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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3 the long night the night king finally dies #reaction #gameofthrones #houseofthedragon
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[@andrewguenther988]

Everyone: "that wasn't bad; I actually enjoyed the battle!" Carter: *depressed disassociation*

[@keeganbate8935]

If you go in with low expectations after hearing about how shit this episode was, you'll have a good time. Easily, even. The dragons blowing the fuck out of the undead is utterly nuts as a visual and super satisfying. But most went in with HIGH expecatations, because they'd been building to this for years, and the payoff felt a little... small.

[@salvadormartinez8577]

Which one is Carter?

[@andrewguenther988]

@@salvadormartinez8577 I believe he's the fellow in the middle.

[@lartisteautravail]

@@keeganbate8935 To be honest, the first time I saw it I was on the edge of my seat. It was a thrill ride for sure regardless of the shoddier directing.

[@TheLuc224]

@@lartisteautravail yea the directing was the point xD

[@ZChoate]

Cersei read the script and wanted no part of this episode.

[@starsimvidz]

she wanted no part of the entire season pretty much. Lena - "just put me by a window and give me wine"

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

She was like "I'm fine just looking at a window and drinking"

[@Ulkio_]

I love the fact that when The Long Night by Ramin Djawadi started playing around 27:10, everybody became ultra focused, that man really sublimates some scenes ! That tension build up, this piano... Story and good dialogues disappeared in last seasons, but episodes like this are incredible !

[@Sigma4k_]

There is not a single better thing in this episode than Tyrion, one of the smartest characters, sitting in the crypt, a place full of dead people, while fighting against the undead 💀

[@isiahfed]

I think that they thought that the night king could only revive people he or his army killed. idk could be wrong, though

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

@@isiahfed Bran saw skeletons appear from under the snow ffs, but I guess it was part of his plan

[@jeon957]

the crypt was the safest option, skeletons won't do much harm than all the armed undead soldiers above.

[@rckg7]

tbf, those people in the crypt, some have been dead for CENTURIES. what even is there left, some bones ok. lightwork for even a single soldier

[@ukuviispert9599]

the best thing is that his own actor criticized the choice in an interview (post-show episode?)

[@det1398]

The amount of plot armor sam had, he died like 4 times and survived man

[@nor3299]

The amount of plot armor literally all the main cast had this ep is something else

[@dwnkaomwn3953]

​@@nor3299Except for Jorah.

[@lartisteautravail]

People in the crypt had the greatest of all

[@M._R.]

​@@dwnkaomwn3953 Even Jorah had a lot of plot armor. Without plot armor, he would have died with all the Dothraki, because it's fucking stupid to ride head-on into such a huge army of undead with your entire cavalry. Or if not then, he would have died several more times afterwards. Being stabbed by swords several times would have quickly incapacitated and ultimately killed him. And above all, a stab in the chest with a sword would have killed him almost instantly and he would never have been able to defend Daenerys for as long as he did.

[@NoShiiitSherlock]

I'm so happy Sam survives this War. But I dont think it was plot armor. I think alot of people were specifically looking out for Sam because they owed him. Ed and Sam got very close in friendship. They grew alot together through thier service at the Wall. Ed saw Sam in trouble and owed him that friendship protection. Not to mention the brotherhood protection from other men of the Nights Watch. Jorah saves him too at one point because Jorah owes Sam his life. It makes sense that Sam would have a couple "9 lives" scenes in this Battle given how many people were watching his back.

[@Nexrasa]

It really blew my mind how the spiral patterns made by the white walkers was actually foreshadowing the shows writing getting flushed down the toilet. Bravo D&D 😔🙏

[@ZChoate]

"Weirwood trees" Weir: "where" Wood/trees: paper is made of wood. We write on paper. So "Weirwood Trees" translated actually means "where is the writing?" 🤯

[@theshilhuette8964]

the same thing happened to uzumaki anime now, lol

[@maryamgholizad2798]

😂😂😂

[@nishatsayyed8326]

Bran: I am gonna go now. *does literally NOTHING!

[@ScarryHarry93]

right? It would have been 100x better if he was actually the reason the Arya had an opening to the NK. Like, he flew around on crows to watch the battle but ultimately did nothing. Also, Bran was in an open courtyard with enough room to see and fire arrows at a small army entering, but somehow Ayra came outta nowhere from the sky, with a dozen white walkers behind the NK

[@user-rg7ef1ru6s]

RIGHT???!!!!! Like dude, all the things you could do and you go into a crowd to literally do nothing

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@ScarryHarry93 Agreed! Even somehow do a psychic battle with the NK(who clearly has powers as well)

[@brettkajganich9138]

@@ScarryHarry93that’s my fan fiction, that Bran orchestrated the events so that Arya was right where she needed to be at the right time

[@user-no8xd6gj6y]

Bran using all his knowledge and three eye raven powers to just sit there 😂

[@TheRAH14]

"I have to go now" and then nothing...like what was he doing that whole time until he showed back up to talk to Theon?? It's low key Poochie saying "I have to go now, my planet needs me"

[@janesweepingbush2289]

I swore he was going to warg into one of the dragons or an army of wolves would show up. He really just said peace out I'm watching a different channel I'll let yall handle this.

[@Aseminarbattle]

Ramin Djawadi didn’t let us down this season though.

[@lillyvlora948]

the only one we could count on

[@Perhapsawiseman]

@@lillyvlora948amen

[@Mitchel6489]

How does anyone survive this? Plot armor. Did you guys like the scene where briane and Jamie were being hugged by the zombies instead of you know, viciously mauled and torn apart?

[@beastmasterbg]

its so funny how white walkers are at one scene slow and another super fast, at one moment they can kill 10 and another they are useless

[@lartisteautravail]

I preferred the part where Jon was torn between saving Bran or saving Sam, who appeared to be… wiggling around on top of some wights… and ended up being totally fine anyway

[@SalKhayer]

Tbh, I could use a hug right now. Would love a zombie hug even. Maybe D&D were feeling like receiving a warm hug when they wrote this (jk they're trash writers and they absolutely fumbled this whole thing)

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

plot armor + cutaway = immortality

[@actionalex3611]

@@dontghostbanmeplz8788 To be able to appreciate this episode more i try to see it like the cuts to another scene is with a rewind, like everything happens at the same time and the total battle time is more like a third of what we experience.

