Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles What's going on guys Carmine here and welcome to my review for the season 6 finale of Game of Thrones and all I got to say is what the hell just happened. I've got to say episode 10 was insane and it fulfilled the wet dreams of almost everybody who watches this thing: Jon is king in the north, Arya gets revenge on Walder Frey, the High Sparrow finally shuts the fuck up, Dany is on her way to Westeros and R+L=J finally confirmed on the show. Now if you ask me? this episode gets a 5 out of 5 rating simply because they hit almost every single nail on the head for every character except one....my favorite Petyr Baelish. That scene between him and Sansa is the most idiotic I've ever seen Baelish on the show thus far and we'll get to him in a moment but all that aside? all of it was fantastic. The music was on point, acting was very good and I absolutely loved the scenery this time around with Oldtown, the library inside Oldtown and the ships in the last scene. Something Game of Thrones always does right, along with its big battles, is the scenery and it did not disappoint this time around. Now let me stop rambling and get on with the review. First lets start with King's Landing. I didn't expect the Mad Queen theory to come on full force in this episode but it did deliver on so many levels and then some. Before I continue let me praise the level of detail on Cersei's costume here. While it looks cool and gives her a bit of a Darth Vader feel? it does speak volumes to her character. Personally I've always loved her in the Lannister colors of red and gold but I'm digging this new look on her. It definitely sets her up to be the villain in season 7 which is a little weird for the show. Consistently the show has always had a way of making you re-think whose a bad guy and whose not. Originally we all thought that Tywin was evil but hes just a hard to please douche. Roose is an opportunist that happens to be an asshole and the masters are just victims of that high class self serving life style that made them scumbags from birth. Many of these people you could argue aren't villains like Ramsay or the Night's King but it seems that the show is going all out to make Cersei the main bad guy for next season. Her actions in this episode definitely set her up as the villain and I think her descent into that realm of darkness was spectacular and very well done with some unintentional consequences with Tommen. I'll get back to Cersei in just a minute but let me touch on the trial for a bit. i got to say I just feel bad for Loras most of all. He had to endure all that torture for nothing. And We also haven't seen him all season and the reason for that is, like Brienne last season, the actor got a role on Marvel's Iron Fist premiering on Netflix next year but losing the Tyrell family this episode does hit home for me because I always liked Loras' character and Margaery going down is not something I expected in a million years. Mace and Kevan going down was always in the plan of course but almost everyone whose had a story line in King's Landing has been killed and it gives you a sense of finality. With all of them gone you can definitely tell that the show is coming to a close very very soon. What really made King's Landing for me in this episode was the music which really set the tone. After Cersei puts on her costume, Lancel walks out to go get her and Pycelle going down in the basement you really start to hear it and it does stick with you throughout. It did an amazing job of putting me on the edge of my seat and I loved every minute of it. When Lancel goes down there and he realizes that Cersei setup barrels of wildfire all over the place you kind of want him to put out the burning candles in time but you just know hes too much of an idiot that it won't happen. He was very close to the candles and he could've reached out and grabbed them too but it was too late. It was very satisfying seeing the High Sparrow go down the way he did and it was pretty graphic. If you go back and slow it down a little you can see the flesh melting off his body too. I also need to call out the amazing job Jonathan Pryce and Natalie Dormer did in this episode. When she realizes something is wrong with the whole situation it really set her character aside from everyone and showed she isn't stupid and I liked that. Once again I didn't want Margaery to die because I kind of wanted to see her in Olenna's place trying to face off against Cersei but at the same time I understand that it was time for her to go. Her character has pretty much done all she could and I feel like Olenna was always the more interesting and likable one in that family. As for Tommen jumping out the window? I really didn't expect that at all. Not only was it so random and out of nowhere but I never took him for the suicide type. I mean sure he was a weak and naive fool but jumping out the window? I mean if he was going to kill himself I figured he'd do something a little less public and more along the lines of poison or that Essence of Nightshade, which was almost used back in season 2 when Cersei feared that Stannis would take King's Landing. She prepared to use it on Tommen at the time but at the last minute it didn't happen. Now that does put a damper on the whole Cersei-Tommen master plan to catch the High Sparrow off guard scenario. I was really hoping that Tommen wasn't so damn easy to control and maybe Cersei was able to get into his head and make him somewhat of a player in the game but no. I will say that it's kind of a shame because I did think that the plan could've still been implemented with the same results making more sense. Now I know you guys don't like me doing the whole "if I was writing this" crap but bare with me for a second it'll be worth it. Wouldn't it be much better if there was a secret plan between Cersei and Tommen to catch the High Sparrow off guard and she tells him every bit of the detail until the last part where she has the sept blow up with wildfire. Tommen seeing this realizes that he basically helped kill all those people and the guilt is too much for him. He commits suicide because he cannot become the type of person his mother has made him. She wants him to be strong but he just isn't like that. To me it would've made sense from a character development point of view for Tommen to be internally conflicted on who he is and what hes become. This would show the audience