salt and smoke

[@txforyoux2347]

The prince who was pointless...

[@h.a.f.1534]

Sir, you have just summarized my disappointment and depression

[@purpledreams1110]

*bUt aRya hAD aSSasiN tRaIniNG*

[@Old_Guard2]

TXforyou X “what were you brought back to life for?” “to scream at a dragon and do nothing”

[@Kirisapostle12]

@@Old_Guard2 he killed the dragon by shouting at it

[@chrisprusinowski5287]

@@Kirisapostle12 He's not the Prince who was promised. But he is the Dragonborne!

[@Lemuria1993]

>Night King is about to win >dramatic music swells >Arya appears behind him >gives him a solid kick to the balls >everyone says "OOOOOOOOOOOOOH" in unison >Theon crosses his legs in sympathy pain >Drogon puts his wings over his eyes and wimpers >Dany quips "THAT'S GOTTA HURT!" >Night King turns to the camera with a silly high pitched voice >"Yowie zowie! Riiiiight in the ice cubes!" >Cut to George RR Martin eating a Big Mac >"Nuff said!" >credits roll >"and who... are you..."

[@quintus920]

This deserves more likes.

[@danielbraman5562]

Right in the ice cubes 😂

[@Pluto750]

i haven't laughed so hard that i gagged in years, thank you

[@afifmajid8754]

They gotta have jack gleeson sing the final credits again, one final troll for the fans

[@riccardoocchipinti1080]

Funny but taken from another comment

[@GodotOfficial]

GoT will end with Arya killing The Mountain, Cersei and Euron with the same arrow from 100m away, her saying “A girl is no-one” then doing the Fortnite default dance all the way to Essos so she can kill all of the Golden Company’s elephants

[@samipbhattarai8677]

I pictured this sooo perfectly in my head lmao

[@nolives]

But technically she's Arya right now. Which makes no sense how she can use faceless magic without going blind.

[@greenrighthand]

Demiurge Shadow its a shitty show not the perfect books

[@nolives]

@@greenrighthand I agree. Just pointing out technically arya isnt no one.

[@NedStarrk007]

She’ll also kill Voldemort and Sauron for good measure. Hell her and Brie Larson can just kill thanos to.

[@plebbush8508]

The nightking waited for 10 000 years to have less of an impact than walder frey.

[@caad5258]

holy shit your right

[@DerFrischkopf]

Songs shall be sung of The Regular Night that lasted for a regular night and laid waste and terror to some of the northernmost parts of the continent

[@me1k0r86]

And to be fooled by a girl with a butter knife.

[@OMFGLOLROTFLWTF]

ok not like he killed tens of thousands and nearly destroyed winterfell but ok. he may have less of an impact to the "plot" of the story but not overall and i can see why people are mad.

[@aze254]

@BONESAW IS READY I dont like the writing any more than you do but he did fuck up tens of thousands of wildlings to get an army that big

[@fenrir8497]

Jk Rowling reveals that azor ahai was arya all along

[@KleenerBro]

@ED2 09 And Gendry's cool with is cuz he so woke

[@brightgarinson3099]

@@KleenerBro And let's Arya mate with the last Dothraki for diversity!

[@KleenerBro]

@@brightgarinson3099 Season 1 - Dothraki rape and pillage. Feminists cry. ? Dothraki atacc but more importantly Dothraki protecc.

[@KleenerBro]

@Shot in the Heart Yup. Overall she created a much, much better series so far.

[@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook]

Drogon and Rhaegal had an intense sexual relationship

[@Fattyb00batty]

After thousands of years, the nights king has finally crossed the enchanted wall and made his way down to winterfell to kill the ever important Theon Greyjoy.

[@frankie9772]

Legend has it that in fact he was searching for Bran, who was so dangerous to the Night King that he warged into a raven and did nothing else. The Night King was terrified.

[@GhullieUser]

Poor Beric "The Barricade" Dondarrion. His whole purpose in life was being a barricade in a hallway. He's like Hodor 2

[@GunninRebel55]

Lol @ Beric "The Barricade" Dondarrion. Too hilarious!! GRRM himself couldn't have penned that one better. 😂😂

[@nolives]

Yup I've been saying this. Its a critique most people miss. Like imagine being brought back from the dead time and time again being promised a glorious purpose. And that purpose is.. to die. When the hound could've done what you did.

[@TrappedinaBrain]

I mean he convinced the Hound to stop being useless and go help Arya. He threw that flaming sword that probably saved her life. It's still kind of weird that his whole point was to do those things, but he wasn't just a barricade

[@mn-ru4li]

You've got me thinking? Hordor = hold the door. Beric = berricade = barricade.... OMG, it's foreshadowing, if you squint you can see it. Suddenly Arya's foreshadowing to kill the NK is making much need sense! Rejoice!

[@GhullieUser]

@@mn-ru4li ​Hmm Jon Snow, John=Toilet, Toilet=Throne, Jon will sit on the iron throne confirmed!

[@soprano3715]

The writing was absolutely phenomenal, 7+ years of build up and tension abolished in 2 minutes. Now that takes talent.

[@Anvil35]

I read this in Tony’s voice

[@martinsmith8185]

Those mother fuckers

[@algo2957]

I'm sorry T!

[@cianmulvey5552]

It is impressive that they managed to make it just the right level of shit to ruin the story without being hilarious too.

[@alinacalm]

Let's be real tho the writing started to suck a little earlier

[@Vosk21]

Little did the night king know, the faceless men are trained in the art of hiding behind the camera lens.

[@HarryS77]

And getting a running start off a trampoline.

[@CaptainCre3pzz]

Starbucks coffee cups aren’t trained in that art unfortunately

[@04whim]

What if the true Azor Ahai is the friends we met along the way?

[@olivierb.2149]

Azor Ahai was Ser Pounce all along

[@04whim]

Ser Pounce is the best friend.

[@baky582]

What if we have no friends?

[@ChrisPantazis]

Your comment needs more upvotes...

[@bageldish6931]

@@baky582 Ain't got no friends.

