down to Winterfell, knowing everyone is there.But then season 8 dumbs it down and makes the army so slow and weak Sam survives crying lying on the ground against many wights while they shuffle slowly towards Jamie and Brienne because for some reason they're speed is now generic slow zombie.What a waste.
i love this whole sequence it’s in my top 3 in the entire show. When the Nights Watch first arrive at Hardhome the wide shot shows the area was lively with people moving freely going about their business it and basically living their own separate lives and the episode ends on the same exact shot it began with only EVERYTHING is dead still.. the boat isn’t being rowed, the whits are motionless, even the water has little to no ripples from all the commotion, the characters and the viewer are stuck in a void of nothingness and silence until the credits begin rolling while ur still in total shock of how abruptly everything happens… i still vividly remember the chills i got watching this episode for the 1st time and was one of the few bright spots in the 2nd half of the show
the best looking white walker or night king ever in this show. after these season we seen in next seasons all sucks. this was very badass looking for a white walker. unfortunately it was in past.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when this episode came out and the Night King and the White Walkers became the most terrifying villains on TV with an epic grand debut showing off the army and its leader. Hardhome was the moment Game of Thrones peaked with its supernatural threat getting everyone hyped.....and then Season 8 happened. WAIT!! WAIT!!..still....it doesn't take away from how absolutely epic both dramatically and cinematically speaking this scene was. I couldn't tell you how many times I've rewatched the Hardhome scene more than any other scene in Game of Thrones or any other show for that matter. It is an absolute treasure of a horror-action scene rivaling what Hollywood has put out in theaters with their supernatural action scenes for ages now. The Night King's design here looks absolutely frightening and threatening on so many levels. This scene still goes down in history as one of my top favorite villain introductions (I know he was teased earlier in the series) in the history of filmmaking. No matter how much I utterly despised what they did to him in Season 8, I will forever look back at this scene as a gem and a prime example of how to introduce your spotlight villain in the most impactful fashion possible.
Nice to see a comment like this! I completely agree, one of the greatest scenes i've ever seen. I was so invested in the characters and when i saw this scene i was actually terrified because i thought they were all screwed.
What a fantastic episode. Not even in the book. Richard Brake was a fantastic and more terrifying Night King, but I see where the show wants continuity with a certain resemblance for the story they are choosing to tell.
Not even in the book *yet*. It's clearly already planned (Hardhome is already being mentioned), and GRRM indicated this was going to happen, so they filmed it. Some details will be different, but the general events will be the same.
@@stupidnamefilterJon wasn't at Hardhome in the books though. This staredown will never happen. This decision was similar to having Stannis lead his men and fight in the Battle of Blackwater Bay in the show whereas in the books he stayed back.
Richard Brake is the best. Dude was born to play villains, just look at his career. While Rob Zombie’s 31 isn’t very good Richard Brake as Doomhead steals the show and makes the movie.
These posts are just meant to taunt us since we're all impatiently waiting for teaser & trailer uploads😂 They're pretty clever these people, but not clever enough to fool me😂😂😂
i swear i watched this episode when i was sleeping in cooler, the drops of water are clearly touching me with cold air and i felt this episode so hard like i had nothing felt like this in my entire life and in the end of this episode the eye contact of jon snow and the night king I'll newer ever forget this scene.
I've watched Game Of Thrones at least times and this whole battle even more but somehow I never noticed the White Walkers at 1:52. I know there were several on the hill with the Night King but I didn't think any others were fighting there besides the one Jon Snow took out.
@3:43 Because of the look he threw at Jon Snow, I was certain it was him that he was after and not Brann. The Night King never put that much effort into staring down Brain's asperger's ridden creepy ass, that's for sure.
All of these are great choices. The greatest battle scenes DEFINITELY HardHome and Battle of the Bastards. Spoils of was FANTASTIC!Danaerys burns the slave master!! Epic badass!!!
Imagine all this build up and at the end you're not even the one to end him. Horrible writers. That's like Harry Potter vs Voldemort, and then Ron appears out of no where and kills Voldemort at the end instead.