that not every one can make the transition from good guy to bad guy. That some people would rather lose their lives than lose their morality. Do me a favor if you agree with me or not let me know in the comment section about my whole idea of tommen and cersei being in on the plan and him not wanting to be that type of person. But as I was saying the whole Tommen jumping out of the window due to Cersei's actions kind of hearkens back to the beginning of the series when Jaime pushes Bran out the window. It's almost like the Gods are playing a cruel and sick joke on Cersei and Jaime for what happened with Bran. But the King's Landing scenes in this episode were all around amazing. I loved Cersei getting some payback on Septon Unella and making her the zombie Mountain's bitch. I loved Jaime coming in at the right time to see Cersei crowned as queen and I loved the atmosphere surrounding all of it when she is crowned. It was dark and ominous with a sense of awe and fear. All of it was great. They did an amazing job and it definitely hyped me up for next season when shes actually in charge of everything but what I'm really excited for is how her relationship with Jaime will unfold and how he'll take the turn of events that came about in this episode. Over in the Riverlands the Freys and Lannister soldiers celebrate their victory over the Blackfish. We get some nice banter between Jaime and Bronn to close out the season and an awesome discussion between Jaime and Walder which kind of puts the Freys in their place a little and that's always welcomed. Throughout the entire feast we see this one girl pouring drinks for everybody and she kind of gives Jaime the that look. Now some of us don't know what that look is and some of us do....it's the look a girl gives you when she either wants to rob you for your money or ride your like a wildebeest or maybe both. Either way I definitely knew that Arya right away. Why? because the actress they got for that disguise looks exactly like Masie Williams. Did anybody else notice this or was it just me? Side by side this girl looks exactly like Masie Williams. I don't know why but I just knew it was her from the beginning. Maybe it's the nose and the eyes that look alike but I could tell that was her but this is something I predicted a long time ago but it was mainly a wish of mine. I don't remember the name of the video I said it in but it was one I uploaded in 2015 and in it I said that she would go on her first mission and kill Walder Frey and whisper in his ear "the north remembers muthafucka". Obviously the muthafucka part wasn't making it on screen but I really thought she was going to say "the north remembers" but I'm also quite happy with the line we got. It felt so good to see her kill him...it felt like justice but holy shit...the frey pies? chopping his sons up and mixing them into pies? Didn't Eric Cartmen on South Park chop up some guy's parents and put them in Chili and feed them to the guy? Goddamn Arya...I'm so fucking proud of you. That's my girl. Now all she needs to do is team up with Hot Pie and we got ourselves a Game of Thrones version of Sweeney Todd. Seriously someone with Photoshop skills make this happen. But the Riverlands scenes were absolutely epic. Arya getting her revenge in an insane way was great and getting one last Bronn moment before the season ends is just icing on the cake. Beyond the wall we get our last Bran moment of the season and it's a short one with big purpose. As I predicted Benjen would not follow Bran back over the wall and will instead stay back in what I assume is a plan to reduce the numbers of wights . It was really cool to have him back as coldhands but the main focus of the Bran stuff this episode is to finally see inside the Tower of Joy and we do. R+L=J is confirmed on the television show and it's to be expected because the show runners have been teasing their support for that theory for a very long time. I also need to give a shout out to one of my subscribers for pointing this out to me, thanks a lot Andrey. What he did was point out this really cool easter egg about Jon Snow being the Azor Ahai. In this scene Ned takes Arthur Dayne's sword up to the tower and he leans the sword next to some blankets covered in blood. The legend of Azor Ahai, which is basically the Jesus Christ of the GoT universe, states that the prince that was promised would be born under a bleeding star. Theres the star and there is the blood. Not only that but Lyanna constantly telling Ned to promise her also gives that theory more credibility. The one thing that I loved that the show did was not spoon feed the audience that Jon Snow is Lyanna's baby by having Howland Reed come out of nowhere and tell everybody.The show cut to the baby's face and then cut to Jon's face with some nice dramatic music and I think they did this tastefully. It was the best way to do it to confirm R+L=J without making it overly complex or too simple. Now lets cut to the North with one of my favorite scenes this episode: Davos confronting Melisandre. Of all the stuff going on in this episode this is the one that hit home for me and I'm sure many people will agree. The actor did an amazing job convincing me that he really loved Shireen and that she was like a daughter to him. You could feel the emotion from him and that is what makes him an amazing actor. It's sad to see Melisandre leave but I think her character can still maintain a sense of epicness if they team her up with the brotherhood or go as far as combining her story line with Euron or Cersei for the next season. As for Jon and Sansa this episode...they were a little weird for me. What I didn't like was that she never really explain why she kept all that stuff from him at all and but the same time I did like their little conversation on the wall about their father. As for Sansa and Petyr? this is what really annoyed me about the whole episode: Petyr Baelish. He is my favorite character and he completely dropped the ball this episode. Baelish never reveals his full plans to anybody and him declaring the Vale as allies of the Starks is really dumb. Especially considering he wants some of that Sansa and chill but never gets it. She promised to reward him but he didn't really get to collect on that and that isn't like him. Petyr is a good manipulator but in the end all he really did was fall for Sansa's cock tease. It makes the character look dumb for opening his mouth like that without fully trying to