[@evgenii.pudanov]

Don't know about smoke but I'm definitely extremely salty

[@mattmartin4717]

This genuine laughter I got from this comment almost makes it all worth it

[@rebdomine1]

The smoke is from the writers room.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@rebdomine1 It's the script burning...

[@andrewbergamann7982]

You're more salty than a Rorqual miner in Delve, when booshers take away his excavators.

[@kkhunt7]

In the last few days I've come to accept what happened last episode, but then my pet caterpillar Joffery got stepped on this morning. Burn them all!!!

[@Weightsandwaifus]

"Step by step, the Night King began to approach Bran. This was it - the memory of the world will be destroyed, and an endless night will engulf the world... "No..." "NO!" "No." This will not end like this, Theon thought, blood turning his vision red as he looked on at the Night King. Screw the memory of the world, screw the three eyed raven, the night king will not get his hands on my family - my brother. Theon grabbed hold of the wooden handle protruding from his stomach. Hot red crimson was spilling out rapidly. As the attention of every wight and walker was turned to their icy leader, Theon propped himself up with one arm and began to pull out the weapon lodged inside him. As he lay in the snow, his body burned hotter than dragonfire. Yet, still he continued. He had endured pain worse than this. As he pulled on the spear, he edged ever closer to the clearing, where the Night King now loomed over Bran, silent and still. Theon desperately clawed at the ground, dragging his ever-weakening body forward. The night king slowly raised his arm, reaching for its icy blade. "NO!" Theon wrenched the dragonglass spear from his burning up body. He knew he had not lived a good man, but in those final moments, prayed he could at least die one. His heart aflame, he took aim at the Night King. Ever since he was a boy, he had been able to hit a rabbit in the eye with an arrow from 40 yards. Even with his vision fading, his eye was still keen. He draws his arm back as time appears to slow for a standstill as the last words Theon of house Greyjoy would ever speak, trickle breathlessly from his dying lips. "The North remembers" "...and... "what is dead may never die" Suddenly Arya flies out of nowhere screaming "yeet" at the top of her lungs and kills the Nightking, dabs on his corpse and they all survive and live happily ever after, except for Theon who dies in agony in a puddle of his own blood.

[@garybrownlow6359]

Incredible.

[@sebastiancarreira1656]

You forgot the part where she dabs

[@dodecahedron1382]

Where does it say that the NK was "the darkness" that AA was supposed to defeat? Maybe it's actually Bran? And the NK was himself another self-proclaimed AA? There's still 5 episodes left and only the conflict with Cersei to resolve, they could develop that. Or am I being too naive?

[@Kjaskar3003]

@@dodecahedron1382 There's only 3 episodes left

[@envy3821]

Cringe

[@coolbeans5911]

Jon: *screaming at dragon* Jon: It ain't much, but it's honest work

[@YourPalHDee]

😂😂😂😂😂 ffs I dunno whether to laugh or cry. I work with all these idiots that still think the show is amazing.

[@vitorhenrique5229]

The truth is that Jon was trying to shout FUS RO DA at the dragon

[@chihinli2506]

The Night King getting killed by Arya is like Darth Vader getting shot by Han Solo while fighting Luke.

[@renegadexblackout]

No no no, not while fighting luke. Literally no one fought the night king, they wouldnt even give us that. They give us the shittest fan service possible just for the sake of subverting expectations

[@jannik3880]

Its like Darth vader getting shot by Han in cloud City when they first met

[@Rougarou99]

More like if Darth Vader got shot by Lando Calrissian right before Vader even gets to meet Luke.

[@aeiouy2887]

Jar jar comes back and shoots darth vader and emperor in the back of the head before luke arrives

[@opimposo9299]

Do one of these with Bran training with the 3eyedRaven to defeat the night king and then doing absolutely nothing

[@jon700]

Khyrenson Pimpson he got so bored that even rolled his eyes during the battle

[@peachycupcake]

he was literally playing flight simulator with the birds while people were dying to protect him

[@triplewhoppper]

Khyrenson Pimpson yes!!!!

[@commenter30]

@@jon700 maybe he went back in time and told the mad king to burn them all.

[@JD..........]

I ‘member

[@blebcat]

I love how every second of this video is like a true embodiment of my utter disbelief and revulsion at the stupidity of this latest episode. It's the only joy I have left.

[@ChiplockRock]

Sad but true...

[@Laukaus11]

You should go watch MauLer's video on it if you need more catharsis.

[@RaddyCall16]

Pekoe Punk me toi

[@mxmacman]

Subverting expectations is code for being awful

[@abortodedios]

legendary comment

[@esinach]

Not really. Killing Ned in season 1 was subverting expectations. Which is this show's MO. Honestly this episode was good. The peak of D&D fucking up is letting Ed fucking Sheeran on the show. And last years super sonic raven messengers.This story has never been about happy endings or conclusions. The show has done that more than the books though. All about context, Last jedi was shit because it subverted too many expectations and thats not Star Wars.

[@HariKrishnan-kx1is]

@@esinach The show subverted expectations before but in ways that made sense. Doing random shit to subvert expectations is terrible and it never works in any story.

[@HariKrishnan-kx1is]

@@esinach Ned dying subverted opinion but also made sense because he was too honourable to play the game of thrones and Joffrey was an insecure little psychopath. The night's king mistake was being at the wrong place at the wrong time and slow reflexes? Trying to kill Bran in slow motion? Not quite the same is it.

[@SirQuadrat]

@@esinach There's a difference between subverting expectations where it makes sense and where it does not. Just compare Avengers: Infinity War to The Last Jedi.

[@KaitlinLuksa]

I feel like I've been punished for being a big fan and actually caring about the story and lore.

[@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232]

D&D are hacks who didn’t understand the show they worked on this whole time but it’s Martin’s fault for not putting out a book in 8 years.

[@KaitlinLuksa]

@@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232 You're not wrong.

[@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232]

@@KaitlinLuksa Wish I was though. I miss GoT being good.

