10/10 BEST BATTLE EVER!! | Game of Thrones 6x9 REACTION and REVIEW | 'Battle of the Bastards'
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- Game of Thrones | Season 6 Episode 9 | Reaction & Review | "Battle of the Bastards"
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Seeing how much yall enjoyed this battle, you guys HAVE to watch The Last Kingdom.
Uhtred is a better Jon Snow and there are so many awesome battles like this one
“He’s Ned’s son, he’s a Stark!” Truer words have never been spoken!
Batman is suitable sometimes, Arya’s story is inspired directly from Bruce Wayne’s character. Daughter of a rich and powerful family, they die tragically, she travels the world as a poor person and learns from criminals, then is trained by a secret assassin group.
Can you upload episode 10. I cant wait more than a day lol
Pudgey: “I just want to jump on you, later, and celebrate” 😂😜😍😯
Notice how the soldiers surrounding Jon when he emerges and gasps for air are Bear Island soldiers (they all have long hair and beards)... those 62 soldiers proved their worth, they saved Jon's life!
It's one of my favorite details of the whole series.
Edit:
Also notice that the shield Jon used to stop Ramsay's arrows had Bear Island's sigil.
Another great detail!
I didn't pay attention to all this, now I will cry more for my 🐻
Yes, they made it till winterfell courtyard...
Good catch.
Little lady Mormont said that every man from bear island will prove his worth tenfold. And they have. 62 bears.
Damn Bear Islanders 🔥
Yes, they were "fighting" men!
Give Miguel Sapochnik his dues for directing this. Absolute beast. This episode earned him an Emmy.
His episodes are standouts…hardhome, this, season 8 episode 3….he has a way of making battles so chaotic and intense
@@alicia1465 yes! My favorite three battles. Hardhome, Battle of Bastards and the Long Night. Although I do like Spoils of War season 7 between Dany and Jamie Lannister.
@@alicia1465he ruined s8 ep3 if you think otherwise you’re simping hard
@@notthecoolwhip let's hear how you'd do it better lol I may not be happy about how S8 went but the Long Night was far from the worst part of S8 lol
@@mack_taylor there’s videos on RUclips showing the battle of winterfell done right.
These last two episodes of season 6 are just so spectacular back to back. My FAVORITE battle of the series. I can't get enough of the reactions to this one
Agreed. 6x10 is actually my favourite episode of the whole show!
6x10 is a masterpiece
THAT JUST SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING ABOUT BATTLES AT ALL
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Actual historians said that a lot of what was included was actually very accurate in terms of the absolute chaos and the tactics used by both sides
The cavalry scenes were all real. They made little trenches for the horses to run in so they wouldn't be afraid to run straight at another horse and they wouldn't run over Kit Harington, who was really standing there in the middle. They made a pretty interesting video on the making of the episode.
I’m obsessed with how Spartan was cycling between joy and awe, while Pudgey was cycling between tears, joy, horror, awe, and mourning 😂
Also, that scene with Jon being trampled is SO GOOD, like the audience holds their breath with him the cinematography is unreal
My anxiety always shoots through the roof and I feel claustrophobic whenever I see this scene.
Right! When I first saw it I felt like I was drowning.
@@betteryourlife865 Coincidentally, I just watched a video last night on RUclips about "Crowd Crush" at the Travis Scott concert and the Halloween incident in Seoul South Korea and I kept picturing in my head the scene with Jon.
Plus the idea of his rebirth there. It’s the moment he decided he wants to live and fight. If he wanted to die, that was his chance. But it’s the moment after his first death that he’s truly reborn. It’s super powerful and the direction and music immensely contribute to that.
completely took me out of it though, really unrealistic.
You see that shield John picked up to block Ramsays arrows? It was a Mormont shield.
Mormonts are the secret MVPs of this whole show, there is not a single one that isn't wholesome.
I just wish we had had a chance to see Lyanna's mom, who died ambushed at the red wedding.
62 men fighting with the strength of 620
@@AL-fl4jk They're like Marines or some shit
@@BhlackBishop Bear Cavalry
There It Stood!
It may seem cowardly, but Ramsey is honestly a way more effective commander than Jon in this battle. Jon gives approximately 0 orders. He's not a commander in this fight; he's a warrior. It's badass looking but poor leadership. Ramsey controls every aspect of this battle until the Vale's arrival.