[@ryansapia5671]

I think some important context that they have that the original viewers of GOT did not have, is that the dagger was just a dagger for us. It wasn't until HOTD that they retconned the whole prophecy relating to the dagger. So seeing them say that Arya was going to kill the Night King cause she has the dagger is very surprising to me. I don't think anyone really thought it would be her so it was super surprising for us and not in a good way. Her jumping out of literally nowhere to kill the Night King is still one of the dumbest twists of all time, not just in this show.

[@sham00ly75]

or they might've seen some spoilers on the internet or in the comments and just tried their best to act as if it was a guess. But it is most likely they are just that smart lol.

[@meganmeehan1565]

@@sham00ly75that’s the vibe I get as well! They were guessing Arya killing the night king for some time now. Back when it wouldn’t even make sense to guess at all!

[@robchuk4136]

Exactly. It was so bad, that I was curious to see if HotD's retcon actually helped a little, and it looks like it may have.

[@lartisteautravail]

The physics are what didn’t make sense to people. A non-Jon Stark killing the Night King makes sense because that’s their ancestral home and where winter falls. Storytelling-wise, it makes sense because Bran and Jon have both been enemies of the Night King, but it would be nigh impossible for Jon to defeat the Night King in hand to hand combat and also would’ve been the most obvious, tropey fantasy standoff, the likes of which GoT has been rejecting since the beginning. Arya defeating the Night King does a lot of things. It shows how the Starks have turned the tables since season one, since Bran is now using what may be foresight and an assassin with a dagger to take out an otherworldly threat instead of being a helpless boy threatened by one. It also gives Arya’s training overseas a greater significance than vengeance. It also drives home that it takes a team effort to defeat the Night King instead of just leaving it to an archetypal hero. It played out in a terrible way, though, because the White Walkers were never utilized in combat and the angles make it impossible to know how Arya got anywhere near the Night King. Also the wisp of White Walker hair blowing in the wind is so cringily silly, like something out of Scooby Doo.

[@ryansapia5671]

@@lartisteautravail I HATED what they did with Arya in the show. Her training is super rushed because they were desperate to end the show as quickly as possible and were tired of making the show (D&D said this in interviews at the time). What we see is her getting the shit beat out of her by the Waif non-stop, she seems to finally win against her in combat one time, and then the next time we see her she's able to kill the Waif while in the dark after being stabbed half a dozen times. It's beyond idiotic. Then she just reappears in Westeros and is like a super stealth assassin with every power under the sun. We saw none of these skills develop. As soon as they diverged from the books with her story, it makes absolutely no sense and becomes the worst plot lines in the whole show in my opinion (at least Dorne was only one season before they decided they fucked up too badly and just dropped it from the show). I loved Arya's storyline in the earlier season, but as soon as she gets to Bravos it starts to go off the rails and by the end of season 6 I'm left rolling my eyes every time she's on screen. All this to say, sure I'm fine with her killing the Night King in theory, but it makes no sense in the context of the show, even setting aside the physics of her physically doing it. She should not be able to kill him, because she shouldn't have the skills to kill him. This honestly annoys me more than her jumping 50 feet off of the walls of Winterfell screaming as she tries to stealth kill the Nigh King.

[@beastmasterbg]

rushing an enemy while not seeing them is insane

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

They didnt know Melissandre was coming, so their initial plan was to charge without any light coming from their swords 🤣

[@Ecoxiss]

Terrible garbage writing. They don't even know the enemy is there...

[@ClaudiaGonzalez-mg4xf]

​@@dontghostbanmeplz8788And with swords that wouldn't do sh*t because they're not made of dragonglass

[@hristiyan5695]

putting the artillery INFRONT of the castle walls is insane too. They shot them Trebutches like 2 times and then they disappeared lmao. D&D said in the Behind the Scenes video that all Dothraki went extinct when they died in the charge. Have they been watching their own show?

[@GRR1MN1R]

somehow The Prince was not promised

[@bkbstone]

Jon's task as the Prince who was promised wasn't to save the realm from the Night King, but to save the realm from Daenerys.

[@peuzip]

@@bkbstonelmao sure grandma

[@bkbstone]

@@peuzip 🤣 u mad over a tv show?

[@Victoria-kv9oz]

Jon’s purpose was to unite the realm against the coming storm and then…

[@angelwkw3]

​​@@bkbstonemost of the people in these comments are, jOn kIlLs nIgHt KiNg!!!!!!!111! Such mouth breathers. Apparently we watched Arya become an assassin for two seasons just to kill a 95 year old man according to these people.

[@herrjemeneh368]

This episode has some of the most epic scenes ever, it gives me goosbumps multiple times, especially when the theme sets in. But every now and then you realise the writing is so sh*t.

[@Alejojojo6]

Exactly my feeling. I liked it and hated it at the same time, so weird. Some things were very emotional others very bad. Melissandre moments were top notch the only character they did justice.

[@lartisteautravail]

@@herrjemeneh368 For me it was Melisandre pulling out Syrio Forel’s question and realizing that the Night King was that god of death. What a moment.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Yep, Great Athmosphere. Great directing and music. That's about it.

[@Taco-in-a-Tahoe]

when i watched this for the first time i was pretty annoyed that the big bad that has been built up from the opening scene of the show lost in a single battle. Literally the rest of the world still think white walkers are a myth because they never got past winterfell.

[@wh1skeybud]

@@Taco-in-a-Tahoe yes that was my main problem. the dead not making it past winterfell means it’s still all just a myth across the world 😂

[@edc6172]

GOT turning into an apocalyptic show with white walkers invading the earth would have been fire.

