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  • Hey everybody, cargerger here and this is it. My final review for the entirety of season

  • 5. A lot of you are probably wondering "why the fuck are you so late on this" and the

  • reason is fairly simple: I've been on vacation. I also needed some time after the season finale

  • to go back to it, binge watch the whole thing again so I can make a definitive review of

  • what I thought on the whole thing. Personally I hate reading reviews about movies and television

  • from these major websites because these people are paid to be pretentious dicks AND I can't

  • stand some Game of Thrones youtubers with their reviews because a lot of them have never

  • read the books and if they have they are too stuck up George's ass to enjoy the television

  • show. Despite what some of you may claim, I can enjoy aspects of the television show

  • while also giving a nod to the books.

  • So consider this the most brutally honest and fair review you'll see on YouTube. Promise

  • you that. Now...at the end of the episode 10 review I said i would be giving out some

  • gift cards to people who could give me the best Adolf Hitler is Jon Snow's father theory.

  • You guys know, I'm not a big fan of theories and I always enjoy taking shots at them. I've

  • read probably over a hundred of them and I chose 3 people who each got 50 dollar gift

  • cards to Amazon. This came out of my pocket and I always enjoy rewarding people who can

  • be as fucked up as I am.

  • I will be posting my favorite story up on my Facebook page along with a picture that

  • the person made through Photoshop. Quite funny actually, especially if you grew up in the

  • 90's like I did and watched a lot of Cartoon Network. Now with that out of the way let's

  • get on to it.

  • First we'll start up in the North and I've got to say I'm impressed with how things turned

  • out for many characters. Some were a let down but a lot of them did shine and it was very

  • entertaining. I'm going to start with Sansa and the Boltons in Winterfell. I will say

  • that it was nice seeing that place again and it's a welcome change from King's Landing

  • but I also wish we got to see other places too.

  • Some of you may hate me for saying this but I really enjoyed House Bolton this season.

  • They've got to be my absolute favorite and I'll tell you why. Roose Bolton's actor does

  • an amazing job in his role that every time he was on screen you tensed up a bit because

  • he just brings so much gravitas to that character. Ramsay was also amazing. In terms of the character's

  • portrayal of course. One of the best things about the Star Wars prequel was Emporer Palpatine

  • and how much fun his actor had in playing that role and you can tell. I've got to say

  • the same thing about Iwan Rheon. Watching him play Ramsay was great. I read somewhere

  • that he originally auditioned to play Jon Snow but I really can't imagine him as anybody

  • else. Hes just that good.

  • I also want to point out that watching both Ramsay and Jon Snow this season...it really

  • does feel like they're both George Martin's version of Batman and the Joker...with Myranda

  • being Harley Quin. But as much as I enjoyed the Boltons...I don't really understand the

  • idea behind Sansa being married to Ramsay. It's way off course with what we're getting

  • in the books and I understand that they have to remove some things due to time constraints

  • but I Personally feel that Sansa is used as a punching bag way too often and shes never

  • really had much time to shine.

  • The main hype behind her character at the beginning of this season was that she was

  • this new person whose been taught a couple of things by Baelish himself....but then it

  • turns out that Sansa is right back where she was...being tortured and raped by a psycho.

  • It really doesn't make much sense to me why they would chose to pit her with Ramsay instead

  • of having her play the political game in the Vale with Petyr Baelish. The one thing I thought

  • they were going to do, and it's what I would have done. Is to have Sansa and Theon run

  • away and have Ramsay find out. He gets pissed and realizes that they probably ran away to

  • Castle Black where Jon is the Lord Commander. Ramsay then writes his infamous pink letter.

  • That would've been a great place to go but they didn't do that.

  • and see...the direction of some of the characters makes no sense to me and what they're doing

  • with them also makes no sense. Like Theon and Sansa jumping off the battlements when

  • they could've gone through another location in Winterfell. They do know the place better

  • than the Boltons. But yeah, Like I was saying... the Boltons were fantastic, especially Ramsay

  • but I was not a big fan of the direction they're taking Sansa. I feel as though her story could've

  • been more interesting had she stayed in the Vale with Petyr. Theon didn't get much to

  • do this season until the very end but i did enjoy his performance as well. Alfie Allen

  • is great as always and I'm a little disappointed we didn't get some other Greyjoys. But oh

  • well. Overall: The Boltons, very good. Sansa...meeeeh. Would like to see more Greyjoys. Moving on

  • to My man Stannis.

  • I'll say this now: Hes kind of a hard person to put on screen in terms of personality.

  • In a way hes kind of boring but there really isn't much too him. Unlike Jaime, who is full

  • of depth, Stannis is a very serious person and in some ways hes not too deep in terms

  • of character development. It's tough to put that kind of person on television but I still

  • feel like they could've given him more screen time and things to do. In season 3, for example

  • he barely did anything which I think is a wasted oppertunity and ever since the end

  • of season 2 the only thing hes really done is argue with Davos, make these little speeches

  • and complain. Some fans have said that Stannis' character has been completely ruined by the

  • showrunners and I wouldn't go that far but I would say that they've could've done a bit

  • more to make us like him.

  • This season I enjoyed his character in the beginning and in the end. His interactions

  • with Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly were great. His final stand at the battle outside Winterfell

  • was also amazing...it's just that when he leaves Castle Black there wasn't much there

  • for me in terms of enjoyment. Davos was....Davos. He really didn't do much for me to take note

  • of. Melisandre was there....I did enjoy her interactions with Jon Snow too, but I would've

  • loved if she got screen time with Sam. That would've been good considering he knows a

  • lot random stuff and they could've had some witty banter or something.