[@renegadexblackout]

@@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232 is it GRRM's fault? Its not his fault D&D cant write for shit and depended on his books to write a competent show. Shit even when they had the books and tried to do their own thing with stannis, dorne, sansa/ramsey marriage, they still fucked up horribly

[@HariKrishnan-kx1is]

@@KaitlinLuksa @Kaitlin Luksa I feel the same and everytime I voice my frustration people call me a hater and a nitpicker. Apparently I don't get the story at all because this is Game of Thrones and it is all about who sits the Iron throne 🤷

[@trevorp8124]

Repostin' my old comment: Born amidst the salt of the fans and the smoke of better scripts the writers burned.

[@Box0rz]

Maybe this was one of the alternative scripts they supposedly filmed just to avoid leaks. They accidentally released the wrong episode on HBO.

[@trevorp8124]

You do know that the Night King literally doesn't exist in the books, right? Nor does the "Kill the reanimator ; kill those he reanimated" mechanic that facilitated the deus ex machina? Hell, Beric is already dead in the book so "lol he was for keeping Arya alive" is bullshit as well. In the face of really rushed, hack writing and a tangible drop-off in quality as soon as the show ran out of book to base itself on, I'm gonna go ahead and give the benefit of the doubt to the dude who's been building and creating the world for 23 years rather than the two guys tasked with translating his work to TV.

[@mateuszbuczak2179]

@Media and Entertainment I am literally stunned by Your stupidity! :o

[@bengale9977]

@Media and Entertainment he hasn't written an episode on the show for at least two seasons and the show stopped following the books at the end of season 5.

[@snaddle6428]

@Media and Entertainment Do you even know what a McGuffin is??? The only one i can remember from the books is maybe the Horn that brings down the wall.

[@JesseCaul]

So I assume you've finally moved on from the 'denial' stage of grief?

[@BM-yy8db]

Next up: bargaining

[@nettns]

I sincerely hope that someday Alt Shift X finds a show he really likes that just gets better over time. Seeing him get so excited for WestWorld and then break his sprit with season 2 was heartbreaking.

[@ubelmensch]

@@nettns What a shame. He was a good man.

[@jacobgreenland2487]

Night King is not dead He warged into Brans Raven-verse He will appear in Brans visions, kill Bran, take over his being, then Jon and Nightking-Bran will have an epic sword fight MARK MY WORDS

[@agroaxel1107]

Not until the final episode.

[@hypergrip]

You have all been fooled! The Night King isn't dead! Remember when Arya was stab a dozen times into her abdomen and then took a swim in Braavos' sewer-like water? All it took was some Milk of the poppy, a few stitches, and a good night's rest, and she was ready for an awesome chase sequence across the city. The Night King was only stabbed ONCE, and that whole bursting into a thousand tiny pieces can't be THAT bad really. Nothing a few ice packs and some rest can't fix, and then get ready for round 2.

[@shmooveyea]

No ones ever really gone. nooneseverreallygone

[@renegadexblackout]

Best comment 😂

[@8684LYFE]

Beautiful comment

[@Remls]

Flex Tape oughta do it.

[@yashsharma5984]

Some terminator shit is gonna happen, piece by piece 🤪

[@KateMich12]

I love how people keep saying the prophecy was never in the show. Yet HERE IT IS over and over. I'm so done with all of this. Can't wait for it to be over.

[@esinach]

I love how people keep saying Sean Bean can't be killed off in season one, yet here we are. Game of Thrones has been doing this for years.

[@maverickassasin1514]

@@esinach What ?

[@oniondesu9633]

@@esinach Killing Ned subverted expectations yes, but it made sense within the world and made us think about how being honourable may be morally right, but that doesn't mean you win. This, however, subverted expectations for no reason other than avoiding writing a conclusion to the White walkers that makes sense.

[@DGiovanni]

Esinach it’s ok if you don’t know the difference between a good story and a bad one, just stop trying to argue with people who do. Go watch The Walking Dead and eat McDonalds you tasteless pleb.

[@kaylabingus]

@@oniondesu9633 I said this in another comment section, but I swear D&D went to the Rian Johnson school of subverting expectations. Unexpected moments in the show worked when they were based on what GRRM wrote because they were clever and made sense. I love the show, but the difference in quality is so obvious once they couldn't rely on Martin anymore.

[@NeedsContent]

Arya is what happens when the Dungeon Master forces his own super-powered character to join the group.

[@Drivinefire]

I'd give you gold if this were Reddit lol

[@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy]

When the party is not strong enough to defeat the monsters you've chosen to fight them but you don't want to TPK them because you still need to finish the story.

[@Keira_Blackstone]

what annoys me is that in the book she's not even a very good fighter. Her assassin training is more of the 'disguise yourself as the maid and slip poison in their drink' variety.

[@kegal]

I love how they tried to explain it by that dialogue in season 3 about closing eyes. Bollocks

[@SIngli6]

Season 3

[@kegal]

@@SIngli6 close enough ;)

[@ahthatshot7781]

That dialogue was clearly about Arya joining the faceless men . D&D just needed justification for Arya killing the night king so they tried to change the meaning of the whole prophecy by changing the order of the eyes.

[@kegal]

Ah Thats Hot yeah. Just a reason to S U B V E R T

[@SIngli6]

@@ahthatshot7781 Quite probably, but the bit about Melisandre saying that they would meet again was something that always felt like a massive dangling thread. This would have been written in the show back when GRRM had a more prominent role and D&D knew about as much as we did about future books. I never felt with the Azor Ahai stuff that something HAD to come of it like when it's mentioned in the books. All I knew was that Jon Snow, Daenarys Targaryen, Bran Stark, Beric Dondarron, the Hound, and Stannis Baratheon all had a part to play in the White Walkers' defeat. The moment Stannis died was the moment I realised they didn't have to be there for the end, only be an essential cog in the events that lead to the end. Bran Stark, the Hound, and Dondarron's rule was made clear in the most recent episode, while Dany, Jon, and Stannis require more guesswork presently. Point is, the show's always treated Azor Ahai vaguely, while the Melisandre moment felt like a clear and exact point of foreshadowing, at least in regards to the bit about seeing Melisandre meeting Arya again.

