Magic Mirror: The True Purpose of the White Walkers

[@DANEMAN5]

“Blue eyes white dragon” -- Immediately lost it haha.

[@DarlaRaeDyson]

I JUST found you by the Bran will be King video, this is my 2nd video I am watching if yours, and DUDE, you have so much more depth involved in your videos! Too bad Game of Thrones is over now, you could have really helped a lot of people truly understand this better, and in completely creatively different ways then every other GOT Channel! Yours are original, and no one else is talking, analyzing or thinking outside the box the way your are. BRAVO! Now I am gunna watch your other videos!!!! Awesome job dude!

[@theflashgordon193]

same as you

[@abinlp]

You've pretty much ruined it for all the other GoT analysts and prognosticators. Well done

[@carriezen8499]

Wow!!! I loved this! The philosophical themes and mystical concepts within ASOIAF aren't often discussed in much depth, and they are my favorite part of the story. Clever, fun way you out this together with the animation! Terrific job! I subbed you, Philosophy Tube and School of Life! Extremely happy i found your channel! Thank you😁💟

[@jamesmiller2521]

Try Wisecrack

[@fionarangel9486]

Same. I didn't want to 'like' your comment in support because it's currently on 42, so I commented my agreement instead.

[@carriezen8499]

Thanks Fiona Rangel

[@georgekostaras]

I really like your take on the wall. Sometimes in GOT videos I see people comparing refugees to the white walkers and zombies. A more accurate comparison would be comparing the wildlings to refugees in real world. It’s especially apt given how much climate change has driven migrations. And GRRM has compared the others to global warming so ...

[@JuanOrtiz-lq6te]

Comparing our wall to GOT wall is moronic (apples and oranges)

[@OkurkaBinLadin]

You know, you crafted nice story. I saw something much worse actually happen on tv screen in episode 3. MUCH WORSE.

[@MTP-vy6cf]

Awesome video! Please keep em coming. You have a really unique perspective on ASOIAF, taking into account the broad ideas that GRRM manifests in his world. Animation was really good and you have a great voice!

[@zfiles3971]

Mate, youre onto something. I think you really hit grrm's pulse on what the WW really represent. Beyond the context of the mythology and supernatural , really getting into the heart of it. Nice work

[@zfiles3971]

In fact I think you solved the mystery of the symbol of the ww...the cycle of birth and death and the infinite loop, that we are all connected by these things. I am you and you me. But in the walkers view all this loop represents to.them ls their traumatic origin. So now its their sacred duty to spread that trauma, instead of life which the children's symbol means.

[@MrZoora23]

i LOVE how Stannis is still a grumpy boy at the end when everyone else was happy

[@ijpsavage]

You need thousands of likes!! This is fookin brilliant... Shout out to Hegel

[@elam3654]

Sneaking up and shanking your opponent in the back also appears to work pretty effectively.

[@apieceoflife2732]

Isn't it The Game Of Thrones?You win or you die.So win anyhow.

[@elam3654]

@@apieceoflife2732 Or "have the best story"

[@johndavidbuell]

your analyses are fantastic! I've been watching them all back-to-back. Please keep doing more videos! They are so much more insightful than the majority of videos out there.

[@connorknox9371]

I started watching your videos after putting down some thesis comments between me and a bunch of channels that say this last season of GoT has been ruined by the writers. But here I am making the argument that they didn't on the basis of your essays here. And then I did find your channel and was like yeah, but then you went deeper. You did the full analysis while i was looking at it more of just the human story. Thanks for bringing your thoughts to this.

[@JotaP1n]

Hahahahaha, I couldn't stop laughing with the introduction.

[@vorthora]

And with the end! 😂

[@deborahkogan8742]

Wow! Amazing analysis!

[@arcsomniac]

This is absolutely fantastic work. Concise, extremely entertaining and funny, and with a genuinely well-constructed set of theories that I have not found elsewhere in my unashamed bingeing. I doff my helm to you, sir.

[@oat3230]

this was soo good. Nudged me towards self reflection too : )

[@angelajansons9037]

This was well done. Especially the part about Craster and his children and wives. You're right about who is becoming the enemy, and why. Very insightful.

[@gillis1310]

Your perspective is always eye opening. I’m glad I found your channel!

[@pplr1]

I gave this a plus. More thought was put into this than was to season 8 which it was done before.

[@mestretemponarrativa9648]

Dude, you did it!! I got the creeps! After watching your most recent forecast about Bran I was guided to this video that has everything to do with the research I'm developing in my master's degree, with “other things”, with the "other" as a factor capable of defining who "we" are (in a sense of national identity, but that does not stop relating to what happens in GoT). And now, thanks to your analysis, I can clearly see this! I'm even more excited about my research now

[@stevesmith1810]

bro that was amazing...and for a first ever animation, damn! Love your videos, loved this one even more than usual, keep at it!