This is a sad but excellent point. Jon is Ned Stark 2.0. He's honest and forthright to a fault. Unfortunately that is not enough to be an effective leader. In his one previous command, his men mutiny and kill him! A better leader would not have misread the situation so badly.
@@gunkulator1 You realize Ned was actually an excellent battle commander? He was great in Robert's rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. Show Jon is nothing like Ned lol. Dude was just dumb, especially after his resurrection. The writers didn't know how to write nuanced characters after they stopped using the books.
@@nostalgicbliss5547 Ned had the advantage of numbers then. Tyrion calls the Greyjoy Rebellion "stupid" because they were so badly outnumbered. Ned's inability to read the situation also costs him his life. Ned and Jon are parallel characters who value honor and family above all else. While noble, that's not a winning combination in the long run.
@@gunkulator1 How is it not a winning combination when the Stark's basically won the game in the end on the show? What did Tywin's pragmatism and ruthlessness get him in the end? Even in the books you have so many northerners still loyal to the Starks cause of what Ned represented. And Ned lost cause he could not bear to see children suffer for the sins of their family. He was still struggling with PTSD because of Roberts rebellion and everything that happened with his sister and Elia Martell and her kids.
@@gunkulator1 There is a huge difference between a commander and a schemer. Ned misread the situation in the context of political schemes, which he wasn't used to from ruling his own court. However, commanding soldiers in a battle takes an entirely different skillset than political intrigue and I'm pretty sure the books portray Ned as a very capable commander. Similarly, I am quite certain that Littlefinger, who is an excellent schemer, would be fairly useless as a military commander.
Couple small details about Danny some people pointed it out! When she’s talking to the masters, her eyes slightly shift in the background, you can see drogon flying, also when drogon lands, she actually points to where she wants him..showing how much control she has over him now. So cool!
Yup, that's what a massive dragon with a great wingspan is. A total stealth machine!
“Take pictures and send them to Theon” Pudgey once again you are inside my head 😂😂😂 what I wouldn’t give to see Sansa sending pics of a busted up Ramsey to Theon omg
I don't think they had Polaroid cameras
I love that line!
imagine how fire sansa's snapchat game would have been
''guess who just got ripped by hounds🤭💀😜🔥'' *3 files attached*
😂😂 I died when she said that
One of the most iconic shots in TV or Film history is Jon Snow drawing Longclaw and facing the Bolton Cavalry charge alone
you mean stupid
Its sad that the most iconic shots and battles is fulll of plot armor
@@0cidd0 yeah ngl this battle is stupid as hell, next episode is godly tho
@@ihuh1000 I mean, it's not, he just has a moment of luck. The actual battle tactics deployed by Ramsay are pulled straight from antiquity.
@@ihuh1000 (I assume you have zero clue as to which commander I'm referencing so I'll just say the shield envelopment was a tactic used by Hannibal Barca)
The scene where Davos finds out about what happened to Shireen is completely heartbreaking... I remember seeing it for the first time when it aired ; the sun rises behind him and it looks like the flames that killed his girl, this scene looks like a freaking painting. One thing's for sure, even in the last seasons, the cinematography, musics and most of the actor's performances still kept me 100% engaged in the show, and this is a prime exemple of that !
Hahahaha! Sparton praying to the Lord of Light was absolutely hilarious
He said “Lord of Light, left gods, right gods…”🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
@@lalamagnoliagyrl lol
12:19 ... Everyone always misses this very important moment (I did too my first few times watching). Notice Daenerys' left hand ... she is pointing to the spot where she wants Drogon to land. This confirms that she is now in complete control of him & her dragons.
Shit yeah! I've watched this show so many times and never once noticed. Really cool spot 😁
@@TheIrishKat so have I, I am one of those fans who wach GOT every year and I didnt notice it too.
Rumor has it since watching this episode Spartan wakes up every day shouting "Who owns the North! Starks do!" with a grin on his face 😁
Visually episodes 6x9 and 6x10 are in a league of their own. Some amazing television history was made in 2016 👏🏻
well if you don´t actually think about the battle. If you analyse it you see how fucking flawed the battle is
@@ninodino444that’s why I said visually 😉
@@ninodino444 Yeah it's terrible. Also Sansa coming in eith this heroic ridicilous music as if she's not responsible for all the people that died.