[@mhorrighan]

and so ended the Short Night

[@krisbrag87]

I am more surprised of how weak the humans are when they where that many and that skilfful. And you wonder why they lost a single battle. Ofcourse they lose if the opponents are strong enough

[@Taco-in-a-Tahoe]

Imagine if the rumbling in attack on titan never made it off the island

[@kyleohocinski6123]

It felt strange because characters were dying for lesser reasons earlier in the series than those seen in the "End of the World" fight. I believe that witnessing more character deaths would have added greater significance to that battle. Removing characters from the equation and increasing the difficulty of the dynamics is one of the strongest aspects of the show.

[@salvadormartinez8577]

“Is Melisandre gonna sacrifice herself? Is she gonna, like, explode?” Bro thinks Melisandre is a suicide bomber 😭

[@Zung465]

My favorite Melisandre moment was when she went “R’hlorru Akbar” and exploded the White Walkers

[@ro-rj8le]

bro thinks Malisandre is palestinian

[@XIII13X]

What a ridiculous comments above

[@nyla_n123]

@@ro-rj8le😐

[@nyla_n123]

@@Zung465this isn’t the channel to do that

[@michelle__ray]

Ramin Djawadi is the real prince that promised...

[@windygrass9807]

Fr 😂

[@Nemophilist850]

_"Hey we've got this massive castle with high walls that we can barely man... I know, let's put the infantry and catapults outside the walls, and send the cavalry into the undead horde without obsidian weapons..."_

[@janesweepingbush2289]

Also we have four big armies and two dragons and they only built a little trench instead of a deep pit. Bran was useless as was jon

[@hirvale]

I feel like winterfell in the show is pretty small compared to winterfell in the books

[@goterdordel7385]

I have a problem with this comment. Firstly catapults are siege weapons and it doesn’t make any sense for a fortress to have them in the first place, outside or inside the walls. Secondly it is common for the foot soldiers to be outside the walls in case of a battle (not a siege) to actually be able to fight instead of waiting to be boxed in (only a fraction would fit on the walls to do any damage). Thirdly if you have a cavalry but don’t charge them, what is their use? Other than that, horrendously stupid episode of course and no battle tactics at all. Cavalry should’ve been far away to flank when the battle is brewing. Dragons should have been protecting the walls and the troops constantly, not randomly attacking etc.

[@Stella-ARG]

@@goterdordel7385 I think the point about the cavalry being kind of pointless is in the "without obsidian weapons." But everything else, I agree with you.

[@lambvett]

​@@hirvale it was big enough to have men on the walls and behind the trench

[@michellehawk282]

Jorah really went out like a G. He always said all he ever wanted was to serve Dany and he did, protected her to his death.

[@eb4771]

@@michellehawk282 He was the most royal men in her life .. his death destroyed Dany

[@NovaLena22]

Jorah died for a woman who didn't deserve him.

[@bunchof_aholes3254]

yes he was loyal, but he's an old man who fell in love with a young girl, there's really not much to say to that.@@NovaLena22

[@CoralAries-fc7jr]

Jorah believed Dany would be the best queen for the people, but she burned the people to the ground, no matter what people say like Daenerys was hurt , she was being reasonable and she lost her mind but still, wrong thing is wrong no matter who does it, burning those people was wrong and she died for it, jorah would be heartbroken to see her like that 😢 good thing he's gone before that, at least he's happy that he saved her

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Way out like a simp

[@hnature1973]

All master mindes of westeros united to cook a ridiculous strategy, putting out all the men when they have a castle. catapults outside the walls. Charging to the army of the dead first. The dothraki were out there with no dragon glass or fire (no one knew milissandra would show). Jon hiding behind a rock to avoid dragon fire that destroyed a castle the scene before. Plot armor. that's why it's bad

[@NoShiiitSherlock]

☆GREAT WORK☆ whoever edited & cut up this episode for KZbin. This episode, in particular, is harder to cut than most. I can't tell you how many Reaction Channels Ive watched destroy this episode by leaving in all the redundancy and cutting out all the best parts. But whoever editied this one did SO GOOD. It was honestly perfect. All the best scenes were well preserved, and that's just ***NOT*** an easy thing to do with this particular episode. *SO MANY* Reaction Channels botch it. ☆GREAT WORK EDITOR PERSON☆

[@salvadormartinez8577]

Yeah it takes a lot of work I’m impressed as well!

[@Chiyash]

PAID COMMENT

[@NoShiiitSherlock]

@@Chiyash HAH! I WISH!

[@Chiyash]

@@NoShiiitSherlock ​tqsm i have never seen anyone glaze my cuts harder then this haha

[@NoShiiitSherlock]

@@Chiyash don't be suprised. It's a super well established thing that many Reaction Channels eff up this episode

[@zeroknight4517]

"What do we say to the God of Death?" "F**k off, I decide when I'm dead." - Ser Jorah Mormont

[@TheRAH14]

"When Khaleesi is safe, I'll give it up...til then, 🖕"

[@CoopaCoop]

And Jon didn't even get to fight the night king. Wiiiiiiiild Such a fk you to the build up, lore, and finally the fans.. The prince that was promised born from ice and fire. Legit meant nothing 😂😅

[@ironfisted4814]

They were suspencing this fight of white walkers from S1 just to end it in this in 1 episode lol

[@Youneshkz8ixt]

Well it's a great episode better then a lot of tv shows

[@ledepositaire1034]

@@Youneshkz8ixt no it's not

[@-tom-8720]

You're joking right​@@Youneshkz8ixt

[@Youneshkz8ixt]

@@ledepositaire1034 it was stupid episode but it's still great 😃

[@sham00ly75]

It's bad enough it ended so fast, it wasn't even well done.

[@codybaez5085]

My biggest issue wasn’t even necessarily within the episode itself but a more structural issue, with them resolving the White Walker conflict before the Iron Throne conflict. The entire point of the show is that the war among kings is irrelevant compared to this threat.

[@smeartyke]

Its game of thrones not game of deads LMAO

[@zibs3121]

i thought the same since they built this "final boss" moment, but also the main point of the show it was always political issues due to their own interests, to me it wouldn't make any sence other plots like cersei denys the truce so daenerys ends her and takes the throne and then fights the kk? cersei accepts the truce, they fight together and she dies so daenarys takes the throne? idk

[@orcocan]

@@smeartyke it's a song of ice and fire

[@smeartyke]

@@orcocan yea jon vs dany LOL

[@jcompton8507]

We should have understood where D&Ds priorities lay when they named the show "Game of Thrones" vs Geoge's "A Song of Ice and Fire."