[@gspmega]

Keep it up dude, You are good at this.

[@BecauseGeekChannel]

Awesome!! I've noticed the same foreshadowing you mentioned for Jon and Dany's baby, although after much discussion with friends I had lost faith in it but now that I know you believe in it too my faith has been restored!

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Also consider: Redpriestess & Magicbaby, live at Coachella. Believe?

[@yezenirl6331]

Yes! There is a ton of foreshadowing and symbolism for magic baby. The Night King cant be vanquished with more death.

[@carriezen8499]

Because Geek... I saw it the same way, glad to find like minds! ASOIAF contains so many mythological elements which represent philosophical (and spiritual) ideas and concepts. I noticed who Jon was (R+L=J), then that he and Dany must come together and mate and the importance of their child very early in the story because of the principle of Hieros Gamos -- opposites coming together to create a 'magical synthesis'. But found it difficult to find such deeper analysis and discussions of such themes as HG, what The Others represent, Bran's 5th Dimensional consciousness, metaphysical initiation of Faceless Men, etc. Hope to see you if I make it to Con in July this year!

[@Radi0actvChickn]

@@yezenirl6331 Guess he can

[@Gertcincina]

Amazing to watch an original approach to the matter. Keep going!

[@brookew2709]

Your videos are fantastic. You have so much insight and a natural gift for analysis and excavating meaning. I hope you truly appreciate that about yourself, because it is pretty rare and remarkable.

[@positivespace9517]

Thank you for this video and the rest; it's refreshing to find meaty thematic and philosophical analysis of ASOIAF on youtube. The final season of GoT has gotten me back into the ASOIAF kick during a somewhat depressed time in my life, and it's been helpful to find content that speaks of the life-affirming and idealistic heart of Martin's work, even if the plot points (especially in the show..) aren't going to match up precisely. The best of the Songs ought to contain Truth.

[@narlote_mida]

Really fun to watch. Loved the animations, Brienne running in rage after Stannis was my favourite part

[@alireid5874]

Well, that was deeper than expected.

[@Strellock]

I wish the damn show actually was written so well that all these themes jumped at you, instead of Arya.

[@michaelshea4529]

Loved it! Great job

[@mattyhammer3707]

Ferngully has to be the most underrated snippet of this video lmao love it

[@sdd1563]

Your visual editings are so funny. Big heads and petite dwark-like bodies.😂😂😂😂 I loved the explanation of the Hegelian concepts of "the other" and all that stuff!!!

[@zodsi]

really good and fun animation! :D

[@akeelbrown7675]

A beautiful concept the tv show dropped entirely...

[@kfgold5194]

Great job. Love it up to the Bran analysis.

[@haliensexist]

On behalf of KZbin and all GoT fans, thank you for your videos. You deserve so much more recognition from the fandom! Your predictions are thorough and profound, as well as original. I pride myself in being a writer and intellectually consumed by game of thrones, and I did not think up the detailed events and purposes to the level that you did. Bravo. Subscribed. 👏🙏

[@Dro250]

Law & Order: Stannis' Victim Unit - I laughed soo hard lol

[@dylanshuman8475]

Love it!! Great work on the animation and excellent content

[@yezenirl6331]

Thank you kind subscriber whom I have never met before.

[@dylanshuman8475]

Yezen, it's me, Dylan. I've met you like 1000 times. We hung out Saturday night for God's sake

[@paintnate222]

Delightful: keep it up!

[@KnightLincoln]

Your chibi characters are hilarious. Well done. The _Fin_ killed me.

[@ShinKitane]

Oh wow. Thrones and Hegel? I love this channel.

[@acrazysheepdog1555]

00:35 is that Cersei’s face?

[@JessieB52012]

Gosh I sure wish I had come across your channel before the show ended. You by far had the best theories

[@nobu9705]

I wanna hug you for that final sequence with everyone holding hands 😂😂 so cute

[@_monicat]

Really good animation!

[@TheEvilSkippy]

Stannis looks SO happy at the end lol

[@fumarc4501]

What an amazing video. What an Amazing GoT critic series! Subscribed

[@Neko501]

I LOVE your channel! The GoT KZbin community seems to be filled with a bunch of reactionaries who just whine about stuff because it "wasn't cool enough" or "tHiS iS sO oUt Of ChArAcTeR" and it's just so nice to see someone so thoughtful on the platform!! Thank you!

