Game of Thrones 1x09 'Baelor' | First Time Reaction

[@Diegesis]

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[@Eldaaa]

Sean bean actually got his head cut off in preparation for this, true story

[@colemanroberts1102]

Method actors, man.

[@LaCheeserie]

DDL has his poster in his study

[@jwr6796]

True fact: he was actually killed in all his roles.

[@0okamino]

That kind of dedication to the craft is very difficult to find by any measure.

[@jwr6796]

@@0okamino seems like the number of actors willing to die for their craft is getting smaller every production

[@Nayias37]

The “Love is the death of duty” scene is just a masterclass from Aemon’s actor~

[@daveauburn1561]

Also the call back in the later season when Jon realises "duty is the death of love."

[@0okamino]

Exactly why they got Peter Vaughan. Whether it be anything from a wise, elderly Maester to a seafaring ogre with back problems, you could trust that the assignment was understood.

[@torrent0411]

Sean bean walks into a room "I was in Lord of the rings and I die everything I'm in." GoT casting director: "Hired!"

[@histoorylegacy]

What about Troy

[@Stevarooni]

​@@histoorylegacyHe's survived in a few. Also: _National Treasure_ as well.

[@havok6280]

Even the ancient Egyptians knew how to do a smokey eye... makeup has been around for thousands of years.

[@ogdenville]

One of the most iconic episodes of television ever produced

[@ethanzendejas95]

Absolute tone setter for how the series would unfold

[@d.jparer5184]

Lets not overstate things, it was one of the more shocking game of thrones episodes but to call it "one of the most iconic episodes of television ever produced" is insane.

[@Diegesis]

The turning point of the show

[@Ergoperidot]

@@DiegesisThis but unironically

[@CallOfCutie69]

@@Diegesis you haven’t seen the turning point yet.. unless you’re that far on patreon..

[@paulanderson771]

Ned's death never fails to shock! Aemon's speech to John Snow was fantastically acted - you could feel the rage when he was talking about hearing his brothers and the Targaryen children were slaughtered.

[@tushartanvir5672]

it was already spoiled when they cast sean bean as Ned

[@joeblankenship377]

Ned's dead, baby. Ned's dead. [drives off on chopper]

[@0okamino]

“I’m gonna get medieval fantasy on your ass.”

[@emeraldcat8984]

Them calling Varys teamaster is hilarious

[@joeblankenship377]

And accurate!

[@jlilley73]

Varys : Ned Stark :: Mike Ehrmantraut : his son "I was the only one who could get him to debase himself. And the bastards killed him anyway."

[@mrlogand]

Ahhh we've come to the notorious episode 9. Sweet summer children always realize winter is truly coming after this.

[@thepimp31]

Holy smokes they were smiling at Ned Stark's death. I think they will enjoy this show!!!

[@Mayhem242]

Yeah, the book goes more into detail about how Joffrey going off the rails royally fucked up everyones plans

[@JohnSmith-wh2ob]

Incest brain underdeveloped 😂

[@damienhanrahan1162]

I think Ariana doesn't realise how much she remembers from the books in her subconscious. She kinda spoiled it here with 'they're going to kill him anyway' and seems to be way more astute with things than most reactors (like knowing Joffrey was a bastard in episode 2)

[@havok6280]

The Statue is Baelor the Blessed. Yoren isn't one of Ned's men. The Lannisters killed all of Ned's men. He's a Night's Watch recruiter.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

You’ll remember earlier when Rob released the Lannister spy and you guys were like “that seems like a bad idea…” But here we see that he used that opportunity to sow misinformation to catch the rival army off guard.

[@Alexander-kc8oq]

In the first book it´s even more schocking because Ned is arguably the protagonist there even more so than in the show and then Martin goes and merks him while ther eis at least a thrid of the book left and you wonder what in the actual hell is going to happen now.

[@red2977]

when the show came out a lot of people were going to stop watching after this happened. They didn't understand how the show could go on.