[@Keram47]

It's so nice, how they scale the enemy down to whichever size the main character can survive. Army of unsullied? No chance. Jon alone in the middle of the wights? Nah he's fine. Ironborn? They are too many wights. Theon? Nah he got it. Dany and Jorah, Brienne, Jamie. Did i just missed everypoint, where everyone suddenly vanished?

[@AH-be6bu]

It's called plot armour, it really is invaluable when you're a main character in a badly-written story.

[@Keram47]

@@AH-be6bu Plot Armor and stupidity are the virtues of every great character.

[@definitelynotthecia4998]

Fucking Sam survived when the unsullied got run over. An army of professional killers who have trained their entire lives knowing nothing but combat < 1 Samwell Tarly

[@sakrrdiedei6857]

Samwell was the most ridiculous one hahahaha

[@OmegaF77]

Alys Karstark was with Theon, but she vanished in thin air.

[@Bigk671]

Even if the Night King slipped on a banana peel and hit the back of his head and died, that would have been a better ending than what we got in E3.

[@EvelynDayless]

Slipped on a slice of ham would have been 1000x better than what was done.

[@nolanfields2239]

Klod P nope

[@wslbmg]

After been in a coma for weeks they turned off the machine.

[@martinsmith8185]

Davos starts wearing dresses and gets triggered when people don't call him m'amm.

[@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg]

slipping on Renly's peach stone would have been best.

[@yasminraveh599]

I see some people saying it's good that the writers "subverted expectations" by ignoring the prophecy and all foreshadowing for seasons. But if they really planned to do that, they should've had Ser Pounce kill the NK smh.

[@yasminraveh599]

I reposted my own comment from the earlier video

[@LUKA_911]

Lol subverting expectations. Reminds me of the last jedi

[@caad5258]

indeed

[@alvinortiz649]

The subverting expectations argument is flawed, but I will say this. The show was always about realistic outcomes. Think about it realistically - Arya was the closest character to the Night King. She was equipped with a Valyrian steel dagger. She’s a trained assassin. As a result, it is completely feasible that she would be the one to kill him. And not only that, Bran set the whole thing up. NK gives Bran a double take before Arya lunges at him because he knew he fell for a trap. Many fans are upset that the battle didn’t follow prophecy, but they should have known better. The beauty of the show has always been the twists - Ned’s Beheading, Red Wedding, Sept of Baelor - it rarely follows what people expect. This show has not been about pleasing the audience all the time but rather about making the closest things to realistic outcomes happen. We should have known better.

[@trevorp8124]

It's not even necessarily Arya doing it that's getting to me. It's that she can barely sneak past 6 wights with cover in the library without running for her life, then 20mins later in the same episode can sneak past an entire courtyard full of hundreds of them without detection until she's in the midst of a 20ft flying leap.

[@easternmcg]

I’m getting the strange sensation that i’ve seen this before. You have successfully subverted my expectations with this one.

[@AltSchwiftX]

It's like poetry it rhymes

[@DerFrischkopf]

One of the actors said basically that in the "inside the episode" @@AltSchwiftX

[@AH-be6bu]

@@AltSchwiftX you've gone too far in a few places.

[@mat8eo273]

@@AltSchwiftX It George Lucas fault, he was on the set of S8. Clues are clearly there,, How could we be so blind?

[@sinclair6555]

"Arya is the key to all this"

[@TheJaviferrol]

Yeah, Bennioff said they decided Arya was gonna do it just 3 years ago, so no it wasnt planned from the beginning. They basically did it cause shes a fan favourite.

[@ManOfScienceManOfFaith]

That's like the end of S6 when Arya was halfway on her transformation to Wolverine/Anime

[@MattBooth]

Lines up with when they ran out of source material and the writing on the show went extremely shallow, which was all of season 6 onwards.

[@TK0S3]

Not only that, they rearranged the order of the, brown, blue, green eyes. Thdy are literally insulting the viewers intelligence but since a lot are stupid they are eating it up.

[@soundslave]

So GoT is one of those shitty tallent shows where the person who can't sing, but has a sob-story, wins via viewer votes?

[@rockyp32]

Ty Alex let’s not lie here it’s still an incredible show but without source material it’s hard to write a great story. Without it they’ve done a good job for the most part

[@lucjan1897]

perhaps Night King was Nissa Nissa all along

[@yasminraveh599]

Considering what we got, I'll fucking take it.

[@shmooveyea]

Ah, yes. Arya forced the dagger through her lovers heart, NK was Nissa Nissa and Arya worships the god of death and the NK was death and now the real dawn she'll bring is killing Cersei. It's all so obvious

[@MrEnergiecottbusfan]

You sir, are a genius!

[@h3llsandman192]

@@shmooveyea SUBVERT - 100

[@RyeBreadGangster]

I didn't realize this whole time I was watching The Walking Dead Prequel series.

[@Rock_Lee_Yess]

lol this death is as bad as the way the walking dead kill their characters

[@jomertomale]

Negan's character is more fleshed out than the Night King

[@asinineintelligence6194]

Stop using this as an excuse for poor payoff to years of setup. This whole video is an entire compilation of proof that the show was very concerned with this plotline until apparently an episode ago.

[@ceciiiiiiii]

*_oooooh_*

[@amirkalaji6753]

Yes. And like TWD it also took a turn to the sjw / feminist side and ruin the show

[@katie-oo4li]

This show just turned into another one of those corny zombie shows SMH

[@HaxDogma]

This may be the greatest GoT video I've ever seen...

[@opiwaran354]

so it would seem..

[@upublic]

yes, this and this one too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJbahqNqp7h4n6M

[@coold1232]

Opi Waran ear rape PoTC music

[@TK0S3]

Watch Maulers GOT video. It's the best one so far.

[@ericeast7860]

Done in about a minute too.