[@alexdoerofthings]

I love that you drew on Hegel into this. Nice job.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

I don't know squat about Hegel, but that was fascinating stuff. There are in the story certain characters who can be read as having the slave ruling the master: Cersei, who has been mentally consumed by Maggy the Frog's prophecy since the age of 10 (as exemplified by her killing her friend by pushing her down a well on the same day they visited Maggy). In effect, everything Cersei has done has simply made the predictions happen. Or Robert, who hasn't moved on from Rhaegar in the 13/17 years since the Trident, 'in my dreams I kill him every night'. Or Sansa, whose experiences have left her unable to trust anyone really, and vengeful against those she thinks have wronged her family (did she engineer the death of Ned Umber by sending him north into the teeth of the Night King? If so, it was vengeance for Rickon, for whose death she would blame the Umbers). And just what was she talking to Yohn Royce about to cause that slightly nervous glance at each other when Tyrion came upon them?

[@ShanghaiRooster]

She was vindictive enough to wish to take the Last Hearth and the Karhold away from the Umbers and Karstarks in S7E01, and was not happy at all when Jon refused. Episode two has now aired in the U.S. (and elsewhere for night owls!); I'll be watching at 9:00 p.m. UK time, but will just say to keep an eye on Alys Karstark. If she were to die and Sansa can be connected to her death....

[@joeyholmes9305]

This was great, dude!

[@randihjorth7651]

Love your insight

[@DevouredByADream]

How will they defeat the others in the final book?

[@yezenirl6331]

Honestly that's a really good question, and the show didn't help us with the answer one bit. But I think Bran will have to recognize that he has done to Hodor the same thing that the Children of the Forest did to the Others, and thus have pity for them.

[@fridalopez3795]

Hahaha I loved your little characters and your great analysis. Keep on exploring!

[@claudiamiller7730]

Nice Hegel references..great revelations and disturbing reminders about who/what mankind must face....thanks!

[@rebiejow]

Great video!

[@omgbuffy2276]

Please make more videos. I loved this one!

[@arefrigerator396]

Granted, if Ned didn't exile Ser Jorah for his crimes and didn't thwart Robert's plans to kill Dany as a baby, the realm wouldve died and handed over to NK. Ned Stark. The true hero of Game of Thrones.

[@antimonio1000]

really great video, it has a lot of depth. Enjoyed it a lot!

[@davidlucas8487]

So...if Bran is the opposite side of the Night King's coin, is he the Day King?

[@kevinrobinson6601]

The Night King is going to accidentally bring Stannis back to life and then Stannis shall have his vengeance

[@claykerrigan]

do you believe that the others will have been created by the children in the books as well?

[@yezenirl6331]

Yes.

[@jamesmiller2521]

Why do you think Dany and Jon's baby is the promised prince? Isn't promised prince = Azor Ahai = Hero from Nan's tales? The one who will stop the others and the long night?

[@morningnapalm9963]

Shout out to the hilarious use of bobby-head caricatures in this video.

[@TheTwara]

The animations were fun, brilliant and prescient. I had my 'man in the mirror' moment while seeing this video.

[@vorthora]

And now that the 8th season has begun, more innocent kids suffering: little Ned Umber...

[@sylviasebregts2427]

When the Knight King was made by the children of the forest, they WERE north of where the wall is now. Only it was a fertile, green land, not the icy lands we know from the present of the show. The flashbacks to the moment when the Night King was created show the same 'arrow head' mountain; the spirals around the flowering weir wood tree are in it's 'contemporary' form the ice spikes around an altar of ice (the remains of the weir wood tree?). The wall was created later, thus forming the ultimate duality between life and death, fertility and barrenness, summer and winter, white and black, light and darkness. In the show the Knight King wears a sigil on his chest that looks like an opened up crow's/raven's beak (like in a cry). Then there are the three-eyed ravens, the latest being Bran. Three-eyed ravens can access the weir wood network, with three eyes (or a thousand and one). But can the Night King? And if he can, possibly only with one eye? Bran wants to wait for the Night King in the God's Wood, near the weir wood tree. Why? Because he can then access the past? Wouldn't the three eyed raven and the Night King have to sort of 'merge' in order to abrogate the duality?

[@mandyslittlelife]

Fascinating breakdown. The night king/Bran thing kind of reminds me of Harry Potter/Voldemort, so heavily intertwined and reflective of each other, but ultimately completely different or the opposite of one another.

[@MrChristerj]

Great analysis!

[@bigjohnkapert2827]

I agree and...much fun to watch.

[@swimmingbird3240]

Bran is the lord of light, and the great other. Divided against himself battling over the fate of the world, and the control of the power. A hegelian pendulum would suggest that the middle is ideal, one has to be destroyed and hopefully balance restored. Bran is the many faced god. He is the pendulum.

[@Haute_core]

Brilliantly said

[@JPankratz]

Hahahahahahahahha.... "take that, Ferngully" 😅 Anyway, I have such an appreciation for your content. Keep 'em coming!

[@theflashgordon193]

I want a happy ending with the white walker hand to hand with the other characters

[@drillaz882]

Great video !!! 👍👍💯

[@rlucas96]

Wow. You deserve so many more subscribers. Funny as hell and crazy informative. Great job!