[@axel9473]

I 100% thought Ned is the single main character of the show and is gonna live for most of the story when i first watched GOT. Boy was i wrong... Tbh this is probably when i got hooked completely. No plot armor, anyone could die, shit was exciting as hell

[@Serryy]

The scent of hot bread drifting from the shops along the Street of Flour was sweeter than any perfume Arya had ever smelled. She took a deep breath and stepped closer to the pigeon. It was a plump one, speckled brown, busily pecking at a crust that had fallen between two cobblestones, but when Arya's shadow touched it, it took to the air. Her stick sword whistled out and caught it two feet off the ground, and it went down in a flurry of brown feathers. She was on it in the blink of an eye, grabbing a wing as the pigeon flapped and fluttered. It pecked at her hand. She grabbed its neck and twisted until she felt the bone snap. Compared with catching cats, pigeons were easy. A passing septon was looking at her askance. "Here's the best place to find pigeon," Arya told him as she brushed herself off and picked up her fallen stick sword. "They come for the crumbs." He hurried away. In case you wonder how Arya survived on the streets.

[@jeromedutil-martin6823]

And to add insult to injury, they killed Ned with his own ancestral sword, Ice 😢

[@jlilley73]

Does the editor know we can't speak Dothraki? At least I can't.

[@troliol]

29:45 That's Yoren, a Night's Watch member. He's the same person that was travelling with Tyrion when Catelyn arrested him, and he rode to King's Landing to tell Ned about what happened. He also met Arya at that point and mistook her for a boy. When Ned says "Baelor" he's referring to the statue. He's drawing Yoren's attention to Arya without mentioning her directly, knowing that Yoren will recognize her and help her out.

[@kvltslime2261]

a point of clarification he didnt mistake her for a boy hes telling her "youre a boy" so he can travel with her as a boy and not a little girl because you probably shouldnt travel as a little girl in westeros during war. mainly so he can say "aria? no this is 'arry a boy bound for the wall"

[@troliol]

@@kvltslime2261 I'm referring to their first meeting. Yoren comes to Ned to tell him about Catelyn and says "this must be your son, he has your look." After Ned's execution, he says it intentionally, yes, but when they first met he mistook her.

[@ReneReacts]

You're correct about the passage of time. Every time there is a change of scene, even if its in the same region, days, weeks or months may have actually gone by, it is up to you ro see the context to figure out how much (and most of the time it doesn't really matter tha much).

[@leprovokateur7745]

This is where the fun begins

[@Ronin.97]

Be prepared for episode 9 being crazy for every other season. It's like a cycle of Big Deaths/ Big Battles.

[@jeambeam3173]

Im glad you kept in Aemons speech shit goes so hard

[@webhead215]

Fun fact: In the book, Tyrion actually fights in the battle, but the show couldn't afford the sequence in its first season, so they came up with the accidental knockout as a workaround.

[@smittyDXPS3]

He stabs a horse in the gut with his pointy helmet when he gets underneath it, it's pretty ridiculous.

[@mjwoodroff8446]

And it isn't a complete sacrifice of 2000 Starks in the books. In fact, the majority of the Stark army (under the command of Roose Bolton) faces Tywin at the Green Fork but Robb takes all his cavalry to attack Jaime and relieve the siege of Riverrun. Bolton's force fights a brief but bloody battle but then retreats largely intact to fight another day. However, much the vanguard (primarily comprised of Starks, Cerwyns, Karstarks, Hornwoods and Manderlys) suffers heavy casualties. Robb actually ambushes Jaime, luring him and only 100 or so retainers into a trap. With Jaime's army now leaderless and divided in their siege camps, Robb defeats each section of the host piecemeal in a decisive victory. Genuinely, Robb is one of the best battlefield tacticians in the stories. They do show some of this in the show but these engagements are light on detail.

[@NameOptional-p9u]

I loved Ned's character so much. What an interesting character. Dude has seen a lot and done a lot. And most respect him and many felt he could have ruled the 7 kingdoms.

[@Serryy]

Baelor is the statue. Its the Sept of Baelor, and Arya sits on the statue when Ned spots her. Thats why he shouts Baelor to Yoren from the Nights Watch.

[@Kickinthescience]

Cue the Sean Bean running joke

[@TheAbominableDrFaustus]

One does not simply cue a Sean Bean joke.

[@ExarKunStan]

Just watched a documentary about how they used charred bones to make paints and make up and some people still use this practice today. So they could in fact make a smokey eye in medieval times!

[@MideXIII]

MILD SPOILERS (for anyone who hasn’t watched Game of Thrones and is some how watching this reaction): Looking back, Walder Fray said everything he was going to do in this episode from jump.