[@originaozz]

Entertaining TV episode? Maybe. A good GoT episode after the long hype from Pilot to now? Absolutely not.

[@darkflame2067]

Nice how the Person who has no Connection whatsoever with the Night King killed him

[@DanLanningPRTeam]

Sexist

[@ryanmessina7309]

It's like if Neville killed Voldemort

[@toniryan7285]

@@ryanmessina7309right!😂 she shouldve took out the dragon like neville did nagini

[@starsimvidz]

i mean... in a different world.. the girl who trained in a death cult, who is the least afraid of death being a key player in taking down the dead would be awesome... just not in this world of shit writing and no buildup.....

[@thedappermagician6905]

​@@starsimvidzthis is exactly it. Arya is the Priestess of Death. As The Hound said "they're facing Death" So did the Night King

[@luis-yx6jz]

How can they be so dumb and how can the Night King be even dumber? He didn't have to do anything and the battle would have been won.

[@AstroAvenger]

Leave it to dumber & dumber

[@keef5]

To be fair his downfall was the same as Gus Fring’s. Except we understand Gus’s motivation and history with Hector

[@sham00ly75]

very stupid of the Night King to even be a part of the fight if the existence of his entire race and army depends on him. He should've stayed in the North and they literally would never have won LOL.

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

@@sham00ly75 it doesnt even make sense. He used living babies to create white walkers, just as we saw him being created from a living man by the children. So yeah, maybe 80% of the undead should have been elminated, but the rest of the white walkers (and their wights) should be self sustainable.

[@thedappermagician6905]

What? Good god the masses are imbeciles. The Night King HAD to do something or Dany and Jon would've negged the ENTIRE army of the dead by themselves. Every moment engaging Dany and Jon was a moment that he could have been killed. He needed to end it and from a conceptual narrative perspective, HE needs to destroy Bran.

[@Amk_1899]

The Short night

[@theshilhuette8964]

This ep becomes increasingly better the more you shut your brain off

[@Mc76204]

i ve tried, didnt work for me.

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

try closing your eyes, if you fall asleep its the best episode ever

[@windygrass9807]

The only thing I enjoyed from this ep was the CGI dragons

[@LeBlanco89]

Is there anyone who isn’t GOATED with you guys? 😂

[@proudsaiyanprince2651]

It’s seriously the brain rot reaction

[@nyla_n123]

@@proudsaiyanprince2651 I’ve seen this brain rot comment too many times. Like why stay watching a reaction channel you don’t like and making the comments annoying to scroll though

[@serarthurdayne5880]

This is like Hermione killing voldemort 😂

[@andrewguenther988]

Not even Hermione. More like Ginny lol.

[@kylecedrickgraciano9743]

It's Lavender killing Voldemort 😂

[@tevcon317]

@@andrewguenther988at least ginny was tortured and used by tom. Arya didnt even know about them till the last seasons

[@Eieowkjfj]

Nah more like Molly Weasley

[@janesweepingbush2289]

More like Dudley

[@toniryan7285]

John riding the dragon named after his father is beautiful😩

[@Perhapsawiseman]

Remember how Helm’s Deep despite being at night and being 20+ yrs old is the best battle ever? GoT is a joke.

[@GRR1MN1R]

donot ever compare the holy trilogy to this filth

[@diamondgaming63]

I wouldn't say it's the best battle ever. Siege of Minas Tirith takes the throne IMO , but it's the close 2nd place :D

[@nestak6076]

No d&d are a joke

[@eugeneau808]

*Looking for an in-universe explanation of the good lighting at night during the Helm's Deep battle* "So where's all the light coming from in the scene?" "Same place the background music is coming from."

[@orcocan]

walder frey killed more main characters than the whole army of the dead

[@phongphan7917]

The prince that was promised my ass 🤣

[@CosmicAeon]

Being a Targaryen, being the true heir, being the prophesised prince ... all literally meaningless and pointless 🤣 Might as well have been the butcher's boy.

[@seanjames9073]

Promise to unite the real not kill the Knight King. People are making that up in their head. The prophecy never says he'll kill him.

[@johnnielurker]

​@@seanjames9073well hes been the one that fighting him since Hardhkme so..

[@waltwhite8126]

that's what happens when bad writers think their show MUST be unpredictable above all else, even above logic and good writing.

[@jimtams]

@@seanjames9073thanks for making sense lol

[@eb4771]

10 years build up hype with “winter is coming” to turn up the biggest joke ever cause supposedly the big bad Night King killed in seconds by a teenage girl at the end

[@mauro5831]

And “the long night” lasting like any normal night 😒

[@itysheen80]

In the book, Ayra is not just a regular teenager.

[@mauro5831]

@@itysheen80 Arya*

[@tanimal3964]

The showrunners are so braindead they chose Arya to kill the Night King because Jon doing so would be expected and they like subverting expectations.

[@starsimvidz]

@@tanimal3964 jon popping up outta nowhere to end it in one stab would've been just as laughably stupid.. the entire thing coming down to killing a single dude (who could've just waited out the battle) is stupid. didn't matter who did it.

[@Haseeb_1010]

There was a popular theory that bran would turn into the night king , I totally thought that would happen when bran and night king was staring into each other .

[@frnknstndrgqn]

When Dany cries I cry... Drogon hugging her at the end just wrapping himself around her with his little squeals him and ghost are the best boys 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Kodisage]

I love how you guys kept the original brightness settings for the real authentic first watch experience lmao 😂

[@Alejojojo6]

Remember HoTD "From my blood comes the prince that was promise and so will be the song of Ice and fire" and the It's one of us who would do it... it led to an unfullfilled promise, to have Jon or Daenerys do it... it was Arya... fricking Arya... really?