[@KarrieJ93]

Sorry to be that person, but the piano in the background of the intro, what's the song called? It's been haunting me for days.

[@hape3862]

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[@gloriamitchell3518]

How clever are you. I like the nod to ‘US’. Well done 👍🏽

[@ReporterRed]

I'm not trying to incite toxicity or bait you, but I'm genuinely curious -- what did you think of the show's resolution of the White Walker/Night King story? And do you suppose that is the original intent of the purpose of the Others in the books?

[@ReporterRed]

Never mind - I'm currently watching your video about Theon killing the Night King, and it seems you're addressing your views there. I was merely curious because you seem to have such a deep understanding of the themes and mythology of these stories and are able to look past the more superficial "plot" details to grasp the deeper meanings and purposes expressed through the themes and characters, and in turn you really explain those well through your videos which makes you really insightful. I try to be as smart and talented as you and can only hope to be one day! Thank you so much for these, they're very interesting and insightful and reconcile my views with what was a very disappointing ending when I first saw it (and still is an imperfect and flawed one, but not completely horrid and without redemption, to be fair).

[@ReporterRed]

Also, I just realized something -- I've noticed some likewise insightful comments made by someone on Reddit on the ASOIAF subreddit regarding the story, etc., and I just realized that this particular individual is the same person as you! (Just noticed your channel name.)

[@yezenirl6331]

I don't think they really got to what Martin was going for. In the show I wanted Theon to kill the Night King, but I don't think the books will have a Night King.

[@TheBrett1890]

Good video. I've read enough Hegel to be sick of him but your use of the dialectic to explain character development is very interesting and explains the characters very well. Although, you may have done well to title the video 'the thematic purpose of the white walkers', but that may get less views I suppose.

[@biancachristie]

Nuh-uh! You just din'nint throw down a Hegelian dialectic on GoT. Awesome!

[@xajaso]

Brilliant

[@redpandarampage2191]

0:50 lol it's King Aelle from Vikings!

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

#breakthewheel #meltthethrone #exterminatuskingslanding = A good start?

[@likelyladsss]

So damn good!!!!

[@chelseashuman1225]

haha awesome intro! your voice thooooooo

[@andrewsmall1193]

The first Three Eyed Raven became the Night King. That's their rival

[@ariyazheng5146]

this would be so much better than the actual ending. reminds me of the jungian archetype "the shadow"

[@teedepefanio5687]

Hands across America... wow.. it's been a long time since that happened. I was on my first leave from the military and was blown away to see the entire country in solidarity, if only for a moment... :) which fits this perfectly... I enjoy hearing your thoughts.. you are profoundly different than all these mainstream people with no real comprehensive insight. Thank you...

[@mjworth65]

You are that other guy, 206?

[@lexj.2162]

I'm with the idea of the solution coming from creating an actual future for man and creature alike. something much more transformative than having the story end with another redundant fight for the iron throne.

[@sdd1563]

Are you a philosophy student or into literary studies? Because your entire analysis is by far the best I've come across👍💯

[@yezenirl6331]

fine arts :)

[@sdd1563]

@@yezenirl6331 Wow!!!! What a co-incidence!!! I'm not in 'fine' arts but in arts. We're practically from the same field. I majored in English literature. Please do several more videos, please😫🙏🙏💓. I love your analysis. It's the most insightful. That is why you were able to predict Bran's coronation in your other video. It's because you have understood the story very deeply. Please do more such analysis of your favorite movies, tv shows, character sketches, etc. I would love to hear your ideas and views.

[@JuanOrtiz-lq6te]

@@yezenirl6331 I agree with a good chunk of what u said but comparing our border wall 2 The Game of Thrones wall is moronic (apples and oranges)

[@sdd1563]

@@JuanOrtiz-lq6te it's just a view of the guy who made this analysis video. It is just a guess about the symbolic significance of the Wall and what the author had in mind since most of the meanings are ambiguous.

[@mblack3450]

I watched. It was a refreshing take. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. That's the feeling I got. I'll have to watch it again to absorb that which was not abdorbed

[@hotternfyr]

Fookin’ EXACTLY, Mate!!

[@joshray3855]

Thank you for keeping the miserable stannis face at the end

[@dgero00]

Well done

[@sheilahilton356]

Awesome

[@marieschuck2411]

This is too thought of.. Especially when Hegel's philosophy came up. My brain got twisted

[@yggdrasilygg]

I really wish I didn't watch a bunch of GoT videos throughout the series. Just shows me why I need to be more disappointed about the finale than I would have without all the lore :( Maybe I'll have to read the books, or just watch S1 repeatedly so I can always have Sean Bean

[@danielbloomquist9810]

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