[@hessu275]

Well this is where the tragic side of the story first kicks in hard

[@veot.2869]

Everything was going great until Arianna opened up her mouth with They are going to kill him anyway three times!!!!!! And the smirk at the end didn't help either. It's better not to say anything and watch the show without spoiling things, even for us who have watched it hundreds of times. 💢💢💢😒😤

[@ignotouno523]

The scene with Jon and maester Aemon is my favorite scene in the whole series.

[@robertwinslade3104]

Looking back it's obvious from this scene that Aemon knew way more than he let on even here about certain stuff not revealed until way later in the story

[@OmegaSoypreme]

I always forget that this wasn't the season finale! It feels like it should be!

[@GustavoCardoso95]

The scene where they take Dany into the tent where the ritual is going is even better in the books.. It's like a crazy cauldron of blood, violence, magic, death and life. I recommend to anyone to read it

[@batman6942]

You guys should do 2 episodes a week there is a lot more spinoffs coming you should get caught up quick

[@CrazeeAdam]

Horses are basically the soul of the Dothraki.. So sacrificing Drogo's horse is pretty representative that this won't be good. And it's arguable that the magic did end up taking more than his horse from Dany... Just in a way she didn't expect

[@BornInsane0]

Wait so did Ariana read the books beforehand or not 😮

[@maximumrelaxation4770]

Ser Jorah leaves the tent when Dany tells him to wear his armor. He isnt in there when the witch says noone can enter the tent.

[@danielallan8061]

What's funny about this show is Jamie is actually a good guy. For the most part. Also, the actor is in Kingdom of Heaven as well.

[@LudusAurea]

Well no, he's an outright blatant piece of shit from start to finish but he is loyal to people he chooses to be loyal to.

[@dcanngieter]

Remember when Homegirl thought Robb was an idiot for saying 20000 men? Lmaoo keep that same energy 😂😂

[@red2977]

The irony of this show is that some of the people who seems evil at first actually aren't that bad. There are a few who are simply irredeemable people for example Daenerys's brother and Joffrey, but there are many others who over time are rather likable they just have gigantic character flaws.

[@vulniguta]

honestly? the episode that changed television forever

[@brownsey1]

How do you mean?

[@the_crypter]

@@brownsey1Killing of supposedly main characters in tv shows wasn’t much of a thing before this episode.

[@brownsey1]

@@the_crypter But how did it change television forever? I'm being genuine here. I haven't actually watched many shows, but from what I have watched, it didn't exactly set a precedent for other shows. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but all I can think of is John in Peaky Blinders, but stuff like that was definitely done before.

[@LudusAurea]

Yoren is a recruiter for the Night' s Watch. If you rewind to like Episode 4 Bumpkins and Snarks I think, he has a drink with Thorne or someone and says he's headed to King's Landing to find some new recruits. He's not technically one of the Stark's men but he's a northerner subject to their rule I am pretty sure. Buckle in because this trains gonna start going faster and faster.

[@LaCheeserie]

Totally missed on first watch years ago how that cut was not all that bad to need special treatment, but Dani was so worried. Doh

[@LudusAurea]

"I learned how to die a long time ago." the most meta line in the history of film that isn't trying to be meta. Sean Bean dies in almost 70% of his roles. I won't spoil other stuff, but, if you see Sean Bean, he's probably gonna die.

[@London-vm5iw]

“…..in medieval times, where do you get a smokey eye?” - Best comment

[@IgnisKhan]

Y'all should enforce a one-week time out in the watch schedule after future episode 9's in each season, just so you know the pain we had to suffer through. :P

[@BrandonWestfall]

"Baby daddy brother." lmfao

[@JohnSmith-wh2ob]

Even Cersei was trying to stop it cuz it’s a stupid decision which Tywin will expand on later

[@dlweiss]

Ooo lord, we're in it now.

[@oliverjones5350]

You gotta pay the toll Troll to get in

[@suportdestro1121]

And so it begins...

[@grumpyboomer61]

As we will learn, Aria is a very strong and resourceful young lady.

[@seanyoung9014]

The turning point of the whole show..

[@Kane52630]

Congrats on your first GOT EP 9

[@Grizzly_6623]

Winter is here.

[@dmthandmade5674]

Now you understand the kind of show you're watching.

[@Looch1717]

Im here to once again ask that when you show scenese where they speak non-english languages (dothraki), you make sure the subtitles are in the picture so we can follow along :)

[@Diegesis]

we're working out a plan for it. probablly something like we did with Shogun

[@jlilley73]

seconded

[@Looch1717]

@@Diegesis Awesome! :)

[@williammccormick984]

Ah yes, now begins the long process of slowly breaking their spirits. Sweet summer children.