[@alexass8987]

The only reason this phrase was introduced into House of the Dragon was to somehow justify Rhaenyra's motives. A prophecy that the writers came up with for a series that came out after the already completed Game of Thrones with a fully completed storyline. It's just absurd.

[@ig7742]

@@alexass8987 the writers of hotd didn't come up with the prophesy, the prophesy comes from the books. actually its game of thrones writers dumb and dumber who forgot about it completely.

[@alexass8987]

​@@ig7742The prophecy did not mention the Targaryens at all, who were supposed to sit on the throne and save the land. It was about a certain savior Azor. And in the house of the dragon, they came up with a prophecy so that they could say that Rhaenyra was destined to sit on the throne (no). The scriptwriters used the same trick when in episode 3 of season 1 a white stag came to Rhaenyra, which does not affect the plot in any way, and in the end even began to contradict the development of events.

[@ig7742]

@@alexass8987 I mean yeah, but even if it didnt have to do with a Targaryen they didnt even fulfill the prophecy at all XD they just completely scrapped it.

[@lukefox01]

They even made Deamon have a vision of Denerys as the "prince that was promised" in the newest episode and for what? Are they already preparing to retcon GOT for winds of winter or do they serious believe this prophecy still has relevance with GoT s8.

[@anisan2370]

7 season for building up the death of night King with a kitchen knife🤣

[@jcompton8507]

Arya killing the NK makes more sense to them because HotD makes a big deal out of the dagger. For those of us who watched GoT first, we didn't know it was Aegon the Conquerer's dagger and that it was surrounding in prophecy.

[@itscarlos890]

Bran killing him as he was about to be executed would be better. The same dagger meant to kill him as a child, is now the tool he uses to kill the death coming at him as a young man. Arya has no connection to the dagger.

[@lambvett]

Worse battle plan in the history of battles. They sent the dothraki into the dark to fight an outnumbering army with no support. A catle is a force multiplier and they had the whole army outside in front of the trench with no archers on the walls. They had the catapults in front of the troops. Man I forgot how much I hated this episode. How does sam survive being on the front line!?

[@tanimal3964]

Riding horses into the pitch blackness is an easy way for them to trip and break their legs, the whole thing was silly.

[@PacificEgg]

Has there been any other show, where the main bad guy is so iconic, yet says 0 words the whole show? 😂😂😂

[@jcompton8507]

I can't believe they didn't catch on last episode that the crypts were not a "safe place"! The Fandom was FURIOUS for a whole week leading up to this episode knowing the plan from the last episode was to keep the vulnerable down there with dead Starks. We couldn't believe with all these "smart" characters, that was the plan.

[@janesweepingbush2289]

Jon season 8 episode 2. "You can't beat them in a straight fight". Jorah season 8 episode 3 let's go straight at em boys!

[@kd-rq6tl]

😂😂😂 I’m so mad that here army got so small in just those seconds

[@Mitchel6489]

Brig's question: How does this resolve? Cersi should just no diff the realm. Jack: Sighs Thats the best answer Jack.

[@zeroknight4517]

this episode is great while watching. Almost everything makes sense, from the darkness, which makes the fights realistic, to the failed plans and improvisation, that's how battles really are. A simplest thing can change the outcome. The music crescendo at the end leaves you speechless and the anticipation of the outcome makes you stare directly to the screen without moving. The problems appear afterwards. Why didn't X do that and Y didn't do that? Jon knew the power of the Night King, there should've been barrels of oil to instantly burn all the fallen corpses. He should've made the people digging trenches out of Winterfell since Season 7, the women and children should've been evacuated... What was Bran's meaning in all of this? (or three eyed raven. He was slayed already by the Night King in Season 6, no way he would wait for him - again - patiently.) There was no actual plan to protect the most valuable person other than some mid soldiers (Theon isn't a great warrior and never was, even though his character arc is great and one of the best in TV history). Why couldn't something as epic as this be worked out through more episodes? The build up was for whole 7 years and 7 seasons. Winterfell crew fleeing south and facing the insanely large WW army later again. Even Bran taking the power from the Night King... The answers on Martins vision of this will only follow in the book version (once or IF the last 2 volumes ever come out).

[@orcocan]

90% of random fanfiction for S8 is more satisfying than what we got - for a start, how much potential was wasted by having the whole army of the dead go poof in one episode instead of having them WIN the battle and march south?

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I became disappointed while watching it cause people kept surviving and Jon and Bran were so pointless. I was screaming at the screen for Bran to do something.

[@ryanmessina7309]

We see the entirety of the dothraki army semingly die when the flames went out in the distance, dont worry though they're all fine. We see nearly every member of the main cast die when they get swarmed several times, don't worry though they're all fine they saved themselves offscreen.

[@SalKhayer]

The wonderful thing about these guys is that they all wear their hearts on their sleeves. You can look at any one of their faces at any point in the show and see exactly how they feel about it. Brig's frustration during the Night King scenes telling them to breathe fire takes me right back to my first time watching this episode.

[@jean05jean]

Don’t worry about the negative perceptions from other fans. Just watch and enjoy and if you hate it it’s cause you hated it not because someone put it in your head. Or you can’t fully enjoy the moment

[@sham00ly75]

The long night could've and should've been a whole entire season in my opinion. What a shitshow this was. And damn you George for not continuing the books and leaving us with this.

[@narkedtom]

THIS! I wish they had it that it was spread across several episodes, multiple battles where they had to keep falling back further and further south. Trying different strategies and making huge sacrifices in the hope that one method might win. The white walkers were meant to be the end game, and to just give them one episode (most of which was too dark to see) was beyond disappointing.

[@sham00ly75]

@@narkedtom I hope George continues his books (sadly might not happen) so that we get a good ending to this great series. I honestly believe that even without the books if the writers were actually good it would never have been anywhere near this bad.

[@BernardoPC117]

@@narkedtom "multiple battles where they had to keep falling back further and further south" you mean hardhome and the wall?