@@rinne-8810 well that she did not tell John that is completely crazy …. The whole battleplan would have been different ….but the stand alone battle is ridiculous. If we include the plot holes it is getting unwatchable
@@ninodino444 Telling Jon would have risked it leaking to Ramsey. We already know from the battle with Stannis that Ramsey has spies in Jon's camp. If even a whiff of it got out, Ramsey stays behind the walls of Winterfell and then the Knights of the Vale are useless. Notice instead how Sansa goads Jon repeatedly about engaging with Ramsey and gets him to admit that they don't have enough men. That is exactly the kind of information they wanted Ramsey to hear. Jon is too honest to lie effectively so getting him to admit the situation is hopeless can only sound sincere if he really believed it. It was a brilliant plan. It fooled Jon, fooled Ramsey and it fooled a lot of viewers too.
The payoff in this episode has taken literally SEASONS to come around which is what makes it so good!
I'm always so happy watching season 6.... and then I remember season 8.
fun fact - the shot with the horses and jon raising longclaw isn't cgi - it was about 80 horses running straight at Kit Harrington and to this day he's mad that people think its fake
That would have been scary AF. Horses are so huge in person.
@@nostalgicbliss5547 and Kit is really tiny 😂
@@IAmJustR He doesn't look that small on screen. Probably like 5'7 which is not that short for an actor. And he has a pretty good frame
Rickons actor after this episode tweeted “shoulda zigged zagged”
*10 seconds in* "they put budget into this episode"
You have NO idea whats to come boi ❤
After Jon breaks in with the others through the gate notice that the shield Jon lifts up against Ramsey has the Mormont bear sigil on it. Lyanna had said every man fights with the strength of ten mainlanders and we hadn't thought much of it but one of those 62 men managed to last all way until they broke through the castle.
Finally you made it to Battle Of The Bastards! This will definitely go down as one of the best shot episodes in television history. Danny and her dragons woohoo. Ramsey finally getting his was better then Joffery dying. Fitting Sansa was there for both.
This episode, when it came out, was the single most incredible piece of television ever. It completely and utterly dominated. It's all practical, you should check out the behind the scenes making video of the battle. They used real horses, choreographed fighting, best episode ever.
The shield that John picks up inside Winterfell as he is facing Ramsey is a bear island shield! Meaning 1 of Lady Mormonts 30 men made it into the castle.
62
Spartan looks so happy!💞- for the first minutes. He is glowing with anticipation! Makes me smile too.
Lmao that "what is he doing ? Is he dumb ?" took me out. In retrospect this is exactly what Sansa meant when she told Jon that he doesn't know him like she does and that he shouldn't do what he wants. The moment she told him they're not getting Rickon back, he should have planned it all from there but as a brother I understand where Jon's mindset was in that moment. Just imagine being seconds away from saving your sibling and having them die right in fron of you... Jon was blinded by grief. Ramsey played him like a fiddle. Which begs the question, how would Robb have acted in that moment ? There are better ways to beat someone when you keep a cool head, and as a leader, it's what you are forced into. To protect hundreds of lives above one. Even if it means that the one dying is your family.
Love that Pudgy was telling Rickon not to run in a straight line. One of the biggest jokes in the fandom is that Rickon should have zig-zagged. Good call Spartan on the camera work. Miguel Sapochnik, one of the HOTD showrunners did this epic episode along with the Hardhome episode from last season. Also, good call on Sansa's allies saving the day. Poor Wun Wun (the giant). When those Stark banners unfurl over Winterfell is one of the best moments of the show. They had to take some of the Ramsey death scenes out because it was too gruesome. Dani was born after her father was dead.
What's funny about it is how wrong everyone who says he should have zig-zagged are.
Zig-zagging would have kept him in range of the bow, and with how good an archer as Ramsey was, moving from side to side was NOT going to make him miss. Rickon didn't really have any good options. He could try to run straight ahead as fast as he could to get out of bow range, but that was about it. There weren't any trees in the area he could run into to make Ramsey's view more obscured, so straight ahead was his only option.
Even if he zigzagged he will die. Ramsey is a good archer. He never miss.