The production values on the show are astonishing! I know the show is expensive to produce, but boy is it worth it, especially when the money is well spent. I have seen so-called blockbuster movies with large budgets have crummier special effects and lower quality production values than a single episode of "Game Of Thrones", and I think "Hardhomme" is a perfect example of that! I was lucky enough to catch one of the limited IMAX screenings of the last two Season Four episodes a few years back, "The Watchers On The Wall" and "The Children" (the great Neil Marshall was there to do the intro!!!) and I swear they looked just as good, or even better on that giant sized screen. It was like watching a two hour feature length film...
The Night King is fully armored from Neck down in this scene.. But hey, in the final season he just conveniently chose an armor with a small gap in between so that Arya can pierce through with a kitchen knife, to end the whole white walker clan.. :D
From the beginng of the invasion at Hardhome the music builds such an underlying tension that made my mind stopped when the largest and quickest "Turn Undead" we've ever seen happened!! For the next minute i remember my self just looking an the screen with empty eyes... The glimpse of hope that came when John kills the Whitewalker lieutenant didn't just vanished with the most evocative way, but watching the Night King performing outrageously the "Raise Dead" left me with an empty inexpressible horror!!! The only thing i would do if i had witnessed all this would be to run to the first ship and leave everything behind! First to Essos and then as south as the world goes..........
The way that this shows that throughout this entire battle they failed to even put a dent in the white walkers forces must be beyond terrifying for the characters.
I love how everyone present knows that fire is the only thing that permanently stops these things, yet not a single fire was lit. also...seeing a corpse with an arrow in its head make its way through the gate, and further arrows being fired at it (and missing), really makes you wonder how anyone survives this battle.
In retrospect probably the peak moment in GOT - when the night king raises his arms and all the freshly killed dead rise. To think they would later end this story line with the big FU to the fans of the last season. But I guess better to have had this one supreme moment, than not at all.
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Those were the days when you actually thought the threat of the north king would materialize into something beyond measure by the end of the show.
Yep sadly. I still find myself revisiting this scene. One because it's absolutely masterful as a villain introduction and horror-action spectacle but also...I'm still a bit stung by what Season 8 did to my boy.
@@SaleemFrazer Him and Jon were supposed to have a battle for the ages. Instead we got a load of bullcrap and a complete implosion of 8 years of buildup. What a travesty.
Winterfell shouldn't have been where the threat ended.
The Night King is the definition of wasted potential. Had they stuck the landing by doing a solid season 8 (or an 8 and 9) he would’ve been a fantasy villain to rival Sauron from LOTR. Instead he ends as a joke, one-shotted by a girl less than half his size.
@@tutuadefolalu3661 I was really thinking they were going to have the Hound become thst prophesized fire warrior and possibly have some major impact on the whole war with the dead. Nope, more wasted potential.
The moment he raised his hands and they all started getting back up with blue eyes was one of the best moments in TV history
The use of silence while Jon and NK stare down really makes this scene hit hard, any other show would have filled that scene with pointless dialouge or soundtrack.
NK: we are coming for all of you.
It is demoralizing knowing that every soldier/civilian he kills will inevitably join the ranks of his undead army.
That's some S-tier necromancy right there.
That's some S-tier necromancy right there.
To be honest i enjoyed this one way more than Battle of Winterfell...
This was the episode that got me interested in Game of Thrones. I then started Season One and became hooked. I binged until Season 6 came out and then I was caught up. I miss this show when it was great!
no shit
1000%
@@perryb5984 it was really legendary
this is the Apex of GoT
When they really saw sh!t
this scene single handedly ended the entire series of the walking dead
The walking dead who?
3:42. That face is easily the most terrifying moment in the history of the show. Just intimidating. They shouldn't have changed the actor. This one looks truly evil, angry and shows a lot of hate and intense emotion.
THE WALKING DEAD IS SHIT NOW, THEY ARE MILKING THE SHOW FOR 10 MORE YEARS XDD. IS LAME AND THE QUALITY IS BAD. EVERY SERIES NEEDS A CONCLUSION.