[@TheAbominableDrFaustus]

Ned is the coolest… I’m going to really enjoy a show about him… I’m sure somebody is about to intervene…………….. Any minute n- oh my god!

[@vincentdesjardins1354]

look, it's 2011 all over again 😉

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

In my top 5 favorite GOT episodes. Excellent reaction and review 👊🏻

[@CrazeeAdam]

Ready for the tears and gasps from Maple at least.

[@BaxterD]

"Ned's dead, baby" And let the spiraling of events commence. Brilliant episode, the only shame is we lose Sean Bean in the show.

[@jeremygilbert7989]

Tiny book spoiler about Tyrion and Tysha. In the book Tywin made Tyrion go last during his and Tysha's... punishment... and pay with a golden dragon because a Lannister, even the lowest of them, was worth more. Fucked up.

[@cheappoetry2798]

God I forgot how awesome jorah was

[@estoy1001]

Medieval period? Apparently you always drive by a car accident on the road at the speed limit instead of having to slow to a crawl while other cars brake to look at the wreck.

[@dannyb9209]

Swear i cried first time i saw this 😂😂

[@markharland2459]

Jon's +1 Longsword

[@dodong4806]

The inevitable Jofrey loathing has begun in earnest!!

[@HeadbangingGlory]

That head chop tho

[@Golgari213]

Welcome to the Game of Thrones! Haha! Next episode is great!

[@Phetroc]

26:00 I’d like to know what’s so funny missy hmmmmmm?

[@CrazeeAdam]

Yes.. Unfortunately Borimir dies again. :( 😢 but Sean Bean does make for iconic deaths.

[@elbruces]

It's okay, they sew his head back on next episode, he'll be fine.

[@LudusAurea]

Ouch future spoilers and that scene still hurts, one of the most fucked up things in all 8 seasons.

[@TES-541]

Legendary ❤

[@alexandref5100]

Nice reaction!

[@0cidd0]

How arya is getting her food, you saw her if a pigeon, that is what she is eating

[@imakefoodhappen]

I usually listen to these reaction videos while I do chores and I am just now realizing the channel's name is not Diet Jesus...

[@Diegesis]

haha

[@theCommentDevil]

Varys told Ned what i always tell myself and others. 'Do you wanna be right? Or do you want to be happy?'

[@brianwilson2789]

You two are no longer Sweet Summer Children.

[@havok6280]

The show never addresses it, but Tyrion's wife was not a whore...😢

[@smittyDXPS3]

This isn't a spoiler since the show never pursues this plotline again, but, in the books, Jaime later reveals to Tyrion that Tysha was actually NOT a prostitute, and that she actually DID love Tyrion, and their marriage and love was real. This is a huge turning point for Tyrion in the book and it better explains some things that happen in the show at the end of Season 4, and why Tyrion's writing falls off in the later seasons. He's meant to be a differently motivated character, he is looking for Tysha. Of course, the terrible writers of this show never do that plotline. Shame.

[@DrLipkin]

The show also cut out that Tywin made Tyrion have sex with his wife after the entire garrison did, and that he made Tyrion pay her a gold piece instead of a silver because Lannisters are better than commoners.

[@MarcoInvo]

31:59 Ned is dead, let's celebrate!

[@quinnknobbe7119]

Jaime Lannister is still Best Character. (Also, Tyrion's story about his wife in the book is somehow even worse than in thr TV show if you can believe it.)

[@LudusAurea]

Nope.

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Catelyn Stark (née Tully), and Cersi Baratheon (née Lannister), are two very dumb characters. We’ve already seen how Catelyn’s spur of the moment act in having the Imp captured endangered her husband. Cersi cannot admit her son is evil and lacks the ability to positively control him. His act of killed Ned sets off a war. And Catelyn will do her best to undermine her son in carrying out that war.

[@mattsavage9960]

Flacid!!!

[@otter3095]

👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@theCommentDevil]

RIP to my fave character, the pigeon that Arya killed 😢

[@FlexStudioPL]

Can't wait for the Red Wedding :D

[@MideXIII]

MILD SPOILERS (for anyone who hasn’t watched Game of Thrones and is some how watching this reaction): Looking back, Walder Fray said everything he was going to do in this episode from jump.