@@nidheeshkrishnan6048 Thats not how zig zag works, as good archer as he was, he has no control of the arrow once he lets go the string. Of course he could have had much bigger opportunity to survive this way, the only way to hit him would have been to figure out the pattern in which he was moving, which would also be silly because logically your movements must be erratics, you are not going to be repeating a sequence like a robot
Sansa didn't save the day, quiet the opposite, she literally held back information from Jon about the Vale, taking credit at last minute as 'savior', when all the fighting was done by Jon and company, how many houses would have join or defected if they knew they had the Vale who are legendary and untouched by wars...
@@ms_scribbles In an ideal, one-on-one case, if Rickon had run zigzag in a true random way, his chances of getting hit by an arrow are almost 0%. But humans aren't random, we always seek pattern. So, his zigzag run would practicality be pseudo random. If he zigzagged he would have been tired and unable to get out of range sooner and thus easier to target, and most importantly; Ramsay conditioned Rickon to go in a straight line by hitting on sides (missing on purpose), so in this case zigzagging puts him in more danger.. but lets say he did zigzag masterfully, Ramsay would have used the archers standing beside him.
Pudgey being the brain and Spartan being the brawn is what makes this duo great!
This episode is better action than most movies. If you haven't noticed the best action episodes have one character in almost all of them, Jon Snow.
That one shot following Jon in the mayhem was one of the best directed, choreographed and edited things in TV history! The episode was truly a technical marvel. Only saving private Ryan holds up in terms of cinematography in my opinion, also enjoyed Hacksaw Ridge when it came to cinematography.
Episode 9 and 10 of season 6 are EPIC can't wait for the season finale
PEAK ENTERTAINMENT! Unreal episode. Loved the reaction and discussion as always ❤
Way back in the first season I told Spartan the best was yet to come. The battle of Blackwater was coming and I knew he would be happy with that and his man Stannis’ determination despite wildfire and having to be dragged of the battlefield. Like most all of us though it was The Battle of the Bastards that I knew would make Spartan forget all about those fools Stannis and Robb and embrace the real “Legend” on the battlefield, our boy Jon. Still lots of great stuff ahead Spartan, I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.⚔️😀
The scene with Jon Snow fighting in the beginning was a single shot which makes it all the more top notch. And definitely, the shot with Jon Snow standing alone with Longclaw facing the cavalry charge is one of my favourite scenes of all time.
Guys, just wait till the next episode. I'm so curious to see how you guys are gonna react to it.
When the knights of the Vale rode over the hill, the look of sheer joy on both your faces...priceless!✌❤
Since you started this journey, this is the episode I’ve been waiting for 😍
For me it's the next one. Best episode of the show.
This and the next one❤ I was crying for happiness and nostalgy, the pack 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Ned was there, always.
Same
I remember pacing my living room during the entire battle. Never been so stressed watching tv
My favorite Pudgey quote: NOOOOOO-ERRRRRRRRR
Easily one of the best episodes ever!
Regarding Jon & Sansa’s argument. Neither one of them were wrong, imo, it’s just that they were both speaking on the information they each had. Sansa’s pov was based on info she had that Jon didn’t, & Jon’s pov was based on what they had to work with.
I don’t blame Jon for acting on the info he had & not waiting just bc Sansa said so, w/o any explanation or reasoning.
Sansa needed Jon to react like it was hopeless so that Ramsey would commit his troops outside of the walls of Winterfell. The best way to ensure that is not to tell him.
Sansa just knew better than to 1. Trust that Littlefinger would come through and 2. Express out loud that she was trusting Littlefinger.
Littlefinger is that friend you don’t tell anyone you invited to the party so not to get anyone’s hopes up. If they show, then YAAAYY 🎉 everyone’s happy. If they don’t come, no one was expecting them anyway.
Oh yeah, I get why she did it. But I’ve seen Jon get flack for not listening to her, so I like to point out that he was only going off of what he knew and made sense to him.
Jon dies 9/10 times here. Sansa basically sacrificed Jon by not telling him
@@Kruiff32 yet this is the 1 time that did not happen🤷🏽♀️
I love watching Pudgey fight up for herself. And Spartan taking it good naturedly. Love your reactions! Pudgey, remind him you were loving Dany all this time while Spartan was loyal to Robb more so than Jon until the Red Wedding it became clear how Robb’s choices made him lose support
The North Remembers.