[@SM-rn8sq]

Glad i watched on Patreon cause Cannon almost crying when Daenerys is crying for Jorah made me teary eyed

[@aMadGuy]

I just finished binging all your GOT reactions a minute ago from ep 1... I got so glad to see this episode's notification so I don't have to wait for the GOATED episode ... Love your reactions Edit: Oh I came from from your comment on the Carlie and Ange's Avatar Finale

[@misty8301]

Can’t tell you guys how long I’ve been waiting for you all to get here! Awesome watch!

[@Mitchel6489]

If this was a traditional or even good story narrative. Anyone with a valyrian sword/blade should of had a 1v1 with a white walker. Jon should of fought the night king while dany dealt with the dragon. And Dumb and Dunce's reasoning for Araya is because she's stealthy, and even before her training she "always knew how to sneak off and move through winterfell without being noticed or seen"

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I would have had all those having Valyrian Steel being the last line of defense for Bran. Jaime, Jorah, Brienne, Jon and they would fight a few main White Walkers.

[@Mitchel6489]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 W. I also feel like EVERYBODY should of died. Except for valyrian blade holders.and Dany, and the Hound considering their purpose for the plot later.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@Mitchel6489 They should have all died and have the WW/NK win the war at Winterfell so that it extend the battle to King's Landing ready to concume the World. Just the sight of KL under the Snow and so forth would have been a great sight and would have made things way more epic. Logically the only way anybody would have survived and they could have won would have been from maybe Bran's magic, maybe use his time-travelling powers to do something. It's crazy how none of the characters' skills were put to use in this episode, not even Arya's ninja skills. Cause they basically had her teleport in mid air and that I cannot recal that being part of her training. lol

[@brynprobert54321]

I loved this episode. The great dialogue, the awesome action and, best of all, how well it’s lit 🤣. I’m surprised the Night King could find Bran without a pair of night vision goggles. The audience definitely needed them.

[@Youneshkz8ixt]

They knew what's gonna happen

[@Redqueenjj]

Aria killing the night king is so ridiculous 😭

[@eb4771]

All that “The song of Ice and Fire” literally title of the series means absolutely nothing at the end. That’s how bad this show ended they forgot the fcking plot lol

[@milk.8793]

@@eb4771 “the prince… or princess, that was promised” 😔

[@eb4771]

@@milk.8793 Azor Ahai, The one who was promised, the song of Ice and Fire, Longest Night.. all of them became a joke at the end. I still don’t understand how GRRM approved this. Because of this trash series now we can’t get the new books too. I’m literally thinking GRRM will not finish the series because hype was already destroyed

[@milk.8793]

@@eb4771 retcon it with an animated series. it’ll be as good as og atla, trust 😔🙏 (im on copium)

[@b-six-twelve]

How she killed him was ridiculous, but that she killed him wasnt. The White Walkers have always been pitted against the Starks, not just Jon. The catspaw tried to kill Bran with that dagger. It’s a nice turning of tables that Arya becomes Bran’s chosen assassin to defend his home.

[@Bigglesman96]

7 seasons worth of suspense and buildup just to let out the tiniest poof of a wet fart. No big mystery, no dialogue, no magic or lore explanation, no character payoff, no appropriate stake-building character deaths, ridiculous rage-enducing battle tactics, and plot armour, plot armor, plot amour. It hurts, man.

[@Mc76204]

the white walkers had to die for this.

[@AshleyGarcia-ck2ki]

Theon’s arc was by far the best in the show

[@GorramT]

(Points at Jamie……..until S8)

[@AshleyGarcia-ck2ki]

@@GorramT LMAOOOO. he had the potential but alas

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I didn't like it. I think he was a simp to wherever the wind was blowing. Robb simp, Daddy simp, Ramsey simp, Stark simp

[@AshleyGarcia-ck2ki]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 I don’t think you know what the word simp means lmao

[@renzovasallo5778]

Theon is Azor Ahai 🗿

[@Fett411]

A few episodes ago Arya sneaked up on Jon in the Godswood the exact same way which explains how she was able to get there without the white walkers noticing while Jon was pinned down by the dragon In Branns vision in the cave the children created the Night King by plunging an obsidian dagger into his stomach, it took the same thing to kill him. Arya previously did the same move when training with Brienne in season 7 and she was able to do it here because NK had 1 hand on her throat and the other grabbing her wrist that originally had the dagger. If we assume Brann has seen visions of the future and knows roughly what will happen he gave Arya the dagger she used to kill NK and sat in the perfect spot at an angle to allow Arya to sneak in for the kill.

[@ZChoate]

Cope

[@lambvett]

The episode was trash bro

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

ok... but could Arya sneak up on Jon if he was surrounded by 'guards who are connected telepathically and share their vision with Jon' for at least 100 meters in each direction?

[@thedappermagician6905]

​@@dontghostbanmeplz8788...yes. if none of them are looking at the high walls. If they are all looking at Bran...uh yeah, of course she's below all their notice. That's not hard math

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

@@thedappermagician6905 If they are looking at Bran from 100 m away, youd think they see Arya runnin through their own crew. I see its hard for you to imagine a situation

[@leratomathibe1862]

I enjoyed the long discussion at the end.

[@Fett411]

When discussing what George will do, he gave the writers a general overview of how hes going to end it and left them to tie it all together so while he might make changes and do things differently it should be similar

[@lartisteautravail]

@@Fett411 The problem was HBO said, “We’ll give you as many episodes as you need” and the response was, “…six?” (Or “thirteen.” Can’t remember if that convo was had before season 7 or 8.)

[@TheLuc224]

Nah it wont be similar. George said they need at least 12 Seasons. He gave them a general overview yes but they had no idea what to do with Bran for example.

[@SalKhayer]

Best exercise is to watch this episode, then rewatch Battle of the Bastards or Hardhome. It's always good to see how much of a difference past seasons had to this current season.

[@PacificEgg]

Remember when y'all said "What if Arya killed the Night King"? 😂😂😂

[@Dario_1991]

You guys say you don’t understand how Aria got to the night king…. You gotta remember all of her training when she became NO ONE… they show you when she reconnected with John… he says “how did you sneak up on me?” .. they show it to you again at the library when she gets through all those white walkers… and lastly.. when she’s reminded.. “what do we say to the lord of death”… all her journey prepared her for this moment.