[@declangallagher1448]

Thank you years of build up shat out the window

[@oatlord]

Do conflicted. Was a technically great episode that ended the really cool part of the mythos.

[@sarahclay9958]

I’ve been watching so many videos on the disappointing episode 3 and out of all the comments this sums it up best

[@oatlord]

@@Poroner That's what I meant by "technically". Michael Spotchink whoever held up his end of the bargain but the writers just sucked it up hard.

[@GrantH2606]

HALFway through the season btw.

[@rockyp32]

Great fight awesome episode but terrible ending

[@ThePokeComunity]

"It was so unbelievably exciting - but I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn't deserve it," says Maisie Williams

[@UraStr]

Not that She doesn't deserve IT, but it doesn't make sense...I mean he waited 10000 years for this...and it's not like here is in the middle od his army...OH wait he is how could he be so stupid....I mean come on you have the whole area under control why you get killed like a little bitch?

[@carnifex2005]

@@UraStr Because the Night King is arrogant. His latent humanity was his undoing. I loved it.

[@UraStr]

@@carnifex2005 yeah you also surely loved that all people died in vain, I mean smbdy could have stabbed that dude in the "hodor" cave back in season 6 right ? I mean that cave look like a best place to ambush smbdy...plot hole that killed the night king is as big as the plot armor all the heroes were wearing...

[@carnifex2005]

@@UraStr Who could have stabbed him? By far the most qualified is the Faceless Man on the heroes side.

[@UraStr]

@@carnifex2005 but you and people like you are exhibit A why most in most of the movies are like this, they don't make sense cause they don't need to make sense...this started as a real world adaption where bad things happen to good people, where things happen, because it makes sense it should happen, not deux ex machina...I mean, it when to shit last season (best example, season 1 they gave up 2000 men lives to capture Jaime there was tricking and scheming involved to trick him, in season 7 he falls into water right in front of the dragon queen 1) he should obviously drown, he's wearing full plates 2) but if he doesn't, there is no chance they should let him escape, but they do), but this is on another level, I thought more or less they will continue with a logic stretch here and there, but they will have a solid base to end the story provided by G.R.R. Martin, but they went full TV, and I get it...You can't kill the main characters people just wouldn't watch it anymore, and we suckers who liked the series for being special can go and suck it...when they sacrificed the cavalry for no reason at the start of the battle I vomited for several second at stupidity of that move but said to myself let's at least watch the great visual effects, but no it's all in the dark :D But like I said it doesn't matter it can be stupid as long as it is cool to watch it, people like me who actually enjoy(ed) the complexity of the show are in the minority and we have to accept it... EDIT: sorry if I'm making assumption about you or anybody,and I don't mean anything bad, everybody can like whatever he wants...of course

[@thebeerbaron01]

_D&D mimicking Maximus from Gladiator_ "Have your expectations not been subverted?!!!"

[@DS-kd4py]

Are you not entertained??? ..Erm, no, not really.

[@billibillion7287]

D&D shat on the past 9 years of hard worked built up

[@NoKOzKamui]

And it was there own hard work too. That would be like if the architect of the Burj Khalifa decided to knocked his own tower down three weeks before its completion just to subvert the expectations of everyone who thought he was going to build the tallest tower in the world.

[@unicornhorn6662]

The people defending the show can’t spell and seem genuinely retarded. Either kids or idiots

[@daeron5075]

@@unicornhorn6662 I agree

[@dungcheeseMORK999]

@@unicornhorn6662 they are retarded beyond belief. Say anything bad about the episode and they'll fling insults and bullshit arguments to defend this poorly written episode. I've actually left the meme pages because of these brain dead turds.

[@daraotl5187]

@@unicornhorn6662 validating your own opinion on the show by generalising anyone with a different opinion as being inferior. You must be an idiot or a child

[@GeekFurious]

D&D were so tired of coming up with ideas they were like, "Hey, can anyone pull up one of those popular Fast & Furious movies so we can jot down a few ideas? WHAT DO YOU MEAN we spent years setting up a story/plot point? We're here for coolness, bros!"

[@mattyjay1711]

I hope I get to see Arya speeding through kings landing in a mustang with Gendry as a passenger. They hit a bridge, get some air, Arya jumps out...PHWUUUUUSHHHHH... Does some somersaults, lands right next to Cersei, then, stabby time to Cersei. Roll credits.

[@ismailniyaz5167]

D&D nitpicked at old Melisandre quotes to see how they could contribute to finishing off the show early. So I bring you this particular quote in season 6: Melisandre: "Are you a virgin?" Jon: "No." Melisandre: "Good." Go on D&D, turn that into a prophecy, I dare you.

[@sriharsha_sheshn]

I don't feel like seeing this show anymore. It's become just a show. Before it was a story I invested myself in

[@saxtastic]

press F

[@yogdrogxon687]

Sriharsha Sheshanarayana True...... True....

[@rikkeholmberg]

When the smoke of denial settles, a salty Schwift emerges ...

[@DerFrischkopf]

*angry australian noises*

[@AndreD97]

"Stannis was not the Prince who was promised, but someone has to be." Yeah... that's so disappointing

[@renegadexblackout]

D&D said "fuck azor ahai, the prince that was promised, etc and lets roll with the random prophecy we threw in season 3 and pretend this was as planned all along"

[@guilherme5094]

8 Years and he dies that disappointing way.

[@aydenkael358]

how else would he have died? in his sleep?

[@whiteeaglewarrior]

Careful...D&D might nick that idea...

[@lanceandrew1319]

@@whiteeaglewarrior And once it's nicked, there's no one around here who knows how to un-nick it

[@whiteeaglewarrior]

@@lanceandrew1319 Im sure the talented Arya could come up with something

[@xCestLaVie1]

@Mark Lucchese then you'd complain that it was too predictable.

[@definitelynotthecia4998]

I still can't figure out how much of this I blame on the ability of Dumb and Dumber to tell this story and how much I blame it on their capitulating to idiots who need everything explained and need to have their superhero moments, either way this may have ruined the entire series for me. 10 years of anticipation and setup for that....The last 3 episodes better be absolutely sensational.