Next episode is my favorite of the series. Insane back-to-back eps. Jon beating Ramsey's ass felt like some Kratos shit lol
“Don’t run in a straight line”
-everyone that year
Also, the director for this episode also directed Hardhome
I don't understand how people don't realize that a kid who's terrified isnt going to think logically and an in archery the shooter puts the arrow where he wants especially ramsey who was toying with him.zigzag isn't as useful either but people are all experts when it comes to life or death situations especially when they've never been in it😂😂
Ramsay was just toying with Rickon and Jon. He had hundreds of archers at the ready and would have ordered all of them to shoot once Rickon started to getting close to being out of range. Zig zag would not have mattered. Notice how Jon's horse was immediately killed by the dozens of arrows fired after Rickon died.
Ramsey would have hit him either way. That's the point.
You should watch some behind the scenes of big battles like these, the way they make and edit these is insane, and yes that Jon Snow camera movement was all in one shot no cuts🔥
This episode won Emmys for several categories, including Best Director.
Ive ben waiting for spartan to react to this one for AWHILE now ! He did not disapoint lol
These last two episodes of season 6 are ranked as two of the best of the entire series. We LOVE seeing you guys squabble. You guys are great! Don't worry Spartan. We love you! Enjoy the episodes to come!
YESSS! The episode I've been waiting for the reaction to! This was absolutely my favorite battle scene of all time as well, as Spartan was saying, the camerawork was incredible! Also, when Jon couldn't breathe, I felt like I couldn't breathe when I first watched too like Pudgey! Thank you, so ready for the Season 6 finale reaction from you this week! 😊✨
Cool tidbit. Jon uses a Bear (Mormont family sigil) Island shield to defend himself from Ramsay’s arrows. This is a reference of how the Mormont family has been loyal to the Starks and how they come into play into the rest of the show.
Can't wait for last episode of S6! Laughing already Imagining your reactions! 😂😂😂 it's gonna blow your mind. The bestest epi of GOT history ❤
The director for this episode was a showrunner for season 1 HOTD.
The scene with Jon standing alone in the field, unsheathing his sword, with the cavalry charging towards him in slow motion like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, is one of the most epic moments in cinematic television history!
i love the parallel of ice and fire in this episode. it's just Jon and Dany doing the same thing: reconquering their castle/city for a greater reason.
"No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would." - Daenerys, ASOS.
"Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron Targaryen had, of growing up to be a conqueror" - Jon, AGOT
Next episode is my favorite episode of the entire series. No spoilers but it's a cinematic masterpiece.
It's easily the best of the series, and one of the best of any series, ever. But after, seasons 7 & 8 falter, despite some great thrills.
@@Nightmarigny * great episodes.
After all this time of hearing the sad version, finally the triumphal rendition of the Stark theme bgm as it cuts to LF and Sansa, so satisfying!
My favorite war depiction ever shown on tv. The chaos, desperation, the confusion….it’s just perfect.
Don’t normally comment on these videos but I have to be honest, I was refreshing your page every minute today hoping there would be a reaction for this episode! So so good! I can’t wait for more videos!
we hope you enjoyed it!
The end of Season 6 has some of the best moments in the entire show
I couldn't wait for Spartan to react to the epic Battle of the Bastards!! You were positively orgasmic watching this. In 2016 everyone was talking about this. Next episode 10 and it is all amazing. I can't wait. Enjoy after this we had to wait 2 years before it came back for season 7
The one shot battles are so amazing. They make it feel so real like you’re really there and it seems more dire because of that (instead of cuts ruining the reality). But this battle isn’t even in my top favorites! I’m so glad you recognize how great the camerawork is!
Brilliant reaction, both of you. Can't wait for 6x10!
Such an epic episode! Great reaction guys...super fun to watch!
What Ramsey is doing there is pretty typical. In my military experience, we wouldn't send a General to the front lines, because you can't see the big picture from there. You need someone with a vantage point that can direct and create some sort of order in the chaos.
The Eyrie coming in and Sansa's face transitioning into the Avengers pose from Jon, Tormund, and Won-won. THEN into the ending of Ramsay ITS DELICIOUS. We needed it! Spartan is so emotional the whole way. Love it 😂
I had to skip the intro and get straight into this episode because I couldn’t wait for Spartan’s reaction to Battle of the Bastards. Epic!!