  • I will say that they did a shitty job when foreshadowing Shireen's demise. Hell, I was

  • able to call her death a mile away simply because there was an unusual amount of focus

  • on a character that has been around for quite some time. The scenes between her and Stannis

  • and Davos were good but they should've been done much early in season 3 or 4. My one complaint,

  • about Stannis and his group is that Melisandre's visions and powers are still so vague that

  • its frustrating when she doesn't go into detail. She wants to sacrifice Shireen because something

  • magical will happen...like what? Oh that's right....nobody thought to ask her. Hell I

  • don't think the showrunners even know much about her powers either. Shes been around

  • for 4 seasons now and all we know is that she loves fire and can give birth to shadow

  • assassins...I'm going to need a bit more detail on this please. Overall, Stannis went out

  • like a man. His scenes were fairly good, not as great as the Boltons in Winterfell but

  • I still enjoyed it. I would've liked more character development on him and some early

  • on interactions between him and his family to make his decision to burn his daughter

  • more of desperate and heartbreaking decision but what's done is done.

  • And before I move on to Jon Snow, let me just touch on Brienne for a moment here. I thought

  • her taking out Stannis was fucking bullshit but other than that I really did enjoy her

  • scenes this season. We got an awesome fight scene between her and some of the Vale Knights.

  • We got backstory and a bit of bonding with Podrick and we got to move her story a bit

  • further too. Many of you complained that we didn't see much of her but I liked that. Shes

  • not one of the top tier main characters of the show and I like that she didn't get too

  • much screen time that some other pointless characters seem to get. So yeah, Brienne was

  • alright by me this time around. Haven't been interested in her since season 3. Hopefully

  • they keep her scenes short and to the point.

  • Now on to Castle Black and Jon Shmow....so to sum it up: I thought it was good. I was

  • not expecting them to kill off Mance Rayder so quickly but I was okay with it and I do

  • understand why it was done. This is the television show going off in it's own direction which

  • is fine if it makes sense and, to me, it does.

  • The events at the wall with the election, stannis correcting people's grammar and the

  • tension between the night's watch and Jon's love for the wildlings was also good but some

  • of my favorite moments have to have been the conversation between Jon and maester Aemon

  • and the battle of hardhome. Kit Harrington's acting has improved a lot since season 1 and

  • everybody was on point. My one complaint, and I'm sure you all know it's coming....is

  • the abundance of Gilly and Sam. I won't even get into it because I've said it over 500

  • times already but get ready for more of that pointless bullshit because now that they've

  • cast Randyl Tarly for next season and you just know we'll be getting more of this fucking

  • guy. Once again, I don't hate Sam I just hate how much screen time he gets. Another thing

  • i just want to point out, it's not really a complaint more like a disappointing turn

  • of events. The two new characters we got at the Battle of Hardhome. That Thenn guy and

  • the wildling woman? I actually wanted to see more of them but then I realized: Oh ya...this

  • is Game of Thrones...SIGH.

  • I hate to run by this so quickly but the Night's Watch stuff was alright by me I found a lot

  • of it entertaining....I just wish they would've used Sansa escape as a way to shoe in the

  • pink letter. That would've been great but moving on to....hotter conditions over in

  • Dorne. Okay where to start with this shit.....what the fuck happened? You assholes had one job:

  • Don't fuck it up. Not that hard. A lot of it didn't make any sense, like Jaime and Bronn

  • sneaking into Dorne and the shitty pay off at the end. I thought they were going to do

  • a cool twist like: Doran was the one who sent the threat to Cersei or that Cersei made up

  • the threat to get Jaime out of King's Landing so she could do some political maneuvers but

  • nah. That would've made too much sense for this. What I honestly think happened is that

  • the showrunners Dave and Dan had some intern, probably the same guy who fucked up last year

  • by spoiling that it was the Night's King. They probably had that guy write the Dornish

  • scenes while they had sex with each other covered in mayonnaise because why the fuck

  • not. Pfft why the fuck not.

  • Okay so I'm not a writer but here is what I would've done had I been in the writing

  • room. This is my version of Dorne for season 5. Instead of sneaking into Dorne...how about

  • Jaime travels there the normal way to take the head of Gregor Clegane to the Martells.

  • Why? well during the trial by combat between him and Oberyn. The Mountain confessed to

  • multiple people, in front of a crowd, that he had killed Elia Martell and her children.

  • In front of people. Until that point it had been speculation that the mountain had done

  • it. In fact, in Season 4 Oberyn says that he heard rumors that the mountain killed Elia.

  • So with this confirmation, Jaime devises a plan to take his head to Doran, with Bronn

  • as a way to make peace with the Martells. To ensure they don't take Oberyn's death as

  • a reason to go to war or join Stannis. Okay so we have Jaime going to Dorne, with Bronn

  • and they are carrying the skull of the mountain. Arianne Martell, who is Doran's daughter,

  • she overhears her father talking that Jaime is coming and she rounds up the three sand

  • snakes to enact vengeance for her uncle. While Jaime travels around Dorne with Bronn, he

  • learns more about the Dornish culture, and as he learns about it we, the viewer, also

  • learns about it. On his way to the Water Gardens he is attacked by the snakes in a variety

  • of ways. For example, Jaime could be staying at an Inn in one of the towns and suddenly

  • dozens of scorpions drop down from the canopy onto him or as he gets out of the way in time.

  • You know, shit like that.

  • I feel as though this would've been better than the snakes trying to capture a little

  • girl and failing. Once Arianne's plans have been discovered then maybe we could've had

  • Doran lock her away and then reveal his plans....which may have something to do with the Targaryens.

  • I won't spoil the books but yeah. They could've done it but nope. we had to have shitty actresses

  • and terrible lines. "Bad Pussy" really? you guys must've been high or something because