[@juliavalmada]

I will frame this comment

[@merryvixen]

Yesterday a guy was trying to prove to me that it all made perfect sense and he always knew Arya would be the one to do that because "Well Jon and Dany are stupid now and Arya is an assassin and was trained to be silent so" He wouldn't listen about prophecies, and build up, and everything else. Arya is an assassin, that means killing, and who else is there to kill So I'm lost as well about what to blame more

[@7modXx]

The ones who need to have their superhero moments are fans angry cuz NK wasnt killed by Jon or Dany. They wanted a “cool” 1 on 1 between J and NK, which would hace been terrible

[@definitelynotthecia4998]

@@7modXx I'm sorry did I say I wanted Jon or Dany to kill the Night King?

[@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232]

Lmao they will also be dumb and rushed

[@innocentsmith6091]

How to save the show: Euron is fatally wounded in the penultimate battle. Qyburn shoves a shard of enchanted obsidian into his heart and turns him into the supernatural final boss he was meant to be.

[@IronBahamut]

He then turns into a giant wight-kraken for maximum final boss form shenanigans

[@LUKA_911]

IronBahamut and then he pulls out the dragonbinder horn and ressurects viserys and the night king and everyone dies, the end

[@innocentsmith6091]

The pirate who was promised.

[@gutar5675]

That's a theory I haven't heard or thought of. Qyburn is definitely going to do some shit.

[@abortodedios]

@@innocentsmith6091 Salador Sahn emerges

[@gwiz665]

"No one's ever really gone..."

[@PsycheTrance65]

I got it the salt is from all the salty viewers (me included) and the smoke is from the rioting of those viewers

[@lefthanded3446]

PsycheTrance65 no its from burning better scripts

[@ex.O]

Those writers should be walking naked while bells sounds and GRRM screams SHAME!! SHAME!!!!

[@DoofusMonkey]

Except that he greenlit this bullshit. He sold out. He cashed it. Fuck GRRM.

[@bombalisa2724]

@@DoofusMonkey but did he? Really? I thought they only reached him for some advice a few times

[@tonebanderas]

watching these videos and reading the comments, actually helps with the pain left by the episode. Thanks!

[@aeryn9361]

S8 Ep 3 in summary Battle tactics: non existent Night king: one shotted Sam: dies onscreen 5 times but still lives somehow Bran: installing windows 10 the whole episode Jon: autistically screeching at dragon Arya: *teleports behind you* nothing personal, kid Hotel: trivago

[@OmniValor]

lol this is perfect

[@IvorMektin1701]

"This show was sooo awesome, despite the absence of boobs!" -Chad Summerchild

[@nuanceblacksywin4868]

I think boobs would have made this episode better, tbo.

[@KOCChristian]

You know show getting bad when Arya was our last tits

[@afifmajid8754]

Summerfell has the best tiddy. It is known

[@telamere2043]

I'm pretty sure D&D were the last tits.

[@brightgarinson3099]

@@KOCChristian Oh fuck no, I just realized you're right.

[@ChunkyChoncc]

They really Last Jedi-ed the heck outta this, didn't they?

[@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook]

Yeah, so it seems

[@VonbobTheTaffer]

Arya is a ham confirmed?

[@kseniak9204]

That was 'How I met your mother' finale level of disappointment . Years of buildup, and yet the creators decide to end it with something they thought was a good idea many moons ago. And that, kids, is how Arya killed your mother

[@KosunaKoizumi]

HIMYM ending was okayish for a sitcom, what else did you expect? This episode was 100 times worse.

[@kseniak9204]

@@KosunaKoizumi In both cases I expected the showrunners not to ignore a decade of character development, story logic or foreshadowing that aunt-fucking ends in tragedy

[@raimondsstokmanis1892]

How I met your mother was fine. It was rushed. It was grimm , kinda realistic. It ended on a happy note. This is just endless plot armor and bad writing in general.

[@KosunaKoizumi]

I dont see how it applies to both cases. I cant understand how can you compare HIMYM to GOT. HIMYM is a fucking sitcom joke show. What did you expect from that? Did it ignore character development, story logic, or "foreshadowing"? I agree that the ending was underwhelming, but it still was ok. It's like you are comparing Pepa the pig to GOT

[@sriharsha_sheshn]

@@KosunaKoizumi can't agree more. I was devastated

[@xxlCortez]

Martin: The secret of my story is surprising the readers with unexpected events. D&D: Hey, we should try that too, how hard it can be.

[@YourPalHDee]

"Valar Bazinga!" - "All men must have the illusion of purpose and then live or die for no reason"

[@dawncolorful]

BUT ARYA IS MY FAAAAVORITEEEE..... SHES SO KEWL GUYS. i can't wait for your reviews of these past seasons on this channel, just like you did for westworld s2

[@Oniqueen]

People are praising this as being subversive but all I can see it as being disrespectful to the source material and also D&D playing favourites with Arya again.

[@dylanhealy1369]

To be fair though we dont know if this was one of the notes GRRM gave them and Azor Ahai was a Red Herring he made long ago

[@MisterL2_yt]

@@dylanhealy1369 if they knew 3 years ago, probably was I was really afraid the show would turn predictable with jon snow killing the NK

[@shmooveyea]

GRRM's books ARE subversive. Thats the whole point, Ned dying, the red wedding...

[@walesdoesntsuck6635]

@@shmooveyea This wasn't subversive, it was dumb

[@KaitlinLuksa]

@@shmooveyea This isn't subversive. This is like reading a mystery novel and having the murderer introduced 10 pages from the end.

[@dannybuck7980]

WHERE ARE MY MOON METEORS!

[@shmooveyea]

Theory: Rian Johnson is actually a faceless man who is wearing David Benioff's face.

[@renegadexblackout]

Their writing is equally as shit

[@calebhorton4701]

shmaveyea FACT

[@JodenPaoloPeroy]

Sounds like a JK Rowling tweet

[@urishima]

@ED2 09 Rian Johnson is actually a faceless man who is wearing David Benioff's face. He also eats ass.