This ep is the most ep got awards "Battle of the Basterds"hot 27 emmy awards, the best epside of all whole the serie.
RIP Shaggydog, fiercest of the Direwolves
The battle scene is absolutely phenomenal. Unbelievable work they did.
Spartan you’re not wrong about Rickon feeling very dispensable. I actually wish they had done more to make us attach to his character cause it ends up feeling like a worthwhile sacrifice for the cause but in Jon’s mind it isn’t, we just don’t even get to see the other characters’ love for him really so he feels very pointless.
You might wanna learn what a "shaggy dog story" is.
its such a shame truly! i read the first two books recently and i loved rickon thats my wild child fr
Poor kid didn't even have a single line in season 6 lol
@@orothien was that their intention with Rickon? Maybe, but it didn’t seem that way… from what I gather a shaggy dog story is about making people care about something that was meaningless in the end anyway. But here I didn’t care about Rickon to begin with and he was meaningless in the end, nothing misleading about it, just seemed like they didn’t have the time or energy to give true life to his character, which is a little unusual given the style of the rest of the story where they make us deeply love a character just to kill them off anyway. That seems more in line with the shaggy dog story concept where as Rickon is an exception from it here. From other comments from book readers it seems Rickon had more character development in the books but I haven’t read them so can’t say for myself.
@@vbb2076i love Rickon too and his wolf is my fave... "hereee Shaggydogg" in season 1 when Bran says "Rob was looking for you to say goodbye. He'll come back w father, and mother. And Sansa & Arya too" and Rickon just responds " no they wont" ughh my heart
You guys should watch the behind the scenes of this episode! They detail how the Battle of the Bastards came to be and the camera angles, production, etc. It was really cool to watch how it came to life.
YASSS I have been waiting for this episode and it's one of if not the best episode i have ever seen.
Fun fact: The shield Jon was using to block Ramsay's arrows was from bear island from house mormont, that means one of those 62 soldiers got into winterfell
The greatest battle scene I've ever seen. Any movie or television show. This is the best!
FINALLY!!
I loved this reaction guys. I’ve seen GOT countless times and still my emotions were matching you guys while watching this video. 💯👏🏽
A tidbit of this episode: "Battle of the Bastards" was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik. The episode received immense critical acclaim, with several reviewers calling it a "masterpiece", and being praised as one of the series' best episodes as well as one of the greatest television episodes of all time. Critics described the battle in the North as "terrifying, gripping and exhilarating", Harington's performance received high praise, and Daenerys' reunion with her dragons at the beginning of the episode was deemed "thrilling". The eponymous battle took 25 days to film and required 500 extras, 600 crew members, and 70 horses. It notably won the Emmy award for Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing; the episode was Kit Harington's choice to support his nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Sapochnik also won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for the episode. Miguel Sapochnik also had directed the fifth-season episodes "The Gift" and "Hardhome" which were also some of the best episodes in the series. Game of Thrones had a lot of episodes that had outstanding writing, vision and direction that were better than a lot of movies past or present on television.
Goes to show that even critics are blinded by flashy set pieces and action sequences. This episode was terrible from a writing and directing perspective, in my opinion.
@@Al-ji4gdCare to say why, exactly?
@@kurtrivero368 I think the writing is very poor, a lot of character decisions and motivations make no sense, the battle itself is way too hectic to enjoy or follow, the entire sequence in Meereen at the beginning of the episode was one of the dumbest resolutions to a plotline in the show. There's more, but I can't remember it all.
One of the greatest battles scenes in the show's full run, no doubt.
This is the most fun I’ve had watching your videos, the next two seasons are about to be literally insane! I’m excited to see how you react.
After this episode first came out, there were so many jokes and memes about Rickon not zig zagging.
This episode is great, but the next episode is probably the best episode in the entire series.
Agreed. I remember thinking they’ll never top this one! Then being blown away the following week!
You weren’t the only thing blown away by that episode
Yes, it is.
Love the fact that Tyrion was right that Sansa is not a killer at least not yet , well that yet has now happened , nice for showing
Tyrion was also right about telling Dani to go easy on the Masters.
Restraint paid off, because now she has.... boats!
But willing to let Jon go on a suicide mission, by not telling Jon about the knights of the vail.