[@jcompton8507]

I think part of the reason we got no backstory for the NK, White Walkers, and Army of the Dead is because, as this season was airing, HBO/GRRM were working on an Age of Heroes/Original Long Night series. And they didn't want to "spoil" that. Unfortunately, after shooting the pilot episode, it didn't get picked up.

[@mofosoto]

I loved how Arya killed the Night King. “How did she get past the white walkers?” Because it’s her home for one and she definitely knows how to sneak around. 2, she’s super sneaky and they showed that many times throughout the series with people saying “How’d you sneak up on me?” And 3, the hand switch of the knife was epic, that’s like her signature move and it faked us all out. We saw her flying in and were pumped, then the king flexed and we were like NOOO!! Then the drop with the shot of the king’s eye noticing it too late…perfect! I like thinking about how epic it was when the Dothraki got their swords lit, and how jacked it got them. Imagine you’re a blood rider already jacked for battle and then you get a flaming sword!! The director/writers did them dirty having them get wiped out so easily. That was super lame. Jon jumping out to get cooked, lame. Them barely using the catapults, lame. Ghost is absolutely misused, lame. They should’ve definitely had a couple of the wight generals in the battle and have them killed by key characters. Definitely should’ve had a lot more fire at the ready too.

[@Ricardo23386]

1) Use your fuck***ng castle defensively 2) Have the siege equipment inside and shoot continuously until you run out of ammo or it gets destroyed. Don't only shoot 1 volley and just stop. Do you know how to use siege equipment defensively? 3) Keep the infantry BEHIND the pikes so they serve as the first line of defense and the dead cannot charge you head on (Not saying on top of the walls because they might have expected the dragon to break the walls as it was the strategy when powder was introduced) 4) Don't YOLO your entire light infantry to charge to an enemy you cannot even see where they are and how many they are 5) Dragons should have been flying in circles spitting fire every certain time creating breathing room for the infantry bellow and they would have never lost sight of the battle 6) You have 2 dragons against 1, it might have been a good idea to reinforce their claws with dragonglass so they could kill the night kings dragon more easily (Or they already saw the scorpion in use on 7x4 so someone could have at least tried to make the design to snipe the undead dragon as it was clearly established that the dragon glass is instakill) 7) Don't send the non-fighters to a crypt against the one dude that can resurrect the dead, instead fortify the grand hall and keep them there (They might still die but at least is a more reasonable plan) 8)...???? 9) Profit

[@N.Cabello]

watching the episode again with u guys makes me appreciate how epic and Visually spectacular that was all. For that I am more than grateful. beyond the final decelenzace

[@oftheHowl]

Jack and a bunch of people in the comments keep laughing about the "prince that was promised" not being fulfilled, but they literally said that the term is gender-less, so it's prince or princess. And the prophecy had nothing to do with killing the night king, it was about sitting on the iron throne and uniting the realm. Arya jumping out of nowhere was dumb as hell though

[@wh1skeybud]

“my goat, Theon” that’s crazyyy 😂💀 fugg theon

[@brettkajganich9138]

There were some Easter eggs of how stealthy and quick Arya had become.. like when she came back and met Jon, he was shocked she snuck up on him. Look up a map of Winterfell and you can see Arya’s route.. she was likely hiding in wait, and then went full assassin

[@fosterhb3774]

Imo, after all these years, i rly do believe this ending was the most "realistic" one, winterfell was FLOUDED with walkers there's no way anyone could do anything about the situation. Only a "sneak attack" could save the day ...

[@stevenstone307]

The biggest butchery of a story I have ever seen.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Bigget butchery of a franchise

[@AshleyGarcia-ck2ki]

I think something that could have been really cool to see in this episode-is since the dead in the crypts can come to “life”, seeing white walker Lyanna and Ned.

[@TheYksuH]

So, Dany's loss counter: Viserion, her claim to the throne, Jorah. So far, she's only lost since entering her promised land of Westeros. Let's see if that's all there is to it^^

[@cambelloroxy9420]

Well she didn’t loss her claim to the throne she still has a claim

[@TheYksuH]

No, she hasn't. Jon is Rhaegar's legitimate son. Rhaegar was the crown prince and so Jon has the right to the throne. Even Dany knows that, because that's how her own understanding of dynasty works.

[@cambelloroxy9420]

@@TheYksuH Rhaegar was disinherited by the mad king (and ALL his offspring as well) and Viserys was named heir who in turn named Dany his heir… Disinherited means no claim anymore So were do we go from here?

[@TheYksuH]

@@cambelloroxy9420 If Viserys was disinherited, he is welcome to appoint Dany as his successor, but it doesn't matter because he was disinherited and no longer has the right to do so. But Dany believes that only a Targaryen can rule the world and she thought she was the last Targaryen. But she is not, because through Jon there is someone living who is the rightful son of the heir to the throne. So either none of them have a claim, or if they do, it's Jon because he's the heir to the throne bloodline. That's how every monarchy in the world works.

[@flpandrei]

There are a lot of bad things about this...but i am always gonna defent Aria killing the Night King. The whole point of the story is that a profecy is not realiable. Season one you see the Stalion that Will mount the world profecy that never happens. The Prince that was promised is the same. Also, Aria had 3 years of ninja training, so yes, she can run around them stealthily. The point of her meeting Brianne is that she learns that dagger move when she trains with her.

[@GiselaMisa]

I never thought that Theon's death would hurt me so much, but it hurt me as much as Vicerion's, I cried a lot XD It was very distressing. Excellent silence towards the end, they took away every detail of the chapter. nice

[@Cucumberstopickles]

You guys forgot that Arya sneaks up on EVERYONE. That bedroom door was closed when she snuck up on Sansa. Her reunion with John at the Godswood he asked her, “ how did you sneak up on me”. You can see when she slips by the white walkers his the white walkers hair move as if there was a breeze.