@@heriksalvadorianreacts6646 it's always been
I stopped watching the Walking Dead after season 7. I only watched a few minutes of season 8 episode 1 and stopped. I can't get myself to continue the series.
One of the best scenes of the entire show.
Absolutely. It's my favorite. They also change the dude who played the ice king (or whatever his name is) sometime after this episode or in the next season. For the worst IMO.
@@D00kerT Agreed honestly, it's a very subtle detail, but Richard Brake (the Season 6 actor for the Night King) just had a much more terrifying appearance and personality for the character. Always observing and staying in the shadows, and never showing any emotion apart from that cold, blank stare.
@@D00kerT he went on to start in something else so he gave them no other choice
I was talking with a friend who was complaining about why the night king didn't attack hardhome sooner to which I explained that the night king was probably fattening the turkey. Everyone in the north in one place and if they stay there, they reproduce and giving him more dead. He only attacked when jon arrived because the turkey was escaping.
Damn, I never thought about this before, but now reading it and considering it actually makes the entire Hardhome sequence even scarier. Hardhome had been in his claws for months, maybe years before the Night's Watch came, but he just bid his time. Truly scary if you think about it, all those people living their lives, loving one another, survivng together, eating a warm supper, all in the shadow of the Night's King. They never could stand a chance.
Some say season 1-4 were the best of the show, but a couple of episodes of season 5 and 6 were some of the best the show had to offer.
I also loved when they all meet up to go back over the wall together (Jon, Sir Jorah, The Hound, Beric, Thoras, etc etc). That was awesome. Also, the final episode before the big battle when they're all at winterfell just chillin + drinking - getting ready to battle - and Brianne gets knighted - that was a solid episode too.
s6 was shit s7 was way better
And surprisingly it was GRRM that wrote and helped the making of those episodes
S8 ep3 is the best episode...white walkers at winterfell and Arya Stark kills the Night King.
@@animeshsingh5347 that was the worst episode by far
The silence and Jon's look is impeccable in 3:38 because he know they are fucked.
The sense of terror and dread was palpable.
*Jon
Jon*
chill
No one sees this and wouldn’t know that he is fucked😂
When the Night King reached the end of the dock, I had a real hard time believe he wouldn’t simply step onto the water and freeze it. Like imagine how much more of a nightmare it would be, trying to row away while the water beneath you was freezing AND you were being chased by a growing army of the dead. Like holy shit
That would be so over powered and the Night King wouldn't really need much effort to transpass the Wall lol
@@syo942 True lol
@@syo942 well he can knock off the dragonfire, why cant he freeze the water.
I mean he could (I think). His appearance alone usually freezes everything around him. And fun fact - in the books its implied that the dead can swim.
If they could do that, then they'd have circumvented the Wall thousands of years ago by going around either Eastwatch-by-the-sea, or The Shadow Tower. That they didn't means they couldn't. It's speculated that it wasn't just ice that makes the Wall, but the magic of the Children of the Forest, and and such it's possible that this magic also prevents them from circumventing the wall that way.
The problem is that the Others (in the show the White Walkers) are enigmatic almost to a fault, and this deep into things we don't even really know all that much about them; the producers of the show were clearly hacks who faked it for most of the show because they relied on GRRM's work to bolster their mediocrity, but towards the end of the show where I imagine most of the exposition on the Others would happen, they had nothing to go on, so clearly they screwed up royally. Still, you could argue that the reason they were ultimately able to penetrate the Wall is because dragon fire is also a form of magic, which is capable of neutralizing or countering the ice magic of the Wall, so the Others couldn't pass until the dragon made it possible.
That was the biggest "Come at me bro" I've ever seen.
More like"just bring it"
The moment when Jon’s valyrian steel sword clashed with the white walker’s. THE BEST moment in the entire show imo
All that built up tension between jon and the night king
And Arya got to kill him. Well fucking done
Love Arya but that pissed me off more than anything. Should have been Jon v Night King one v one. Sometimes it’s ok to give us want we want or expect ya know
1:57 Tormund's face expression always gets me as he watches his people get slaughter. He's truly heartbroken.
This episode STILL creeps me out!! One of the best in my opinion.