I say she becoming mini cercie
@@tyroneloki5131 Yh true , I don’t know why she wouldn’t if she Kew they were coming, maybe she didn’t 🤷🏼♀️but she has have very vial mentors tho .
@@millieboon and she is turning into one...she is looking out for her own self Interest . While Jon out Here doing sht for everybody.
@@tyroneloki5131 Sansa knew Ramsey was up to something she just didn't know what so she kept the vale a secret until Ramsey revealed his plans and then she can counter attack. That being said Ramsey definitely should've known an army was marching on Winterfell. That's just lazy writing but it's fine since the outcome eventually would've been the same anyway.
It's an utterly incredible episode. One of the best. And possibly the best battle scene ever committed to film or TV. It's breathtaking. It makes you feel the brutality and the confusion of what a real medieval battle scene be like. You don't even know who your own men are any more. Just an amazing, amazing piece of television.
"People don't wanna hear this shit" nah fam, I love it lol
Sparta my thoughts were very much like yours. At the time of watching this I remember thinking... this episode is the best bit of television I have ever watched.
For the record this episode is in 3rd place after completing the show.
Never seen any reaction on RUclips who are this genuine and obsessed like Spartan reaction, you know they really like and invest in the show. I can't wait to watch them the next episode which is my favourite ever in tv history!
41:02 it's the squelching noises when fist meets face that brings me so much joy! 🎉
David Benioff: "So Rickon kind of forgot about the zig-zag."
This episode was probably my favorite one of the whole series, so well shot and writen.
Love this episode but, the one after this is my favorite episode in the entire show.
This is a work of art... period. It will be talked about for along time. It was so fun reliving/ experiencing this again with you guys!! Thank you
The best battle on screen! 100% on the camera work
Lol, Pudgey is like "hang on, hang on, hang on!" You got Spartan, he had to change the subject real quick. This episode had some great moments.
WOW Spartan! You dont care about Rikkon? What about all the times we never saw him? Dont those stand out in your memory? Rikkon for liege Lord!!!
Who has a better story than Rickon the Unspoken?
@@TheN9nth He is spoken for in the house of the undying.
Easily one of the best episodes of television ever made. If you have the time I highly suggest watching a video on how it was made and filmed. All of details make it even better on rewatch.
The 1 take camera shots are so awesome in this ep
Just wanted to say keep up the good work you guys are perfect for my pauses when studying exams cuz its nice to rewatch these shows and have brand new takes and opinions on them. Keep it up much love and support from Belgium 🇧🇪 !
its the best battle and extraordinary episode, this is the Emmy Episode for Miguel Sapochnik's best directing, but keep in mind that episode 10 is at the same level and from a certain point of view, the actual masterpiece of plot is episode 10!... Great reactions :)
Tormund fought Smalljon Umber not a Karstark
I just LOVE the heart in stomach moment at the first collision. It gets me every time seeing solo Jon with that music.
And SPARTAN emotional at the Davos charge ❤❤❤ made my heart so happy. Davos might be my favorite "side" character
So many just glossed over how Sansa was pushing Jon that they needed to take back Winterfell, to get allies, all while hiding that Little Finger had brought an army and then when they were done trying to get allies, yelled and argued with him that they could not attack because they did not have enough men and still would not tell him about the army.
She allowed the battle to take place and for most of them to die.
Battle of Bastards
Sapochnik won an Emmy
GOT won emmy for this battle
Battle was adapted on historical battle of Canae
Episode was on 10/10 rating for quite few years.
Loved everything about it.
Sapochnik became my favorite director.
When i knew he is Co running HOTD i was just so happy.
Last but not least, Thankyou Spartan and Pudgey for these absolutely amazing reactions. I love both of you ❤❤
Spartan's reaction this whole episode was so fun to watch haha. And Pudgey too of course 🤗
I was waiting for this reaction you guys! this is for sure a fan favorite episode and for sure one of them most cinematic moments of the whole series
This episode is definitely one of my favourites, if not THE favourite for many fans! Not to say it’s all downhill from here, it’s definitely not… In my opinion at least… But this episode was the culmination of both the Targaryen and Stark families finally making a comeback in this dark and death-filled world, after years of defeat and loss. Love your reactions! ❤
"Is he dumb?!" That is a phrase you will say over and over in season 7 and 8. 😂