[@Weightsandwaifus]

And they all lived happily ever after.

[@RedentSC]

knowing the stuff you usually do (given that you just mentioned this channel on said other channel's Q&A discussion video for the finale) its interesting to see you fully unleash your sarcasm. always love your analysis, and now your sarcasm :D

[@DogandWolfGaming]

10/10 plot. So much subverted expectations. Wow.

[@stoutyyyy]

-Rian Johnson

[@cosmicdream17]

So this is why D&D were hired to direct Star Wars movies. If Rian Johnson had a Bachelor's Degree in subverting expectations, then these dudes had the fucking Post Doctorate. Bravo, Dumb and Dumber. This whole series was their audition for directing Star Wars films.

[@leenaleewitch3731]

See you never Lightbringer

[@bobm1182]

The dothraki had fire weapons i guess... thanks D&D

[@leenaleewitch3731]

@@bobm1182 yeah I guess so

[@KateMich12]

You didn't hear? Beric's had Lightbringer all along! That's what all the cool kids on the 'net are saying anyway.

[@renegadexblackout]

Lightbringer was the friends we made along the way

[@Remls]

@@bobm1182 brought light for about 2.6 seconds tho

[@crimsonpotemkin]

We all know that at this point Arya is just the author's favourite fanfic character, so they should have just gone all out. Just this once. Arya wearing a trench coat, sporting a katana, teleports behind the Night King, says "nothing personal kid" and dispatches him with haste.

[@yachidan]

Casuals ruin everything

[@maulcs]

Just watch the video of s08e03's Arya moment playing in that bar to see all the confirmation you need for that.

[@MarcAmengual]

@@maulcs yes... Celebrating like it was soccer... Cringe at it's finest

[@sriharsha_sheshn]

Fuck this. My wife who is not so much into it loved this cause she likes Arya. I've been into this for years and I get scwered over for such a fan service. Fuck D&d for making it so good and bad in the end

[@GrantH2606]

@@sriharsha_sheshn if it was fan service it would aim to please "true fans" which according to you it didn't.

[@IV_97]

@@GrantH2606 Nope, it aims to appeal the masses of idiots who take up about 60% to 75% of the shows viewers. There's always dumb people to ruin something.

[@Kwijiboz]

My expectations got subverted right in the ass

[@Thuky1]

Euron to wake NK again with his fancy Horn und some creepy blood magic?

[@shmooveyea]

Not a chance in hell.

[@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232]

Euron to be an off key lead singer of a shitty European pop punk band.

[@W..949]

SoylentGreen “I am the storm brother”

[@BanditoBurrito]

And finish that in three episodes? No

[@monopoly1027]

Show Euron is the fucking worst. Actually detest.

[@neilcollins4210]

I'm right there with you... We were robbed of our time spent paying attention to details... Why didn't the Night King kill Bran after Hold the Door.... because Benjen's horse was fast?.... They stopped to eat rabbits..... Rabbits...... Viserion got a notable speed boost after becoming undead right? Like they made sure to show that. The Polar Bear wasn't slow, the wights run constantly... But Benjen's horse, fastest creature second to Eastwatch Ravens.

[@carnifex2005]

Easy. He had to let Bran escape so he could convince Jon to get a dragon past the wall. That was the only way he was getting past the wall.

[@neilcollins4210]

​@@carnifex2005 Maybe, but it seemed like he only went south of the wall just to kill Bran. Likely he stayed north of the wall for a thousand years because all of the other Three Eyed Ravens chose to stay north. Now that we know the Undead's motive all along was to kill whoever was the current Three Eyed Raven. If the Night King was a Greenseer and able to predict a trap for the dragons then couldn't he predict his own death in Winterfell? Bran definitely saw it... Plus didn't Tyrion come up with the zombie capture plan north of the wall. And the dragons only went north after Gendry and Davos sent a raven for help. Meanwhile Bran was off worrying about Littlefinger or something. Jon didn't even see Bran until this season.

[@moddyphyle6480]

David: For, God, I think it's probably 3 years now or something, we've known that it was going to be Arya who delivers that fatal blow. Dan: She seemed like the best candidate provided we weren't thinking about her in that moment. One of the great things about having this many people you care about in a sequence together is you can kind of pull people's attention and focus to people they care about a lot like Jon and like Dany, Theon and Bran, not to mention Tyrion and Sansa in the crypts. So you're going all over the place with people who you're desperately worried for and hopefully you forget about the fact that Arya Stark ran out of the castle with the battle drums playing and going towards some purpose, and we don't know what until it happens. David: We hope to kind of avoid the expected, and Jon Snow has always been the one to be the hero, the one who's been the savior, but it just didn't seem right to us for this moment. We knew it had to be Valyrian Steel to the exact spot where the Child of the Forest put the dragonglass blade to create the Night King, and he is un-created by the Valyrian Steel. At the end of it it's still, it's a victory for the living but at great cost because some of our favorite characters fall along the way.

[@jake51479]

Moddy Phyle yeah everyones favorite character Beric Dondarion

[@lofn8166]

"but it just didn't seem right to us for this moment" excuse me what the fuck

[@bobm1182]

Only upvoting this so people see this shit. I am more salty rn than any Azor Ahai could have been lol

[@vanessagee3942]

Well, David it doesn't look like the "exact spot" where the Children put the dragon glass. It looks like she stabbed him in the gut. If the show creators have to explain what we saw then bad job on their part. Mad at you.

[@joetea2807]

"Great cost because some of our favorite characters fall along the way" Theon/Reek/Theon, Lyanna Mormont, Jorah Mormont, Edd, Qhono (lmao), Melisandre, Beric Dondarrion (already dead in the books). Literal Disney movies for children have had greater loss than that. The Lion King, Bambi, fuck...Toy Story was more heart wrenching honestly.