[@moeyx]

Night king is thousands of years old, the fact that we never saw him showcase any fighting skill hurts me. we talk about jamie, arhtur dayne, barristan selmy ect.... being highly skilled fighters it wouldve been fun to see the night king show something.

[@cristiano_9654]

The two people who have their plotlines connected to the Night King, Jon and Bran, DO NOTHING!

[@janesweepingbush2289]

Bran literally changed the chanel and then came back like I'm gonna watch you die now

[@TheWindcrow]

Jon (Aegon) in the God's wood: How'd you sneak up on me? Arya: ;)

[@LaydeeFluff]

You can see when Jon is hiding the Ice (blue fire) and Fire (actual fire) showing he represents Ice and Fire the literal name of the saga A song of Ice and Fire....yet it was Arya that killed the night king! I was amazed when i first watched way back when but as ive come to rewatch it really is a kick in the nuts!!

[@grahamduff7383]

Dissing the night king score is absolutely the craziest thing you could ever say. Been listening to that score for years. Top 3 GOT scores.

[@RR64434]

No wonder Sam is so big. It’s because he is wearing so many layers of plot armor.

[@muthinjama]

Even though Jon never got his Night King showdown... He was still the reason he fell. He basically rallied people together against a common cause like no one else could. People would still be playing their own games if it wasn't him.

[@littlebabyclover]

The night king was standing in the same place Jon was when Arya snuck up on him in S8E1.

[@akshaykumarreddy909]

@studiogek Jon Killing Night King would have been obvious so they didn’t go that way also Arya sneaking upon Night king was foreshadowed when she sneak up on Jon in the 8x01 episode. Don't worry Jon killing big character on the show is not yet over😂

[@thedappermagician6905]

It is obvious that Arya got past the White Walkers because she climbed the walls which have always been shown to overlook the GodsWood. When Dany first appeared in Winterfell, it showed Arya climbing those very walls. First time i watched it, I found it pretty obvious that Arya pulled some Assassin's Creed shit on The Night King

[@joshuakeasler3075]

I think what makes me most mad about this episode is in HOTD they are hyping up the “song of ice and fire” and the prince or princess that was promised

[@ZChoate]

Exactly. This ending didn't just ruin the show, it ruined the entire history of lore and prequels. Everything that ever happened lead us to this.

[@TheCac]

The director for this episode also directed some of HOTD season 1 which you can clearly tell, or rather cant. You woulda thought he learned about lighting after the complaints about this episode but nope. (The HOTD episode I'm referring to is the one where Aemond gets Vhagar if it wasn't obvious enough)

[@ondrej_hrdina]

That HotD episode is so badly lit. It seems that they shot the scenes by the sea during the day and to make it look like night they had to basically make the whole image dark.

[@stevenstone307]

Yeah they did a terrible job with the lighting in that episode. Seems pretty elementary film schooling to make your scene visible but what do we know.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

That's the same guy? Holly shit the night scene in HOTD was so awful. We could not see Rhaenyra and Daemon at all when they were doing it. What is weird is that it was revealed that they shot those scenes during the day and darken them after! Hell I have seen 70s/80s movies shot at night(some parts of Superman, Annie, etc...) and you could see everything

[@yang-it-yin7002]

The author George R.R. Martin has mentioned multiple times that the ending would be Bitter Sweet, so I would assume he has a clear ending in mind, but getting there with the massive amount of characters and storylines he built requires time to develop and tie into the overall premise. The story litteral has hundreds if not thousands of on stage and off-stage characters with each carrying a piece of the puzzle. Some of the puzzle pieces may seem insignificant and small at certain places in the timeline but actually are extremely important later in the story. Therefore, a story such as this requires the needed time for those pieces to take shape. The show had done a relatively good job of adaptation of his story when they were allowing the time to develop those pieces. As George said himself once one of those pieces of the puzzle become altered or is missing it becomes like a butterfly effect that creates problems later in the timeline; which presents noticable fallacies that defy logic. The books have a vast amount detail and rich world building that cannot be captured in a condensed way these later seasons have done. The beauty of this epic tale is in the conflict within each characters motives and their decision making. The biggest complaint I have heard about this episode is with Brans character. We were shown that Bran has the ability to skin change and Warg into any creature and access the Weirwood network to view various timelines of past and present locations simultaneously. These are the type of powers no one in this world possess. Powers that a character like Tyrion would notice as beyond valuable to tap into. So in the past episode we saw Tyrion attenpt to do just that. We saw him sttempt to pick his brain and get s grip of what he is capable of. We have been taught that Tyrions character has used knowledge as a weapon and he must have seen Bran as the ultimate weapon. So if you plant that seed and you never return to see what if any resulted from it then it wastes Brans storyline into being pointless. If you are facing a massive threat like Others (Wight Walkers) and simultaneously a character like Bran who was identified by the Three-Eye Raven as his replacement and the ideal candidate to protect the Weirwood net and combat this threat to it and the world then you would think he would not just sit there helpless as bait. You would think Tyrion with his big brain could have realized a better use of this ultimate weapon other than warging into a bunch of ravens to alert the nightking of his whereabouts. Nonetheless, i urge all of those who have seen the show to read the books. The audiobook versions are quite good as well. It really illustrates the genius of this story

[@ShadderUchiha]

The Plot Armor is amzing... dont forget at the end Jon Snow just tryed to fight the dragon by screaming on him... Oh yes and Arya screamed too while attacking the Night king... make sense xD

[@r.s.3320]

Easy how Arya got past the undead. She knew that Bran had said the NK would come for him, so she went and hid in the courtyard by the wall. She came from above him, so she was up on a wall, and jumped down.

[@rancchan]

I loved that Arya killed him, and the way she did it. It all makes so much sense to me, due to her training, even blind. That doesn't take away Jon's job uniting everyone for this, nor Daenerys' and her army and dragons contribution.

[@NightSkyJeff]

Dany told Jorah that when she retook the Seven Kingdoms, she's need him by her side. Now she doesn't have him. Uh oh...

[@CandorHispanus]

In my headcanon it's Jamie who kills the Night King Overnight he goes from Kingslayer to Kingslayer Best arc completion for him you can hope for atp