This still remains my favourite GOT moment. The whole episode is just such a great way to set up everything to come and is just such an amazing piece of storytelling. The brief moments of hope as we learn that white walkers can be killed and that they have the weapons to do it. Followed by the incredible way that they execute that ending, completely shutting off all hope against insermountable odds. The measured way that the Night King just barely acknowledges the sheer desperate escape by simply staring Jon down and raising the army back up, now with new recruits. He doesn't even try to kill them, he knows they are so utterly demoralised he has won already. Then that wide shot of sheer numbers and scale and you realise, as an audience, all the politcing, all the struggles for the throne, it just does not mean a damn. This shifted the whole paradigm of the show. The villain, the REAL villain of the show who has always been lurking off screen, truly announces his arrival.
A real shame there was never a satisfying payoff for all this work.
Couldn't agree more!
From 2:10 to 4:10, everything (cinematography, BGM, acting etc...) in every frame of this entire sequence deserves seperate awards. This scene is, literally, more than terrifying. From the characters physical and mental strength perspective, Except Jon Snow no one would've had the stomach enough to see what Jon faced here.
D&D: "It didn't feel...right...for Jon to be the one to kill the Nightking"
*This episode clearly setting up the conflict between the Nightking and Jon
Hands down one of the best moments in the entire series. I love how this battle wasn't played as "epic fight" but "what the fuck just happened". The dead silence at the end as Jon stares at the undead horde felt like I was actually there.
This is when the knight king looked like a bad ass.
Wun Wun was one of the bravest and kindest characters on the show. At this point theres no doubth that the giants will soon go extinct and that he might even be the last one alive. Yet, he stil wants to give his last to protect his cute little human friends. Such as (at 0:52), shielding them from the walkers until they are safe.
I too remember when the Night King and the Others were a threat and something serious and meaningful.
What I love, is how smart the night king is. The white walkers aren't the undead, not reanimated corpses. They're alive, with intelligence and actual intentions and plans, and expressions, heck they have their own armour and weapons plus obviously have a command system, . When Jon blocks the blow, you can see the white walker actually is shocked, looking at him in shock, almost looking at him in curiosity as if to ask something. When Sam is seen by the white walker, it actually rolls it's eyes in annoyance at the sight of in it's mind such a weak and useless person, and then calls out making the gesture with it's sword for the army of wights to advance, when the night king looks at Jon and reanimates the dead, you can see it's curiosity and smugness at these humans who escaped, and at the one who killed one of it's lieutenants in almost impressed look, then doing so in a gesture to tell the people they are nothing to it and will be defeated soon.
When the white walker sees the fire and goes to investigate in the wight hunt, you see it showing curiosity and looking for clues as to who it belongs to.
The night king was doing everything by a plan. First, he took his time wiping out the children of the forest, so that Bran finds the last hiding in a cave with wards specifically to repel them, because he knew they had magic necessary to defeat him and the weapons necessary to do so, dragonglass. Then, he slowly picks off the nights watch, doing so that Jeor Mormont is left with no choice but to lead a expedition to find out what's going on, sending men north of the wall. He also goes after the wildings slowly, not to kill them all yet but to drive them all south, knowing the nights watch will not let them through. He then also over the years takes Crasters sons, to build his numbers of white walkers, while also creating more contention between the wilding groups by this. He gets the white walkers to lead the attack on the great ranging at the fist, letting them get all this way north so when they do, they have no wildings or escape nearby, so they can massacre most of the men, sending them south to Crasters keep where he knows they will have a mutiny likely killing more, and so eliminates the men who have seen wights and white walkers and are loyal to the watch and know the threat, like Jeor.He then lets the two sides kill each other, knowing the wildings will go to one place only, Hardhome. He then waits, until Jon and the other men arrive to try and rescue them, doing so when they are unprepared and knowing most of the people are outside the fortified town, so that by the time they are aware and begin to arm themselves, he's already taken the majority down.He then lets them escape, showing his power to terrify them knowing they have no proof they are real, while simultanously also knowing the few remaining wildings being let south will just result in more death of the nights watch. Then, he bides his time, building his army by scouring the lands beyond the wall for more bodies, letting the kingdoms further weaken, because remember they only start acting after the war of the five kings begins, because at that time the armies would be too many while by season 8 the land of Westeros is extremely decimated, particularly in the north. He then traps the men on the rock island, waiting for the dragons to show up, knowing he will do so which is why he has no reaction, he knows she'll burn some of his army but he also knows three dragons can't be easily controlled, so one will be easy to target. Then, he drags it out and makes it a white walker dragon, using the magic in it to destroy the wall, when he finally has enough power to reach the lands south of the wall, and with no children of the forest left to ward him off, and he does so.Then he marches his army through, targeting each settlement down to Winterfell, knowing everyone is there.But then season 8 dumbs it down and makes the army so slow and weak Sam survives crying lying on the ground against many wights while they shuffle slowly towards Jamie and Brienne because for some reason they're speed is now generic slow zombie.What a waste.