[@devinl9863]

The Nightking waited 8,000* years to kill less Starks than Endgame

[@bebos3001]

Damn. That's the best and most painful comment I've read so far. 😂😢

[@aharonvarna5992]

What if the real Azor Ahai was the angst we gained along the way?

[@mookieblaelocker6504]

Bless you for this wonderful art

[@danrichards27]

Roll for initiative : Theon 19 Nk 18. Arya 2. Theon roll for damage: natural 1, dies. Arya is hidden. Roll for damage. Natural 20. Crit. TPK.

[@davidmoss9943]

This might be my favorite KZbin video ever.

[@BlielPol]

Subverting expectations, Rian Johnson style.

[@WarlordM]

For a real Star Wars equivalent, this would be like Boba Fett or Asajj Ventress stowing away on the Imperial shuttle on Endor and killing Palpatine while he was distracted with the Luke/Vader fight. Yeah, I think he/she could pull it off, but it would just not make narrative sense.

[@aeiouy2887]

"We kinda forgot about the profecy the whole show was based on"

[@HotElectricBand]

George R R martin would never write something this stupid, hopefully in 50 years time when George is done with the books, we will get the REAL ending

[@CaL-76]

So I waited 8 seasons for a death meme? This is awesome, thanks D&D for your great writing!

[@floraice11]

that awkward moment when Ser Pounce being Azor Ahai makes more sense than what goes down in the actual show

[@Z26E5H7]

R'hllor was bullshit all along, just like any other religion. GRRM even warned you people but I guess you need to be spoon fed.

[@smufr9277]

that moment when someone in the D&D campaign ruins a sweet ass battle scene by doing some stupid ninja move and getting a lucky dice roll

[@ohcomely4873]

We got blue balled hard

[@algo2957]

That's sexist.

[@KateMich12]

Just call it The Arya Show going forward. That’s what it’s been since she successfully ran a marathon against the Waif after having been fatally stabbed.

[@Kirisapostle12]

I am not going to lie... If a duel would have been on going between snow and NK and NK was winning then Arya came and killed him by surprise.. I would have been satisfied

[@dhaonrisemlan]

I have always hoped that there was a Chinese whispers effect and the prophecy changed over the years, with the original prophecy being a Prince to the Night King.

[@miecraftandmoregames]

currently in denial stage on this episode. just won't accept what happened.

[@lordfady1145]

absolutely

[@HotElectricBand]

Brans greenseer abilities had so much potential in ending the night king with time travel and stuff and they just throw all of the buildup out of the window

[@ministryoftruth8499]

Renly was the wisest man in Westeros. Azor Ahai is a Ham.

[@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook]

Now imagine Arya threw a ham in the night king's face instead of stabbing him

[@ministryoftruth8499]

@@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook Arya hamslapping the Night King and saying "Azor Ahai biatches!" would subvert my expectations. I'm amazed Dumb & Dumber didn't go for it.

[@MagisterVeritas]

Remember when Darth Vader was killed by Jabba the Hutt? No? That's odd...

[@BakaryD]

"You should not listen to prophecies, they don't ever come true anyway" -Saitama, One Punch Man

[@writershard5065]

Yeah, but then if they wanna prove that point, there's way better ways to do it. Like maybe all the steps of the prophecy get fullfilled, but Jon Snow fails to kill the Night King, and gets killed. Then in the last stand, it's Arya who kills the Night King, subverting the prophecy and making the fuck you a lot less of a fuck you because it would show that the writers at least gave some thought to this.

[@DerFrischkopf]

Except for the times when the pophecies do come true which was like every single line Patchface and the Ghost of Hight Heart ever said

[@YokieWartooth]

I've been waiting to see Alt's video ripping the episode apart, but this is enough honestly. I'll watch this a few more times.

[@heinrichklassen4629]

My only response: wtf dan and dave

[@qwerty6383]

Wow it was the person we least expected. They sure got us fooled they must feel proud of themselves.

[@myspace6862]

Thank you Finally, you are the first person on the internet who know that Araya killing the Night king is total BS It would be much more suitable for the story if araya kill Cercsi

[@GoToSleep1993]

IdeasOfIceAndFire Angryjoeshow Nerdrotic All made rants to this epeisode, well worth the watch lmao

[@gadaleantudor]

Plus The Order of the Green Hand. And incoming the one and only Preston Jacobs.

[@zenorik915]

That was totally stupid, I wouldn’t be surprised now if arya got teleported in the next episode behind cersei to backstab her

[@zacdoherty93]

I see a darkness in you. And in that darkness, eyes starring back at me. Brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes. Eyes sealed shut forever. Arya killed Walder Frey (Brown eyes), the Night King (Blue Eyes) and will now kill Cerci (green eyes)...

[@zacdoherty93]

@@petarjovanovic2002 true. also, maybe Mel only knew what she would be alive for. she only knew what mattered until she was gone. I dont really see anyone BUT Arya killing Cercei... she can change her face to get close and slit her throat and Euron's

[@Gl1tch2263]

The prophecy held true. Arya was subject to the 'salty' tears of fans and as episode 2 showed has become quite the 'smoke' show.

[@farhanaazmi4512]

I needed this so much. So many casual fans thought Arya killing Night King was phenomenal because it was “unexpected” HAHAHAHAHHA those idiots weren’t paying attention the whole series apparently

[@christianlynch1424]

If you believe the prophecies you haven't been paying attention.

[@farhanaazmi4512]

Christian Lynch they literally pushed the Azor Ahai prophecy on our faces in the tv show. Melissandre supposedly says to Arya bout the color eyes thing in S3 THEN goes to help Stannis since she thought he was the Azor Ahai???? Its just bad writing, D&D literally said they chose Arya purely for “shock value” 3 years ago! And thats after S3. Perhaps you should be paying attention.

[@GeekdomCentral]

It's seriously so salty and I absolutely love it.

[@WurstWasser617]

I don't think he's pleased with the outcome...

[@jennerg1474]

The smoke was D&D smoking something when they wrote episode 3 and the salt is from all of the people waiting to see who Azor Ahai would be