Disagree on some points but a solid breakdown of strategy and tactics. He also saw the red comet so he knew dragons were come again.
i love this whole sequence it’s in my top 3 in the entire show. When the Nights Watch first arrive at Hardhome the wide shot shows the area was lively with people moving freely going about their business it and basically living their own separate lives and the episode ends on the same exact shot it began with only EVERYTHING is dead still.. the boat isn’t being rowed, the whits are motionless, even the water has little to no ripples from all the commotion, the characters and the viewer are stuck in a void of nothingness and silence until the credits begin rolling while ur still in total shock of how abruptly everything happens… i still vividly remember the chills i got watching this episode for the 1st time and was one of the few bright spots in the 2nd half of the show
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The Stare-off between Jon and the Night King was EPIC! Like a big showdown was gonna happen between them.
That never happened :(
They both knew it, too. Your observation was absolutely right
Shame no one had a dragonglass tipped arrow. That would've ended it all real quick.
the best looking white walker or night king ever in this show.
after these season we seen in next seasons all sucks. this was very badass looking for a white walker. unfortunately it was in past.
There only been one season since this clip
Still my favourite scene out of the whole show
Mines too.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when this episode came out and the Night King and the White Walkers became the most terrifying villains on TV with an epic grand debut showing off the army and its leader. Hardhome was the moment Game of Thrones peaked with its supernatural threat getting everyone hyped.....and then Season 8 happened. WAIT!! WAIT!!..still....it doesn't take away from how absolutely epic both dramatically and cinematically speaking this scene was. I couldn't tell you how many times I've rewatched the Hardhome scene more than any other scene in Game of Thrones or any other show for that matter.
It is an absolute treasure of a horror-action scene rivaling what Hollywood has put out in theaters with their supernatural action scenes for ages now. The Night King's design here looks absolutely frightening and threatening on so many levels. This scene still goes down in history as one of my top favorite villain introductions (I know he was teased earlier in the series) in the history of filmmaking. No matter how much I utterly despised what they did to him in Season 8, I will forever look back at this scene as a gem and a prime example of how to introduce your spotlight villain in the most impactful fashion possible.
Nice to see a comment like this! I completely agree, one of the greatest scenes i've ever seen. I was so invested in the characters and when i saw this scene i was actually terrified because i thought they were all screwed.
@@Labyriiint Most definitely
Yep. This is my favorite battle in the whole show. Screaming noise gradually fading to the sound of wind and waves.
I love the moment at 2:55, he's like " look what I can do, what you gonna do about it bitch "
What a fantastic episode. Not even in the book.
Richard Brake was a fantastic and more terrifying Night King, but I see where the show wants continuity with a certain resemblance for the story they are choosing to tell.
Kissed By Firewyrms can u tell what are they choosing to tell 😅
@@arunabhlala i think he's saying..Bran is the Nights King? In some kind of time travel shenanigans?
CharlieBrown20XD6 bran isn't the fucking night king holy fuck. even the actor says that the theory is cheesy
Not even in the book *yet*. It's clearly already planned (Hardhome is already being mentioned), and GRRM indicated this was going to happen, so they filmed it. Some details will be different, but the general events will be the same.
@@stupidnamefilterJon wasn't at Hardhome in the books though. This staredown will never happen.
This decision was similar to having Stannis lead his men and fight in the Battle of Blackwater Bay in the show whereas in the books he stayed back.
Say what you will about the seasons after 4, but none can deny how well the Hardhome scene was executed.
Oh i'm sorry... did you expect an epic fight scene like this at the end of GoT HAHAHAHA! Expectations = SUBVERTED!
This was a slaughter, what the hell are you smoking?
I miss the actor who played this Night King
He appeared for like few minutes.
he was joe chill from batman begins
Richard Brake is the best. Dude was born to play villains, just look at his career. While Rob Zombie’s 31 isn’t very good Richard Brake as Doomhead steals the show and makes the movie.
@@codenocodeso the Night King killed Negan & Laura, creating Batman
Epic
When Night King Rises The Dead
Oh That background Music & That Silent Wind Sound After That
One of GOT’s most haunting scenes
I would say the last one
@@DVXDemetrivsThere's still some great Night King scenes in Season 6.
I am here after dissaponting battle for Winterfell
best episode . john looks like a total badass on that boat lookin at the night king
Are all these sudden uploads meant just for spiking our interest and curiosity or can we expect a teaser or even a trailer soon !?
Well in 3-4 months
@@dylanb2990 First trailer probably around Christmas time
First one confirmed april release date
@@victoriaharris3113 that's when the series starts not the trailer
These posts are just meant to taunt us since we're all impatiently waiting for teaser & trailer uploads😂 They're pretty clever these people, but not clever enough to fool me😂😂😂
All the hype just to turn the night king into a side quest on S8.
This was the episode that is what the Long Night at Winterfell should of been. An absolute slaughter.
Yep just killing 80% of the main characters with some surviving part of the army retreating south and regrouping
I always loved the story line where Jon unites the Wildlings and Night's Watch. Such a complicated and a hard decision from a young leader.
According to me, "Hardhome" and "Battle of the Bastards" are the Best Episodes in GoT. Anyone else agrees!?
Winds of winter
Spoils of War is amazing as well.
The Spoils of War is another Damn Episode!
Nope, the most badass and epic is whene Daenerys burn the slave master *DRACARYS*
Are you kidding me?
The best episode in got s4e4 of course, because of Carl Tanner from Gin Alley.
He is a fookin' legend dude.
What a spectacular scene .. such good filmmaking
i swear i watched this episode when i was sleeping in cooler, the drops of water are clearly touching me with cold air and i felt this episode so hard like i had nothing felt like this in my entire life and in the end of this episode the eye contact of jon snow and the night king I'll newer ever forget this scene.
Hands down the best episode of the entire series.
Completely right and it’s not even close
The greatest "Come with me bro", of history.
The fact that everything just went silent.. that's wicked
This is the single best episode of any series ever !!!!!
I've watched Game Of Thrones at least times and this whole battle even more but somehow I never noticed the White Walkers at 1:52. I know there were several on the hill with the Night King but I didn't think any others were fighting there besides the one Jon Snow took out.
Best fight of the whole show in my opinion. Like.. the sheer fuckin hopelessness and silence UGH amazing.
This is probably my favorite sequence in the whole show.
@3:43 Because of the look he threw at Jon Snow, I was certain it was him that he was after and not Brann. The Night King never put that much effort into staring down Brain's asperger's ridden creepy ass, that's for sure.
Well, he grabbed Brann by the hand in that vision - but still his face off with Jon was more epic.
This is better than the long night 🤣🤣
This version of Night King looks more terrifying than the one in Season 7-8
All of these are great choices. The greatest battle scenes DEFINITELY HardHome and Battle of the Bastards. Spoils of was FANTASTIC!Danaerys burns the slave master!! Epic badass!!!
Battle Of The Blackwater and Watchers On The Wall: Am I a joke to you?
Imagine all this build up and at the end you're not even the one to end him. Horrible writers. That's like Harry Potter vs Voldemort, and then Ron appears out of no where and kills Voldemort at the end instead.
We have seen seasons 1 - 7 already
Actually 14 times
For fooks sake drop the trailer
true story!
Just did
I'm from the future. It did not go well.
The production values on the show are astonishing! I know the show is expensive to produce, but boy is it worth it, especially when the money is well spent. I have seen so-called blockbuster movies with large budgets have crummier special effects and lower quality production values than a single episode of "Game Of Thrones", and I think "Hardhomme" is a perfect example of that! I was lucky enough to catch one of the limited IMAX screenings of the last two Season Four episodes a few years back, "The Watchers On The Wall" and "The Children" (the great Neil Marshall was there to do the intro!!!) and I swear they looked just as good, or even better on that giant sized screen. It was like watching a two hour feature length film...
Remember when this dude meant something?
This is one of my top all time fav zombie scenes 🧟 so well done
This scene stills gives me goosebumps every time i see it
8 seasons of building them up, down the fuckin toilet
This scene has so much intensety to it.. !!
4:02 .... I would be rowing so fast! What the heck are they doing!?!?!?
They're probably so scared they don't even understand what's happening. Imagine having that lot in front of you 😬
Ésta sin duda es una de las mejores escenas de todas las temporadas.
This was so much better than battle of winterwell.
The Night King is fully armored from Neck down in this scene.. But hey, in the final season he just conveniently chose an armor with a small gap in between so that Arya can pierce through with a kitchen knife, to end the whole white walker clan.. :D
Probably the only time I thought that Jon Snow was doomed. Scariest scene throughout the series, in my opinion
Yes,and I thought the same thing
One of the best moments in the entire show for sure
There’s nothing better than watching these shows as they happen.
Now THAT'S how to end an episode for a multi season series!
teleport me to that time.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Everyone may rise @ 2:52
Ill give my props tho. This wasnt in the books apparently so D&D earned this respect.
I hope the final season has this actor playing the NK. The new guy from the last season just didn't have the same piercing look.
Richard Brake is the NK in this scene. Vlad Furdyk took over the role since season 6
@@darj617 Unfortunately...
That scene scared me x awesome
For them to set up these to as arch nemesis and we don’t even get a sword fight is crazy.
my favorite scene
Ooo that silence at the end
Love this episode
phenomenal scene
2.47 BEST SCENE EVER.
I like that Jon looks like he has a soul. Seeing this I hope that this is not the only fight against a white walker.
1:10 Wun Wun is PISSED
April 2019 is official got season 8 got insta says so
Yup and expect a trailer/teaser before or after Christmas.
This is the where the show peaked
From the beginng of the invasion at Hardhome the music builds such an underlying tension that made my mind stopped when the largest and quickest "Turn Undead" we've ever seen happened!! For the next minute i remember my self just looking an the screen with empty eyes... The glimpse of hope that came when John kills the Whitewalker lieutenant didn't just vanished with the most evocative way, but watching the Night King performing outrageously the "Raise Dead" left me with an empty inexpressible horror!!! The only thing i would do if i had witnessed all this would be to run to the first ship and leave everything behind! First to Essos and then as south as the world goes..........
"Gods the story was strong then!"
until Dumb and Dumber turn the show into Disney Crap ass writing
We all know that this was the peak of Got
The way that this shows that throughout this entire battle they failed to even put a dent in the white walkers forces must be beyond terrifying for the characters.
How do you even THINK about fighting an enemy you can’t beat, and gets stronger the more you fight it? Hopelessly terrifying
The NK was so much better than the later version
That long stare between Jon and the night king....never to be paid off
The whole white walker threat was confined in the north
I love how everyone present knows that fire is the only thing that permanently stops these things, yet not a single fire was lit.
also...seeing a corpse with an arrow in its head make its way through the gate, and further arrows being fired at it (and missing), really makes you wonder how anyone survives this battle.
Amazing!
In retrospect probably the peak moment in GOT - when the night king raises his arms and all the freshly killed dead rise. To think they would later end this story line with the big FU to the fans of the last season. But I guess better to have had this one supreme moment, than not at all.
I'm on the same page
He wanted Jon to see...and suffer...
We totally got the ending we expected after this fight😂😂
best scene ever
3:14 I have chills